The first minister-designate is expected to offer him her condolences during a reception at Hillsborough Castle, the royal residence in County Down.
Stacey Graham, a local community worker, said:"I think the Queen epitomised for me everything it meant to be British."We saw that when she met Martin McGuinness. We saw that when she went to the Republic of Ireland and spoke in Irish," she added.
It was during her historic state visit to Ireland in 2011 that the Queen greeted her Dublin audience with the words:"A uachtarain agus a chairde ." Lord Brookeborough, Lord Lieutenant of County Fermanagh and a close friend of the late Queen, said:"That was a game-changer… and it was always something she'd wanted to do."visiting Mullaghmore in County SligoShe shook hands with Martin McGuinness, a former IRA commander, he has shaken hands with Gerry Adams, the world's most-recognisable Irish republican.
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