“It was exciting and terrifying. It was like a constant game of Russian roulette, you never knew when a missile strike would occur.”. “We had a wonderful time in Mallorca. I had never visited the island before and loved it, but when we finally docked in Gosport I felt rather sad.”
Flying the flag: Patrick Tracey on a tour of Britannia Cabinet ministers, MPs and others are campaigning for a new Royal Yacht to replace Britannia, decommissioned by Tony Blair’s Labour government back in 1997. It would be a great boon to global Britain’s soft power around the world, promoting UK plc now we have escaped the conglomerate stranglehold of the EU. It could also be used as training vessel for apprentices, under the highly successful world wide Duke of Edinburgh Award Scheme. In 2006 and again in 2010, the Queen chartered MV Hebridean Princess (a converted Scottish Island car ferry, with a country house feel, think Balmoral, providing considerable luxury with 37 crew and just 49 passengers) for a family cruise around Scotland.