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 once described Northern Ireland’s Orange marches as ‘silly business’, newly unsealed government papers have revealed. The annual Orange marches of Protestants in Northern ...
The parade route in north Belfast is one of Northern Ireland’s most contentious The Parades Commission has imposed restrictions on an Orange march on the night of 12 July in north Belfast.
Elizabeth II expressed her relief that Northern Ireland's "silly marching business" was quieter than expected when the former Irish ambassador to the UK visited in 2000, government papers have ...
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.
Ambassador Ted Barrington had met the Queen at a Buckingham Palace garden party on 25 July and said it was not the first time he heard “her dismissive views of the Orange marches”, the BBC ...