Abstract :
On my first visit to Dresden in October 1992, I was mistaken for a high-profile ´heavy´. I was in the city to report on the Queen´s first trip to the former East Germany, and I was accompanied by a young woman from Her Majesty´s press office, who vaguely resembled the then Princess of Wales. Stepping off the Royal Train, we became separated from the rest of the press pack, and, to be in time for the next Royal function at the Rathaus (Town Hall), had to run across Dresden, periodically stopping to ask for directions.
