VIPs on board HMS Victory | Nostalgia

Anyone of any note has visited HMS Victory and stood on the quarterdeck alongside the plaque saying: ‘Here Nelson Fell’.
In 1936 the Emperor Haile Selassi, right, visited HMS Victory. Picture: The News/Clare Ash collection.In 1936 the Emperor Haile Selassi, right, visited HMS Victory. Picture: The News/Clare Ash collection.
In 1936 the Emperor Haile Selassi, right, visited HMS Victory. Picture: The News/Clare Ash collection.

Kings, Queens, emperors, prime ministers and presidents have paid homage to the Royal Navy’s greatest admiral.

Here is a selection of world leaders taken by Portsmouth & Sunderland Newspapers’ photographers, pictures which now form part of The News archive.

Most are from the era when Admiral Sir William James was C-in-C Portsmouth in the early years of the Second World War.

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