The Queen and Duke of Edinburgh arrived in Berlin yesterday for what is likely to be her seventh and last official visit to Germany. Escorted in by three Luftwaffe Eurofighters to Tegel airport, the royal couple were welcomed on to the tarmac with a 21-gun salute. They walked down a red carpet lined by German soldiers to be met by the British Ambassador, before a limousine took them to the Hotel Adlon. Their four-day state visit will include a visit Bergen-Belsen prisoner of war and concentration camps. The camps, now a memorial to those who died at the hands of the Nazis, were liberated 70 years ago by British troops and...
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