VATICAN CITY, April 3 (UPI) -- Britain’s Queen Elizabeth II met Pope Francis for the first time Thursday, during her five-hour trip to Rome. After lunch with Italian President Giorgio Napolitano, the Queen, accompanied by her husband, crossed the Tiber River for a half-hour private audience with the Pope.
He presented the Queen with a gift for her eight-month-old great-grandson, Prince George, a blue orb decorated with a silver cross.