Should the Queen Have apologised to the Irish?

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You might well ask.

Perhaps to assuage a sense of injustice; perhaps to help "normalise" relations between the two nations; perhaps to make religious/nationalist terrorism less acceptable to the Irish; perhaps to enhance trade opportunities.

Or perhaps it is to follow a modern trend of apologising for past hurts by people who did not commit those acts to people who did not suffer from them in the interests of political correctness.

Good answers.