King Charles King Charles, as part of his official visit to Italy, delivered a speech this afternoon before members of the Italian parliament.

“Unfortunately, the echoes of those times that we thought belonged definitively to history have today begun to resound again on our continents. Peace can never be taken for granted. Italy and Great Britain are united in the defence of democratic values, which we share,” the British monarch stressed.

Charles wanted to speak Italian and, addressing MPs and senators, he stressed that he “hoped he had not destroyed Dante’s language.”

At the same time, he added that Italy was and would always be in his heart, which was also true of his mother Elizabeth, who, he recalled, had visited Sicily shortly after the murder of Judge Giovanni Falcone in a Cosa Nostra bombing.

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Charles thanked Italian President Sergio Matarella for the invitation to visit the country and did not fail to mention that the trip coincides with the twentieth anniversary of his marriage to Queen Camilla.

The British royal couple were today offered traditional Italian ice cream and pizza during their tour of Rome to mark their wedding anniversary.

King Charles and his wife Camilla visited the famous gelateria Giolitti in central Rome, where the queen was offered ice cream. Camila had earlier been offered margarita pizza at an event she attended at a school in the Italian capital.

Tonight, Italian President Sergio Matarella will host a formal dinner at the Cyrenaille in honour of Britain’s royal couple.