Queen Elizabeth once described Northern Ireland’s Orange marches as ‘silly business’, newly unsealed government papers have ...

Members of the Orange Order - known as Orangemen - march to mark the anniversary of the 1690 Battle of the Boyne The Twelfth parade in Belfast has the longest route, stretching to six miles (9.5km ...

Queen Elizabeth II expressed her relief that Northern Ireland's "silly marching business" was quieter than expected when the then Irish ambassador to the UK visited in 2000, Irish government papers ...

INFLAMMATORY marches passed off in Northern Ireland at the weekend without the normal sectarian violence. Thousands of Protestants joined Orange Order parades to commemorate the 1690 Battle of the ...

Queen Elizabeth II spoke of her relief that the “silly marching season” in Northern Ireland was quieter ... “her dismissive views of the Orange marches”, the BBC reports.

Queen Elizabeth II reportedly dismissed Northern Ireland's Orange Marches as "silly marching business" during a private chat with Ireland's ambassador to the UK, Ted Barrington, in 2000.

The Grand Orange Lodge of Scotland holds more than 1,000 marches across Scotland each ... a senior member of the Orange Order in Northern Ireland described it as a “throw away comment” with ...

Orange veterans faced the violence of the Irish War of Independence and the chaos of partition and civil war. Protestant Orangemen in the new state of Northern Ireland found themselves in ...

Queen Elizabeth once described Northern Ireland’s Orange marches as ‘silly business’, newly unsealed government papers have revealed. The annual Orange marches of Protestants in Northern ...

Queen Elizabeth II expressed her relief that Northern Ireland's "silly marching ... first time he heard "her dismissive views of the Orange marches". Almost 25 years later, and after Elizabeth ...