Overview
- At the ruins of Coventry Cathedral, where a 1940 Luftwaffe raid killed at least 554 people, Frank-Walter Steinmeier laid a wreath with the Duke of Kent in attendance.
- The event concluded a three-day state visit, the first by a German head of state to the U.K. in 27 years.
- In a Parliament address, Steinmeier called Russia’s war on Ukraine an attack on the rules-based order and pressed for European unity.
- The trip featured a Windsor Castle banquet with King Charles III, talks with Prime Minister Keir Starmer, and a wreath at Queen Elizabeth II’s tomb.
- The visit built on a U.K.–Germany treaty signed earlier this year to deepen cooperation, and Steinmeier was due to receive an honorary doctorate at Oxford.