NoKing Charles could not have hoped for better. Visiting Germany with Camilla these days, the new sovereign and his collaborators may have feared a less than warm welcome, considering the recent exit of Great Britain from the European Union. Instead Carlo was greeted everywhere by adoring crowds, complete with flags of theUnion Jacks. And he has become the darling of the Germans.
King Charles beats Prince Harry (on the front pages of newspapers)
Not even there unannounced visit Of Harry – in London to testify in the trial against the Daily Mail – served to overshadow Charles’s success among the Germans.
And the British royal watchers immediately wondered if, behind the prince’s surprise decision, there wasn’t a desire to “steal” the front pages of the newspapers with his presence, ruining his father’s historic moment.
King Charles and Camilla in Berlin, greet former chancellor Angela Merkel, March 29, 2023 (Getty Images)
King Charles’ first official overseas banquet
Germany therefore rallied around Charles. The speech delivered by the monarch last night – partly in German – al official banquet in Berlin, organized by President Frank-Walter Steinmeier. A text that immediately underlined the «generosity of spirit of the German people»demonstrated with the reception of over one million Ukrainian refugees.
Carlo’s speech at the state banquet, next to the photo with his father received as a gift from president Frank-Walter Steinmeier, Berlin, 29 March 2023 (Getty Images)
The slightly “anti Brexit”
The speech, however, was immediate praised for the subtle anti connotations Brexit. The king, who still has several cousins in Germany, Indeed, he spoke ofimportance of relations between the two countries and he promised to do everything he could to strengthen that bond. An intervention made necessary – and requested by the Westminster government – by the fact that, after leaving the Union, Great Britain finds itself at the rear of the list of trading partners in Germany.
An eye on sustainable agriculture
Not even a hint was missing progress made in Germany on sustainability in agriculturea subject that King Charles is particularly passionate about.
He even admitted that he noticed «noticeable improvements» after adopting German organic methods in the farms, vegetable gardens and gardens of the English Royal residences, at Highgrove, Sandringham and even Buckingham Palace.
King Charles goes to Bundestag of Berlin
Today Carlo will deliver another speech, this time in Parliamentto the Bundestag of Berlin, and will meet a group of Ukrainian refugees. Appreciating what you have defined «a European gesture»President Steinmeier called it the beginning of a new chapter and presented the king with a photo from his first stay in Germany: it was 1962 and Carlo, still a boy, had arrived with his father Filippo.
Queen Elizabeth “least loved” by the Germans
Instead, the sovereign will want to forget the experience of his mother Elizabeth who, during a state visit in 1978, had irritated the Germans by asking for a gift two very expensive thoroughbreds for his Royal stables. But to please her – told the newspaper Der Spiegel – the then president Walter Scheel immediately approved the request. Elizabeth was never said no.
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