Sinn Féin vice-president Michelle O’Neill has told King Charles III she hopes the British-Irish relationship "strengthens and evolves".
Ms O'Neill expressed her sympathies over the death of Queen Elizabeth II as Stormont party representatives met the new monarch at Hillsborough Castle in Co Down.
She told him: "Her life and legacy will be fondly remembered by those of a British identity here who with great pride and devotion held her very dear.
