PRINCE Charles will make an emotional trip to Mullaghmore in Sligo where his great uncle Lord Mountbatten was assassinated by the IRA.
Officials have confirmed the prince is to visit the area where the IRA murdered his great-uncle 36 years ago.
Lord Mountbatten was killed on August 27, 1979, when a remote-control IRA bomb blew apart his pleasure boat at Mullaghmore where his family often enjoyed holidays.
The 79-year-old - who was also queen Elizabeth's cousin - had a close relationship with Charles.
One of the earl's twin grandsons, Nicholas Knatchbull (14), and a 15-year-old local boy, Paul Maxwell, who worked on the boat, also died in the explosion.
The stop-off will be a poignant moment in a four-day trip later this month, the first official joint visit by Prince Charles and his wife Camilla to both the Republic and Northern Ireland.
The four-day trip from May 19 comes after the queen made a successful state visit to Dublin and Cork in 2011 - the first by a British monarch in 100 years.
The British royal couple will attend a service of peace and reconciliation at St Columba's Church, in Drumcliffe, Co Sligo where Nobel Prize-winning poet William Butler Yeats in buried.
Their trip to the Republic will also include a visit to Burren in Co Clare while in Galway, they are due to attend a celebration of Irish culture at the National University of Ireland.
The couple are also expected to visit the peace and reconciliation centre at Corrymeela, in Co Antrim during their trip to the north.
