{"id":35637,"date":"2025-06-30T12:07:39","date_gmt":"2025-06-30T12:07:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/worldnews\/sealand-worlds-smallest-state-has-just-1-permanent-resident-60-minutes\/"},"modified":"2025-06-30T12:07:39","modified_gmt":"2025-06-30T12:07:39","slug":"sealand-worlds-smallest-state-has-just-1-permanent-resident-60-minutes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/worldnews\/sealand-worlds-smallest-state-has-just-1-permanent-resident-60-minutes\/","title":{"rendered":"Sealand, world&#8217;s smallest state, has just 1 permanent resident | 60 Minutes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- ItShrt World News -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"1882483372\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"auto\"\r\n     data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script>\r\n<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<p><em>This is an updated version of a story first published on Nov. 26, 2023. The original video can be viewed\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/video\/visiting-sealand-60-minutes-video-2023-11-26\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\">here<\/a>.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<hr\/>\n<p>Ok, name that country: It&#8217;s planted opposite Europe, sitting proudly on the other side of the North Sea. It&#8217;s a monarchy that features its own currency, postage stamps, constitution, national anthem, love of tea, and a pair of handsome princes, born two years apart. We speak of\u2026 Sealand. A crumb of real estate off the English coast that declared its independence in 1967, Sealand has a full-time population of\u2026 one. It has a land mass the size of\u2026. roughly two tennis courts. Its leading export might be\u2026 the national mythology, a history of piracy, coups, countercoups, rogues, and off-shore Internet schemes. It may make tiny Lichtenstein look like China by comparison. But as we first told you in 2023, by rights, Sealand is a sovereign nation. Join us, as we compile some notes from a truly small island.<\/p>\n<p>Prince Michael: We can see Sealand over there, by the way, now. You see that?<\/p>\n<p>Jon Wertheim: Oh, there she is.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Prince Michael: Yeah, yeah. On the starboard bow.<\/p>\n<p>Behold, the world&#8217;s smallest state\u2026 It&#8217;s a micronation in the extreme, a principality which sits\u2014or stands\u2014only seven miles off the coast of England\u2026 Its self-described reigning monarch is this guy, Prince Michael Bates.\u00a0<\/p>\n<figure class=\"embed embed--type-image is-image embed--float-none embed--size-large\">\n<p>      <span class=\"img embed__content\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/assets3.cbsnewsstatic.com\/hub\/i\/r\/2023\/11\/20\/b7ee8f6f-bada-479c-81cd-4698c8b57471\/thumbnail\/620x349\/7689b3e6623b32db7e2e6caa066aa15c\/michael-and-jon-on-boat-sealand-ahoy-no-bug001.jpg#\" alt=\"Prince Michael Bates and Jon Wertheim \" height=\"349\" width=\"620\" class=\" lazyload\" srcset=\"https:\/\/assets3.cbsnewsstatic.com\/hub\/i\/r\/2023\/11\/20\/b7ee8f6f-bada-479c-81cd-4698c8b57471\/thumbnail\/620x349\/7689b3e6623b32db7e2e6caa066aa15c\/michael-and-jon-on-boat-sealand-ahoy-no-bug001.jpg 1x, https:\/\/assets1.cbsnewsstatic.com\/hub\/i\/r\/2023\/11\/20\/b7ee8f6f-bada-479c-81cd-4698c8b57471\/thumbnail\/1240x698\/b2a1fcb551def02902ad547d6f0eb179\/michael-and-jon-on-boat-sealand-ahoy-no-bug001.jpg 2x\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/span><figcaption class=\"embed__caption-container\">\n<p>                  <span class=\"embed__caption\">Prince Michael Bates and Jon Wertheim<\/span><\/p>\n<p>                  <span class=\"embed__credit\"><\/p>\n<p>                60 Minutes<\/p>\n<p>                          <\/span><br \/>\n              <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Jon Wertheim: Here we are.<\/p>\n<p>Prince Michael: Yep.<\/p>\n<p>Jon Wertheim: A platform and a couple of concrete husks. And&#8211;<\/p>\n<p>Prince Michael: Yeah.