This is an updated version of a story first published on Nov. 26, 2023. The original video can be viewed here. Ok, name that country: It's planted opposite Europe, sitting proudly on the other ...

Prince Michael: We can see Sealand over there, by the way, now. You see that? Jon Wertheim: Oh, there she is. Prince Michael: Yeah, yeah. On the starboard bow. Behold, the world's smallest state ...

The invaders were held in a prison cell deep in one of Sealand’s imposing concrete towers while, as Prince Michael puts it in his rollicking 2015 memoir Holding the Fort, “a row of Dutch ...

Sealand was originally HM Fort Roughs or Roughs Tower, one of four naval sea forts designed by Guy Maunsell for the British Royal Navy to defend key shipping lanes from German attack during World ...

But he was kicked out, and ended up finding Sealand, a former sea fort run by the British Navy during WWII that had been abandoned for 11 years and was out of the U.K.’s waters. Instead of ...

Going forward, the Sealand princes see their nation existing in two ways. In addition to the physical manifestation—the rusting fort jutting out of the water — Sealand will stay alive online ...

The micronation leader was armed with riveting tales, many of which appear in his memoir, Holding The Fort. And he was ready to divulge Sealand’s story, which largely remains unknown by the rest ...

At the time of the One Show's report on Sealand, the fort even had a resident cat. Given the fort can sometimes be cut off by the choppy North Sea weather, there's quite a serious stock of tinned ...

As a former World War Two sea fort, it is used to crashing waves, bitter winds and passing ships. What you are less likely to associate with the Principality of Sealand, a self-declared state 12km ...

Sealand was originally HM Fort Roughs or Roughs Tower, one of four naval sea forts designed by Guy Maunsell for the British Royal Navy to defend key shipping lanes from German attack during World ...

Here is HM Fort Roughs (now Sealand) being towed into place in 1942. The installation didn't begin being used for its current purpose until a quarter of a century later. In 1967, former British ...