Saleroom
Jun 05, 2020
2 minutes
By Dave Selby
CHARLES MILLER LTD
Royal yacht one-upmanship
The history of royal yachts is a chronicle of imperial rivalry and international diplomacy, and through much of Queen Victoria’s reign, the simmering tension between Britain and Russia was in danger of boiling over.
In 1846, in
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