<\/p>\n<p>Jon Wertheim: &#8211;this is a state.<\/p>\n<p>Prince Michael: Yep.<\/p>\n<p>Enter some countries, you arrive in style; here you arrive in what&#8217;s basically a backyard swing hoisted by a crank 60 feet above the North Sea. And if you&#8217;re wondering about the safety regulations&#8230; yeah, us too\u2026 then again, when you are a sovereign nation you\u2014by definition\u2014set your own rules.<\/p>\n<p>Jon Wertheim: That&#8217;s a helluva way to get into a country<\/p>\n<p>Prince Michael: The only way to travel.<\/p>\n<p>On the plus side, there&#8217;s no long line at the arrival&#8217;s hall.<\/p>\n<p>Jon Wertheim: I&#8217;m following you to passport control.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Mike Barrington fills <em>various<\/em> roles and positions on Sealand\u2026 right now it&#8217;s immigration and customs. He also happens to be the only permanent resident.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Mike Barrington: There you are, sir.<\/p>\n<p>Jon Wertheim: So now I&#8217;m official.<\/p>\n<p>Mike Barrington: You are. Welcome to Sealand&#8211;<\/p>\n<p>It wasn&#8217;t always named Sealand\u2026 and it was never <em>intended<\/em> to be a country. Originally called His Majesty&#8217;s Roughs Tower, it was a hastily-constructed nautical fort\u2014one of several the British set up in the North Sea during World War II. Equipped with anti-aircraft artillery, these forts were designed to prevent German bombing raids on London. During the War, more than a hundred Royal Marines were crammed into these towers for months on end.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"embed embed--type-image is-image embed--float-none embed--size-large\">\n<p>      <span class=\"img embed__content\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/assets2.cbsnewsstatic.com\/hub\/i\/r\/2023\/11\/20\/18edff9c-d309-4aff-8971-1440297e26e4\/thumbnail\/620x349\/2675ef9ec53d91fa979b0ef08c0e7738\/sealand-tease-video.jpg#\" alt=\"A bird's eye view of Sealand \" height=\"349\" width=\"620\" class=\" lazyload\" srcset=\"https:\/\/assets2.cbsnewsstatic.com\/hub\/i\/r\/2023\/11\/20\/18edff9c-d309-4aff-8971-1440297e26e4\/thumbnail\/620x349\/2675ef9ec53d91fa979b0ef08c0e7738\/sealand-tease-video.jpg 1x, https:\/\/assets1.cbsnewsstatic.com\/hub\/i\/r\/2023\/11\/20\/18edff9c-d309-4aff-8971-1440297e26e4\/thumbnail\/1240x698\/fd6b5682701f2a763a916bb8af80e883\/sealand-tease-video.jpg 2x\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/span><figcaption class=\"embed__caption-container\">\n<p>                  <span class=\"embed__caption\">A bird&#8217;s eye view of Sealand<\/span><\/p>\n<p>                  <span class=\"embed__credit\"><\/p>\n<p>                60 Minutes<\/p>\n<p>                          <\/span><br \/>\n              <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Descending the seven-story towers, it feels\u2014and smells\u2014like a cross between a treehouse and a diesel-soaked submarine.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>First up\u2026 the first-class bedroom suite.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Jon Wertheim: It&#8217;s a nice one.<\/p>\n<p>Prince Michael: Yeah. Nice TV.<\/p>\n<p>Our claustrophobic tour continued downward.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Jon Wertheim: Now we&#8217;re&#8211; we&#8217;re&#8211; we&#8217;re under water at this point. So we still got a couple floors to go&#8211;<\/p>\n<p>Prince Michael: Yeah, you hear ships going past. You hear the propellers going p&#8211; going round. Ding, ding, ding, ding.<\/p>\n<p>Like many countries\u2026 there&#8217;s a national cathedral.<\/p>\n<p>Prince Michael: You have freedom of worship in Sealand. I think there&#8217;s even the Quran here somewhere.<\/p>\n<p>On the bottom floor\u2026 the jail.<\/p>\n<p>Prince Michael: Two days in the brig.<\/p>\n<p>Jon Wertheim: Wow.<\/p>\n<p>Prince Michael: Bread and water.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Jon Wertheim: I have to look at the Sealand Constitution and see what my rights are.