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Royal excitement is building in Berlin as Britain's Prince William and Princess Catherine, with their children George and Charlotte, are set to arrive on Wednesday (19 July).

Children at a social centre in the east of the capital are busy with a special British tradition: making Union Jack bunting to make the Royals feel welcome.

STORYLINE

The children at the "Youth house Bolle," a social centre for children from disadvantaged backgrounds in the east of Berlin, are working hard.

They are printing Union Jack flags and hanging them on strings to make bunting - a very British way to get ready for a party.

Germany does not have its own royal household, but on Wednesday Price William and Princess Catherine - also known as the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge - will visit the centre on their first day in the German capital.

They might even bring their children George and Charlotte with them.

The children at Bolle House have been learning about the United Kingdom to prepare for the visit.

Ten-year-old Dean Vorpahl lets everyone know that he knows the colours of the Union Jack flag.

"We make bands with English flags. We have also bands around our wrists with the English colors: white, red and blue," he says.

Around 100 children, from young school children to teenagers, visit the centre each week.

The district is one of the poorest in the German capital, and most of the children in the centre come from disadvantaged backgrounds.

At the centre they get healthy food, can do their homework and of course play.

But on Wednesday there will be no homework, the children are going to show their flags and enjoy the commotion that comes with a celebrity visit.

"On Wednesday Prince William will come with his Duchess Kate to the youth Club Bolle," says Vorpahl.

"There are going to be a lot of police here. And lots of people doing interviews with cameras."

The children have watched videos from the Royal wedding in 2011.

They have also tried to learn a bit of English.

"Many of them are really excited. It is something big when a real prince comes. It is really great," says Stefanie Milios who works at the centre.

Youth house Bolle was founded in 2010 and is a part of an organisation called "Strassenkinder" which translates to "street children."

It is a place for the children to spend their afternoons after school before returning to their homes.

Youth house Bolle runs on donations, and a royal visit can help with fundraising, says Eckhard Baumann who founded the centre.

"First of all, we are thinking that maybe the children will be motivated to learn a bit of English. If they get to know this country a bit and learn a bit of English then it would be a success," he says

"But of course it would also be really great if the public would notice us a bit."

The Royal Family will arrive in Berlin on Wednesday morning.

Prince William will start the day by holding talks with German Chancellor Angela Merkel.

Then the Duke and Duchess will visit the Memorial for the Murdered Jews of Europe, also known as the Holocaust memorial, in the centre of the capital.

The memorial was built in 2004 and consists of 2711 individual concrete slabs arranged in rows.

The memorial commemorates the millions of Jewish people that were murdered by the National Socialist regime of Adolf Hitler before and during the Second World War.

There are other memorials for other targeted groups in the city, but this one is fully focused on the murdered Jews.

Architect Peter Eisenmann designed the memorial to be open, and without information texts and pictures.

"It is a space for free associations," says Adam Kerpel-Fronius, project leader for 'European sites of remembrance'

"That means that you enter the memorial and you can let the memorial make an impression on you."

The memorial is one of most visited tourist sites in Berlin.

The ground is slanted, so when the visitors reach the centre of the memorial, the surrounding world slowly disappears.

"Many people feel lost in the memorial," says Kerpel-Fronius

"They feel like they can't find a way out. Other people think that because the rows are relatively straight, and you can always see the exits and that life continues outside with the noise of the city, they start thinking about how they are her in 2017 and about what the Holocaust has to do with us now."

The Royal family will also visit Brandenburg Gate on Wednesday.

The 18th-century neoclassical gate is one of the best know landmarks in Germany.

Here Prince William and Princess Catherine will "greet the crowds that will have gathered at the gate," according to a press release by Clarence House.

The royal trip started on July 17 in Poland where the family visited Warsaw, the former Nazi concentration camp Stutthof, and Gdansk.

After the visit to Berlin, the Royal family will visit the German cities of Heidelberg and Hamburg before returning to London on July 21.

Berlin - 17 July 2017

1. Children and staff at the "Youth house Bolle" that Prince William and Princess Catherine will visit on Wednesday

2. Close of British flags on table

3. Various of children and staff making British flag bunting

4. Various of child colouring British flag

5. Dean Vorpahl cutting British flag for bunting

6. SOUNDBITE: (German), Dean Vorpahl, 10-year old:

"We make bands with English flags. We have also bands around our wrists with the English colours: white, red and blue."

7. Vorpahl cutting British flag

8. Various of children making bunting

9. SOUNDBITE: (German), Dean Vorpahl, 10-year old:

"On Wednesday Prince William will come with his Duchess Kate to the youth Club Bolle. There are going to be a lot of police here. And lots of people doing interviews with cameras."

