The Pope will arrive in the UK for his four-day trip on Thursday The first state visit by a Pope to the UK gets under way on Thursday.
Benedict XVI will arrive in Edinburgh where he will meet the Queen at Holyrood House and parade through the city before an open-air Mass in Glasgow.
Tens of thousands of people are expected to line the streets to catch a glimpse of the Roman Catholic leader.
The visit is the first to the UK by a Pontiff since John Paul II in 1982.
Some ticketed events during the four-day trip have not sold out and protests are planned over Vatican policies on birth control, gay rights and abortion.
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