Joan Bates
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Joan Bates, also self-styled as Princess Joan of Sealand, was the wife of Paddy Roy Bates, a British entrepreneur who founded the self-proclaimed micronation known as the Principality of Sealand.
Bates in the 1970s
Michael Bates (Sealand)
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Michael Roy Bates, self-styled as Prince Michael of Sealand, is an English businessman and self-published author. He operates a self-proclaimed and unrecognized micronation called the Principality of
Joan Bates
…wife, Elizabeth. The family were later stationed at Shoebury Barracks. As a young woman, Joan was a carnival queen and model who, according to her son Michael, "modelled for all sorts of companies". Joan met British Army major Paddy Roy Bates at the Kursaal dance hall in Southend-on-Sea. At the time he was…
Bates in 2015