«Breaking News» Awkward truth behind Queen's handshake with IRA leader Martin McGuinness revealed

It was seen as a historic mark of progress – the Queen's handshake with former IRA commander Martin McGuinness in 2012.

But for the monarch, it was not a profound gesture of reconciliation following decades of bloodshed.

She simply thought that it would have been awkward if she did not take his hand, according to a new book by Daily Mail features writer Robert Hardman.

The Queen shaking hands with IRA leader Martin McGuinness at the Lyric Theater in Belfast in 2012

The Queen's thoughts were disclosed by David Cameron. He said he had told the Queen that her meeting with the late Mr McGuinness, then Northern Ireland's deputy first minister, had been a great milestone of modern diplomacy.

Mr Cameron, Prime Minister at the time, told the author: 'I think it was the most transformative bit of diplomacy I have seen. It was amazing.'

But in a response that summed up what Mr Hardman refers to as her 'modest, no-nonsense approach', the Queen admitted: 'What was I meant to do? Of course I shook his hand. It would be awkward not to.'

The book, Queen Of The World, also revealed that the monarch was faintly embarrassed by the adulation after shaking hands with the man Mr Hardman described as 'the leader of an organisation that had once been hell-bent on exterminating her entire family'.

'She was, as ever, not sure what all the fuss was about,' Mr Cameron said. Mr McGuinness died last year.

The book also says the Queen's famous speech on her 21st birthday was actually pre-recorded.

Delivered on a tour of South Africa with her parents in 1947, it has the famous line: 'My whole life, whether it be long or short, shall be devoted to your service and the service of our great imperial family.'

But Mr Hardman asserts that the speech, broadcast on radio, had been recorded in a Zimbabwe hotel room a week earlier to spare her the pressure.

David Cameron, who was Prime Minister at the time, called the act 'the most transformative piece of democracy I've seen'

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Main photo article It was seen as a historic mark of progress – the Queen’s handshake with former IRA commander Martin McGuinness in 2012.
But for the monarch, it was not a profound gesture of reconciliation following decades of bloodshed.
She simply thought that it would have been awkward if she did not t...

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