The name was changed to HMS Achilles reportedly over concerns that the original may have offended the French.
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Naval Technology on MSNRenaming of HMS Agincourt to HMS Achilles pre-dates Labour governmentThe controversial move not use the name Agincourt began more than a year ago, amid suspected concerns it would offend Nato ally France.
King Charles personally ordered the renaming of Navy submarine HMS Agincourt to avoid upsetting the French. The Monarch ...
KING Charles ordered the Navy to rename HMS Agincourt, in a move dubbed “pathetic”. The monarch made the intervention to ...
Grant Shapps, a former Conservative member of the U.K.’s Parliament and defense secretary, called a recent submarine name ...
This week, it was claimed that King Charles III had personally intervened in the naming of a new Royal Navy submarine which ...
King Charles stepped in to overturn the £1.5billion submarine's original name, which had been given the green light by Queen ...
King Charles, the nominal commander in chief of the U.K. armed forces, directed that the Royal Navy's newest upcoming nuclear attack submarine be renamed.
HMS Agincourt, an Astute-class hunter-killer submarine, was originally announced by then-defence secretary Sir Gavin Williamson in 2018. It would have been the sixth Royal Navy vessel to have been ...
King Charles was involved in a decision to change the name of a new royal submarine from HMS Agincourt to HMS Achilles, a move that was branded "woke nonsense" by former defence secretary Grant ...
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