Northern Ireland welcomes King Charles and goes some way to repairing Brexit sour relations
Helicopters droned overhead, police officers swamped the streets and grief hung in the air but King Charles’ visit to Northern Ireland did not feel like a rerun of the Troubles. Quite the opposite.
The monarch’s foray across the Irish Sea on Tuesday turned the clock back to a more recent era when reconciliation between unionists and nationalists, and Ireland and Britain, seemed strong, even inevitable.
