Shockingly, Ambassador Ted Barrington, who had met the Queen at a Buckingham Palace garden party said that it was not the ...

Queen Elizabeth II expressed her relief that Northern Ireland's "silly marching business" was quieter than expected when the then Irish ambassador to the UK visited in 2000, Irish government papers ...

Queen Elizabeth II reportedly dismissed Northern Ireland's Orange Marches as "silly marching business" during a private chat with Ireland's ambassador to the UK, Ted Barrington, in 2000.

Ambassador Ted Barrington had met the Queen at a Buckingham Palace garden party on 25 July and said it was not the first time he heard “her dismissive views of the Orange marches”, the BBC ...

Ted Barrington, who met the late queen at a Buckingham Palace garden party on 25 July that year, said it was not the first time he heard "her dismissive views of the Orange marches". Almost 25 ...