Queen swamped by letters after visit

BUCKINGHAM Palace has been swamped with a record number of well-wishing letters following Queen Elizabeth II’s state visit to Ireland.

“The Palace report that they’ve had more letters following this visit than they can recall following any other visit during her reign,” the British Ambassador to Ireland, Julian King, said yesterday.

He was speaking in Cork at the official opening of the President’s and Lord Mayor’s Pavilion in Fitzgerald Park which was visited by King Edward VII in 1903.