Queen Elizabeth insisted on jubilee visit to Northern Ireland despite IRA threats, files show

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Queen Elizabeth insisted on jubilee visit to Northern Ireland despite IRA threats, files show

The late Queen Elizabeth II overruled Prime Minister Jim Callaghan's private objections to press ahead with her Silver Jubilee tour of Northern Ireland in August 1977, freshly declassified state papers held at the National Archives in Kew have revealed. The Provisional IRA had threatened to give the monarch a "visit to remember," and Mr Callaghan feared the trip, scheduled for August 10 and 11, risked sparking furthe…