Draft Letter from the King to the Prime Minister Lloyd George to The King following and reflecting upon his Opening of the first Northern Ireland Parliament June 1921
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Draft Letter from the King to the Prime Minister Lloyd George to The King following and reflecting upon his Opening of the first Northern Ireland Parliament June 1921
The King's Reply to the Prime Minister.
A draft Reply to the Prime Minister‘s letter to the King of June 1921
This is a draft of the response that was composed by King George V to David Lloyd George, who as Prime Minister had sent him a letter of congratulations upon the Opening of Parliament in Belfast on 22 June 1921
The note is on Buckingham Palace Headed paper.
The draft has a number of handwritten amendments to the body of the Text.
It also has a description, written above the type of the body of Text, as follows:
“Draft approved by the King and given to Sir Edward Gregg for the Prime Minister”
His Majesty sent the following reply :-
“The Queen and I have received with warm gratitude your message of congratulations upon the happy conclusions of our visit to Belfast.
We are moved beyond expression, not only by the enthusiastic greeting given to us in Northern Ireland, but also by the general reception in all quarters of the words which I spoke, and spoke with all my heart.
Those services to my people, to which you so generously refer in your message, will be more than amply rewarded if they assist in any way the efforts of my Government to bridge over the unhappy differences standing between the Irish people, and that peaceful settlement for which the whole English-speaking World so earnestly looks.”
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