Everybody's still wild about Harry!

0:03 Calaruga Shark Media, Hello and welcome to Palace Intrigue game hoist Mark Francis Prince Harry made an appearance in Las Vegas supporting the only charity founded in memory of his late mother, Princess Diana. The Duke joined the Diana Award of the Service Now Knowledge twenty twenty five conference to help launch the charity's new Pledge to Invest Initiative, a campaign urging businesses to support the next generation of youth leaders. The appearance marks his first major event since his emotional BBC interview. At the event, Harry sat alongside Diana Legacy Award recipients Secanda sunny Kahan from Michigan and Christina Williams from Jamaica in a wide ranging discussion about youth empowerment, leadership and creating inclusive workplaces. Harry said, through the Diana Award, have had the privilege of meeting young people who have turned adversity into action. That's not just inspiring, it's the kind of untapped potential we can't afford to overlook. He said. Far too many young people are locked out of leadership pipelines because we've failed to build truly inclusive and accessible pathways.

1:17 Turning to the two young leaders seated beside him, the Duke added, every single young person has potential from a younger generation standpoint in an apathetic world. There's more empathy in this generation than I've ever seen before. When they stand up for themselves and stand up in their communities, that is what we need. We need fearless leadership. So I tipped my hat to both of you and what you represent. Harry looked relaxed and happy, as he often does in his solo appearances. It is believed Megan was home with Archie, who celebrated his sixth birthday. The reactions to Harry's BBC interview continue that Pallace source said, for a son who claims to want a family reconciliation, it's certainly a very curious way to build bridges or offer olive branches. His beloved grandmother would have been truly horrified.

2:05 The King is a kind man with a warm heart, and quite enough on his plate to deal with without all this from his son. Another told the Mirror, if there were anxieties about things remaining private, then Friday will not have done them. The power of good royal expert Ingrid Seward told the Mirror. By now, Charles is used to Harry's disloyalty and contradictions. But what he will not be prepared to put up with is his youngest son's stubborn conviction that he is always right. Harry's ego is so fragile he thinks the world's against him. He refuses to take responsibility for his actions. If he wants reconciliation, why does he still attack his family? If he did say sorry to his father and those he has hurt, he would be admitting he was wrong. Harry has such a weak sense of self he appears incapable of doing this.

2:54 Harry's stubborness will almost certainly prevent him from bringing his wife and children to the UK, at least in the immediate future. He said he realized he had upset the family, but never once offered to apologize. The King knows this, but he also understands that under Harry's accusatory exterior, he is extremely vulnerable. As King, Charles needs total trust. He is head of state and monarchan that has to come first. As Charles vowed at his coronation, he will be very sad it has come to this, but if he can't trust Harry, he has to avoid him until such time things change, if they ever do. Royal expert Jenny Bond adds, imagine the scene. King Charles, presumably having been told that his youngest son had given a TV interview, tunes into the BBC to hear Harry accuse him of not caring about his safety. He hears that the establishment and by implication, the Royal family, tried to imprison Harry and his wife and children, allowing their security to be downgraded in order to force them to stay in the UK, and he sees Harry talk about some people wanting history to repeat itself, a reference it would seem to his mother's security arrangements when she was killed in a car crash. Contrasts this with the King's very first broadcast the day after the late Queen died, in which he made a specific point of expressing his love for Harry and Megan as they continue to build their lives overseas. Elizabeth's press secretary Alissa Anderson told the Mirror that's going to cause real concern and more speculation in the media and the wider public about what his diagnosis is, which is incredibly unhelpful going forward.

4:27 What you don't want to do is have your private life played out in the media. So if you truly want reconciliation, you'll do it in private, not In a BBC News interview, Tina Brown, the former Vanity Fair editor, told the BBC, Well, what I thought was after five years, Harry is still at war with his original mistake, and every time he goes on the air he makes another one. So it's like he's now trapped in this terrible cycle of doubling down on the original mistake. I didn't hear two very crucial words in the entire story of Jeremiah about you know, I'd like to reconcile. I'm sorry. I mean, he never said I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I caused my family all of this pain. That is really what they're upset about, not the security. I think he thought he could just blow it off. In his reckless, sort of hot headed Harry hotspur Way charged out of the Royal family with all of these issues completely unresolved. There was no way this court was going to go against the findings of the security, the police. They are not going to go against that, and they're not going to go up against the police, against the royal family or the police.

5:27 In the Telegraph, Celia Walden writes, no happy person lives in the past to this extent, and for that reason I feel genuine sympathy for the Sussexes. Is there anything more leading and embarrassing than celebrities posting meaningful instagrams images that are supposed to be arch and clever, working as they do on several levels, but are in fact as subtle in their messaging as a jackhammer to the head. Not that Megan Michael will see the black and white photographs she posted on Sunday as embarrassing hours after her husband finished his latest Scorched Earth interview with the BBC, in which the forty year old managed bow to ask for a reconciliation with his family and kill off any hope of one. She will have been setting up the photo shoot in their lush Montecito gardens. Crucially, she will have told her husband and children, you need to be walking away from the camera, all three of you seen only from the back. It will have taken poor Harry a little longer than his three year old to get the significance of this, because you're turning your back on the UK began, will have explained impatiently, because we don't need the UK. Got it then through gritted teeth, because we are perfectly happy with our lives. We will know people who leave their partners only to spend the rest of their earthly lives bitterly obsessing over their axes. They will sit there at night, madly scrolling through anything pertaining to that person, and structure every conversation around the latest development.

