In a new interview, Harry Styles explained why he was in Rome for the conclave election, when Pope Leo XIV was announced as Pope Francis’ successor.
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He didn’t travel just to witness the conclave in person.
Harry Styles is one for random little side quests, and now that he’s back in music mode, he’s finally explaining one of his recent excursions. In a new interview with BBC Radio 1, the singer confirmed that he was in the crowd at St. Peter’s Square in Rome during the conclave election in May, when Pope Leo XIV was announced as the late Pope Francis’ successor.
Speaking to host Greg James, Styles confirmed his identity in the viral photo from the Vatican and revealed that he didn’t set out to watch the new Pope being introduced to the world. “I was getting a haircut in Rome, and then I just heard all these people start shouting, ‘Habemus papam, habemus papam’ [‘We have a pope’], and people just running down the street,” he recalled.
