Denmark's Queen Margrethe II (81) and her son Crown Prince Frederik (53) have started a state visit to Germany.
At the start of the four-day visit, they were greeted with military honors by Federal President Frank-Walter Steinmeier in the park of Bellevue Palace on Wednesday.
After playing the national anthems, both heads of state paced the armed forces' formation in bright autumn weather.
Berlin - Steinmeier and Margrethe then withdrew for a conversation.
The queen, dressed in a powder-blue costume with a hat of the same color, also signed the guest book of Bellevue Palace.
In the evening, the Federal President gives a state banquet in her honor.
The Queen will also meet the Executive Chancellor Angela Merkel this Wednesday and take the usual walk through the Brandenburg Gate on state visits. In front of the Neue Wache, the memorial for the victims of war and tyranny, she and her son want to lay a wreath. A visit to the Charité, the largest university hospital in Europe, is also planned on this first day.
Steinmeier and Margrethe had only seen each other in Denmark in mid-June when they celebrated the peaceful demarcation between Denmark and Germany in 1920.
Steinmeier described this as groundbreaking for the understanding between the two countries.
It is a model of how respectfully the German minority in Denmark and the Danish minority in Germany treated each other.
"What separates has become something connecting."
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The current visit should have taken place last year, but was postponed due to corona.
Margrethe and Frederik will stay in Berlin until Friday.
Then the queen will travel to Munich alone.
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