BERLIN: Prince William and his wife Kate began Wednesday a three-day visit to Germany billed as a “charm offensive” by local media as Britain begins thorny Brexit talks in earnest. ‘Rescue mission’Conservative daily Die Welt called the royal visit “a kind of rescue mission” a year after the fateful Brexit referendum which stunned the remaining 27 EU member states. “William and Kate are in Germany with their children to lighten the mood,” it said. William and Kate held a private meeting with Leon Henry Schwarzbaum, 96, who survived nearly two years at the Nazi death camp Auschwitz, and toured a museum at the memorial. Britain played a major part in the institutional reconstruction of post-World War II West Germany, helping to craft the Federal Republic’s constitution, known as the Basic Law, in 1949.

Source: Manila Times July 19, 2017 22:18 UTC