Queen Camilla’s monochrome attire and choice of mantilla fall under papal protocol, requiring women who meet with the pope to wear black and a veil, symbolizing respect and modesty.
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Julia Teti,
Footwear News,
23 Oct. 2025
Camilla, 78, followed tradition with her black ensemble, wearing a silk dress by Fiona Clare and a mantilla by Philip Treacy.
During the Thirty Years’ War, military enterprisers included such figures as Ernst von Mansfeld, who raised an army for the elector palatine, and Albrecht von Wallenstein, who offered his services to Ferdinand II, the Holy Roman emperor.
For her label Anissa Aida, designer Anissa Meddeb, who lives in the capital, makes gossamer silk blouses evoking the striped motif of handwoven fouta towels and voluminous coats inspired by the burnoose cloaks worn by Berbers.
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Sarah Khan,
Condé Nast Traveler,
5 Feb. 2020
On a rainy day men wore winter-weight burnooses with the large hoods drawn up—enigmatic Jedi-like figures in the medina's alleyways.
The researchers believe the mantas are using nature's cues such as changes in magnetic field strength, oxygen concentration, temperature and light to navigate themselves onto the right path for the next days' travel.
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New Atlas,
New Atlas,
15 Oct. 2025
The mantas are still spotted in May and October, but in fewer numbers.
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