The package includes two nights in a posh Louis XVI-styled room, as well as a guided tour of the stunning gardens at Highgrove House.
TE311 is painted as Spitfire XVI TB675 '4D-V', the aircraft of Squadron Leader Tony Reeves DFC, who was the commanding officer of No 74 Squadron in 1945.
Pope Benedict XVI's shock resignation - the first by a pope in nearly 600 years - takes effect on Thursday.
In 2007, Pope Benedict XVI canonized the first Brazilian-born saint, St.
Last year, then-Pope Benedict XVI chose Cardinal Dolan to deliver an address to the College of Cardinals on the church's strategy for stemming the rise of secular trends.
Havana, Cuba (CNN) -- Pope Benedict XVI arrived in Cuba's southeastern city of Santiago de Cuba on Monday, delivering Mass before throngs of Cubans in only the second papal visit in the island's history.
Rome (CNN) -- Pope Benedict XVI is not suffering from any specific disease that forced him to resign, his spokesman said Tuesday, a day after the news that he was stepping down shocked the world's 1.2 billion Roman Catholics.
Last year, reams of internal Vatican documents were leaked to Italian journalists by the butler of then- Pope Benedict XVI.
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The prime minister - son of a Church of Scotland minister - told Pope Benedict XVI he would be welcomed by millions.
Pope Benedict the XVI today winds up his four-day visit to Poland with what is likely to be its emotional highpoint: a visit to the Nazi death camp at Auschwitz by a German Pope.
Five thousand vendors, who peddle everything on Ebay from 270hp Yamaha jet boats and Louis XVI domed canopy beds to breast-enhancement pills, gathered at the Anaheim Convention Center, not far from Disneyland, over the first weekend of summer.
Benedict XVI will also give up wearing his specially-made red leather loafers, instead wearing brown shoes hand made for him by a Mexican craftsman during a brief visit to Mexico last year, Vatican spokesman Federico Lombardi said on Tuesday.
In his pre-Christmas message, Pope Benedict XVI rallied Catholics to oppose gay marriage by praising comments critical of gay marriage made by Gilles Bernheim, the chief rabbi of France, raising the prospect of an inter-faith alliance, according to many commentators.
Yet in the dying days of his relatively short eight-year papacy, Pope Benedict XVI has been putting out new coded phrases which, upon analysis, reveal the extent of his frustration at the administrative infighting he has had to endure among mainly Italian careerist clerics inside the Vatican.
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Christian Dieckmann, a taxi driver from Freiburg, Germany, had taken a last-minute flight to Rome for Benedict XVI's farewell.
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Sixty-seven of these were appointed by Benedict XVI, and 50 by his predecessor John Paul II.
Twenty eight years later, he will again stand in the same park, this time with his wife and seven children - and 100, 000 other Catholics - to welcome the current pope, Benedict XVI.
Sixty-seven of the electors were appointed by Benedict XVI, and the remainder by his predecessor John Paul II.
Jenny Uebbing, originally from Denver but now living in Rome, said her son John-Paul was one of the last babies Benedict XVI blessed before he resigned.
In November 2011, Pope Benedict XVI was in Contonou, Benin, to unveil the post-Apostolic Exhortation, Africae Munus, which contained the road map of the Second African Synod for the future of African Christianity.
Leonardo Boff was silenced for a year by then-Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger (later Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI) for his book Church, Charisma and Power, which accused the Church hierarchy of abusing their authority and of being out of touch with ordinary Catholics.
The Kenyan bishops' anti-condom remarks contradict the view of Emeritus Pope Benedict XVI who stated in 2010 that "where the intention is to reduce the risk of infection" condoms can be "a first step in a movement toward a different way, a more human way, of living sexuality", Mr O'Brien said.
Madame Tussaud was born Marie Grosholtz in France in 1761, and learned to sculpt wax as a teenager -- her early subjects included Voltaire and Benjamin Franklin -- and went on to become a favorite of King Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette.
Roger Mahony is one of 117 cardinals under the age of 80 called to the Vatican to vote for the next pope following Benedict XVI's surprise announcement last week that he was abdicating because of ill-health.
Pope Benedict XVI has pardoned his former butler, Paolo Gabriele, who is serving an 18-month jail sentence for stealing confidential papers.
It was not her fault that Louis XVI he succeeded to the throne in 1774 was too ill-informed or apathetic to consummate the marriage for seven years.
Castel Gandolfo (CNN) -- Pope Francis is having lunch Saturday with his predecessor, Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI, in what may be an encounter unprecedented in Church history.
Pope Benedict XVI set clear and ambitious goals for his papacy quickly after he was elected: He hoped to re-evangelize the increasingly secular West.
Baroness Warsi's two-day delegation of seven British ministers to the Holy See will include an audience with Pope Benedict XVI, who visited the UK in 2010.
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