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Queen Elizabeth to begin Germany state visit

FILE - A Tuesday June 16, 2015 file photo showing Britain's Queen Elizabeth II arriving with Prince Philip, the Duke of Edinburgh and Prince Harry for the first day of Royal Ascot horse racing meet at Ascot, England. The queen is planning to leave Tuesday, June 23, 2015, on a state visit to Germany that will include her first visit to a former concentration camp site. She and her husband Prince Philip plan to visit the Bergen-Belsen camp where diarist Anne Frank and her sister Margot died just weeks before the British liberated it on April 15, 1945. (AP Photo/Alastair Grant, File)
FILE - A Tuesday June 16, 2015 file photo showing Britain's Queen Elizabeth II arriving with Prince Philip, the Duke of Edinburgh and Prince Harry for the first day of Royal Ascot horse racing meet at Ascot, England. The queen is planning to leave Tuesday, June 23, 2015, on a state visit to Germany that will include her first visit to a former concentration camp site. She and her husband Prince Philip plan to visit the Bergen-Belsen camp where diarist Anne Frank and her sister Margot died just weeks before the British liberated it on April 15, 1945. (AP Photo/Alastair Grant, File) FILE - A Tuesday June 16, 2015 file photo showing Britain's Queen Elizabeth II arriving with Prince Philip, the Duke of Edinburgh and Prince Harry for the first day of Royal Ascot horse racing meet at Ascot, England. The queen is planning to leave Tuesday, June 23, 2015, on a state visit to Germany that will include her first visit to a former concentration camp site. She and her husband Prince Philip plan to visit the Bergen-Belsen camp where diarist Anne Frank and her sister Margot died just weeks before the British liberated it on April 15, 1945. (AP Photo/Alastair Grant, File)

By Associated Press 1 min read

LONDON (AP) – Queen Elizabeth II is leaving on a state visit to Germany that will include her first trip to a former concentration camp site.

The 89-year-old Elizabeth and her 94-year-old husband Philip are planning a strenuous schedule after their arrival Tuesday evening.

Elizabeth will meet German Chancellor Angela Merkel in Berlin on Wednesday after a boat trip along the River Spree. They will also meet with President Joachim Gauck. Thursday will be spent in the financial hub of Frankfurt.

On Friday, the royal couple plans to meet with residents of Berlin in Pariser Platz before traveling to Lower Saxony for the visit to the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp, where diarist Anne Frank and her sister Margot died just weeks before the British liberated it on April 15, 1945.