Queen Elizabeth II traveled to Rome on Thursday to meet Pope Francis for the first time, BBC News reported.
In the Queen's first foreign trip since Austria in 2011, she met with Francis at the Vatican and also had lunch with Italian President Giorgio Napolitano and his wife, Clio, at the Quirinal Palace.
The Queen and Prince Phillip were scheduled to have tea with the pope in a suite of rooms in the Pope Paul VI Audience Hall, close to where Francis lives in the Casa Santa Marta.
According to the BBC, this is the Queen's third visit to the Vatican, though she has met five popes in her lifetime. She reportedly gave Francis whiskey and venison as gifts, TIME magazine reporter Elizabeth Dias said.
The Queen's meeting with Francis also marks the 32nd anniversary of the beginning of the Falklands War. The Falklands Islands, known in Francis' native Argentina as Las Malvinas, are owned by the United Kingdom.
In the past, Francis has referred to the islands as "ours."
Nigel Baker, Britain's ambassador to the Holy See, said the Vatican "has been clear with us, including in the last week and at a very senior level, that their long-standing position of neutrality on this issue remains in force" while discussing the anniversary.
Baker also told the Vatican radio that Queen Elizabeth "will want, I think, to understand from Pope Francis how he sees the role of faith in the world."
The Anglican Church has around 80 million followers while the Catholic Church has 1.2 billion.
