King Charles and Queen (Consort) Camilla have arrived in Germany for their sole foreign trip before the coronation. As you may remember, Charles and Cam were supposed to be in France from Sunday through today, and they originally scheduled to fly directly from Paris to Berlin. Those plans changed when French protesters began threatening Charles with the guillotine and the French union bosses were threatening to make the royal visit a real adventure. At the end of the day, President Macron had to basically cancel the royal visit himself. From what we can tell, Charles used those days off to run to Highgrove and refuse to see Prince Harry, who was in London. An inauspicious start to the king’s reign overall. Anyway, please enjoy the keenery:
King Charles and Queen Camilla have touched down! On Wednesday, the royal couple arrived in Berlin, Germany for the first tour of the King’s reign. King Charles, 74, and Queen Camilla, 75, arrived in Berlin early afternoon local time and received a ceremonial welcome from President Frank-Walter Steinmeier and Frau Elke Budenbender at the Brandenburg Gate, the first foreign head of state to do so at the iconic venue. Later, they will be guests of honor at a state banquet at the Schloss Bellevie.
Also on the itinerary over the next two days, for the tour that also takes in Hamburg, is a visit to the Bundestag, the German Federal Parliament, where King Charles will address the house.
Queen Camilla and Frau Büdenbender are set to visit the Komische Opera in Berlin to learn more about the company’s outreach projects and community engagement. While in Brandenburg, King Charles will meet soldiers from the Corps of Royal Engineers and see a demonstration of their bridge-building amphibious vehicles.
True story about the Corps of Royal Engineers – Charles just gave himself that patronage, he’s now the honorary Colonel-in-Chief of the Corps of Royal Engineers. It was a last-minute appointment, and I’m sure Charles wanted to give it to himself just before he did this event in Germany. Additionally, at this evening’s state banquet, Charles’s “cherished German cousins” are invited and will likely be seated near the king. In the Telegraph’s article, they talk about how “King Charles is known to speak German well, taking after his father who was fluent in the language and whose sisters married German royalty.” It’s true… Charles’s aunts – Philip’s sisters – were married to Germans…high-ranking Nazi officers, in fact. Several of Charles’s aunts were members of the Nazi Party as well.
I’ve honestly gotten so used to Kate’s theme-dressing and flag cosplay, I was surprised when Camilla stepped out in this blue and black ensemble. No theme-dressing for Cam.
Photos courtesy of Getty.
In the second picture where they are deplaning Cowmilla looks like she had a few on the way over. That’s it that all I got. Cowmilla looks rode. hard and put away wet.
That’s just her Karma face. Her true ugliness is below the skin.
Raggedy old goats the both of them.
@girlninja, sorry but to me he will always look like an old alcoholic and she will always look like a scrotum in a wig
@mary-PLEASE! I almost spit my coffee out onto my phone lmao!
Cheez-n-rice Mary, warn a person.
Wowsa. I will have to remember that one.
That looks like a coat the queen would have worn. Only with a more epic brooch and bigger hat. Definitely no black boots.
It’s QEII cosplay for sure. Hoping to recapture the prior monarch’s magic, won’t work.
She can no wAy cosplay the queen. That hat is awful for one thing and she is so not like the queen.
It looks to me like she’s following Kate’s awful attempt at color-matching–which is to say, she can’t. The blues of the hat do not go with the blue of the coat, and the turquoise in the brooch go with neither.
That was exactly my thought when I saw it.
The married-in spouses certainly love to cosplay QEII!! Camzilla is giving Keen a run for her money!
I read on a jewelry site that talks about the royal jewels that this was the late queen’s confirmation brooch she was gifted as a child from Queen Mary. So Camz is digging deep for the old buried treasures belonging to QEII.
One of my favorite scenes in The Crown, Season 1, is when Winston Churchill sits in a pew during the wedding of Princess Elizabeth and Prince Philip and starts talking very loudly about how Philip’s sisters married high-ranking Nazis. That scene is perfection.
I will give Germany credit for learning from its mistakes and making sure reparations are embedded in its history lessons and that it doesn’t whitewash its more recent past. The Brits could—but won’t—learn a thing or two from them. The US refuses to learn from its past as well.
I was thinking the same thing! England even celebrates their disgusting colonial past…
Germany might have learned from the third reich and doesn´t try to whitewash the holocaust, but the colonial atrocities are completly whitewashed. Since germany lost the colonies after WWI, a lot of people belive there is no colonial history and the crimes are forgotten. The discussion of returning looted art from former colonialised countries has just started with the return of the Benin Bronzen.
Also the topic of “Gastarbeiter” people from mostly greek and turkey who made the “Wirtschaftswunder” in the 50th and 60th possible but werend allowed to aquire the german nationality until a few years ago (soem living herein the third generation) since they were expected to go back home.
My personal ipression is, that he recocnition of the responsibility for WWII and the holocaust led to a feeling of moral superiority “we are the best in confessing our crimes” that led to an ignoring of every kind of racism exept antismitism.
The whole concept of german nationaliy is based on blood or race. If you have an ancestor three gererations back who was german you can aquire a german passport (some grandchildren of nazis who fled to Argentina are doing this) but if your family lived here for three gerneration you still have to jump to several hoops to aquire the german nationality and are oftern not considered a real german.
Thank you for this illuminating perspective.
There is a very good book which documents the genocide committed by the Germans against the Nama and KhoiKhoi tribes in Namibia, at the beginning of the 20th century. Its called “The Kaiser’s Holocaust” The authors show a direct link between that genocide and the Holocaust during WW2. It is heart rendering to read.
