We'll stay close, Britain's Prince Charles tells Germans

 

Britain's Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall and Prince Charles, Prince of Wales attend the Queen’s Birthday Party, an annual event hosted by the British Ambassador at his residence in Berlin, Germany, May 7, 2019. Jens Kalaene/Pool via Reuters

 

BERLIN (Reuters) - Ties between Britain and Germany will remain close in the future, Prince Charles told an audience in Berlin, in a clear reference to ongoing uncertainty over Britain's looming departure from the European Union.

 

"Whatever the shape of our future relationship, and whatever is negotiated and agreed between governments and institutions, it is more clear for me than it has ever been that the bonds between us will and must endure," the heir to the British throne said on Tuesday.

 

In the speech, in which he alternated between English and German, Charles did not mention Brexitby name, but dwelt on his family's own roots in the German aristocracy.

 

"We are friends and natural partners, bound by common experiences, interests and values, and our futures are deeply entwined."

 

(Reporting by Thomas Escritt; editing by John Stonestreet)

 

-- © Copyright Reuters 2019-05-08

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Time for Brexiteers to vote him out. Oh, wait...

2 minutes ago, welovesundaysatspace said:

Time for Brexiteers to vote him out. Oh, wait...

 

 

Nothing wrong in staying close to Europe...... the gripe is with the EU, not Europeans.

 

 

They are not one and the same - you do understand that ....... don't you?

6 hours ago, webfact said:

"We are friends and natural partners, bound by common experiences, interests and values, and our futures are deeply entwined."

Such as Nazism. 

 

 

"Keep your friends close and your enemies closer." - Michael Corleone.

Yes , the trenches in WW1 were sometimes only 50 yards apart.

22 minutes ago, oilinki said:

How did you feel back then?

 

I find it funny that people from a country which has vast amount of nuclear weapons are still so afraid of the Germans, that they have to bring references of WW 1 to the discussions. 

 

Glad you found it funny as that was its intention. Well spotted , not much gets past you does it.

56 minutes ago, oilinki said:

How did you feel back then?

 

I find it funny that people from a country which has vast amount of nuclear weapons are still so afraid of the Germans, that they have to bring references of WW 1 to the discussions. 

Don't mention the war.  ????

 

1 hour ago, oilinki said:

In that case, would you like to join to our European's club? Or Union as we like to call it.

 

 

I was happy with the EEC.......... you can stick you "Union" where the sun don't shine.

 

 

European Union....... another oxymoron!

Also known as Karl von Battenberg, Saxe Coburg Gotha und Hanover

12 hours ago, Syduan said:

Such as Nazism. 

 

Look again – the young Queen’s Nazi salute tells another story

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Edward’s tasteless attempt to get his little niece to do a Nazi salute takes on a whole new resonance. Far from being an unconvincing revelation about the political sympathies of a seven-year-old child, those 17 seconds of juddery home movie become an exhilarating reminder that history does sometimes turn out well. Edward’s moral torpor, his inability to consult anything but his own tawdry vanities, is sharply on display in this pastoral scene gone wrong. What we are left with – but only if we read the image in its full context – is a profound sense of relieved thanks that the little girl in the kilt was eventually given the chance to put things right.

 

3 hours ago, Maybole said:

Also known as Karl von Battenberg, Saxe Coburg Gotha und Hanover

At least get your facts right. No British monarch or any member of the British royal family has ever had that surname.

 

Victoria was the last monarch of the house of Hanover.

 

Following tradition, Edward VII took his father's surname; Saxe Coburg Gotha.

 

George V then changed the name of the Royal family from this to Windsor in 1917.

 

No member of the royal family has ever had the surname Battenberg; though Prince Philip's mother's maiden name was this. On naturalising as British he took the Anglicised surname Mountbatten.

 

So Charles' actual surname is Mountbatten. Whether he will start a new house of Mountbatten on ascending the throne or maintain the house of Windsor is up to him.

 

At least get your facts right. No British monarch or any member of the British royal family has ever had that surname.

I read somewhere of their relationship to the von Klinkerhoffen dynasty. All very hush hush.