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Sunday, October 14, 2012

'Prince' Roy Bates dies at 91; adventuring monarch of Sealand

Paddy Roy Bates occupied a derelict North Sea military platform and declared it the Principality of Sealand in 1967, complete with passports, its own currency, and himself as sovereign.

A born swashbuckler, Paddy Roy Bates fought in the Spanish Civil War as a teenager, faced a Greek firing squad in World War II and had a German stick bomb explode in his face.




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