William, Kate initiate pre-Brexit charm offensive on three-day visit to Germany

William, Kate initiate pre-Brexit charm offensive on three-day visit to Germany

FP Staff July 20, 2017, 19:11:53 IST

Prince William and his wife Kate began a three-day visit to Germany on Wednesday billed as a “charm offensive” by local media as Britain begins thorny Brexit talks in earnest

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William, Kate initiate pre-Brexit charm offensive on three-day visit to Germany
Prince William and his wife Kate began a three-day visit to Germany on Wednesday billed as a
The first stop for the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge was a lunch of cod, tuna and salmon at the giant modern office complex of Chancellor Angela Merkel, widely considered the European Union's most powerful leader. AP
German media said the long-planned visit was auspiciously timed as the negotiations on Britain leaving the EU get under way in fits and starts. At a speech at a garden party at the British embassy, Prince William said Germany and Britain
In Poland, the royal couple met freedom icon and Nobel peace laureate Lech Walesa and visited a former Nazi German concentration camp. The pair then visited a charity caring for at-risk youth in the former communist eastern district of Marzahn before having afternoon tea with German president Frank-Walter Steinmeier at his urban palace. In this image, Steinmeier, right, and his wife Elke Buedenbender, left, welcome William and Kate. AP
They returned to Berlin late Thursday for a party at a century-old dance hall to meet Berliners working in
Britain played a major part in the institutional reconstruction of post-World War II West Germany, helping to craft the Federal Republic's constitution in 1949. It also stationed armed forces in West Germany as part of the West's bulwark against the Soviet Union. AP
The British royal family also have long ancestral ties with Germany. The dynasty was a branch of the House of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha, but changed its name to the House of Windsor in 1917 because of anti-German sentiment in World War I Britain.
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