Founder of the Principality of Sealand (1921–2012)
Paddy Roy Bates
Bates in 1966
Prince of Sealand (Micronational)
Pretence
2 September 1967 – 9 October 2012
Predecessor
Position established
Successor
Michael Bates
Born
Patrick Roy Bates (1921-08-29)29 August 1921 Ealing, Middlesex, England
Died
9 October 2012(2012-10-09) (aged 91) Leigh-on-Sea, Essex, England
Spouse
Joan Collins
(m. 1949)
Issue
Michael Bates
Penelope "Penny" Bates
Occupation
Pirate radio entrepreneur
Military career
Allegiance
United Kingdom
Service/branch
British Army
Years of service
c. 1940
Rank
Major
Battles/wars
World War II
Patrick Roy Bates (29 August 1921 – 9 October 2012), self-styled as Prince Roy of Sealand, was a British pirate radio broadcaster and micronationalist, who founded the self-proclaimed Principality of Sealand.[1][2]
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Joan Bates (née Collins; 2 September 1929 – 10 March 2016), also known as Princess Joan of Sealand, was the wife of PaddyRoyBates, a British entrepreneur...
and claimed as a sovereign state by the family and associates of PaddyRoyBates. Bates seized Roughs Tower from a group of pirate radio broadcasters in...
embarked at Tilbury docks, the fort began service immediately. In 1966 PaddyRoyBates, who operated Radio Essex, and Ronan O'Rahilly, who operated Radio...
United Kingdom in 1955. It was formally annexed in 1972. In 1967, PaddyRoyBates claimed an abandoned British anti-aircraft gun tower in the North Sea...
the Catholic Church for some decades. 1967 Principality of Sealand PaddyRoyBates took over HM Fort Roughs, a defunct Maunsell Fort built off the coast...
cyclone, and the project was completely abandoned in 1973. In 1967, PaddyRoyBates squatted on HM Fort Roughs, an offshore platform in the North Sea used...
the coast of Suffolk. It was occupied by PaddyRoyBates, who styled himself as His Royal Highness Prince Roy. In 1969, members of the London Street Commune...
politician (d. 2021) Wendell Scott, American race car driver (d. 1990) PaddyRoyBates, British pirate radio broadcaster, founder of the Principality of Sealand...
Radio Caroline "were firebombed" after failing to heed warnings from PaddyRoyBates' Radio Essex, and Reginald Calvert, the owner of Radio City, was shot...
appointed chairman of the Independent Television Authority. 2 September – PaddyRoyBates proclaims HM Fort Roughs, a former World War II Maunsell naval fort...
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farmer in County Waterford. She grew up with her elder brothers, John and Paddy, in a 350-year-old former farmhouse at East Wickham near Welling, which...
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by, in contrast to that of Tony Blair's which appeared to be in decline. Paddy Ashdown, the Leader of the Liberal Democrats during Major's term of office...
The Guardian. 18 September 2015. Retrieved 19 September 2015. Shennan, Paddy (18 September 2015). "A nation grieves – Flockstars is all over". Liverpool...