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Updated: May 20, 2025
News arrived that the Duchess of Kent, sailing in the Solent, had insisted that whenever her yacht appeared it should be received by royal salutes from all the men-of-war and all the forts. The King declared that these continual poppings must cease; the Premier and the First Lord of the Admiralty were consulted; and they wrote privately to the Duchess, begging her to waive her rights.
"There's two of 'em!" shrieked Will from the rear, as he caught the sound of a second series of erratic poppings. Evidently those who were meddling with the motorcycles did not have a thorough knowledge of how to work the same, for the sounds would suddenly cease and then start up again.
He was second to Admiral Thatcher, commanding United States squadron in Mobile Bay, and had come to meet me. A bountiful luncheon was spread, of which we partook, with joyous poppings of champagne corks for accompaniment, the first agreeable explosive sounds I had heard for years.
He objected to their little journeys, calling them "royal progresses," and by a special order put a stop to the "poppings," in the way of salutes, to the vessel which bore them to and from the Isle of Wight a small piece of state- business for a King and his Council to be engaged in.
In another corner, a gentleman of shy and retiring manners converted "radiant energy into sonorous vibrations" themselves converted into sonorous poppings by waiters and champagne bottles at the supper table.
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