Top: Roland (18) and Walter (19), 1968 – two German friends who read a newspaper piece about Sealand and immediately decided they had to be part of such exciting foolery.
They hitchhiked straight to Felixtowe, stole a rowing boat from dock – of all things! – and tried to make it to the fortress on their own in that! (They wiped out pretty much immediately near the notoriously dangerous river Deben and had to be rescued. Afterwards they just asked around for the Bates’ home address on land instead!)
They lived on Sealand with Michael for several years – Walter, who was apprenticed to an electrician, is the one who repaired the old war-time Gardner generator.
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Bottom: the Mizzy Gel, the Bates family’s old ramshackle boat (they’ve since finally replaced her), with Walter standing on the Bosun’s chair.
The CONCH, TUNA and other undersea mermaid organisations in “Mermaid Princess Amelia and the Lost Symphony”
Written by Merman Moises
Edited by Mermaid Wioletta
There are many mermaid organizations in the world of Mermaid Princess Amelia. Some are amateur and private, while others are associated with various underwater countries. Some stay in charge of managing international relations, and some serve as a link between land and sea. In this article, we discuss seven that appeared in the first novel of the Mermaid Princess Amelia series.
Antemidian Council of Generals: Antemidia is governed by a group of generals who share power (more or less equally). The state functions similarly to the Roman republic, in which two consuls shared full powers and greater authority over the senate. Three of the generals, Aalona, Asvald and Esteban, carry most power, which they later share with a princess: sometimes noble, sometimes elected from among the people, who has no real political power until she is 25 years old.
