It was a bold assignment. On the morning of October 22, 1992, the Royal car pulled up outside the Kreuzkirche church in Dresden, to be greeted by an uncomfortable silence. Next came a few boos. Then came the first egg.It was in this same square that the bodies of tens of thousands of German civilians had been piled up and cremated in February 1945, following one of the ’s most devastating raids of the Second World War. So, strong emotions were in play as embarked on her 1992 state visit to . It was her first since the fall of the Wall, reunification and the collapse of Communism across Eastern Europe. Hence her visit to Dresden.At the end of the service of reconciliation, the Queen emerged from the church to find that the atmosphere had thawed a little.
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