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British royals at Polish coast

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Victoria Bieniek 19.07.2017 15:49
  • British royals at Polish coast
On day two of their Polish tour, British Prince William and Kate visited the Shakespeare Theatre and the European Solidarity Centre in the coastal city of Gdansk.
Gdańsk Mayor Paweł Adamowicz, Kate and Prince William. Photo: PAP/Adam Warżawa.Gdańsk Mayor Paweł Adamowicz, Kate and Prince William. Photo: PAP/Adam Warżawa.

At the European Solidarity Centre, which honours the anti-communist Solidarity movement, they were joined by the movement's leader, former Polish President and Nobel Peace Prize winner Lech Wałęsa.

The royal couple also toured the Stutthof Concentration Camp from World War II and the Gdańsk Shakespeare Theatre.

Plays by Shakespeare, England’s national poet, has a long history of performance in Gdansk. English actors first came to the city in 1601, and Shakespeare’s plays were performed during in his lifetime. As part of the Hanseatic League of trading outposts, the city at the time had a large English and Scottish community of about 1,000 people.

On Wednesday the royal couple left for Berlin. The Poland visit of the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge, accompanied by Prince George and Princess Charlotte, was part of a five-day tour of Poland and Germany, an initiative by the British government to include members of the royal family as unofficial ambassadors while Britain negotiates its exit from the EU.

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