<\/p>\n<p>Prince Michael: Very limited. (laughter)<\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;re wondering by now how this concrete island constitutes a <em>country<\/em>&#8230; stick with us here.<\/p>\n<p>Back in the 1960s, these same waters played host to the burgeoning unlicensed commercial radio business that operated on ships and old forts\u2026 what the British government called &#8220;pirate radio.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>It was the time of the Beatles, the Rolling Stones, the Kinks\u2026 but the stodgy BBC\u2026 which had a monopoly on broadcasting in Britain\u2026\u00a0 gave the rock bands just an hour of airtime a week.<\/p>\n<p>The younger set in Britain\u2014millions of them\u2014tuned their radio knobs to the pirate stations. In 1965, Prince Michael&#8217;s Father, Roy Bates\u2014an enterprising swashbuckling World War II veteran\u2014commandeered a fort where another pirate station operated. It was the Wild West on the North Sea.<\/p>\n<p>Bates set up Britain&#8217;s first 24-hour outfit. He called it Radio Essex.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>But not for long\u2026 the British government enacted a new law rendering all pirate radio stations illegal. Bates was forced to shut down. But true to his nature, he was something other than scared off.<\/p>\n<p>Prince Michael: He just would not back down.<\/p>\n<p>Jon Wertheim: Form of surrender if he had said, &#8220;You know what? I&#8217;m out&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Prince Michael: He wouldn&#8217;t know that word: &#8220;surrender,&#8221; I mean&#8211; (laugh) no.<\/p>\n<p>Far from surrendering\u2026 Bates seized another fort, Roughs Tower, which was <em>outside<\/em> UK territorial waters. Instead of restarting Radio Essex, he did something bolder still: on September 2nd, 1967, he declared it an independent state\u2026 <em>Sealand<\/em>\u2026 and declared himself its prince. It was his wife Joan&#8217;s Birthday.<\/p>\n<p>Prince Michael: And it was, of course, a hugely romantic gesture to make my mother a princess.<\/p>\n<p>Jon Wertheim: In addition to taking you out to dinner, I&#8217;m gonna make you a princess.&#8221; (laugh)<\/p>\n<p>Prince Michael: Well, he didn&#8217;t take her out to dinner, but he did&#8211; he made her a princess, yeah.<\/p>\n<p>Prince Roy and Princess Joan, along with their two children Michael and Penny, set up home on Sealand\u2026 the sheer novelty of their lifestyle was a constant source of amusement on the mainland. This newsreel is from 1969.<\/p>\n<p><em>Newsreel from 1969: &#8220;The start of another day, even for the new royals\u2026 is no different than for millions of others\u2026 the request for a common cuppa\u2026&#8221;\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Interviewer: Mrs. Bates, how is it possible to keep looking glamorous in conditions like these?\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Joan Bates: It&#8217;s no more difficult than anywhere else in the world\u2026 We&#8217;re quite comfortable here, I&#8217;ve got all the things that I want.. Makeup, brushes and things.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p>At age 16, Penny was less convinced.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"embed embed--type-image is-image embed--float-none embed--size-large\">\n<p>      <span class=\"img embed__content\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/assets1.cbsnewsstatic.com\/hub\/i\/r\/2023\/11\/20\/0a1668bf-6e20-4e18-92cc-68db3b97cb6b\/thumbnail\/620x349\/5bf68b4d7efdb4975c2abc8a60148b61\/intv-ws-penny-hawker001.jpg#\" alt=\"Princess Penny Hawker \" height=\"349\" width=\"620\" class=\" lazyload\" srcset=\"https:\/\/assets1.cbsnewsstatic.com\/hub\/i\/r\/2023\/11\/20\/0a1668bf-6e20-4e18-92cc-68db3b97cb6b\/thumbnail\/620x349\/5bf68b4d7efdb4975c2abc8a60148b61\/intv-ws-penny-hawker001.jpg 1x, https:\/\/assets3.cbsnewsstatic.com\/hub\/i\/r\/2023\/11\/20\/0a1668bf-6e20-4e18-92cc-68db3b97cb6b\/thumbnail\/1240x698\/6e7e31cf2f0cdbbfb60cd53dc27cdaf3\/intv-ws-penny-hawker001.jpg 2x\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/span><figcaption class=\"embed__caption-container\">\n<p>                  <span class=\"embed__caption\">Princess Penny Hawker<\/span><\/p>\n<p>                  <span class=\"embed__credit\"><\/p>\n<p>                60 Minutes<\/p>\n<p>                          <\/span><br \/>\n              <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Princess Penny Hawker: It was freezing cold, and it had no electricity. To flush a toilet you&#8217;d have to chuck a bucket over the side, drop it down about 80 feet, pull it up, and flush the toilet&#8211;<\/p>\n<p>Jon Wertheim: That was your toilet?