Historical event .. Charles III is the first British king to attend a Catholic Mass in 400 years

In an unprecedented step since the religious division in the sixteenth century, King Charles III is preparing to attend a Catholic funerary mass in the Cathedral Westminster on September 16th, on the spirit of the late Duchess of Kant, thus becoming the first British king to formally participate in a Catholic Mass inside the United Kingdom for more than four centuries.

The Mass, to which Crown Prince William and his wife, Princess Kate, will join alongside prominent members of the royal family, are seen as a historical indication of an increasing rapprochement between the English Church and the Catholic Church, after centuries of tension. The first member of the royal family is to take this step since King Charles II converted to Catholicism on the deathbed in 1685. The historical transformation acquires a double symbolism of the fact that King Charles is the head of the English Church, which was founded by King Henry VIII after the refusal of Pope Clement VII granted him divorce in 1527, which led to a deep sectarian division that continued for centuries. Britain, like the funeral of Pope John Paul II in 2005, but this is the first time that it was done on UK, which reflects a qualitative shift in the relationship of the British crown to Catholicism.