As Others See Us: The View from Germany

DAVID LEASK says the Germans are finding parallels between their country and Scotland

They can’t get enough of “die Queen” in Germany these days. Every big newspaper and TV channel in the federal republic has been spewing out Jubilee stories in recent days.

And no, it’s not because they think Elizabeth Saxe-Coburg-Gotha is one of their own. It’s because many, many Germans are genuinely fond of the island they usually called England.

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