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King Felipe VI and Queen Letizia of Spainvisit the Pope in first overseas engagement30 JUNE 2014King Felipe VI and Queen Letizia of Spain travelled to the Vatican City in Rome to attend aprivate audience with Pope Francis.

The visit marked the first overseas engagement that Felipe and Letizia had carried out since theking was proclaimed Spain's ruling monarch earlier this month.

Arriving on Monday morning, Felipe, 46, and Letizia, 41, were greeted by the prefect of the papalhousehold Georg Gaenswein.

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The ever graceful Letizia was given the privilege of wearing white to her meeting with theCatholic leader. She opted for a demure skirt and jacket ensemble and accessorised with herfavourite nude wedges, a matching white clutch and classic pearl drop earrings.

The queen's outfit was in keeping with the official Vatican protocol known as "Privilege du blanc,"whereby female Catholic monarchs and the wives of Catholic monarchs are permitted to wearwhite in an audience with the Pope.

Ordinarily it is formal Vatican protocol for papal audiences to wear black garments with longsleeves and women are required also to wear a black veil known as a mantilla.

King Felipe VI, Pope Francis and Queen Letizia of Spain have a private meeting

As they made their entrance, Felipe and Letizia, who had travelled with Spain's foreign affairsminister José Manuel García Margallo and his sub-secretary Cristóbal González-Aller, shook handswith members of the papal household and were escorted in.

Felipe and Letizia met with the Pope until noon local time, after which they attended a meetingwith Secretary of the Vatican State Pietro Parolin before flying back to Madrid.

Queen Letizia was given the privilege of wearing white in keeping with Vatican protocol

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This was not the first time that the Spanish royal couple had met Pope Francis. Felipe and Letiziawere some of the esteemed guests who were invited to the leader's papal inauguration in Marchof last year, which also saw other royals such as King Willem-Alexander and Queen Maxima ofthe Netherlands in attendance.

At the time, Pope Francis asked Felipe how his father King Juan Carlos was doing, as he had justhad an operation. "He's getting better, little by little," said Felipe, as well as inviting the Pope to visitSpain.

The Vatican has recently revealed that the Argentine-born cardinal will make the trip in 2015,including a stop in Santiago de Compostela to commemorate the pilgrimage of Saint Francis ofAssisi.

Newly crowned Felipe and Letizia, meanwhile, will also travel to France, Portugal and Moroccoin the upcoming weeks on official state visits.

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