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Updates from Maritime Film UK’s Rob White, TV producer, reporter and camera operator with 30 years’ experience at the BBC, Channel 4 and ITN

HRH AND LCT

For once, acronyms that make sense! As did the encounter between the Princess Royal and LCT 7074, when Her Royal Highness formally opened the Landing Craft for ‘D-Day Story’ with Professor Dominic Tweddle, Director-General of The National Museum of the Royal Navy (picture courtesy the Museum.) The Princess is Museum Patron – but there’s more to it than that. She is also Master of Trinity House, and shows a deep interest in matters naval and maritime, carrying on her father’s love of the Senior Service – in which, of course, the Duke of Edinburgh served with distinction, notably as a young officer at the 1941 Battle of Cape Matapan, in which the RN successfully fought the Regia Marina; making it clear that the Mediterranean was in no way ‘Mare Nostrum’ – ‘Our Sea’ – as Fascist dictator Mussolini had declared.

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