<\/p>\n<p>Princess Penny Hawker: Yes.<\/p>\n<p>The Bates family had big ambitions to turn Sealand into a tax haven, a luxury island and casino. And they went all-in on the trappings of statehood, fashioning a flag, stamps, currency, an anthem, even a national motto: <em>E mare libertas<\/em>: From the Sea, Freedom.<\/p>\n<p>As teens, Michael and Penny would spend months on Sealand holding down the fort, as it were\u2026 firing off warning shots and tossing Molotov cocktails overboard to fend off periodic attempts of invasion from rivals and buccaneers.<\/p>\n<p>Princess Penny Hawker: When the press eventually came out and took photographs my father called me down. And he said &#8220;Now look,&#8221; he said, &#8220;how many times have I told you, you do not hold a gun like that.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Jon Wertheim: You weren&#8217;t holding the gun the right way?<\/p>\n<p>Princess Penny Hawker: And actually, if you look at the picture, the way I&#8217;m holdin&#8217; the guns is dreadful.<\/p>\n<p>Firmly settled on Sealand, the Bates&#8217; remained a nuisance to the British government\u2026 so much so, as a warning to the family, a team of royal engineers blew up a similar North Sea fort.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"embed embed--type-image is-image embed--float-none embed--size-large\">\n<p>      <span class=\"img embed__content\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/assets1.cbsnewsstatic.com\/hub\/i\/r\/2023\/11\/20\/10d93158-34b9-4a02-915b-477340f7afc2\/thumbnail\/620x349\/db5ef4fd393d9ee8fd6d1d6973cb7f7b\/michael-and-jon-sealand-archives001.jpg#\" alt=\"Jon Wertheim and Prince Michael Bates \" height=\"349\" width=\"620\" class=\" lazyload\" srcset=\"https:\/\/assets1.cbsnewsstatic.com\/hub\/i\/r\/2023\/11\/20\/10d93158-34b9-4a02-915b-477340f7afc2\/thumbnail\/620x349\/db5ef4fd393d9ee8fd6d1d6973cb7f7b\/michael-and-jon-sealand-archives001.jpg 1x, https:\/\/assets1.cbsnewsstatic.com\/hub\/i\/r\/2023\/11\/20\/10d93158-34b9-4a02-915b-477340f7afc2\/thumbnail\/1240x698\/b95c191f92e4c6c61eb488b23887acf3\/michael-and-jon-sealand-archives001.jpg 2x\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/span><figcaption class=\"embed__caption-container\">\n<p>                  <span class=\"embed__caption\">Jon Wertheim and Prince Michael Bates at Sealand&#8217;s national archives, which doubles as Prince Michael&#8217;s dining room table.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>At Sealand&#8217;s national archives, which doubles as Prince Michael&#8217;s dining room table, we were shown declassified plans, drawn up by the British Ministry of Defence, to take Sealand by force.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Prince Michael: The following units are to be available to the execution of the operation. &#8220;Royal Navy Two Wessex 5 helicopters &#8220;Crafts from HM Naval Base Chatham, Portsmouth Midway, and a clearance diving team.&#8221; (laugh) It&#8217;s crazy, isn&#8217;t it?<\/p>\n<p>But it wasn&#8217;t just the British government that wanted to dislodge the family. In August 1978, a band of rogue German and Dutch lawyers and diamond merchants launched a coup d&#8217;\u00e9tat\u2026 with designs of founding their own off-shore casino\u2026 they arrived by helicopter with a film crew in tow\u2026 taking Prince Michael by surprise\u2014and then roughing him up.