Sinn Féin’s Alex Maskey passes on condolences from Northern Ireland to the King – video
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In Hillsborough Castle, Alex Maskey, the Speaker of the Northern Ireland assembly and a Sinn Féin member, passed on condolences to the new king, while also addressing the political context of the changes in the region during Queen Elizabeth’s lifetime. King Charles thanked Northern Ireland for the condolences, and said that his mother never ceased to pray for the best of times for its people, “whose sorrows our family had felt”, in a reference to the death of Lord Mountbatten in 1979