William and Kate 'smile Brexit away'

After turning up the charm in Poland, William and Kate have touched down in Berlin to win over the German public.

The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge have met with German Chancellor Angela Merkel and greeted crowds at the Brandenburg Gate, in a tour the local media is seeing as an effort to shore up relations with EU countries before Britain leaves the bloc.

With Brexit negotiations beginning in earnest this weelk, regional German newspaper Rheinische Post ran the headline: "William and Kate supposed to smile Brexit away in Germany," while Deutschlandfunk Radio is calling their visit a "charm offensive in times of Brexit".

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While the couple and their children - Prince George, who turns four this month, and two-year-old Princess Charlotte - have delighted the crowds in Germany and Poland where they began the two-country tour, one newspaper said they could do little to ease the pain of the divorce with the EU.

As well as meeting German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier, the William and Kate visited a charity in eastern Berlin that works with disadvantaged children. They also met survivors of the Holocaust and toured Berlin's Holocaust Memorial.

- withreporting by AAP

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