so and d, w a chief political correspondent, milena crane, sent us this from the british embassy here in berlin, where people have been commemorating the late monarch at what is normally a quiet and highly secured square in the heart of berlin. a steady stream of mourners is coming to lay flowers and pay homage to queen elizabeth the 2nd here in front of the british embassy. the queen herself, was here to open this building in 2011 years after the wall fell, and berlin was re united. it was the 1st time a reigning monarch had inaugurated an embassy in a sign of her special ties to germany. she's often seen as a force of reconciliation between britain and germany. not only after the 2nd world war, but also after german reunification in 1992, just 3 years after the berlin wall had fallen, she travelled to drayton, a city that had been annihilated by british and american forces in the fire bombing at the, towards the end of world war 2, she met with the cool reception. there were protests, an egg was thrown, and yet that didn't deter her from becoming a major donor to the reconstruction