“I think that is typically British, keep calm and carry on – look ahead pragmatically, move on,” Steinmeier said in the Royal Gallery on Thursday afternoon.<\/p>\n
In another Oasis nod at the end of his speech, Steinmeier added: “Cool Britannia is alive! Our relations may have changed, but, my dear Britons, our love remains.<\/p>\n
“So let us look not to the past, but rather together to the future.”<\/p>\n
On the first day of the visit, King Charles and Queen Camilla hosted President Steinmeier and Elke Budenbender at Windsor Castle and held a lavish dinner in their honour on Wednesday.<\/p>\n
The two couples posed for a picture as they said their goodbyes, and the president turned to the King and said: “You were so generous, inviting us, the staying of the night – we had a good breakfast and a wonderful banquet yesterday.”<\/p>\n
His wife added: “It was really so wonderful – unbelievable,” and the president echoed her thoughts, saying: “We will never forget it.”<\/p>\n
Held in the castle’s imposing St George’s Hall, the white-tie banquet featured many representatives from Germany’s business, cultural and sporting contributors to UK life, from supermodel Claudia Schiffer and her filmmaker husband Sir Matthew Vaughn, to movie-score composer Hans Zimmer and Strictly Come Dancing judge Motsi Mabuse.<\/p>\n
Guests dined on hot smoked trout with langoustines, Windsor partridge and baked Alaska with blackberry, vanilla and raspberry ice creams, washed down with fine wines.<\/p>\n
As the Queen and president’s wife said their goodbyes and kissed each other, Ms Budenbender said: “It was so wonderful, all the best.”<\/p>\n
Camilla replied “Hopefully see you again before too long – really lovely to see you again,” and she looked over to the president and said: “I hope we’ll meet again.”<\/p>\n
As he began to walk towards his car, the president turned and said to his hosts “Happy Christmas”, and was waved off by the King and Queen.<\/p>\n
Earlier the royal couple got into the festive spirit when they showed the German president and his wife Queen Victoria’s winter wonderland sleigh.<\/p>\n
Ms Elke Budenbender exclaimed “wow” when she saw it, touching the vivid red upholstery as they were told about the history of the sleigh, designed by Prince Albert in 1842 as a gift for his wife and restored six years ago.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"“I think that is typically British, keep calm and carry on – look ahead pragmatically, move on,” Steinmeier…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":612715,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5310],"tags":[2000,299,1824],"class_list":{"0":"post-612714","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-germany","8":"tag-eu","9":"tag-europe","10":"tag-germany"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/612714","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=612714"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/612714\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/612715"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=612714"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=612714"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=612714"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}