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  • I stayed up till dawn on the first of July to watch the Royal Yacht sail out of Hong Kong harbor, as Chinese troops in military trucks and tanks drove across the border and through the streets of the city to make a dramatic demonstration of the new order.

    One From The Hart Stefanie Powers 2010

  • The Royal Yacht arrived in Copenhagen on schedule - but the newly wedded Crown Prince and Princess were not aboard.

    Archive 2001-08-01 Torill 2001

  • The Royal Yacht arrived in Copenhagen on schedule - but the newly wedded Crown Prince and Princess were not aboard.

    thinking with my fingers Torill 2001

  • Monday, August 15, 1892, Mr. Gladstone repaired to Osborne on the Royal Yacht, and became for the fourth time Prime Minister.

    The Grand Old Man Cook, Richard B 1989

  •       Labour's turn to be ticked off came a few days later, when Peter Mandelson informed us that he had discussed  the cost of maintaining the Royal Yacht with the Queen.

    Betty Bothroyd The Autobiography Bothroyd, Betty 1988

  • There is matter to suit all tastes, from her recollections of economies in a furnished villa at Paramé, where chickens were to be bought for thirty-two sous, to more exalted anecdotes connected with the time when her hero had been advanced as far as the post of Commander of the Royal Yacht _Victoria and Albert_.

    Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 152, April 18, 1917 Various

  • On the morning of the 30th July the Royal Yacht anchored off Leenane, in Killery Bay, and His Majesty landed in Connaught.

    Fifty Years of Railway Life in England Scotland and Ireland Tatlow, Joseph 1920

  • An arrogant white steam yacht, flying the ensign of the Royal Yacht

    Gossamer 1915 George A. Birmingham 1907

  • On the following morning he saw in the papers that the Royal Yacht

    Five Thousand an Hour : how Johnny Gamble won the heiress George Randolph Chester 1896

  • During this flight the seaplane signalled a wireless salute to the Royal Yacht, which was taking the King and Queen to Flushing on a visit to Germany.

    The War in the Air; Vol. 1 The Part played in the Great War by the Royal Air Force Walter Alexander Raleigh 1891

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