The smallest country in the world is up for sale, apparently. After a pretty chequered past, which even included an attempted invasion by the British, King Roy of Sealand has decided to offload his tiny principality. Former British Army Major Paddy Roy Bates took over the formar sea fort after physically evicting representatives of Radio Carolina in 1967. An attempt the following year, by the Royal Navy, to evict him was thwarted when he fired warning shots from the fort. A judge later ruled that the island was outside of British jurisdiction. In 1974 Roy of Sealand introduced a constituition and all the other trappings of an independent country - even though no other nation will acknowledge the status. In 1978 Dutch And German businessmen even kidnapped Roy’s son but were eventually captured and held as Prisoners of War. Not surprisingly, there’s a film in the offing.

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