Prince William in Ireland on first senior UK royal visit since Brexit – News of Bahrain- DT News

Prince William in Ireland on first senior UK royal visit since Brexit – News of Bahrain- DT News

Britain's Prince William arrived in Dublin yesterday with his wife Kate in a show of friendship with a neighbour on the first official trip abroad by senior royals since Brexit.. William wore a green tie and Kate a green coat and dress as they stepped off a commercial Aer Lingus flight.. It was William's first official trip to the Republic of Ireland, nearly a decade after his grandmother Queen Elizabeth made history with the first visit by a reigning British monarch.. Britain left the European Union on Jan. 31 after fraught, protracted negotiations, mainly held up by debate over its land border with the EU - between the Irish Republic and British-ruled Northern Ireland.. The royal couple followed in Elizabeth's footsteps by laying a wreath at Dublin's Garden of Remembrance, dedicated to those who gave their lives for independence, which Ireland gained from Britain in 1921. ". Catherine," says the message on their wreath.. " William's father Prince Charles, whose great uncle Lord Louis Mountbatten was killed in a bomb attack by the Irish Republican Army on his boat off the coast of Ireland in 1979, has made several trips to Ireland.. Northern Ireland has been largely peaceful since the