Editing Redonda (section)

==Micronation==
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[[File:Redonda Day.JPG|thumb|upright|The island of Redonda, seen from [[Nevis]], with [[Montserrat]] in the distance, 2006]]
Redonda is the setting for the myth of the "[[Kingdom of Redonda]]". [[M. P. Shiel]], an author of fantasy novels, claimed that in the year of his birth, 1865, his father [[Matthew Dowdy Shiell]], from [[Montserrat]], decided to celebrate his first male child by arranging for the boy to be crowned [[King]] of Redonda at the age of 15, in a ceremony purportedly carried out on the small island by a bishop.

Shiel first expressed the idea of the "Kingdom of Redonda" in a promotional leaflet for his books. Since then, the title has been "passed down", and continues to the present day. For a period of time the "Royal" lineage of Redonda had a more or less solely literary theme, with the title being given to writers, such as [[John Gawsworth]] and [[Jon Wynne-Tyson]]. Wynne-Tyson (King Juan II), his successor the Spanish novelist [[Javier Marías]] (King Xavier), and rival contenders for the Redondan title, such as Gawsworth, William L. Gates and Bob Williamson, were featured in a [[BBC Radio 4]] documentary, ''Redonda: The Island with Too Many Kings'', which was broadcast in May 2007.<ref>{{cite web |work=BBC Radio 4 |url=http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b007j7t6 |title=Redonda: The Island with Too Many Kings |date=27 May 2007}}</ref>