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20 September 2024
Tonight all at the Galata Museo del Mare in Genoa: the prince of Sealand, the world’s smallest state, speaks!
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Neverland. An unrecognized state. Still, Sealand beats currency, prints stamps, issues passports, grants titles of nobility (that of baron to singer Ed Sheeran) and has endured for 52 years now (and until a few years ago also had a National Football Team), about 7 miles off Sussex, England. HavenCo, The Pirate Bay, Wikileaks wanted to base their servers there, but it didn’t work out.
Tonight at 6 p.m. at the Galata Museo del Mare in Genoa, Prince Regent Michael Bates (pictured above), host of Meetings in Blue, will tell you why. An appointment not to be missed!
Says the curator of the series of meetings Fabio Pozzo in La Stampa, “A utopia, an island that is not there. It was founded by a former British Army major and entrepreneur, Paddy Roy Bates, on September 2, 1967. Bates hoisted the black-and-white flag on a former military platform he had occupied and defended with arms some time earlier, located 7 miles off the southeast coast of England (then in international waters), in front of the port of Felixstowe.
He proclaimed himself prince and made his wife, former model Joan Collins, his princess. Since then, Sealand’s history has lived through storms and waves, assaults by coup makers and failed deals with hacks, dreams and devastating fires, always holding fast to the motto “E mare, libertas” (From the sea, freedom).”
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