In a video posted on the government’s Facebook page, Merkel is shown leading the queen through the building onto its terrace, where she points out the ex- course of the Berlin Wall.
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‘That’s not because the Embassy has been quiet – the Prime Minister has visited Germany three times – in the last four weeks.
A visit to the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp, where diarist Anne Frank died weeks before it was liberated by British and Canadian troops 70 years ago, is also planned.
European Union is facing major challenges.
Transport Secretary Patrick McLoughlin said the plan is “costing more and taking longer”
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During a ceremonial welcome in Berlin, Queen Elizabeth II was presented with a painting of herself alongside her father, King George VI by German President Joachim Gauck.
Merkel and Cameron also held talks earlier on Wednesday, hours after the German chancellor showed the queen around her office opposite the German parliament, pointing out the site of the Berlin Wall, which fell in 1989.
At Thursday’s EU summit, they will discuss, together with the other 26 leaders, how the United Kingdom should negotiate its terms.
A Buckingham Palace spokesman insisted: “The Queen’s speech speaks for itself on the threats of division and the benefits of unity”.
State visits are normally marked by an exchange of gifts between the heads of state and on the first full day of the Queen’s trip to Germany the president presented the double portrait by the up-and-coming local artist. Maximilian’s father Berthold was married to the Duke of Edinburgh’s sister Princess Theodora, and Prince Donatus is related through another sister, Sophie, who married Prince Christoph of Hesse, an SS officer.
“We know that division in Europe is risky and that we must guard against it in the west as well as in the east of our continent”, the monarch said at a state banquet in Germany on Wednesday, according to a copy of her speech on the monarchy’s website.
The Queen and Prince Philip were the guests of honour at a quintessentially English garden party this evening.
“Mountbatten is Battenburg and Battenburg is coming from my family and I’m also related to the Queen through Queen Victoria – she’s my great, great, great grandmother, something like that”. She said that she had “seen the worst” of her continent – a reference to the conflict.
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Commenting on the thousands who had gathered in the old city centre of Frankfurt to catch a glimpse of the Queen he said the monarch was “their Queen”.
