May 8, 2025

Everybody's still wild about Harry!

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Well, at least Harry got everyone to stop ripping Meghan!

Meanwhile, the King took an Uber Boat to the sewer, as one does.

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Calaruga Shark Media, Hello and welcome to Palace Intrigue game

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hoist Mark Francis Prince Harry made an appearance in Las

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Vegas supporting the only charity founded in memory of his

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late mother, Princess Diana.

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The Duke joined the Diana Award of the Service Now

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Knowledge twenty twenty five conference to help launch the charity's

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new Pledge to Invest Initiative, a campaign urging businesses to

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support the next generation of youth leaders. The appearance marks

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his first major event since his emotional BBC interview. At

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the event, Harry sat alongside Diana Legacy Award recipients Secanda

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sunny Kahan from Michigan and Christina Williams from Jamaica in

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a wide ranging discussion about youth empowerment, leadership and creating

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inclusive workplaces. Harry said, through the Diana Award, have had

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the privilege of meeting young people who have turned adversity

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into action. That's not just inspiring, it's the kind of

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untapped potential we can't afford to overlook. He said. Far

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too many young people are locked out of leadership pipelines

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because we've failed to build truly inclusive and accessible pathways.

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Turning to the two young leaders seated beside him, the

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Duke added, every single young person has potential from a

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younger generation standpoint in an apathetic world. There's more empathy

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in this generation than I've ever seen before. When they

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stand up for themselves and stand up in their communities,

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that is what we need. We need fearless leadership. So

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I tipped my hat to both of you and what

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you represent. Harry looked relaxed and happy, as he often

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does in his solo appearances. It is believed Megan was

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home with Archie, who celebrated his sixth birthday. The reactions

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to Harry's BBC interview continue that Pallace source said, for

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a son who claims to want a family reconciliation, it's

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certainly a very curious way to build bridges or offer

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olive branches. His beloved grandmother would have been truly horrified.

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The King is a kind man with a warm heart,

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and quite enough on his plate to deal with without

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all this from his son. Another told the Mirror, if

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there were anxieties about things remaining private, then Friday will

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not have done them. The power of good royal expert

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Ingrid Seward told the Mirror. By now, Charles is used

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to Harry's disloyalty and contradictions. But what he will not

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be prepared to put up with is his youngest son's

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stubborn conviction that he is always right. Harry's ego is

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so fragile he thinks the world's against him. He refuses

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to take responsibility for his actions. If he wants reconciliation,

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why does he still attack his family? If he did

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say sorry to his father and those he has hurt,

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he would be admitting he was wrong. Harry has such

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a weak sense of self he appears incapable of doing this.

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Harry's stubborness will almost certainly prevent him from bringing his

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wife and children to the UK, at least in the

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immediate future. He said he realized he had upset the family,

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but never once offered to apologize. The King knows this,

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but he also understands that under Harry's accusatory exterior, he

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is extremely vulnerable. As King, Charles needs total trust. He

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is head of state and monarchan that has to come first.

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As Charles vowed at his coronation, he will be very

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sad it has come to this, but if he can't

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trust Harry, he has to avoid him until such time

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things change, if they ever do. Royal expert Jenny Bond adds,

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imagine the scene. King Charles, presumably having been told that

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his youngest son had given a TV interview, tunes into

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the BBC to hear Harry accuse him of not caring

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about his safety. He hears that the establishment and by implication,

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the Royal family, tried to imprison Harry and his wife

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and children, allowing their security to be downgraded in order

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to force them to stay in the UK, and he

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sees Harry talk about some people wanting history to repeat itself,

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a reference it would seem to his mother's security arrangements

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when she was killed in a car crash. Contrasts this

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with the King's very first broadcast the day after the

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late Queen died, in which he made a specific point

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of expressing his love for Harry and Megan as they

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continue to build their lives overseas. Elizabeth's press secretary Alissa

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Anderson told the Mirror that's going to cause real concern

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and more speculation in the media and the wider public

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about what his diagnosis is, which is incredibly unhelpful going forward.

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What you don't want to do is have your private

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life played out in the media. So if you truly

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want reconciliation, you'll do it in private, not In a

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BBC News interview, Tina Brown, the former Vanity Fair editor,

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told the BBC, Well, what I thought was after five years,

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Harry is still at war with his original mistake, and

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every time he goes on the air he makes another one.

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So it's like he's now trapped in this terrible cycle

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of doubling down on the original mistake. I didn't hear

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two very crucial words in the entire story of Jeremiah

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about you know, I'd like to reconcile. I'm sorry. I mean,

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he never said I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I caused my

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family all of this pain. That is really what they're

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upset about, not the security. I think he thought he

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could just blow it off. In his reckless, sort of

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hot headed Harry hotspur Way charged out of the Royal

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family with all of these issues completely unresolved. There was

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no way this court was going to go against the

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findings of the security, the police. They are not going

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to go against that, and they're not going to go

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up against the police, against the royal family or the police.

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In the Telegraph, Celia Walden writes, no happy person lives

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in the past to this extent, and for that reason

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I feel genuine sympathy for the Sussexes. Is there anything

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more leading and embarrassing than celebrities posting meaningful instagrams images

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that are supposed to be arch and clever, working as

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they do on several levels, but are in fact as

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subtle in their messaging as a jackhammer to the head.

