King Charles and Queen Camilla visit Armagh and Enniskillen

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The King and Queen met 8  twelvemonth  olds Camilla Nowawakowska and Charles Murray extracurricular  the cathedralImage source, Reuters

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The King and Queen met eight-year-olds Camilla Nowawakowska and Charles Murray extracurricular St Patrick's Cathedral successful Armagh

By James Kelly

BBC News NI

The King and Queen met different Charles and Camilla arsenic they concluded their two-day sojourn to Northern Ireland successful counties Armagh and Fermanagh.

The royal mates greeted superior schoolhouse children who had been waiting extracurricular St Patrick's Cathedral successful Armagh.

Among them was Camilla Nowawakowska, wearing a crepe-paper replica of her ain crown.

Standing adjacent to Camilla was Charles Murray, who was sporting a purple insubstantial crown decorated with shiny stickers.

When the 2 children told the Queen their archetypal names, she said: "Goodness me, isn't that funny.

"You've got precise astute crowns on, they're a small spot lighter than the 1 I had on.

"They look beauteous chill with each the jewels."

Charles was past called implicit and shook hands with the 2 children.

The royal mates had conscionable met the main Christian denominations astatine the Anglican St Patrick's Cathedral.

Queen Camilla besides met children astatine Armagh Robinson Library arsenic portion of her run to promote reading.

Later, they met section assemblage groups galore of whom had taken portion successful the Coronation Big Help Out.

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King Charles with the Dean of Armagh, the Very Revd Shane Forster, during his sojourn to St Patrick's Cathedral successful Armagh

Among those to springiness readings astatine the cathedral work were Church of Ireland Archbishop of Armagh and Primate of each Ireland Rev John McDowell and Roman Catholic Archbishop of Armagh and Primate of each Ireland Rev Eamon Martin.

The different denominations represented astatine the work were the Presbyterian Church and the Methodist Church.

At the library, the Queen viewed Jonathan Swift's own, annotated, transcript of his publication Gulliver's Travels, during her sojourn to the library.

Children from Drelin Court superior school, volunteers from the room and representatives from Dementia NI, each of whom usage the room regularly, were among those gathering the Queen.

She said they were fortunate to person entree to the humanities books successful the library.

The royal mates past made their mode to Market Theatre Square to spot a solemnisation of culture.

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The Queen got up adjacent with the legendary characters associated with Armagh

Ulster-Scots, Irish, Chinese and South Asian cultures featured their accepted music, opus and dance.

'Greatest pleasure'

The King and Queen besides met characters representing legendary and humanities characters associated with Armagh, sampled section delicacies and met artisanal nutrient producers, arsenic good arsenic speaking to the crowds gathered.

As the mates joined the Lord Mayor of Armagh Paul Greenfield connected stage, King Charles addressed the assemblage and thanked the assemblage for its hospitality.

"I did conscionable privation to accidental earlier we permission that it's been the top pleasance to articulation you present today," helium said.

"I realise it was 23 years agone since I was past here, and I deliberation opened The Market Place building, which I'm truthful pleased to spot is inactive going beardown and I anticipation making a immense quality to Armagh.

"But if I whitethorn accidental truthful it's been peculiarly peculiar to conscionable truthful galore of you today, besides a ample fig of schoolhouse children whose exams, I suspect, we person wholly disrupted."

In the afternoon, the brace made their mode to Enniskillen Castle wherever they met representatives from crossed the community, voluntary and practice sectors successful Fermanagh successful solemnisation of the Coronation.

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All smiles arsenic the King greets schoolchildren astatine Enniskillen Castle

They were entertained by a peculiar associated show of Irish and Scottish dancers accompanied by accepted musicians.

The King and Queen were presented with a Coronation Basket made by Belleek Pottery.

Around a 1000 radical who had gathered extracurricular the castle were rewarded by a royal walkabout with the King and Queen spending clip shaking hands and talking to the crowd.

The King and Queen besides went to Lough Erne's waterfront wherever they met representatives of the RNLI who marked their 200th anniversary.

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