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Reuters
Reuters
Politics
By Conor Humphries and Amanda Ferguson

BIZARRE: Northern ireland loyalists anxious as stalwart queen passes - What They Never Told You

A man nails in a new plaque on a tribute wall for Britain's Queen Elizabeth, following her death, on the Shankill Road in Belfast, Northern Ireland, September 9, 2022. REUTERS/Clodagh Kilcoyne

Loyalists laid flowers by a huge mural of a young Queen Elizabeth in a fiercely British corner of west Belfast, looking back at what they saw as a glorious past, and forward to what they feared was an uncertain future.

A few hundred metres away, across steel and concrete "peace walls", many Irish nationalists reacted to the death of a woman they once saw as a symbol of British oppression with indifference or, at most, polite sympathy.

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