King Charles and Queen Camilla arrived to cheers of “God Save The King!” at Hamburg’s Dammtor station on Friday having made the 1hr 45 minute journey on the train from Berlin.
The royal couple were met on the platform by the First Mayor of Hamburg Peter Tschentscher and his wife Eva María and walked downstairs with the mayoral couple, President Steinmeier and his wife Elke Büdenbender and their entourage.
Camilla wore a blue Anna Valentine coat and dress with a sapphire and diamond brooch given to Queen Victoria by Prince Albert on their wedding day.
Crowds waited for them behind cordons inside the station and cheered wildly as the royal visitors appeared, with one man shouting “God Save the King!”
The royal party had taken over a carriage of the train and aides carried off their luggage.
Outside, the royal couple held umbrellas for the short walk to the Kindertransporte memorial.
The King and Queen had a deja bye moment outside Hamburg city hall when they met a devoted German fan of the royal family they had seen the previous day in Berlin.
Lawyer Bjoern von der Ohe, 60, said he told the King: “It’s a great honour to meet you”, only for Charles to reply “Again!”
He had previously seen them twice in Berlin - both of them at the market, and the Queen by herself at the refugee centre.
After giving her three cheers at the refugee centre she came up to him and said: “Thank you, it was so kind.”
The King told Kristiana Mechla, who had waited two hours in the rain for him: “It’s great to be in Hamburg again.”
She said afterwards: “I told him it was a pleasure to meet him. He was in Hamburg in the 1980s with Diana and many people still talk about that so we are pleased to see him again.”