6:43 However trivial. Megan and Harry are those people. That broken relationship wasn't just with his family but the UK, and for that reason and that reason alone, I feel genuinely sorry for the Sussexes, but I think we all feel frustrated too, however badly handled their exit. Would anyone in this country really have resented these too for their happy ever after? I know I wouldn't have if all we'd been subjected to post makes it were contended snapshots and blissed out quotes. I wish the break hadn't caused so much pain, but we're both happy as clams now. I wouldn't even care about them retaining their titles. Carol Malone in The Express was more direct under the headline Prince Harry, You're a spiteful, whining idiot nobody in the UK can be bothered with. Carol writes, how damn will dare he suggests his father might die before he gets to see him, like the pain would be all about him and not his father. How dare he opened the door to suggestions that King Charles cancer could be so serious that he might not have long left, Because that's the clear implication of what he said last week. And he said it not out of any concern for his father, but because he wants us to feel sorry for him. From the minute the King's cancer was diagnosed, throughout his treatment, no one, not the royals themselves, not bucking in Palace, not the media, have ever suggested he might die, because it's just not something that should be speculated about on a public platform.

8:01 We all have too much respect for the King to do that. Yet Harry somehow thinks he can raise the specter of it so that we will feel sorry for him, the son so cruelly abandoned by the father he loves. The fact is what happened in Harry's car crash interview last week is precisely why the King won't speak to him. He simply can't be trusted with information about anything, let alone the very sensitive and serious business of his father's cancer. And doesn't Harry get the fact that Charles not talking to him as one hundred percent his own fault. Doesn't he understand his father doesn't want to talk to him because he's so brutally tried to destroy him and the rest of his family with his TACKI tell Or book, for which he was paid twenty million pounds. Of course, there's a very good reason why King Charles won't tell Harry anything about his health, because he knows from bitter experience that any private conversation he has with his son invariably find their way into the US media. As a friend of Charles said this week, it's not that the King won't speak to him, it's that he can't. How can you have a private conversation when you know it's going to end up on a new special within hours?

9:02 Palace intrigig be right back. King Charles toured London's new super sewer his majesty. The King has marked the completion of one of London's most ambitious engineering projects by visiting the Thames tide Way Tunnel No. One informally is the super Sewer on Wednesday. The twenty five kilometer long tunnel ten years and the making is designed to intercept and divert sewage away from the River Thames, helping to reduce pollution by an estimated ninety five percent. Stretching from Acton to Beckton, the four point five billion pound infrastructure project involved twenty thousand workers over eight years and now forms part of Thames Water wastewater system. At the site near Embankment, the King met with construction workers and Stormen, expressing his appreciation for the scale and ambition of the project. Ever ready with a rye remark, his Majesty quipped, don't worry, it's all going to come in one humorous horror. Upon being told some sewage work is made easier when it rains, Charles was given a d detailed tour by Andy Mitchell, chief executive of the Thames Tideway Tunnel project. The King was fascinated with the detail, the quality, the humanity of the space, said mister Mitchell. The team was absolutely thrilled.

10:10 The King commented on the quality. There's huge passion here. The tunnel itself is seven point two meters in diameter, roughly the size of three stacked London double decker buses, and was carved out using four enormous tunneling machines. Two smaller connecting tunnels measure five and two meters across, respectively. The king also took time to speak with poet Dorothea Smart whose verses about the Thames that displayed on the side's ventilation columns. Have you done a different poem on each one? He inquired, showing his keen interest in the cultural touches integrated into the project to reach the science. Charles traveled aboard the Mars Clipper, an uber boat more commonly used by commuters. Spotting the group cheering from a passing boat, the King gave a cheerful wave. Later, he engaged in light conversation with uber boat's chief executive, Sean Collins, asking does it go all year round? The pair shared a laugh over mister collins rowing days on the Thames.

11:03 The Thames Tiedeway Tunnel stands as a significant investment in London's future, aiming to keep its iconic river clean for generations to come. For Charles, it was a symbolic visit as recently he has to put up with a lot of stuff. Then they have it. If you have to, email us and addresses the Palace intrig gmail dot com. Please follow us on Spotify app or the app off your choice. Leave us a nice review if you're enjoying the show, and don't forget. We have another new show out from Keller Ogershark Media called Diddy Do It and it's following the sex crimes trial of Sean Diddy Combs in New York which started this week and you can follow along with a daily podcast. Just search for Diddy Do It in your favorite podcast app. I'm Mark Francis and thanks to John McDermott, this is Palace and Freed Good Dames.