THE DUKE OF WELLINGTON "NAPPING." -- At the conclusion of the banquet at Windsor Castle, on Tuesday evening last, her Majesty and Prince Albert, with their distinguished guests, retired, as usual, to the green drawing-room, the Queen's private band being stationed in the adjoining apartment (the crimson drawing-room), the folding doors of which were thrown open. In the course of the evening her Majesty left the private apartment arm-in-arm with the Duke of Wellington, and seated herself, with the Duke on her right hand, and surrounded by the Court, near the band. After listening to the performance of two or three compositions, the Queen rose from her seat to retire, a movement which was, of course followed by the whole of the Royal party, with the exception of the Duke, who had fallen into a profound nap. Her Majesty, smiling, and evidently enjoying the involuntary forgetfulness of his Grace, playfully tapped the Duke on his shoulder with her bouquet, which speedily brought him from a state of momentary oblivion to perfect consciousness, when the Queen, with a gracious smile (amidst the suppressed titterings of the illustrious guests), made his Grace a low curtsey, and taking the noble warrior's arm in the most kind and affectionate manner, and laughing the while, proceeded from the crimson to the green drawing-room, where coffee was served. -- Brittania.
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