The newly honoured Dame Arlene Foster has welcomed a move by Sinn Féin vice-president Michelle O'Neill to write to the Queen on her Platinum Jubilee.
Ms O'Neill wrote to the Queen to praise her "significant" contribution to the Stormont peace process and to acknowledge her "dedicated public service to the British people" during her 70 years on the throne.
She also thanked the Queen for her "warmth and unfailing courtesy" on the occasions when the pair have met and described the "value and respect" she had for the monarch's contribution to reconciliation.
