King Charles cracked up after being presented with a crown made out of cake just weeks ahead of his Coronation.
He was shown the magnificent white chocolate and Victoria sponge cake during a visit to Brodowin Farm in Brandenburg on the second day of his state visit to Germany.
The visit to the farm came hours after he made a historic speech to the Bundestag, where he received a standing ovation for his after speaking of the special ties between the UK and Germany.
On the visit to the farm, he was presented with the cake, which took chef Antje Neumann 21 hours to make and weighed ten kilos.
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POOL/AFP via Getty Images)The King beamed as he was shown the showstopping creation and he even cut a slice and tasted it.
He said: "This is brilliant, it must have taken you weeks. This is seriously good cake."
Jovial German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier turned to the King and added: "It might be the model for your crown!"
Before the King got a fit of the giggles as he attempted to make traditional German cheese.
The monarch was invited to help spread cheese curd into moulds. "I’ll do my best," he grinned.
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POOL/AFP via Getty Images)But he couldn't help but laugh as the mixture began pouring quicker than he expected out of four metal funnels and he frantically tried to start pushing it into the moulds.
"I need longer arms," he chortled.
He started helplessly pushing the cured as forcefully as he could, laughing as he did. "Well they do say it's hand-made," he smiled.
Meanwhile, earlier the King told Ukrainian families fleeing Putin's war "I'm praying for you" as he visited a refugee centre hit by a chickenpox outbreak.
Charles surprised refugees who had only just arrived to register at Berlin's old Tegel Airport - where thousands now live in tents and marquees.
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Getty Images)He also lost a game of table football in the centre's play area and paused to shake hands and hear stories of refugees who had fled the war zone.
He was given a tour of the Ukraine Arrival Centre by German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier.
On several occasions Charles clasped his hands together and told refugees "I'm praying for you."
The Ukraine Arrival Centre opened as a refuge on March 20 and the majority are women and children. Up to 10,000 people were arriving daily in Berlin by train at the outbreak of the war last year.
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PA)Afterwards, the King and German President watched a display of bridge-building between their two nations during a visit to the first joint Anglo-German military unit in modern history.
They went to Finowfurt, 30 miles northeast of Berlin, to see soldiers from the integrated German and British Amphibious Engineer Battalion erect a crossing over the Oder-Havel Canal in five minutes.
The soldiers from the British 23 Amphibious Engineer Squadron, Royal Engineers, working with their German comrades in the Pionier Brücken Bataillon 130, used M3 amphibious bridges, and swiftly manoeuvred into place, to create the crossing.
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Getty Images)In a symbol of the ever-closer military cooperation between the two countries in the face of Russia ’s invasion of Ukraine, the King and the President walked across the bridge and shook hands between the two banks of the canal.
The integrated unit, which has a key role to play within NATO, was created in October 2021 when the British squadron was formally declared as a sub-unit of the German battalion.
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PA)Meanwhile, Queen Camilla enjoyed an afternoon at the opera as she was serenaded by a children's choir at Berlin's Komische Oper.
She was greeted at the opera house - one of three in Berlin - by a male dancer in an outfit made entirely of green feathers and a singer performing the role of Areodates in Handel's opera Xerxes.
As she was shown around the opera house by co-directors Susanne Moser and Philip Bröking, the Queen also met more performers from various opera productions, including one from La Cage aux Folles and a singer playing Parmina in Die Zauberflote (The Magic Flute).
However, it was the children's choir performing singalongs on stage that really captured her imagination.
As part of its outreach work, the opera house works with children and young people and also has a project helping people with dementia.
Anna-Kathrin Ostrop, who was running the choir on stage with the help of two professional singers, told the audience - made up of the Queen, the president's wife Elke Büdenbender and their entourage, and an auditorium full of schoolchildren - that one of the songs sung by the children, Irgendwo auf der Welt, used to be well known before the Second World War. But it fell out of use after its composer, Richard Heymann, had to flee the Nazis.
Afterwards, the Queen went on stage to meet performers, children and people from the dementia project. She also posed for a group picture with the children's choir.