The seventh and final Astute-class submarine was to be called HMS Agincourt, but it will now be named HMS Achilles - J Massey/Royal Navy Royal Navy chiefs have come under fire for dropping plans to ...

Grant Shapps, a former Conservative member of the U.K.’s Parliament and defense secretary, called a recent submarine name change by the Royal Navy “woke nonsense” to avoid offending the French.

The King intervened over the renaming of HMS Agincourt to avoid offending the French, it was claimed last night. Charles reportedly vetoed the name — originally approved by Queen Elizabeth II — of the ...

The change was reportedly made so as to not upset France. There will be no quotes from William Shakespeare’s play Henry V used as the motto for the Royal Navy’s seventh and final Astute-class ...

The Royal Navy has announced it is changing the name of a new submarine from HMS Agincourt to HMS Achilles, in a move branded "woke nonsense" by former Defence Secretary Grant Shapps. It follows ...