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’.
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.