UK Royals Visit Gibraltar Amid Row with Spain
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2012-06-13
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The British Queen's youngest son arrived in Gibraltar on Monday amid a row over fishing rights between the U.K. and Spain.
Prince Edward and his wife Sophie, known as the Earl and Countess of Wessex, are on a three-day trip to the British territory as part of the Queen's diamond jubilee celebrations.
They were greeted by crowds of well-wishers who seemed unperturbed by the political tension.
[Local Woman]:
"We're very happy, the Gibraltar people are very happy."
The royal visit comes after weeks of skirmishes between the British territory's police and Spanish fishermen.
Spain has accused police from the British territory - a peninsular off the south of Spain - of chasing its fishermen from Spanish waters in recent weeks and has deployed Civil Guard officers to protect the boats.
Gibraltar and Britain say the police are simply enforcing a law that regulates fishing within the waters of the port of the peninsular ceded to the British in 1713 after a 1704 capture.
Spain's foreign minister has said the country will continue to protect the country's fishermen in a dispute that has reignited tensions between the two countries over the sovereignty of the peninsular which Spain has long claimed as its own.
Last month, Spain's Queen Sofia pulled out of a lunch to celebrate the diamond jubilee of Britain's Queen Elizabeth as the dispute escalated and after news broke that Prince Edward would visit the Rock.
Spain's right-leaning government has taken a strident attitude on Gibraltar, which houses traditional British red phone boxes, pubs and fish and chip shops.
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The British Queen's youngest son arrived in Gibraltar on Monday amid a row over fishing rights between the U.K. and Spain.
Prince Edward and his wife Sophie, known as the Earl and Countess of Wessex, are on a three-day trip to the British territory as part of the Queen's diamond jubilee celebrations.
They were greeted by crowds of well-wishers who seemed unperturbed by the political tension.
[Local Woman]:
"We're very happy, the Gibraltar people are very happy."
The royal visit comes after weeks of skirmishes between the British territory's police and Spanish fishermen.
Spain has accused police from the British territory - a peninsular off the south of Spain - of chasing its fishermen from Spanish waters in recent weeks and has deployed Civil Guard officers to protect the boats.
Gibraltar and Britain say the police are simply enforcing a law that regulates fishing within the waters of the port of the peninsular ceded to the British in 1713 after a 1704 capture.
Spain's foreign minister has said the country will continue to protect the country's fishermen in a dispute that has reignited tensions between the two countries over the sovereignty of the peninsular which Spain has long claimed as its own.
Last month, Spain's Queen Sofia pulled out of a lunch to celebrate the diamond jubilee of Britain's Queen Elizabeth as the dispute escalated and after news broke that Prince Edward would visit the Rock.
Spain's right-leaning government has taken a strident attitude on Gibraltar, which houses traditional British red phone boxes, pubs and fish and chip shops.
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