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Read more: Prince Charles presented with a king during card game in Florence
Read more: Prince Charles's dilemma about what to give the Pope in Royal visit to the Vatican*
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Read more: Prince Charles presented with a king during card game in Florence
Prince Charles sat down to a card game in a social centre in the heart of Florence on Monday, as he and his wife, the Duchess of Cornwall, continued their European tour.
“I’ve got a lot to learn,” he said as he surveyed the hand he was dealt, looking as though he would quite happily have settled in for the afternoon with the five elderly men sitting around the table.
One of the card players, a sprightly 83-year-old with white hair, offered to show him some card tricks.
The Prince of Wales jokingly looked up the pensioner’s sleeve to see if there were any cards hidden there.
“Ah yes, very clever,” he said after the man pulled off a deft sleight of hand which ended with him presenting the heir to the throne with a King. “Years of misspent youth, I see.”
Read more: Prince Charles's dilemma about what to give the Pope in Royal visit to the Vatican*
It is a dilemma familiar to us all: what to buy the man who has everything for the big occasion in his life.
That quandary was taken to another level at the Vatican today, as Pope Francis and the Prince of Wales exchanged gifts close to their heart.
The Prince told his host: "It's difficult to know what to give Your Holiness", looking at the hamper of homegrown produce he had settled on before modestly wondering: "Somebody else might like it".
An aide lifted the lid of the wicker basket, placed on a table in a study in the Vatican, to reveal jars of food from the Prince's Highgrove estate nestled amongst the straw.
The Prince, in his first audience with Pope Francis, explained: "They're all homemade things I produce".
His wife, the Duchess of Cornwall, added "It's very good". The items are destined to be distributed among the poor and homeless in Rome, as a gesture from the Pope and Royal couple.
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In 2009, when she met Pope Benedict XVI, she opted to wear the traditional black with a lace mantilla over her head.
A Vatican spokesman said: "Things have become more relaxed over the last few years there are no hard and fast rules."