01/06/2005

Princess Royal arrives in NI for visit

The Princess Royal has been in Northern Ireland on Wednesday for a series of engagements.

A regular visitor to the province, Princess Anne has been meeting people from community associations, charitable groups and the business world at events in counties Antrim and Down.

In the second engagement of the day, Her Royal Highness visited Nazareth House Care Village on the Ravenhill Road in Belfast. The Care Village, operated by the Sisters of Nazareth, a Roman Catholic Order of Nuns, is a purpose-built facility to meet the needs of older people from the whole community irrespective of Religious denomination.

Her last visit to the province was in 2003, when she visited on two occasions.

(MB)

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