On Friday week the King and Queen lunched at the
British Embassy in Berlin, and the King replied to a deputation from the British colony :-
" By fostering and maintaining kindly relations and good under- standing between yourselves and the people of this your adopted home you are helping to ensure the peace of the world, the preservation of which is my fervent desire, as it was the chief aim and object of my dear father's life."
On Saturday the wedding of Princess Victoria Luise and Prince Ernest Augustus of Cumberland took place. The German Emperor's speech to his only daughter at the wedding banquet was simple and moving :—
" My dear daughter, to-day, as you leave our house, I thank you with all my heart for the happiness which you have always given to me and your mother, and for the years of radiant sunshine which you have brought to my house. . . . But, above all else, it will soon, notwithstanding your youth, be granted to you two to serve others and to care for others. May this task, the highest of ' all, fill your whole lives."
The subsequent ball was accompanied by the ancient ceremonies of a torch dance and the distribution of the bride's garter. The King and Queen, whose visit has been attended by a marked and lively sense of goodwill on the part of the German people, stayed in Berlin till Tuesday, and returned to London on Wednesday.
