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A royal send-off

t was 2014, the year after I won the America's Cup with Oracle Team USA, that I was invited to stay at Windsor Casde. I had a lovely dinner with Elizabeth II and the Duke of Edinburgh, along with seven or eight others, plus corgis running about the place, but the most special moment came afterwards.. They even had the musket shot that killed Admiral Lord Nelson at the Batde ofTrafalgar, which they had brought out of the Royal Collection Trust.

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