As one who knows her put it to me once - you don't want a monarch who fizzes like a Catherine wheel.

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Prosecco fizzes rather than foams and so, to the chagrin of German bubbly-makers, is deemed to be a tax-free Perlwein, not a Schaumwein.

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Ms Gitonga fizzes with energy when she talks about her children.

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