Queen Elizabeth shows courage in visit to Northern Ireland

June 26, 2014

According to The Telegraph:

Visits by the Queen to Northern Ireland used not to be announced in advance. But the Queen’s preference is for business as usual in all parts of the Kingdom. That she walked freely among her people in a publicised schedule is one more reflection of her daily courage and duty.

…an image summ[ed] up the whole visit. This was the Queen, …in a corridor of the old Crumlin Road jail, flanked by…the First Minister, and his deputy, …both of whom for different reasons know what detention is like. The jail is now a tourist attraction…

To read the entire article in The Telegraph, please click here.

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