A year earlier, the Queen had broken new ground in Dublin, joining the then Irish President, Mary McAleese, to lay wreaths at the Garden of Remembrance.Given that the garden is dedicated to those who died fighting British rule, this was another occasion that, at one time, would have seemed unimaginable.
If these scenes were a novelty in Cork, not so north of the border where the Queen was a frequent visitor over the decades.The Queen and the Duke Of Edinburgh arrived by steam train to open the new Bellarena Station village in County Londonderry in 2016 When the Queen celebrated her Silver Jubilee in 1977, the Troubles were at their height. The IRA threatened to give the monarch a "visit to remember".
She often expressed sadness after atrocities committed during the Troubles. But the murder that hurt her most personally had to be the IRA's assassination of Earl Mountbatten, in 1979. The earl was her husband's uncle. She appeared to refer implicitly to his loss many years later in her Dublin speech.
"To all those who have suffered as a consequence of our troubled past I extend my sincere thoughts and deep sympathy. With the benefit of historical hindsight we can all see things which we would wish had been done differently or not at all.
He should have shivved her when he had the chance.
Her reply “I’m still alive” said it all.
The Queen surrenders!
Thank god our beloved Queen wore her gloves shaking the terrorists hand.
Bertie Ahern’s De Facto Amnesty (McDowell, 2021) for Sinn Fein/PIRA Murderers, gave SF/PIRA the cover they needed to Plan with the RIRA to Murder Queen Elizabeth in Dublin in 2011, Bertie Ahern is a Traitor to our Democracy and should be treated as such…
They showed an example to others with their leadership and commitment to reconciliation
She wears gloves to shake hands with catholic giants Diana shook hands with the AID victims. BBCNI journalism we are watching your rhetoric regarding the history book
She had more respect for Martin McGuinness than any politician from Unionist/loyalist community...says it all.
It's important that this kind of leadership continues when KingCharles takes uo the Royal mantle. He has to listen to those who oppose him & respect modern politic.
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