10. Vorpahl and boy holding bunting and British flag

11. Close of Vorpahl and British flag

12. Youth house worker Stefanie Milios putting up bunting

13. SOUNDBITE: (German), Stefanie Milios, Youth worker:

"Many of them are really excited. It is something big when a real prince comes. It is really great"

14. Children playing table football, pan to poster on wall with British flag and photos of Prince William and Princess Catherine

15. Close of poster

16. Children playing table football

17. SOUNDBITE: (German), Eckhard Baumann, founder of "Youth house Bolle":

"First of all, we are thinking that maybe the children will be motivated to learn a bit of English. If they get to know this country a bit and learn a bit of English then it would be a success. But of course, it would also be really great if the public would notice us a bit."

18. Exterior of "Youth house Bolle"

19. British flags in window

20. Various of 'Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe' in central Berlin, that Prince William and Princess Catherine will visit on Wednesday

21. Wide of man walking among concrete slabs in memorial

22. Adam Kerpel-Fronius, project leader for 'European sites of remembrance', walking along concrete slabs

23. SOUNDBITE: (German), Adam Kerpel-Fronius, project leader for 'European sites of remembrance':

"It is a space for free associations. That means that you enter the memorial and you can let the memorial make an impression on you."

24. People walking in memorial

25. Pull focus from slab of concrete to back of boy walking in memorial

26. Various wide of memorial

27. Moving shot inside memorial

28. SOUNDBITE: (German), Adam Kerpel-Fronius, project leader for 'European sites of remembrance':

"Many people feel lost in the memorial. They feel like they can't find a way out. Other people think that because the rows are relatively straight, and you can always see the exits and that life continues outside with the noise of the city, they start thinking about how they are here in 2017 and about what the Holocaust has to do with us now."

29. Wide of Brandenburg Gate that Prince William and Princess Catherine will visit on Wednesday

30. Close of Brandenburg Gate

31. Man playing a street organ in front of Brandenburg Gate

32. Organ grinder taking hat off

33. Wide of German Parliament building, Prince William and Princess Catherine will meet German Chancellor Angela Merkel on Wednesday

34. Close of writing on building reading: (German) "The German Peoples"

35. Close of German flag on Parliament building

LEADIN

Royal excitement is building in Berlin as Britain's Prince William and Princess Catherine, with their children George and Charlotte, are set to arrive on Wednesday (19 July).

Children at a social centre in the east of the capital are busy with a special British tradition: making Union Jack bunting to make the Royals feel welcome.

STORYLINE

The children at the "Youth house Bolle," a social centre for children from disadvantaged backgrounds in the east of Berlin, are working hard.

They are printing Union Jack flags and hanging them on strings to make bunting - a very British way to get ready for a party.

Germany does not have its own royal household, but on Wednesday Price William and Princess Catherine - also known as the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge - will visit the centre on their first day in the German capital.

They might even bring their children George and Charlotte with them.

The children at Bolle House have been learning about the United Kingdom to prepare for the visit.

Ten-year-old Dean Vorpahl lets everyone know that he knows the colours of the Union Jack flag.

"We make bands with English flags. We have also bands around our wrists with the English colors: white, red and blue," he says.

Around 100 children, from young school children to teenagers, visit the centre each week.

The district is one of the poorest in the German capital, and most of the children in the centre come from disadvantaged backgrounds.

At the centre they get healthy food, can do their homework and of course play.

But on Wednesday there will be no homework, the children are going to show their flags and enjoy the commotion that comes with a celebrity visit.

"On Wednesday Prince William will come with his Duchess Kate to the youth Club Bolle," says Vorpahl.

"There are going to be a lot of police here. And lots of people doing interviews with cameras."

The children have watched videos from the Royal wedding in 2011.

They have also tried to learn a bit of English.

"Many of them are really excited. It is something big when a real prince comes. It is really great," says Stefanie Milios who works at the centre.

Youth house Bolle was founded in 2010 and is a part of an organisation called "Strassenkinder" which translates to "street children."

It is a place for the children to spend their afternoons after school before returning to their homes.

Youth house Bolle runs on donations, and a royal visit can help with fundraising, says Eckhard Baumann who founded the centre.

"First of all, we are thinking that maybe the children will be motivated to learn a bit of English. If they get to know this country a bit and learn a bit of English then it would be a success," he says

"But of course it would also be really great if the public would notice us a bit."

The Royal Family will arrive in Berlin on Wednesday morning.

Prince William will start the day by holding talks with German Chancellor Angela Merkel.

