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Letters: Allow Scotland to opt out of the cost of a new royal yacht


I WAS surprised and not a little irritated that the sad demise of Prince Philip inspired some Conservative MPs to propose that a new royal yacht should be commissioned and named after the late prince. The estimated cost would be £190 million. Scotland would be asked to pay a share.
I seem to recall that an almost bankrupted Great Britain acquiesced to a new royal yacht being built in the early 1950s. Any adverse opinion, and there was some, was soon silenced by the fact that the proposed ship was designed so that it could be almost instantly converted to a hospital ship to support our military servicemen should the need for one ever arise. ....

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