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| AddReese Kilbride |
image by: Fiona Dowling
An
Irish primary school pupil who wrote to the Queen requesting that she turn
Northern Ireland over to the Republic of Ireland has received a reply from
Buckingham Palace.
Dublin
boy Reese Kilbride, 12, wrote a letter after learning about the 1916 Easter
Rising at school. In his letter, Reese asked for the return of the six counties
and enclosed drawings of himself and his friend, Ethan.
The
reply, written by a palace official, said: This is not a matter in which Her
Majesty would intervene.
Reese's
mother, Fiona Dowling, said she told her son not to expect anything from the
queen because she gets loads of letters.
In
reply, Jennie Vine, a deputy correspondence co-ordinator at the palace, said: Her
Majesty has asked me to thank you for the pictures you drew especially for her.
On
the matter of Northern Ireland, Ms Vine said that "as a constitutional
sovereign the Queen acts on the advice of her ministers and remains strictly
non-political at all times".
According
to Ms Dowling she said that Reese took the letter to school to show his class,
though he never expected a response from the queen.
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Image
copyright Buckingham Palace
source: BBC.COM
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