The Queen is to visit Germany in June 2015 on a three day state visit. The announcement has taken some by surprise as Elizabeth II is cutting back on overseas travel. But it does follow a pattern of visits for the Queen who last year spent three days in Paris and northern France and a day in Italy on tours.
The Queen with President Joachin Gauck of Germany who has invited the monarch on a three day visit to his nation in June 2015
Her visit is at the invitation of President Joachim Gauck who was the Queen's guest in 2012 in London. And just last year, Elizabeth II met Angela Merkel in a visit that got a lot of attention around the world. This latest trip comes fifty years after the Queen's first visit to Germany and eleven years after her last - there have been two others in between. So as Elizabeth II gets ready to touch down in Germany, where she will carry out engagements from June 24th until June 26th, here's a look back at some of the Queen's other visits to Germany over the last sixty years.
1965
The Queen and the Duke of Edinburgh were in Berlin in 1965 where the Queen spoke of the tragedy of a divided world and said that she had been privileged to place her name in the visitors' book of the city.
1978
The Queen returned in 1978 for four day visit to West Germany where she spent time in Bonn, Mainz, Bremen, Bremerhaven and Kiel between May 22nd and May 26th before a day in West Berlin on May 26th 1978.
1992
The Queen was photographed in front of the Brandenberg Gate on her visit to Berlin in 1992. On that tour, which ran from October 19th until October 23rd, Elizabeth II also visited Bonn, Leipzig and Dresden.
2004
The Queen returned to Germany in November 2004 for a visit that included time in Berlin again as well as a trip to Potsdam and to Dusseldorf.
Aside from these visits, the Queen has also paid visits to Berlin in 1987 to mark the city's 750th anniversary and again in 2000 when she opened the new British Embassy there. It's been a familiar fixture on the royal rota for five decades and in the year she becomes the longest reigning monarch in British history, the Queen is going back to Germany.
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