The sole photographer to capture the historic moment the Queen greeted Sinn Fein's Martin McGuinness has recalled it as the longest handshake he has ever shot.Paul Faith, from Co Antrim, was asked to take the image of the monarch's meeting with the former IRA commander inside the Lyric Theatre in Belfast in 2012.The handshake between the Queen and Mr McGuinness, who was then Stormont deputy First Minister, was a highly symbolic gesture and is considered a landmark moment in Northern Ireland's pe

The sole photographer to capture the historic moment the Queen greeted Sinn Fein's Martin McGuinness has recalled it as the longest handshake he has ever shot.Paul Faith, from Co Antrim, was asked to take the image of the monarch's meeting with the former IRA commander inside the Lyric Theatre in Belfast in 2012.The handshake between the Queen and Mr McGuinness, who was then Stormont deputy First Minister, was a highly symbolic gesture and is considered a landmark moment in Northern Ireland's peace process journey from conflict toward reconciliation.