Silvia is Queen of Sweden as the wife of King Carl XVI Gustaf. She has held this title since her marriage to Carl Gustaf in 1976. The king and queen have three children:Crown Princess Victoria,Prince Carl Philip,and Princess Madeleine.
Mathilde d'Udekem d'Acoz is Queen of the Belgians as the wife of King Philippe. She is the first native-born Belgian queen,and has four children. She formerly worked as a speech therapist. She is involved with a range of organisations which address social issues including education,child poverty,intergenerational poverty,the position of women in society and literacy.
Karl Heinrich Lübke was a German politician,who served as president of West Germany from 1959 to 1969.
HeinzFischer GColIH,OMRI,RSerafO,GCollSE is an Austrian politician who served as the president of Austria from 2004 to 2016. Fischer previously served as minister of science from 1983 to 1987 and as president of the National Council of Austria from 1990 to 2002. A member of the Social Democratic Party of Austria (SPÖ) until 2004,he suspended his party membership as he became president.
Prince Ali bin Al Hussein is the third son of King Hussein of Jordan,and the second child of the king by his third wife,Queen Alia. He is also the half brother of King Abdullah II. He is a member of the Hashemite family,which has ruled Jordan since 1921 and claims to be a descendant of the Islamic prophet Muhammad.
Franz Bonaventura Adalbert Maria Herzog von Bayern,commonly known by the courtesy title Duke of Bavaria,is the head of the House of Wittelsbach,the former ruling family of the Kingdom of Bavaria. His great-grandfather King Ludwig III was the last ruling monarch of Bavaria,being deposed in 1918.
Walter Homolka is a German rabbi.
Karl Ernst Thomas de Maizière is a German politician of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) who served as Federal Minister of the Interior from 2009 to 2011 and 2013 to 2018,as well as Federal Minister of Defence from 2011 to 2013. He previously served as Head of the Chancellery and Federal Minister for Special Affairs in the First Merkel cabinet from 2005 to 2009. Since 2009,he has been a member of the Bundestag for Meißen.
Alan John Watson,Baron Watson of Richmond is a UK-based broadcaster,Liberal Democrat politician and leadership communications consultant.
Ronald Pofalla is a German lawyer and politician of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) who served as the Chief of Staff of the German Chancellery and a Federal Minister for Special Affairs from 2009 to 2013,in the second coalition government of Chancellor Angela Merkel. From 2017 to 2022,he was the CEO of the infrastructure department of Deutsche Bahn.
Princess Marie of Denmark,Countess of Monpezat,is a member of the Danish royal family. She is the second wife of Prince Joachim of Denmark,the younger brother of King Frederik X of Denmark.
Ernst Benda was a German legal scholar,politician,and judge. He was the fourth president of the Federal Constitutional Court of Germany from 1971 to 1983. He also held the position of Minister of the Interior of Germany from 1968 to 1969.
Princess Caroline-Mathilde of Denmark was a daughter of Prince Harald of Denmark and granddaughter of King Frederik VIII of Denmark. As the wife of Knud,Hereditary Prince of Denmark,she became Hereditary Princess of Denmark.
Rainer Hildebrandt was a German anti-communist resistance fighter,historian and founder of the Checkpoint Charlie Museum. He was involved in the resistance to the communist regime of the Soviet occupation zone since the 1940s,as a member of the Kampfgruppe gegen Unmenschlichkeit.
Joachim Wilhelm Gauck is a German politician who served as President of Germany from 2012 to 2017. A former Lutheran pastor,he came to prominence as an anti-communist civil rights activist in East Germany.
Ingrid Rüütel is an Estonian folklorist and philologist. She is married to former President of Estonia Arnold Rüütel.
Salaam-Schalom is an intercultural activist initiative,which was established in December 2013 by Berliner Jews and Muslims. It stands for a peaceful co-existence and solidarity,and promotes these aims by implementing various interventions and projects which raise awareness to social and institutional exclusions in mainstream German society.
Daniela Ludwig is a German politician of the Christian Social Union (CSU) who has been serving as a member of the Bundestag since 2002.
