Harry Styles also at St. Peter's for the election of Pope Leo XIV

The artist and former member of One Direction among the crowd wearing sunglasses and a hat with the words 'Techno is my boyfriend' written on it

Dark glasses, a moustache (current trend), a bit of beard and a grey cap with the words 'Techno is my boyfriend' written on it. This is how the famous singer Harry Styles appeared yesterday afternoon among the crowd at St. Peter's in Rome to attend the arrival of Pope Leo XIV , born Robert Francis Prevost .

Despite his look making him almost unrecognizable, a fan immediately realized that before her eyes was the former member of One Direction : "While I was watching the Pope's announcement in St. Peter's Square, Harry Styles passed by me and our eyes met," the fan wrote in a post on X to accompany the shot of the singer. Some social users, however, doubted it, thinking it was a lookalike.

harry styles is so random, one day he's at the grammys winning album of the year, then he's running a marathon in japan, but he could also be in rome waiting for the announcement of the new pope, i love being his fan pic.twitter.com/fIRlOfvuFJ

— anna bea (@axlsugar) May 8, 2025

What dispels any doubts is the hat he is wearing , an accessory that has become 'famous' for being the 'favorite' of Valentino creative director Alessandro Michele, a long-time friend of the singer. The two met when Michele was the designer of Gucci and revolutionized the way of conceiving the look for men. And Styles' style is an example of this.

It's not the first time that Harry Styles has been spotted around the streets of the Capital , often on a bike. During one of his 'Roman holidays' there was a stop at the Porta Portese market: the video of him among the stalls went viral. The bond between the British singer and Rome is so strong that in 2019 he bought a house in Civita di Bagnoregio, near Viterbo. According to rumors, Styles is trying to buy a house in the center of Rome.