Charles III did his first visit Tuesday as a king in Northern Ireland, where Brexit has relaunched the idea of a separation of the United Kingdom and reunification with Ireland.
Le Monde with AFP
The first visit to Ireland in the north of Charles III, arrived Tuesday September 13 in Belfast, takes place in a context of tensions at the time when he succeeds Elizabeth II in an atmosphere of popular fervor and national emotion. p>
As soon as he arrived at the Château de Hillsborough, Charles III and Queen Consort Camilla went into contact with the thousands of people massaged behind the barriers, shaking hands, greeting the children, exchanging a few words, images that are difficult to imagine at the time of “Disorders” (North Irish conflict).
Paralyzed politically, and in full upheaval under the effect of victory in the last elections of the Republicans of Sinn Fein, who do not recognize the authority of the monarchy, Northern Ireland remains the most delicate stage of The new king’s tour in the four constitutive nations of the United Kingdom. The sovereign had played a major role in reconciliation, in this province with a bloody past. But almost a quarter of a century after the return of a fragile peace between Republicans, especially Catholic, and Unionists, essentially Protestants, the tensions were revived by Brexit, relaunching the idea of a separation of the United Kingdom and of a reunification with Ireland.