King Charles III Visits Germany, His First Foreign State Visit as Monarch

King Charles III made his first official state visit overseas as a monarch on Wednesday, arriving in Germany.

Together with the Queen Consort, Camilla, they arrived for their three-day trip on Wednesday afternoon local time at Berlin Brandenburg Airport.

Charles and Camilla were greeted with a gun salute and a fly-by by two military aircraft. The King and Queen Consort were met at the airport by German authorities, according to CNN.

German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier and his wife, Elke Budenbender, gave the royal couple a regal welcome in Pariser Platz.

Some 900 police officers were deployed in downtown Berlin on Wednesday. The public, school groups, Royal British Legion members, and British Embassy personnel and their families congregated at Brandenburg Gate to witness the historic King Charles Germany trip.

On Thursday in Berlin, Charles will speak to the Bundestag, the lower house of Germany's parliament, and interact with a number of the one million Ukrainians who have sought refuge in Germany due to the Russia-Ukraine war.

Subsequently, King Charles will meet with members of a combined German-British military unit in Brandenburg for a display of their amphibious vehicles that can construct bridges, per Reuters.

King Charles Germany Trip Signifies UK's Desire To Mend Ties With Europe

Britain in a Changing Europe director Anand Menon saw the King Charles Germany trip as evidence of Prime Minister Rishi Sunak's efforts to restore ties with Europe Post-Brexit.

King Charles was supposed to make his first official visit to France but got canceled due to an eruption of violence amid protests over the implementation of contentious pension reforms, per the BBC.

According to Downing Street, French President Emmanuel Macron requested a delay because "we would not be sensible" to go forward with it in light of the unrest.

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