Crowds cheer Royal Navy's £3.5bn flagship HMS Prince of Wales as it begins eight-month mission to the Far East in military show of force – with crew ready to defy China over Taiwan

Crowds cheered as HMS Prince of Wales departed her home of Portsmouth to lead an international strike group which aims to send a ‘powerful message’ that Britain ‘means business’.

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