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Royal Navy goes for families

2019-02-15 00:26:41.74904+01 by Dan Lyke 0 comments

Somehow I missed this back in 2013: 'Our wives and sweethearts' Naval toast rewritten:

Naval officers will no longer raise their glasses to "Our wives and sweethearts" - typically met with the unofficial reply "May they never meet".

Instead, they will say "Our families", following an instruction by the Second Sea Lord Vice- Admiral David Steel.

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