In the choppy North Sea about six miles off the English coast, a floating, rusty World War II fort is a self-proclaimed independent nation. Owned by one family for nearly 50 years, the Principality of ...

Sealand, the world's smallest nation, originated from Fort Roughs in 1967. Paddy Roy Bates declared it an independent sovereign state and established a hereditary monarchy. A legal event occurred in ...

Sealand, a platform off England's coast, is the world's smallest state. It has just one permanent resident and its own royal ...

SEALAND: It's a hulking metal-and-concrete platform in the North Sea that has been run as an independent micronation in defiance of the UK government for the last 54 years. But even on Sealand, some ...

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