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Not that Megan Michael will see the black and white

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photographs she posted on Sunday as embarrassing hours after her

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husband finished his latest Scorched Earth interview with the BBC,

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in which the forty year old managed bow to ask

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for a reconciliation with his family and kill off any

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hope of one. She will have been setting up the

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photo shoot in their lush Montecito gardens. Crucially, she will

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have told her husband and children, you need to be

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walking away from the camera, all three of you seen

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only from the back. It will have taken poor Harry

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a little longer than his three year old to get

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the significance of this, because you're turning your back on

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the UK began, will have explained impatiently, because we don't

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need the UK. Got it then through gritted teeth, because

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we are perfectly happy with our lives. We will know

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people who leave their partners only to spend the rest

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of their earthly lives bitterly obsessing over their axes. They

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will sit there at night, madly scrolling through anything pertaining

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to that person, and structure every conversation around the latest development.

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However trivial. Megan and Harry are those people. That broken

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relationship wasn't just with his family but the UK, and

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for that reason and that reason alone, I feel genuinely

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sorry for the Sussexes, but I think we all feel

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frustrated too, however badly handled their exit. Would anyone in

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this country really have resented these too for their happy

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ever after? I know I wouldn't have if all we'd

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been subjected to post makes it were contended snapshots and

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blissed out quotes. I wish the break hadn't caused so

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much pain, but we're both happy as clams now. I

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wouldn't even care about them retaining their titles. Carol Malone

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in The Express was more direct under the headline Prince Harry,

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You're a spiteful, whining idiot nobody in the UK can

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be bothered with. Carol writes, how damn will dare he

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suggests his father might die before he gets to see him,

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like the pain would be all about him and not

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his father. How dare he opened the door to suggestions

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that King Charles cancer could be so serious that he

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might not have long left, Because that's the clear implication

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of what he said last week. And he said it

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not out of any concern for his father, but because

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he wants us to feel sorry for him. From the

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minute the King's cancer was diagnosed, throughout his treatment, no one,

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not the royals themselves, not bucking in Palace, not the media,

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have ever suggested he might die, because it's just not

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something that should be speculated about on a public platform.

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We all have too much respect for the King to

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do that. Yet Harry somehow thinks he can raise the

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specter of it so that we will feel sorry for him,

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the son so cruelly abandoned by the father he loves.

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The fact is what happened in Harry's car crash interview

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last week is precisely why the King won't speak to him.

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He simply can't be trusted with information about anything, let

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alone the very sensitive and serious business of his father's cancer.

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And doesn't Harry get the fact that Charles not talking

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to him as one hundred percent his own fault. Doesn't

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he understand his father doesn't want to talk to him

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because he's so brutally tried to destroy him and the

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rest of his family with his TACKI tell Or book,

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for which he was paid twenty million pounds. Of course,

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there's a very good reason why King Charles won't tell

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Harry anything about his health, because he knows from bitter

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experience that any private conversation he has with his son

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invariably find their way into the US media. As a

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friend of Charles said this week, it's not that the

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King won't speak to him, it's that he can't. How

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can you have a private conversation when you know it's

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going to end up on a new special within hours?

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Palace intrigig be right back. King Charles toured London's new

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super sewer his majesty. The King has marked the completion

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of one of London's most ambitious engineering projects by visiting

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the Thames tide Way Tunnel No. One informally is the

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super Sewer on Wednesday. The twenty five kilometer long tunnel

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ten years and the making is designed to intercept and

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divert sewage away from the River Thames, helping to reduce

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pollution by an estimated ninety five percent. Stretching from Acton

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to Beckton, the four point five billion pound infrastructure project

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involved twenty thousand workers over eight years and now forms

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part of Thames Water wastewater system. At the site near Embankment,

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the King met with construction workers and Stormen, expressing his

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appreciation for the scale and ambition of the project. Ever

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ready with a rye remark, his Majesty quipped, don't worry,

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it's all going to come in one humorous horror. Upon

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being told some sewage work is made easier when it rains,

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Charles was given a d detailed tour by Andy Mitchell,

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chief executive of the Thames Tideway Tunnel project. The King

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was fascinated with the detail, the quality, the humanity of

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the space, said mister Mitchell. The team was absolutely thrilled.

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The King commented on the quality. There's huge passion here.

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The tunnel itself is seven point two meters in diameter,

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roughly the size of three stacked London double decker buses,

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and was carved out using four enormous tunneling machines. Two

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smaller connecting tunnels measure five and two meters across, respectively.

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The king also took time to speak with poet Dorothea

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Smart whose verses about the Thames that displayed on the

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side's ventilation columns. Have you done a different poem on

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each one? He inquired, showing his keen interest in the

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cultural touches integrated into the project to reach the science.

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Charles traveled aboard the Mars Clipper, an uber boat more

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commonly used by commuters. Spotting the group cheering from a

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passing boat, the King gave a cheerful wave. Later, he

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engaged in light conversation with uber boat's chief executive, Sean Collins,

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asking does it go all year round? The pair shared

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a laugh over mister collins rowing days on the Thames.

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The Thames Tiedeway Tunnel stands as a significant investment in

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London's future, aiming to keep its iconic river clean for

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generations to come. For Charles, it was a symbolic visit

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as recently he has to put up with a lot

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of stuff. Then they have it. If you have to,

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