Charles and Camilla’s Second Day in Italy

The Prince of Wales and the Duchess of Cornwall have spent their second day in Italy undertaking seperate engagements in Naples, Veneto and Florence.

One of the Duchess’s engagements centred around charities and organisations that assist the communities of Naples impacted by organised crime. Camilla began at La Gloriette, which was once a mafioso property that, after confiscation, now provides social and educational opportunities to the community. Here, she met with the families of innocent victims of mafia crime. Speaking with widows and mothers, Camilla said they were all “very brave, very strong”.

At the centre, the Duchess viewed a fashion show put on by La casa di Alice, another confiscated property, which runs a tailoring workshop for Nigerian women who were saved from human trafficking.

Later, Camilla went on a walkabout through Naples on her way to the E. Marinella, a tie manufacturer where Prince Charles purchases many of his accessories. The Duchess was shown the process of manufacture, before posing with a yellow Vespa on display. Back out on the streets of Naples, the Duchess stopped at trattoria PizzaMargherita who had large signs welcoming the Duchess to the city, and had even made a special pizza bearing Camilla’s name.

Her final stop in Italy’s south was a visit to the UNESCO World Heritage Site Herculaneum, an ancient town near Mount Vesuvius that was destroyed by the volcano in 79AD.

Prince Charles meanwhile headed north to Veneto, where he visited the Montecchio Precalcino Communal Cemetery Extension, the final resting place of 439 soldiers from the Commonwealth who fought on the Italian front at the end of World War One. The Prince later went on a walking tour of the Path of the 52 Tunnels, a corridor built in 1917 along  a section of the Dolomite Moutains to improve military communication and the provision of supplies during the fighting on the front. In Vicenza, Prince Charles watched a training exercise of a special forces team at the Carabineri Headquarters.

The couple rejoined in the evening in Florence for a reception hosted by the wine industry, spending the evening speaking with wine producers from the Tuscan region, and British producers interested in exporting to Italy.

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