Patrick Roy Bates (29 August 1921 – 9 October 2012), self-styled as Prince Roy of Sealand, was a British pirate radio broadcaster and micronationalist...

parents Paddy Roy Bates and Joan Bates. He has claimed the title "Prince of Sealand" since the death of his father in 2012. Michael Bates was born to Roy and...

Joan Bates (née Collins; 2 September 1929 – 10 March 2016), also known as Princess Joan of Sealand, was the wife of Paddy Roy Bates, a British entrepreneur...

and claimed as a sovereign state by the family and associates of Paddy Roy Bates. Bates seized Roughs Tower from a group of pirate radio broadcasters in...

embarked at Tilbury docks, the fort began service immediately. In 1966 Paddy Roy Bates, who operated Radio Essex, and Ronan O'Rahilly, who operated Radio...

elected head of state as Princess Nina on 10 November 2019. In 1967, Paddy Roy Bates, a former major in the British Army, took control of Roughs Tower,...

the former sea barge fort as Roughs Tower on their charts. In 1966 Paddy Roy Bates, who operated Radio Essex, and Ronan O'Rahilly, who operated Radio...

Jamie Wyeth Paddy Roy Bates (1921–2012), pirate radio broadcaster and Sealand founder Patricia Martin Bates (born 1927), artist Paul L. Bates (1908–1995)...

the Catholic Church for some decades. 1967 Principality of Sealand Paddy Roy Bates took over HM Fort Roughs, a defunct Maunsell Fort built off the coast...

United Kingdom in 1955. It was formally annexed in 1972. In 1967, Paddy Roy Bates claimed an abandoned British anti-aircraft gun tower in the North Sea...