Key takeaways:
- King Charles III and Queen Camilla arrived in Berlin for their first foreign trip as Britain’s monarchs.
- The trip is intended to improve the U.K.’s relations with the European Union and to show that Charles can win hearts and minds abroad.
- The royal couple will visit the Brandenburg Gate, the Berlin Wall Memorial, and the German Historical Museum during their three-day visit, and will meet with German Chancellor Angela Merkel and attend a state dinner hosted by the president.
BERLIN (AP) – King Charles III and Queen Camilla arrived in Berlin on Wednesday for their first foreign trip as Britain’s monarchs. The royal couple was greeted with a 21-gun salute and a flyover of two military jets as they descended the stairs of their plane.
The trip is intended to improve the U.K.’s relations with the European Union and to show that Charles can win hearts and minds abroad, just as his mother, Queen Elizabeth II, did for seven decades. Charles and Camilla expressed their “great joy” at the chance to develop the “longstanding friendship between our two nations” in a joint statement released on their official Twitter account.
The royal couple was welcomed by German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier and his wife Elke Buedenbender. Charles and Camilla then attended a wreath-laying ceremony at the Neue Wache memorial in Berlin, which honors victims of war and tyranny.
The royal couple will also visit the Brandenburg Gate, the Berlin Wall Memorial, and the German Historical Museum during their three-day visit. They will also meet with German Chancellor Angela Merkel and attend a state dinner hosted by the president.
Charles and Camilla’s visit is a symbol of the strong relationship between the U.K. and Germany, and is expected to further strengthen the bond between the two countries.
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