A royal presence in Dublin for 2016?

Sir, – Rather than inviting a representative of the House of Hohenzollern, as Felix Larkin suggests (May 13th), would it not make more sense to invite the president of Germany to represent Ireland's "gallant allies in Europe", in the words of the 1916 Proclamation?

And also President Barack Obama, to represent Ireland’s “exiled children in America”? – Yours, etc,

ED KELLY,

St Helens,

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Merseyside, England.