The British Monarch's Fifth State Visit to Germany
Queen Elizabeth II began a state visit to Germany on Tuesday that will include her first trip to a former Nazi concentration camp.
On her fifth state visit to Germany, the 89-year-old Monarch and her husband Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, 94, visited the Bergen-Belsen camp where diarist Anne Frank and her sister Margot died just weeks before the British liberated it on April 15, 1945.
The Queen visited a memorial dedicated to the sisters and met with some of the survivors and liberators of the notorious Nazi camp, the BBC and other British newspapers report.
The royal couple also met with the President of Germany, Joachim Gauck, and the Chancellor Angela Merkel.
The Queen, a constitutional monarch who is expected to stay out of politics, nevertheless could be a good lobbying target for Merkel, who is eager to see Britain stay in the fold, The Washington Post presents the American position, adding that neither Buckingham Palace nor German officials would offer details of the agenda for the queen’s planned conversation with Merkel on Wednesday. But the chancellor hinted in her weekly podcast that she might raise the thorny question of Britain's future in Europe.
''I do wish for Great Britain to stay in the European Union," Merkel said, later adding,''But we will of course discuss what ideas the British government has in order for such a referendum to be successful.''
Let’s recall that the Queen and Philip also made state visits to Germany in May 1965, May 1978, October 1992 and November 2004.
It should also be noted that the British royal family actually has German roots. The matter is that the current royal house of the United Kingdom, the House of Windsor, once used to be known as the House of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha but was renamed during World War I in deference to anti-German sentiment in Great Britain.
Queen Elizabeth II is the great-great-granddaughter of Prince Albert, a German-born aristocrat of royal lineage who was married to Queen Victoria.
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