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The British Queen performed an astonishing act of forgiveness today in the name of peace when she shook hands with Sinn Fein's Martin McGuinness - twice.
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| The historical handshake: British Queen shakes hand with Martin McGuinness of Sinn Fein [Photo: PA / Daily Mail] |
Her Majesty somehow even found it within her to smile as she met the man who once headed the terror network responsible for killing Lord Mountbatten - the treasured cousin she knew as 'Uncle Dickie'.
Mountbatten was murdered by the IRA in 1979 along with his young grandson in a bomb blast during a boating trip off Mullaghmore, Co. Sligo. It was an atrocity that sent shockwaves through the Royal Family.
Yet today, in a Jubilee year full of surprises, the Queen spent five minutes with Mr McGuinness behind closed doors in a room within the city's Lyric Theatre, and then the pair shook hands again publicly outside in full view of the world's cameras.
Read more / see more photos and details of Queen's visit to Ireland: Daily Mail
Posted in: Britain, History, Ireland, Lord Mountbatten, McGuinness, Murder, Queen, Relations, Shake Hand, Sinn Fein
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