Prince William traveled to Vatican City on Saturday, April 26 in order to attend Pope Francis's funeral. King Charles didn't attend the funeral, which brought together a plethora of world leaders. According to a royal expert, there's an important reason Charles decided to send William to the funeral in his place.

King Charles and Queen Camilla visited with Pope Francis during their trip to Italy—a meeting which turned out to be one of the Pope’s final engagements before he passed away on April 21. King Charles will not return to the Vatican for his funeral,

As tributes and messages of love roll in for Pope Francis, King Charles is seeing a silver lining in the death of the leader of the Catholic Church. After Pope Francis died at the age of 88 on Monday,