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Calorogus Shark media now low and welcome to Palace Intrigue.
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I am your host, Mark Francis, King Charles and Queen
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Camilla are in Northern Ireland for a three day visit
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and if the opening days are any indication, they have
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brought considerable energy to the occasion. The trip began in Belfast,
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where the couple arrived at Thompson Dock, where the Titanic
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last sat on a dry land in nineteen eleven, to
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a welcome involving more than two hundred performers marking the
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upcoming world's largest festival of traditional Irish music, song and dance,
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which comes to Belfast this August for the first time.
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I cannot buy any stretch of my imagination. Pronounce the
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name of this show. The couple were serenaded with an
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instrumental version of I'll tell Me Ma, watched dancers representing
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Belfast's diverse communities, including Mexican, Polish and multi ethnic groups,
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and were promptly pulled into the spirit of the thing. Charles,
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who has never been a man to resist a drum,
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got his feet going to a live percussionist before being
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warmly embraced around the waist by Tendal Namanyaru, a Zimbabwean
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born Belfast resident of two and a half years, who
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declared afterwards with considerable enthusiasm, the King's got rhythm. The
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groups founder, Nigerian born Joswill Emmanuel City, had no idea
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the King and Queen were coming. The Lord Lieutenant had
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invited them under strict secrecy. To be honest, I thought
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it was going to be starmer, he said, And then
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the King and Queen arrived. I am very happy. He
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brought the sun with him too. Both Charles and Camilla
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were then handed Bodran's traditional Irish frame drums and given
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a brief tutorial on technique. The King needed no encouragement,
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picking up movement quickly. The queen persevered gamely watching the
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dancers performed. The King looked genuinely awe struck, and when
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he went on stage to thank them, he said, you
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must be so out of breath fantastic. Are you all professionals?
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He appeared startled when they were amateurs and replied, impressive.
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You must wear out your shoes very quickly. The couple
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then visited Titanic distillers housed in the restored Edwardy and
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pump house beside the dry dock where they were taken
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through the copper stills, and offered it tasting. It was
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barely past noon. The Queen raised her eyebrows dramatically asked
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what proof the whiskey was, was told forty percent, and
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decided to proceed. It's quite strong, she said, having knogged
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it back, but nice and warming. She turned to warn
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her husband, who was already reaching for his glass. The
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King smelled it, sipped it, nodded approvingly, and said, simply
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very good. They had distiller observed afterwards with some admiration
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that the Queen had actually tried the stronger of the
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two pores. She must have a more refined palette than me.
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On the second day, when the couple operating separately across
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County down, Charles visited a food bank at Donned Methodist
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Church in Newcastle, where he packed grocery boxes for local families,
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stuck his head into a paper bag to smell freshly
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baked wheaten bread and see on a toilet roll with
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the declaration very important. He placed a second one in
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the box. Very very important, He told the volunteers they
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were very very special people, which appeared to be genuinely
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meant leaving the food banker passing seagull took the opportunity
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to register its presence on the back of the royal jacket.
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A discreet aid appeared with an overcoat. The King waved
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it off. When a member of the public mentioned the situation,
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Charles laughed and said, no, it's fine. At least it
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didn't land on my head. He continued greeting the crowds.
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Local resident Irene Martin, who witnessed the exchange, noted that
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a seagull strike is traditionally considered good luck. Meanwhile, in Hillsborough,
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Camilla visited the Parsons Nose Pub, where she pulled a
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pint of guinness with fierce concentration, held it aloft to
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a round of applause, and declared it too early to drink.
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Children from the local primary school singing a Million Dreams
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from the Greatest Showman in the street outside, The Queen
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called it really lovely, shook a considerable number of hands
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and admired a baby between and then the King and
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Queen have in the space of forty eight hours, danced, drummed,
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done whiskey shots before lunch packed groceries been targeted by
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wildlife and pulled a Guinness. The visit has three days.
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There is time. Yet the recent Australia tour may not
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have delivered the boost the Sussexes hoped for. According to
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a new report examining both Meghan's business numbers and the
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future of Prince Harry's Invictus linked projects. Newswek reports that
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the website traffic for Megan Markel's lifestyle brand as Ever
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declined during April, the same month the Sussex's toured Sindy
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and Melbourne. Data collected through the analytics platform similar Web
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showed global traffic to the site dropped by about twenty
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percent from March to April. The report said Megan's website
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recorded one hundred and seventy eight thousand visitors in April,
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down from two hundred twenty six thousand in March. Australian
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traffic also reportedly fell during the same period. Newsweek noted
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that Australians made up nine percent of traffic in February
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before the tour was announced, compared to six percent and
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in April during the actual visit. Royal and Entertainment reporter
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Bronte Coy told Newsweek Megan spoke on a podcast I
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think it was last year, talking about global expansion. Where
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else is she looking other than these places? So in
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that way, obviously Australia has proven that it has not
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panned out how they would have hoped. I would say
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that promotional blitz has absolutely fallen flat. That worked in
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terms of being able to get paid speaking gigs and
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to do charity engagements. She said, But what's the point
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of all this if it's not going to launch commercial
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arms that are going to pay for it. How much
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longer are people going to pay for them to speak
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at things if they don't have relevance and companies that
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are thriving and empires, etc. More Palatin just a moment.
