The inside story of the King and HMS Agincourt
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 Astute-class submarine which is currently under construction in Barrow-in-Furness – was due to be named HMS Agincourt after an English victory over the French in 1415.
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 ...
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 personally ordered the renaming of Navy submarine HMS Agincourt to avoid upsetting the French. The Monarch ...
Royal Navy chiefs have come under fire for dropping plans to name a new attack submarine after a battle in which England ...
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 ...
GB News host Martin Daubney has launched a scathing attack on the decision to rename HMS Agincourt, claiming the move ...
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