<sod >He said he had paused with his wife at the Westminster Abbey memorial to Viscount Mountbatten, killed by the IRA in Sligo in 1979, an act that acknowledged the personal element in the Queenâs own reconciliatory approach, not least the welcome at Windsor Castle tonight for Martin McGuinness.< eod>< sod > He had paused with his wife at the Westminster Abbey memorial to Viscount Mountbatten, killed by the IRA in Sligo in 1979, an act that handsomely acknowledged the personal element in the Queenâs own reconciliatory approach to Anglo-Irish relations, not least the welcome at Windsor Castle tonight for Martin McGuinness.< eod>