King Charles, on the second day of a three-day trip to Germany, alternates between German and English for the half-hour speech, which win a standing ovation from lawmakers.
BERLIN, Germany – King Charles hailed the historic ties between Britain and Germany while lauding their current unity in the face of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in an address to the Bundestag on Thursday, March 30, on his first state trip overseas as monarch.
The 74-year-old monarch, who succeeded his mother Queen Elizabeth when she died in September, noted that war had returned to Europe since the last time he spoke in Germany’s lower house of parliament as part of a remembrance ceremony, in 2020. Both Britain and Germany had shown “vital leadership”, Charles said, praising Berlin’s decision to provide large military support to Ukraine as “remarkably courageous, important and appreciated”.
In a light moment in his speech, Charles referred to the countries’ regard for each other’s culture such as The Beatles and Kraftwerk – noting German was the first language the works of William Shakespeare were translated into. Later in the day, Charles viewed a demonstration of amphibious vehicles of a joint German-British military unit, before visiting an organic farm where he donned a white lab coat and got stuck into fitting cheese into moulds.
On Wednesday, shortly after arriving in Germany, Charles had met with government officials such as climate envoy and former Greenpeace chief Jennifer Morgan as well as academics and entrepreneurs working on environmental issues at a sustainability forum.
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