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It was a moment in time - a shared joke between Queen Elizabeth II and Cork fishmonger Pat O'Connell in 2011.
Her visit to the Republic of Ireland had been a solemn occasion heavy with the weight of a long and difficult history.They chatted first about the monkfish, he told"It's not a particularly pretty fish and it has pretty vicious teeth. In Cork, we call it the mother-in-law fish," he said."I explained it was my 30th wedding anniversary and that the last time I had felt this nervous was 30 years ago.
"There were eight or nine of us and we were brought upstairs for a private audience with the Queen," he said."Oh my fishmonger has come over," she said.
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