Prince Charles and Gerry Adams share historic handshake
Prince Charles has shaken hands with Gerry Adams, the veteran Irish republican who former comrades allege was on the IRA’s ruling army council when the Provisionals murdered the prince’s great-uncle, Lord Louis Mountbatten, in 1979.
In a historic moment for Anglo-Irish affairs, Charles met the Sinn Féin leader who once justified the Mountbatten murder.
The pair smiled at each other as they shook hands for 13 seconds inside a packed hall on the campus of the National University of Ireland Galway. They exchanged a few words, with the prince holding a cup of tea in one hand and shaking Adams’ hand with the other....