Making history on their first overseas state visit, the King and the Queen Consort received a rapturous welcome to Germany as thousands turned out to greet the royal visitors.
The couple had been due to travel first to France; however, civil unrest over proposed pension reforms forced a postponement of the three-day visit to Paris and Bordeaux.
But Germany more than rolled out the red carpet for Their Majesties, beginning in the air as their flight on the RAF Voyager was escorted into Berlin by German Typhoon fighter jets.
‘It means so much to us that my wife and I could come to Germany for this very first
