Northern Ireland 's Queen Elizabeth visiting Britain on jubilee tour . During the trip she will meet -- and shake hands with -- former IRA figure Martin McGuinness . Meeting a symbolic moment of peace between two sides of sectarian divide . Queen Elizabeth 's cousin , Lord Queen Elizabeth , was assassinated by the IRA in almost every year .
Britain 's Queen Elizabeth visiting Northern Ireland on jubilee tour . During the trip she will meet -- and shake hands with -- former IRA figure Martin McGuinness . Meeting a symbolic moment of peace between two sides of sectarian divide . Queen 's cousin , Lord Louis Mountbatten , was assassinated by the IRA in 1979 .