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Prince Michael: They tied my elbows together, my knees together, my feet together, my hands down to my knees. And they picked me up, and one said to the other in German, &#8220;Let&#8217;s chuck this bastard over the side. He&#8217;s too much trouble.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Jon Wertheim: And you&#8217;re a full-on political prisoner right now.<\/p>\n<p>Prince Michael: Yeah.<\/p>\n<p>Sealand had fallen\u2026 after three days Michael was released. Did Michael and his father then return via helicopter, fully armed and flanked by a group of bruisers to stage a successful countercoup? Yes. Yes, they did.<\/p>\n<p>Prince Michael: I jump, and landed crash in the middle of the Germans. sawed-off shotgun hit the deck, boom, and all the Germans went like that.<\/p>\n<p>Jon Wertheim: They surrender. That&#8217;s it.<\/p>\n<p>Jon Wertheim: You&#8217;ve&#8211; you&#8217;ve reclaimed your principality.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"embed embed--type-video embed--type-content_video is-video embed--float-left embed--size-medium\"><figcaption class=\"embed__caption-container\">\n                              <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/video\/sealand-the-micronation-carving-its-own-path\/\" class=\"embed__headline-link\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\"><\/p>\n<p>          <span class=\"embed__icon\"><br \/>\n            <svg viewbox=\"0 0 32 32\" aria-hidden=\"true\">\n              <use xlink:href=\"#icon-video\"\/>\n            <\/svg><br \/>\n          <\/span><\/p>\n<p>          <span class=\"embed__headline\">Sealand: The micronation carving its own path<\/span><\/p>\n<p>          <span class=\"embed__video-duration\">05:36<\/span><\/p>\n<p>                      <\/a><\/p>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Disarmed, the plotters were released, all except for one, his name was Putz\u2026 and he was made to clean the bathroom, make coffee and imposed a fine for treason\u2026 $37,000\u2026 his imprisonment brought a German diplomat to Sealand.<\/p>\n<p>Jon Wertheim: But if you have German emissaries coming here to try and negotiate the release of this prisoner, du&#8211; doesn&#8217;t that imply that&#8211; Sealand is a state that&#8217;s having relations?<\/p>\n<p>Prince Michael: Absolutely. It&#8211; it&#8217;s de&#8211; de facto recognition, isn&#8217;t it? It happened, yeah.<\/p>\n<p>This diplomatic visit was critical for the Bates family. An international treaty signed in the 1930s established four requirements for statehood\u2026 one is <em>recognition by another state<\/em>. Sealand had already met the other tests\u2026 a government: check\u2026 a defined territory: check\u2026 and a permanent population\u2026 check, thanks to Michael Barrington. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Jon Wertheim: So what&#8211; what&#8217;s your position here?<\/p>\n<p>Mike Barrington: Well, I&#8211; I do mostly engineering work, yeah, electrically and whatever. Apparently I&#8217;m head of homeland security.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"embed embed--type-image is-image embed--float-none embed--size-large\">\n<p>      <span class=\"img embed__content\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/assets1.cbsnewsstatic.com\/hub\/i\/r\/2023\/11\/20\/b1dc3c9b-fb89-4526-8224-7c1066bc70e1\/thumbnail\/620x349\/fa63a88d47892deb6295c54edd1c2a50\/michael-barrington-fixing-wind-turbine001.jpg#\" alt=\"Mike Barrington \" height=\"349\" width=\"620\" class=\" lazyload\" srcset=\"https:\/\/assets1.cbsnewsstatic.com\/hub\/i\/r\/2023\/11\/20\/b1dc3c9b-fb89-4526-8224-7c1066bc70e1\/thumbnail\/620x349\/fa63a88d47892deb6295c54edd1c2a50\/michael-barrington-fixing-wind-turbine001.jpg 1x, https:\/\/assets2.cbsnewsstatic.com\/hub\/i\/r\/2023\/11\/20\/b1dc3c9b-fb89-4526-8224-7c1066bc70e1\/thumbnail\/1240x698\/b2e77fb02e2162d8a66e6dc6e93f238b\/michael-barrington-fixing-wind-turbine001.jpg 2x\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/span><figcaption class=\"embed__caption-container\">\n<p>                  <span class=\"embed__caption\">Mike Barrington is the only permanent resident of Sealand<\/span><\/p>\n<p>                  <span class=\"embed__credit\"><\/p>\n<p>                60 Minutes<\/p>\n<p>                          <\/span><br \/>\n              <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Jon Wertheim: What&#8211; what are you protecting this place from?