Lunch at the Palazzo Taverna
On April 19, a luncheon was hosted for the Herald at the Palazzo Taverna on Via di Monte Giordano in Rome by Tom Faure-Romanelli and his wife Ilaria. The guest of honour was Christopher Trott, the British ambassador to the Holy See. Other guests included Amanda Bowman, chair of the Catholic Herald Institute, Michael La Civita, and Diane Montagna, the Herald’s Vatican fellow in Rome. Ambassador Trott was appointed in the summer of 2021 after serving as ambassador to the Republic of South Sudan. His Excellency noted that the Vatican delegation to the Coronation would be very different from that of 1953 as they would not be seated in a papal tent outside Westminster Abbey.
