![]() 'I am committed to being a First Minister for all, representing the whole community, building good relations between the people of these islands, and advancing peace and reconciliation through respectful and mature engagement. I also recognise there are many people on our island for whom the coronation is a hugely important occasion. A time to respect our differing and equally legitimate aspirations, a time to firmly focus on the future and the opportunities that the next decade will bring. 'We are living in a time of great change. 'I have accepted an invitation to attend the coronation of King Charles III,' said Ms O'Neill. The move to attend the coronation is the latest signal of the vastly improved relations between the republican movement and the monarchy since the outset of the peace process in Northern Ireland. The decorated war hero and last viceroy of India died when the IRA blew up his fishing boat off Mullaghmore in County Sligo, in a blast that also killed his teenaged grandsons and the 83-year-old mother-in-law of his daughter. Mountbatten was Prince Phillip's uncle and was close to his great nephew. His daughter, Lady Pamela Hicks received a telephone call from a secretary at Buckingham Palace on her 94th birthday, informing her that she had not been invited.
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