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    Feb 07, 2020 1 minute

    LADY GENEVIEVE

    Rare beaver-stern launch with royal connections

    is a rare, early, 40ft (12.2m) beaver-stern launch built around 1926 by Taylor Bates of Chertsey for an aristocrat whose family is reputed carried both Princess Margaret and Princess Elizabeth to the Henley Royal Regatta. She was maintained for many years by Peter Freebody. The present owner bought her in 2009 and used her occasionally for luxury charter. The cabin, at 3.2m (10ft 6in) by 2m (6ft 7in), has room for sleeping and a private heads if needed. The forward canopy is removable. “She created a stir at the Festival de Loire in 2019, when the British ambassador came aboard and the press interviewed the owners,” says broker Gillian Nahum.

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