Britain's King Charles makes pledge to support all of Northern Ireland’s people

Britain's King Charles, with the Queen Consort, speaking after receiving a message of condolence by Alex Maskey, the Speaker of the Northern Ireland Assembly, at Hillsborough Castle, Co Down (Niall Carson/PA)

Britain's King Charles has pledged to “seek the welfare” of all Northern Ireland’s people and described how his family have felt their “sorrows” as he praised his mother’s relationship with Northern Ireland.

Charles, who in 2015 made a pilgrimage to the site of his great-uncle Lord Mountbatten’s murder in an IRA bombing, said Queen Elizabeth had “never ceased to pray for the best of times for this place and its people”.