Paul McCarroll

The Boys’ Brigade Belfast Battalion extends the deepest sympathy to His Majesty The King Charles III and offer our thoughts and prayers to The Royal Family at this difficult time on their loss of a mother, grandmother and great-grandmother.

As we mourn the Passing of Her Majesty The Queen Elizabeth II, we are so very grateful for her lasting legacy and for her Patronage that unified The Boys’ Brigade across the British Isles and beyond these shores.

During her Christmas message in 2014, a few months after one of her many visits to Northern Ireland, she described a sculpture in Coventry Cathedral, and added that casts of the same sculpture can be found in Belfast and Berlin, simply called reconciliation. Her Majesty went on to say that for her, “the life of Jesus Christ, the Prince of Peace, is an inspiration and an anchor in my life, a role model of reconciliation and forgiveness. Christ’s example has taught me to seek to respect and value all people of whatever faith or none. Even in the unlikeliest of places, hope can still be found”.