{"id":3203,"date":"2025-05-15T12:18:05","date_gmt":"2025-05-15T12:18:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/originaltastex.com\/?p=3203"},"modified":"2025-05-15T12:18:05","modified_gmt":"2025-05-15T12:18:05","slug":"why-only-these-7-women-in-the-world-are-allowed-to-wear-white-when-meeting-the-pope","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/originaltastex.com\/?p=3203","title":{"rendered":"Why Only These 7 Women in the World Are Allowed to Wear White When Meeting the Pope"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"PostContent_thumb-title__SoMYI\" data-testid=\"image-source\">Princess Charlene of Monaco with Pope Francis, 2016 | Source: Getty Images<\/div>\n<div class=\"InfoLine_wrapper__C_h_D\">\n<div class=\"InfoLine_inner-wrap__nT3Iy\">\n<div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"ShareButtons_share-buttons-wrapper__IuyIK\" data-testid=\"share-button-on-post-top\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"\" data-io-article-url=\"https:\/\/news.amomama.com\/456105-why-only-these-7-women-in-the-world-are.html?m=doa\">\n<p class=\"ContentRenderer_paragraph__B2z36 ContentRenderer_paragraph-first___d_VF\">The Vatican rules offer guidance on how people should dress when meeting the pope during specific occasions. However, wearing white is a privilege reserved for only a handful of royal women to symbolize three specific virtues.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ContentRenderer_paragraph__B2z36\">Many people have met different popes throughout the years, but only seven women worldwide are allowed to wear white when meeting him. However, they are not permitted to do so when attending papal funerals. Here is what we know about the tradition.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div>\n<div class=\"Image_wrapper__1NP9g\">\n<p class=\"Image_title__T6_we\" data-testid=\"image-source\">Pope Francis meets with King Philippe and Queen Mathilde of Belgium during an audience at the Apostolic Palace on September 14, 2023, in Vatican City, Vatican | Source: Getty Images<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<h2 class=\"ContentRenderer_sub-header2__VfI9X\"><strong class=\"ContentRenderer_bold__Fo6Iz\">How the Dress Code for Royal Women Meeting the Pope Changed<\/strong><\/h2>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ContentRenderer_paragraph__B2z36\">When the current Queen Consort, Camilla, was still the Duchess of Cornwall, she met Pope Benedict XVI in 2009. During that meeting, she wore the customary black dress with long sleeves and a lace mantilla, or veil.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"code-block code-block-3\">\n<div data-type=\"_mgwidget\" data-widget-id=\"1744868\" data-uid=\"1157a\">\n<div id=\"mgw1744868_1157a\">\n<div>\n<div class=\"mgbox card-media\" data-template-type=\"container\">\n<div class=\"mgheader\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Princess Charlene of Monaco with Pope Francis, 2016 | Source: Getty Images The Vatican rules offer guidance on how people should dress when meeting the pope during specific occasions. However, wearing white is a&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2516,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3203","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"brizy_media":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/originaltastex.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3203","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/originaltastex.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/originaltastex.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/originaltastex.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/originaltastex.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3203"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/originaltastex.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3203\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3204,"href":"https:\/\/originaltastex.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3203\/revisions\/3204"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/originaltastex.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2516"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/originaltastex.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3203"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/originaltastex.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3203"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/originaltastex.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3203"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}