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A quartet of royal women wore white in the presence of Pope Leo XIV - what is the privilège du blanc?

As Europe’s royals gathered in St. Peter’s Square for Pope Leo XIV’s inauguration mass, several royal women were spotted in white amidst a sea of dignitaries dressed in black. This is known as the privilège du blanc—the privilege of the white, in English—in which a Catholic queen or princess is permitted to wear white in the presence of the Pope. Tradition dictates otherwise that…