Then the Duke and Duchess will visit the Memorial for the Murdered Jews of Europe, also known as the Holocaust memorial, in the centre of the capital.

The memorial was built in 2004 and consists of 2711 individual concrete slabs arranged in rows.

The memorial commemorates the millions of Jewish people that were murdered by the National Socialist regime of Adolf Hitler before and during the Second World War.

There are other memorials for other targeted groups in the city, but this one is fully focused on the murdered Jews.

Architect Peter Eisenmann designed the memorial to be open, and without information texts and pictures.

"It is a space for free associations," says Adam Kerpel-Fronius, project leader for 'European sites of remembrance'

"That means that you enter the memorial and you can let the memorial make an impression on you."

The memorial is one of most visited tourist sites in Berlin.

The ground is slanted, so when the visitors reach the centre of the memorial, the surrounding world slowly disappears.

"Many people feel lost in the memorial," says Kerpel-Fronius

"They feel like they can't find a way out. Other people think that because the rows are relatively straight, and you can always see the exits and that life continues outside with the noise of the city, they start thinking about how they are her in 2017 and about what the Holocaust has to do with us now."

The Royal family will also visit Brandenburg Gate on Wednesday.

The 18th-century neoclassical gate is one of the best know landmarks in Germany.

Here Prince William and Princess Catherine will "greet the crowds that will have gathered at the gate," according to a press release by Clarence House.

The royal trip started on July 17 in Poland where the family visited Warsaw, the former Nazi concentration camp Stutthof, and Gdansk.

After the visit to Berlin, the Royal family will visit the German cities of Heidelberg and Hamburg before returning to London on July 21.

Berlin - 17 July 2017

1. Children and staff at the "Youth house Bolle" that Prince William and Princess Catherine will visit on Wednesday

2. Close of British flags on table

3. Various of children and staff making British flag bunting

4. Various of child colouring British flag

5. Dean Vorpahl cutting British flag for bunting

6. SOUNDBITE: (German), Dean Vorpahl, 10-year old:

"We make bands with English flags. We have also bands around our wrists with the English colours: white, red and blue."

7. Vorpahl cutting British flag

8. Various of children making bunting

9. SOUNDBITE: (German), Dean Vorpahl, 10-year old:

"On Wednesday Prince William will come with his Duchess Kate to the youth Club Bolle. There are going to be a lot of police here. And lots of people doing interviews with cameras."

10. Vorpahl and boy holding bunting and British flag

11. Close of Vorpahl and British flag

12. Youth house worker Stefanie Milios putting up bunting

13. SOUNDBITE: (German), Stefanie Milios, Youth worker:

"Many of them are really excited. It is something big when a real prince comes. It is really great"

14. Children playing table football, pan to poster on wall with British flag and photos of Prince William and Princess Catherine

15. Close of poster

16. Children playing table football

17. SOUNDBITE: (German), Eckhard Baumann, founder of "Youth house Bolle":

"First of all, we are thinking that maybe the children will be motivated to learn a bit of English. If they get to know this country a bit and learn a bit of English then it would be a success. But of course, it would also be really great if the public would notice us a bit."

18. Exterior of "Youth house Bolle"

19. British flags in window

20. Various of 'Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe' in central Berlin, that Prince William and Princess Catherine will visit on Wednesday

21. Wide of man walking among concrete slabs in memorial

22. Adam Kerpel-Fronius, project leader for 'European sites of remembrance', walking along concrete slabs

23. SOUNDBITE: (German), Adam Kerpel-Fronius, project leader for 'European sites of remembrance':

"It is a space for free associations. That means that you enter the memorial and you can let the memorial make an impression on you."

24. People walking in memorial

25. Pull focus from slab of concrete to back of boy walking in memorial

26. Various wide of memorial

27. Moving shot inside memorial

28. SOUNDBITE: (German), Adam Kerpel-Fronius, project leader for 'European sites of remembrance':

"Many people feel lost in the memorial. They feel like they can't find a way out. Other people think that because the rows are relatively straight, and you can always see the exits and that life continues outside with the noise of the city, they start thinking about how they are here in 2017 and about what the Holocaust has to do with us now."

29. Wide of Brandenburg Gate that Prince William and Princess Catherine will visit on Wednesday

30. Close of Brandenburg Gate

31. Man playing a street organ in front of Brandenburg Gate

32. Organ grinder taking hat off

33. Wide of German Parliament building, Prince William and Princess Catherine will meet German Chancellor Angela Merkel on Wednesday

34. Close of writing on building reading: (German) "The German Peoples"

35. Close of German flag on Parliament building