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.
HRH AND LCT
01 May 2022
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Rob is a TV producer, reporter and camera operator with 30 years’ experience at the BBC, Channel 4 and ITN, in news, factual and documentary production. He is a four times award winner, whose awards include a coveted Royal Television Society award for his work on Channel 4 News. His association with The Maritime Foundation goes back to 1995, when he won the first Desmond Wettern Maritime Media Award for a series of reports that led to a major documentary on the loss of the bulk carrier Derbyshire.