So the Germans can keep their moral superiority of being the best at confessing their crimes. They have refused to acknowledge the atrocities committed in Namibia.
It’s the same in every western country
Might makes right. USA and Britain won most of their wars, so they don’t need to apologize for anything. (I’m not defending the two countries, I’m just saying that’s how it is. For example, war crimes are only committed by the losers, and winners can justify whatever they did).
Given that Philip’s sisters married and became Nazis why did George VI give consent for him to marry Elizabeth? That would be a national security risk in my view, given this was the marriage of the heir(ess) presumptive. Now I see why the push for the Duke of Windsor’s Nazi ties: to deflect that a potential enemy of the UK is close to the throne.
At the point when they became engaged, Prince Philip had served in the Royal Navy for several years, during WWII, fighting against the nazis, even though he had relatives on the opposite side. It was distinguished service too apparently – he was mentioned in dispatches. So I guess that would be why the King did not object.
Why bring up Nazis in a post related to a visit to modern day Germany, a country which has tried hard to atone for its past and which now essentially finances the EU?
That feathered hat of camillas is horrid. And Charles goes in for pointing.
I think they may be coached to point; otherwise, photos of people standing and looking at things are pretty boring. Not that finger pointing is all that interesting, but you get my drift.
My first thought when I saw it was that she’s going to take someone’s eye out with that hat
That actually doubles as a pen quill, doncha know, so if Charles has to sign anything he can’t fling it with as great success as he does pens.😉
Earlier this week there were massive strikes in Germany. Public transport shut down and unions of all sorts demonstrated for better pay and working conditions. France was too wild for CRex and Camzilla: how is their visit going in Germany?
It looks like QCC was inspired by her mil’s wardrobe, though this is still nominally in C’s style lane. More interesting: Cam’s wearing a lot more blue than she used to as is Charles. W&K are the ones who started wearing lots of blue (often different shades than C) when Meghan showed up. C&C have started doing this recently: is this to show unity with W&K or piss them off?
Camilla s outfits are custom made to suit her figure all the same style but different colors. She looks very awkward.
And her outfits never have external buttons! Keen probably takes them all….
Yes I noticed the blue also a while ago. Coincidentally I saw at that time a news story about the blue cornflower being adopted by some far right groups as a symbol. After the way the BRF treated M&H – unintentionally, that color suits them down to the ground.
Are there any celebitchies in Germany that we can send some egg money to?
Yes, but unfortunately I live in south Germany…
I’m sure they are not worth the trip! I’m enjoying picturing it in my head though…
Complete waste of time. And fuel.
Ignore C&C.
Deny them attention, that s what they live for.
How underwhelming. To see QE2 was still sweet, a magical relic from a bygone time still miraculously around.
These two? Old farts.
Are these photos photoshopped or did Camilla have work done on her face?
They are photoshopped. Her skin is damaged by smoking.
There is no plastic surgery available in this world that could make that old tart’s face more attractive. The Rott is on display.
She might look old but honestly hats off to her for not dieting, not coloring her hair and not getting Botoxed to the point where she looks like wax works. It’s refreshing to see someone who is okay with aging naturally, whatever you might think of her as a person.
Camilla ruined her skin by years of smoking and not using sunscreen. I think if it would work for her when would have gotten botox and surgery. If she wanted to age naturally at never should have smoked.
Surprising that she hasn’t had mild chemical peels, not to erase her wrinkles completely but to soften them. You can do a lot with peels, tretinoin, and lasers even at her age which could make her still look 70 but with a less jarring appearance.
Hey Charlie, the engineers are going to show you how to build a bridge, maybe build your own and get over it, then fall on your knobbly old knees and beg Harry’s forgiveness
Is anyone in Germany (press, the public) taking an interest in this? I would find it hard to believe. This pair struggle to generate interest even when they do events in the UK.
Nope. The Bild-Zeitung is reporting about it but that’s basically the german version of the Fail. Everyone with two brain cells to rub against each other is ignoring it. We have bigger problems to think about than a representative of a system we got rid off after the last one of our own went and started a fricking world war.
I think that the people gathering in Berlin only came to have a look out of curiosity. Can’t fathom why though. And to think that they are probably paying for this visit with tax money makes me quite mad for sure.
Most are apparently English living in Germany
I find it too much of a coincidence that the day we don’t see Harry at court, KC3 and his owner have a huge event. Now I do believe they didn’t know about Harry coming to the UK when he did but I do believe he was asked not to go to court so he wouldn’t overshadow this. The cover to keep the press away was saying the relationship between him and the RF is torpedoed and I would’ve believed that but this is too much of a coincidence. Perhaps this is H’s version of an olive branch? Who knows
Doubtful. His appearance or non-appearance in court today would have more to do with the process, what his lawyers want, what the other complainants’ lawyers want, what the judge wants, etc.
Cowmilla already looks two sheets to the wind . Did she consume the entire beverage cart in between take off and landing?
It certainly looks like she had to anesthetize herself with some liquid courage. She doesn’t travel well and normally she’d go a few days in advance to recover from the trip, but maybe because it was a shorter flight than usual and a state visit she had to accompany Charles.
It was maybe a two to three-hour flight on (I assume) a private plane; how much does one need to recover from that?
I did say that it was a shorter flight, but who knows what her reaction is on flights of varying lengths.
Why is charlie so hunched over? He looks decrepit!
Somebody tried to hand Charles another Burger King crown today!
The dm tried to put a positive spin on this.
SueBarbri33, I love that for him. I hope that whatever country KFC goes to in future that someone hands him a Burger King crown. He can collect them from around the globe.
Clearly England is not sending their best.