William, the Prince of Wales, will attend the funeral of Pope Francis on Saturday on behalf of his father, King Charles III, Kensington Palace confirmed on Tuesday, per the BBC. Pope Francis died at 88 on Monday. His cause of death was a stroke, which resulted in a coma and the “collapse of his cardiovascular system,” per The New York Times.

For the second year in a row, the king's disgraced brother joined Easter Sunday services, while William and Kate's family stayed away.

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,