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The Plot Against the Principality of Sealand

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The Plot Against the Principality of Sealand

How the world’s quirkiest micro-nation got pulled into one of history’s most epic intercontinental frauds.

Dylan Taylor-Lehman
Jan 23, 2019
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Edited by Brendan Spiegel | Photos courtesy The Principality of Sealand

Michael Bates was caught off guard by a newspaper item he read in late July 1997. He and his parents, a retired couple residing in the seaside county of Essex in southeastern England, were being connected to the murder of Italian fashion icon Gianni Versace.

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