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King to lay wreath for bombing victims in reconciliation visit

Robert Jobson in Hamburg

HUW EDWARDS may be at the helm of the BBC’s flagship News at 10, but that doesn’t mean he avoids pre-broadcast jitters even after 20 years. The Welsh newsreader has revealed he’s already nervous about the Coronation in May. The 61-year-old told The Standard: “I’m terrified”, adding: “The only thing you can do is say to yourself, ‘I’ve got the experience. I’ve done things before, and they’ve gone okay’.”

THE King was today remembering those who perished in the Allied bombing of Hamburg during the Second World War and celebrating the Kindertransport, which saved thousands of children from the Nazis.

The King, accompanied by the Queen Consort, was travelling by train from Berlin to Hamburg on the final day of his first state visit where reconciliation was on everyone’s minds.

He was set to lay a wreath at St Nikolai church, a 12th century church severely damaged in July 1943 and since preserved in its ruined state to commemorate its victims. The King was being joined by German president Frank-Walter Steinmeier for the ceremony in what is being seen as a highly symbolic engagement.

The royals were then due to pay their respects at a new memorial to the Kindertransport. It came after the King yesterday delivered a powerful address warning of the “scourge of war in Europe” as he became the first British monarch to make a speech in the German parliament. He told the Bundestag that the “security of Europe has been threatened” and it was a “sacred responsibility” to unite in support of Ukraine after Vladimir’s Putin’s invasion.

The King and Camilla will later travel home by RAF Voyager.

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