Monarchy, Mayhem and Micronations

Narratively contributor Dylan Taylor-Lehman’s new book tells the full story of Sealand, the world’s most unusual and dramatic mini-country.

Longtime Narratively contributor Dylan Taylor-Lehman has a passion for stories of the strange, unusual, and straight-up weird. For Narratively, Taylor-Lehman has written about bigfoot chasers, supreme court justices gone wild, treasure at the bottom of the sea — and the plot against the principality of Sealand. Now, he’s brought that last topic to an entirely new level, writing the definitive story of a tiny nation whose population can usually be counted in the single digits. Taylor-Lehman’s second book, “Sealand: The True Story of the World’s Most Stubborn Micronation and its Eccentric Royal Family,” comes out June 9.