A 'Royal Sovereign' is a variety of which fruit?
Royal Sovereign strawberry fell out of favour commercially, displaced by modern varieties with longer shelf-lives, higher fruit yields and a better resistance to modern methods of transportation. Despite this, the variety is still highly prized amongst strawberry aficionados, and is still grown in small-scale cultivation, where flavour can take more precedence over yield quantity. The variety is still purchasable from specialist nurseries. In 2012, Elizabeth II was served the variety again when a special crop was grown as a gift from Britain's soft fruit gardeners. The horticulturalist Beatrix Havergal won fifteen golds for her exhibition of 'Royal Sovereign' at the Chelsea Flower Show.
HMS Royal Sovereign (1701) HMS Royal Sovereign (1701) HMS "Royal Sovereign" was a 100-gun first rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, built at Woolwich Dockyard and launched in July 1701. She had been built using some of the salvageable timbers from the previous , which had been destroyed by fire in 1697. She was Admiral George Rooke's flagship in the War of the Spanish Succession. "Royal Sovereign" formed the basis for the dimensions for 100-gun ships in the 1719 Establishment, being a generally well-regarded vessel. In practice, only "Royal Sovereign" herself was affected by this Establishment, being the only first rate