Guests listen during a speech by Britain's Queen Elizabeth II, centre left of table, during a State Banquet given in honour of the President of Ireland Michael D. Higgins, seated at the queen's right hand, at Windsor Castle, on Tuesday April 8, 2014, in Windsor, England. Guests and dignitaries including Irish Prime Minister, Enda Kenny and Northern Ireland's Deputy First Minister Martin McGuinness are attending the banquet at the end of the first day of a state visit by Ireland's President Michael D. Higgins. Higgins is making the first state visit by a president of the republic since it gained independence from Britain.
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