Harry Styles has been spotted by fans in an unlikely setting: among the many crowds gathered in Saint Peter’s Square within the Vatican as Pope Leo XIV was elected because the late Pope Francis’s successor.
Pope Francis died last month, aged 88. Pope Leo XIV, 69, will have fun his first Mass at 11am (10am BST) because the leader of the Catholic Church, after greater than two-thirds of the cardinals voted for him.
The news has prompted messages of congratulations from political leaders all over the world, including US president Donald Trump, British prime minister Sir Keir Starmer, and Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky.
More surprising was the looks of Styles, 31. A photograph emerged of the One Director star among the many crowds wearing sunglasses, a blue jacket, and a gray baseball cap emblazoned with the message: “Techno is My Boyfriend.”
Sold by IDEA for £40, the hat has now sold out on the corporate’s website. Styles was previously spotted wearing the identical blue jacket during a walk around London last month.
The Independent has contacted Styles’s representatives for comment.
Fans are, predictably, going wild over the photo, as one joked: “Little did the pope know he was waving to Harry Styles.”
“One thing about Harry Styles, he’s at all times going to unintentionally serve cinema somewhere in Europe,” one other wrote on X/Twitter.
Styles is understood for having fun with visits to Italy. He was spotted in Rome last summer, where a fan filmed him browsing an area market and riding around the town on a motorbike.
“Anywhere however the studio,” one other fan joked, alluding to the indisputable fact that Styles has yet to announce the discharge of any latest music.
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He released his latest album, Harry’s House, in 2022 – the identical yr he starred within the movies Don’t Worry Darling and My Policeman – and concluded his mammoth world tour in 2023.
The swift two-day election of Pope Leo XIV marks considered one of the shortest conclaves in recent history.
Trump has celebrated the Chicago-born cardinal’s papacy as a “great honour for our country”, having earlier drawn criticism after sharing an AI-generated image of himself dressed because the pope on social media.
However, right-wing media figures and MAGA supporters have since denounced his election after it was revealed that Pope Leo XIV had publicly criticised vice chairman JD Vance and expressed sympathy for immigrants and George Floyd.
Crowds had been waving flags and chanting “Habemus Papam” (Latin for “we have now a pope”), because the traditional white smoke rose from the Sistine Chapel shortly after 5pm UK time on Thursday (8 May).
The latest pontiff is the 267th Pope, becoming the religious leader of around 1.4 billion Catholics across the globe.
In his first words as Pope, the brand new pontiff told the adoring crowd: “Peace be with you”.