<\/p>\n<p>Mike Barrington: Well, the British government or anybody else that decides to take us over. We are a country, after all, a small nation.<\/p>\n<p>Jon Wertheim: You&#8217;re ready to use weapons if&#8211; if you had to&#8211;<\/p>\n<p>Mike Barrington: If need be, yes. No hesitation.<\/p>\n<p>But in recent years, to keep Sealand afloat, the Bates family has updated their pirate radio sensibilities for the times. In the early 2000s, they partnered with fringe internet entrepreneurs who invested millions with designs of turning Sealand into an offshore data haven. Prince Michael&#8217;s son\u2014Prince James\u2014showed us the old server room.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Prince James: We used to run things like gambling sites, porn sites&#8211; we had a few dubious people asking us to do things that we didn&#8217;t really agree with. There was an organ transplant company, like, human organs, that wanted to set&#8211; host out here which my father was against.<\/p>\n<p>Jon Wertheim: Gambling and porn is okay but we draw a line at harvesting human organs.<\/p>\n<p>Prince James: Yes, exactly.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>That venture failed dismally\u2026 but today James and his younger brother Prince Liam are still harnessing the power of the internet. The Bates family won&#8217;t disclose the size of the national debt or the yearly budget, but it is serviced through the online sale of noble titles. Become a Lord or Lady for $30 600 bucks will make you a Sealand Duke or Duchess.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"embed embed--type-image is-image embed--float-none embed--size-large\">\n<p>      <span class=\"img embed__content\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/assets3.cbsnewsstatic.com\/hub\/i\/r\/2023\/11\/20\/4a391555-3f90-4584-be2a-06c35b2dc2ae\/thumbnail\/620x349\/338a254a3da747a691c47b0b62466b72\/princes-james-and-liam001.jpg#\" alt=\"Prince James and Liam \" height=\"349\" width=\"620\" class=\" lazyload\" srcset=\"https:\/\/assets3.cbsnewsstatic.com\/hub\/i\/r\/2023\/11\/20\/4a391555-3f90-4584-be2a-06c35b2dc2ae\/thumbnail\/620x349\/338a254a3da747a691c47b0b62466b72\/princes-james-and-liam001.jpg 1x, https:\/\/assets2.cbsnewsstatic.com\/hub\/i\/r\/2023\/11\/20\/4a391555-3f90-4584-be2a-06c35b2dc2ae\/thumbnail\/1240x698\/2304b5138a9d6821efcf1668bd5095bb\/princes-james-and-liam001.jpg 2x\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/span><figcaption class=\"embed__caption-container\">\n<p>                  <span class=\"embed__caption\">Prince Michael&#8217;s sons, James and Liam, run a business harvesting cockles.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>                  <span class=\"embed__credit\"><\/p>\n<p>                60 Minutes<\/p>\n<p>                          <\/span><br \/>\n              <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Jon Wertheim: And people are buying these titles. What is that all about?<\/p>\n<p>Prince Liam: I think it means so many things to so many different people. Some people love the&#8211; the act of political defiance. Some people love the&#8211; the love story that ran through it with my gram and grandpa. Some people love the, you know, David against Goliath.<\/p>\n<p>That national myth\u2026 the very idea of Sealand\u2026 has now far outgrown the country itself. As for the House of Bates&#8230; well, Roy and Joan have passed on\u2026 and the rest of the lineage lives in the small English resort town of South-End-on-Sea. Princes James and Liam run a business harvesting cockles. Princess Penny runs a botox clinic nearby\u2026 and seven years ago, Prince Michael married and welcomed a new princess, Mae Shi, a former artillery major in China&#8217;s People&#8217;s Liberation Army. 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