It’s a well-known fact that King Charles owns plenty of crowns – but one German man recently decided that Britain’s monarch is missing a Burger King one in his collection.
A member of a Berlin crowd tried to hand the royal a cardboard crown during a walkabout on Wednesday.
With a big grin on his face, the man told Charles: ‘That’s for you, if you want it’.
But the gesture proved underwhelming for His Majesty, who is weeks from his real coronation where his crown will be made of 22-carat gold.
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He smiled broadly and politely replied ‘I’m alright’, before moving on to greet others in the crowd of well-wishers.
The Burger King crown that he turned down apparently wasn’t the only one present, with several other people wearing them for the royal visit.
The King has said he is ‘utterly convinced’ the bond between the UK and Germany will ‘only grow stronger’ on his first state visit.
A historic day on Wednesday saw him and wife Camilla, the Queen Consort, receive an official welcome in front of Berlin’s Brandenburg Gate – a symbol of peace and unity.
It is the first time the location has been used to greet a foreign head of state.
In the first state banquet speech of his reign, Charles praised the German people for welcoming more than one million Ukrainian refugees amid the Russian war.
‘We stand side-by-side in protecting and advancing our shared democratic values’, he said.
‘This is epitomised so clearly today as we stand together with Ukraine in defence of freedom and sovereignty in the face of unprovoked aggression.’
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Speaking in German, he also made his audience laugh by referencing a British comedy sketch called ‘dinner for one’ that is hugely popular in Germany.
It is about an elderly aristocrat who dines alone while her waiter gets progressively more drunk as he consumes alcohol poured for her missing dinner guests.
‘It is wonderful to be in such large company tonight and it’s nice of you all not to have left me alone with a dinner for one’, Charles told listeners.
Germany’s president Frank-Walter Steinmeier has thanked the King for making the ‘personal gesture’ of choosing his country as the destination for the monarch’s inaugural state visit.
At an event promoting UK and German climate and sustainability efforts, he also praised the King’s green ‘convictions’.
It comes after the first picture of the King since he took the throne was unveiled – which came with a subtle nod to his climate activism.
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