King and Queen leave Italy after state visit

King Charles and Queen Camilla have left Italy after a four -day state visit, where they had a reception a reception.

They finished the trip with a celebration of the country’s food, trying to make pasta at a festival in Ravenna.

They had an enthusiastic welcome from great crowds in the historic city, with people waiting for hours under the Italian sun to see real visitors.

The trip had included a letter Private meeting with Pope Francis In the Vatican, where the Pontiff, who has been sick sick, gave them his best wishes for his twenty wedding anniversary, which they celebrated on Wednesday.

On the last day of the visit, the king and the queen took a tour of a food festival full of local products. It included sampling of a pairing or Parmesan cheese with whiskey.

After a few intensive days of ceremonial events, the king and the queen seemed relaxed while giving the hands of crowds that covered the square.

The king has talked about his love for Italian culture and the trip to Ravenna allowed him to see the tomb of the writer Dante Alighieri.

He hastened to talk with people at the barriers. Althegh in a square, there was more the risk of being harassed by a battalion of dignitaries than people who had come to see it.

There was also a commemoration in the City of Ravenna of the role played by Canadian troops to release this part of Italy in World War II.

The King is the head of state of Canada, and has a bone of the efforts to send symbolic signs of support to Canada, at a time when the president of the United States, Donald Trump, presses him by the bone.

This has been a very well -prescribed state visit that seemed to generate a lot of good will, with a hot reception of Italian public leaders and politicians.

A little less than two weeks arrived when Sprout The King has a letter in the hospital After experiencing side effects of cancer treatment.

Recovered an ovation after A speech in the Parliament of Italy On Wednesday, where he asked Italy and the United Kingdom to join to defend democratic values.

He praised how the United Kingdom and Italy “were next to Ukraine in their time of necessity.”

In a state banquet at the Quirinal Palace in Rome, where the king and the queen spent the night of his wedding anniversary, the king joked about the luxurious dinner for 150 guests.

“I must say that it is really very good with your part, Mr. President, to lie in this small romantic and illuminated dinner for candles for two …”, the king told the banquet.

These state visits are held on behalf of the Government and the context of this trip to Italy has been a wave of international economic and diplomatic agitation, and the conflict in Ukraine is being mentioned in the two discourses of the King.

“We are living in a very precarious and fragile world,” the king told the state banquet on Wednesday night.

The United Kingdom government has been interested in a “restart” after Brexit with its European partners and the state visit saw multiple references to the military between the United Kingdom and Italy.

This was given a symbolic form by a Flypast thunder of the joint on Rome Of the red arrows of the United Kingdom and the Italian pilots of Frecce Tricolori.

The king had summarized this in his speech: “In difficult times, friends come together.” In a country full of antiques, this was both ancient and modern.