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The British Royal family may project formality in public, but
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behind palace doors, it is a family known for an
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extensive collection of nicknames, some affectionate, some humorous, and some
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that have become part of and some that have become
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part of royal law. For Prince William, one of the
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earliest nicknames came from his mother, Diana, Princess of Wales,
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who called him Wombat during a royal tour of Australia
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when he was an infant. William later explained, the wombat,
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you know, that's the local animal. So I just basically
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got called that, not because I looked like a wom
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battle maybe I do. His younger brother, Prince Harry, has
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been known by several names over the years. While Harry
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itself is a shortened version of his given name, Henry,
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he has said that family members called him Harold, while
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friends have used the nicknames such as Spike, a reference
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to his hair, and has a name used by his wife,
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Meghan Mirkal. Meghan herself has long been known as Flower,
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a childhood nickname given by her mother. After joining the
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royal family, she was also reportedly given the nickname Tungsten
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by her father in law, King Charles the Third, reflecting
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what he saw as her resilience under pressure. Catherine, Princess
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of Wales, has spoken about her own childhood nickname, telling
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pupils during a school visit, there was one called Pip
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and one called Squeak, because my sister was called Pipper
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and I was Squeak. In adulthood, her husband has also
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been heard referring to her Poppet. In adulthood, her husband
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has also been heard referring to her as poppet, a
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traditional British term of endearment. The younger generation has not
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been spared. Prince George is reportedly known as pg Tips,
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a playful reference to a popular tea brand, while Princess
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Charlotte is often called Lottie, and Prince Louis has been
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heard being called lou Bugs by his mother. Even Queen
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Elizabeth I was known by several nicknames throughout her life.
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As a child, she was called Delibert, a name later
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passed on to her great granddaughter. According to family accounts,
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a young Prince William once referred to her as Gary
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after falling at Buckingham Palace and calling out for help,
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prompting the Queen to explain to staff that he had
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not yet learned to say granny. Within the royal marriage itself,
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King Charles and Queen Camilla reportedly used the nicknames Fred
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and Gladys in their early relationship, drawn from characters in
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the BBC Radio comedy There are nicknames, and then there
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are code names. Former Royal butler Grant Harold worked for
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Charles between two thousand and four and twenty eleven at
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High Grove House, and also spent time serving Prince William,
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Prince Harry, and Katherine, Princess of Wales. Speaking about royal etiquette,
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Harold explained, when speaking directly to members of the royal family,
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we used their official titles unless told otherwise. However, it
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was only William, Harry and Kate who wanted the less
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formal name option. According to Harold, Kate was always simply
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known as Kate behind the scenes before her marriage into
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the royal family. He said, William always called her Kate.
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She introduced herself to me as Kate and asked me
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to call her that. This Catherine thing only began after
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the wedding. I think after their coronation she will be
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Queen Catherine, but until then it was always Kate. Behind
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the scenes, we always called King Charles, who was Prince
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Charles at the time, the Boss, and it was the
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same for the late Queen. We referred to Camilla as
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the Duchess. I think it was so when you were
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out and about in public, you could talk more openly
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without worrying about people over hearing. Queen Commie, I admit
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that there is one aspect of being a grandmother she
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has never quite mastered. Speaking on the Queen's Reading Room podcast.
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She reflected on reading stories to her grandchildren and praised
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her husband for his natural ability to bring books to life.
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She said, I think the one I enjoyed reading more
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than anything else was Harry Potter. Camilla explained that the
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King has a particular talent for entertaining the children during
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story time, adding sometimes when we are with my husband
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in Scotland, he reads them Harry Potter and he does
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all voices because he is a brilliant mimic. By contrast,
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she acknowledged her own limitations, saying I can't mimic voices
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for love or money. I'm completely hopeless at it. I
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was a really bad actor at school and I've never
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been able to master the art of mimicry. She went
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on to describe how the King engages with the grandchildren, saying,
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but the King sits down and they all sit with him.
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I always think they are going to be wriggling around
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in the bed, but they sit spellbound. He's extremely good
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with children. They love it. Camilla has five grandchildren through
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her children Tom Parker Bowls and Laura Lopes, and became
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step grand mother to five more when she married the King,
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including the children of Prince William and Prince Harry. You
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know they have it. If you'd like to email us
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her addresses The Palace Intrigue at a gmail dot com.
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choice by Mark Francis My thanks to John McDermott. This
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