The name was changed to HMS Achilles reportedly over concerns that the original may have offended the French.

This week, it was claimed that King Charles III had personally intervened in the naming of a new Royal Navy submarine which had been agreed under his mother Queen Elizabeth II. The vessel – an ...

King Charles, the nominal commander in chief of the U.K. armed forces, directed that the Royal Navy's newest upcoming nuclear attack submarine be renamed.

King Charles stepped in to overturn the £1.5billion submarine's original name, which had been given the green light by Queen ...

HMS Agincourt has been renamed Achilles amid reports the defence ministry did not want to offend France.

King Charles personally ordered the renaming of Navy submarine HMS Agincourt to avoid upsetting the French. The Monarch ...

There will be no quotes from William Shakespeare’s play Henry V used as the motto for the Royal Navy’s seventh and final Astute-class nuclear-powered attack submarine. The boat, which is now under ...

KING Charles ordered the Navy to rename HMS Agincourt, in a move dubbed “pathetic”. The monarch made the intervention to ...

Royal Navy chiefs have come under fire for dropping plans to name a new attack submarine after a battle in which England ...

Grant Shapps, a former Conservative member of the U.K.’s Parliament and defense secretary, called a recent submarine name ...

A decision to rename nuclear-powered submarine HMS Agincourt is “woke nonsense”, a former defence secretary said. The Astute-class attack submarine, which is still under construction ...