New royal yacht: how 'spontaneous' calls for relaunched Britannia were carefully stage-managed

Documents show campaign to fund a diamond jubilee replacement for royal yacht can be traced to the mid-90s It is a project for which the outpouring of support seems to have come from nowhere. In the past week, calls for a new royal yacht to be commissioned in the Queen's diamond jubilee year have been made with enthusiasm by politicians, business leaders and newspapers. But on closer scrutiny it …

Comments are closed.