After his frustrated visit to France, the British king Charles III and Camilla, the queen consort, began her first state visit to Germany, the denied land of their ancestors, on Wednesday. Her arrival in Paris was prevented by President Emmanuel Macron in the face of demonstrations and riots for pension reform.
This “soft” diplomacy was initiated by the post-Brexit ruler, after helping British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak on a new “Windsor framework” for oil relations between Britain and Europe. You also received the president of the European Commission, the German and former defense minister Ursula Von der Leyen, at tea time.
But his preparation served at Buckingham Palace to reply to Prince Harry that his father was “busy” and could not receive him, when he arrived discreetly in Great Britain to attend a trial against him. Daily mail from wiretapping. It was her first trip six months after the death of her grandmother, Queen Elizabeth.
With the British obsessed with World War II, no one in the kingdom knows that the King is fluent in German because he was taught by his father, Prince Philip, who was of German and Greek nobility. A bond that has made the House of Windsor uncomfortable because Prince Philip’s sisters had married some officers who had participated in Adolf Hitler’s army. In his speeches in German he will surprise English and Germans. You will also be able to eat with your noble German cousins.
absences and attendance
Prime Minister Olaf Scholz is expected to be absent from Wednesday evening’s state banquet in honor of the King and Queen, who visited the Brandenburg Gate at the start of the first tour.
But there will be former chancellor Angela Merkel and her noble German cousins Bernhard, Margrave of Baden and his wife Stephanie. Philip, Prince of Hohenlohe Langenburg, direct cousin of the King, with his wife Saskia and sister Xenia will also be invited.
The King will address the Bundestag in English and German on Thursday. It will be the first time he has been heard speaking in that language since he became ruler.
The German chancellor has no other public engagements on Wednesday evening, therefore the reason for his absence is unclear. But it’s widely believed to be a tacit gesture of pledge to keep the peace in its contentious coalition government, so that each of the three parties gets its share of the spotlight in a separate real-life event.
A German government spokesman said the chancellor does not normally attend bilateral state banquets. But that on Thursday he “was waiting to welcome King Carlos III for a face-to-face conversation.”
Christian Lindner, leader of the liberal Free Democrats party, will represent the coalition at the banquet. Robert Habeck and Annalena Baerbock, two senior Green Party ministers, were due to welcome the king to a warm reception on Wednesday afternoon. Scholz, of the centre-left Social Democratic Party, will receive the king at the chancellery on Thursday.
Reception of the President
President Frank-Walter Steinmeier and his wife, Elke Büdenbender, met the King and Queen at the Brandenburg Gate, the first time a head of state has received such an honour. Both they know each other and are friends.
The president said it was a “magnificent personal gesture” for Charles to visit the country and “an important sign for German-British relations”. “Six years after Britain started leaving the European Union, we are opening a new chapter in our relationship,” said President Steinmeier.
Camilla arrived dressed in a turquoise coat by Bruce Olfied and a hat by Philip Treacy. The wife of the German president also wore a hat, with a red coat.
The royal couple received a welcoming ceremony with full military honors at Pariser Platz. The King inspected the guards and then a band played the British and German national anthems, before the monarch greeted the assembled supporters. A crowd of around 1,500 was expected within a tight cordon of security.
The King and Queen were greeted with a 21-gun salute and military flight as they landed in Berlin for their reign’s first state visit.
Flying in the British government’s Voyager aircraft, the royal couple were escorted into German airspace by German fighters around noon.
In a message ahead of the trip, the kings said they looked forward to meeting those who made Germany “so special” and deepening the friendship between the nations.
Waiting to welcome the monarch and his wife was a line of dignitaries, including British Ambassador to Germany Jill Gallard and Secretary of State Dörte Dinger.
the infallible pen
THE fountain pen that the king intends to use to sign the guest book in the presidential residence at Bellevue Palace has been “repeatedly revised” for verify its reliabilityfollowing his bout of irritability over a faulty pen after being proclaimed monarch last autumn.
“Our pen has never failed,” Kai Baldow, chief of protocol for the president’s office, told the newspaper. Suddeutsche Zeitung.
Wednesday night’s state banquet menu included German sparkling wine. The starter is a carp marinated with Erfurt watercress and Heck beef broth, a chicken with mushrooms and spinach and German wines. For dessert, prunes with East Frisian black tea and German chocolate crumble.
The king intends to participate a welcome for Ukrainian war refugees to the former Tegel Airport on the outskirts of Berlin and a visit to the Komische Opera.
On Friday, the royal couple will travel to Hamburg by train, where they will lay a wreath on the ruins of the church of St. Nicholas, destroyed by the allies during World War II, tour the city by boat and visit a primary school.
Disagreement with his son Harry
But adding to that visit to Germany is his refusal to meet with his son, Prince Harry, who is in Britain to testify in the trial before The daily mail.
Harry said the royal family knew about the tapping on their phones and kept it from them with the “royal rule” of “never explain, never complain”. THE Real they had agreed not to take these diaries to court because it would have been like “opening a can of worms”.
Today Harry is a role model for privacy fighting against yellow British tabloids and what he calls “their criminality”. But the royal family lives off them to cultivate their image, and leaks against the king’s son through that kind of newspaper.
It won’t be an easy test because the facts happened more than 30 years ago and they can argue that the offense is time-barred.
Source: Clarin
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