Briefing papers newly released by Ireland’s national archive talk of princess’s ‘obvious ignorance’ of constitutional position

Diana, Princess of Wales, showed “obvious ignorance of or disregard for” the constitutional position of Northern Ireland, apparently believing it to be part of the Republic of Ireland, according to a note written by the Irish ambassador to Britain in 1993.

The late princess, at the time still married to Prince Charles, had referred to Northern Ireland as part of Ireland in a conversation with the ambassador, Joseph Small, he wrote in a briefing note to Ireland’s then-president, Mary Robinson.

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