Denmark's Queen Margrethe has arrived on a state visit

Denmark's Queen Margrethe II (81) and her son Crown Prince Frederik (53) have come to Germany for a state visit.

They landed on the military part of Berlin's BER airport on Wednesday morning.

At the start of the four-day visit, Federal President Frank-Walter Steinmeier wanted to greet the Queen and the Crown Prince with military honors in the park of Bellevue Palace.

Berlin - In the evening he gives a state banquet in honor of the guests.

Queen Margrethe will also meet the Executive Chancellor Angela Merkel this Wednesday and take the usual walk through the Brandenburg Gate on state visits.

The Danish queen and her son want to lay a wreath in front of the Neue Wache, the memorial to the victims of war and tyranny.

A visit to the Charité University Hospital is also planned on this first day.

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Federal President Steinmeier and Queen Margrethe only met in Denmark in mid-June when they celebrated the peaceful demarcation of the border 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.” Dpa