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Ah Calorouga Shark Media. Hello and welcome to Palace Intrigg.
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I'm your host, Mark Francis. Meghan Michael is heading to
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Geneva this weekend for the unveiling of the Lost Screen Memorial,
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a tribute to children who have died as a consequence
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of online harm. The announcement released by the Sussex Office
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on Friday confirmed Megan will travel solo. Harry and the
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children are staying in California, marking her second solo overseas
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appearance in as many weeks, coming directly on the hills
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of the Princess of Wales's working visit to Italy. The memorial,
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which eliminates Geneva's plus de naisons with fifty light boxes,
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each bearing the lock screen image of a child lost
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to digital violence, will be inaugurated on Sunday evening. Meghan
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will be joined by WHO Director General, Doctor tedros anderhom
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Jebra Yasis and senior global health figures, with the event
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time to coincide with the opening of the seventy ninth
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World Health Assembly. The cause is one Meghan has champion
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for some time, and the credentials here aren't genuine. Whether
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the timing of The announcement a Friday afternoon, one day
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after Keate's Italy visit concluded, will be scrutinized as closely
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as the cause itself is at this point essentially inevitable.
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The monarchy watches the Internet notices the calendar never lies.
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In The Express, Karen Rockett writes, as the Duke and
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Duchess of Sussex prepare to celebrate their eighth wedding anniversary,
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the royal experts believe the couple, while still very much
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in love, are on very different paths professionally, and while
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Megan is looking to the future, Harry is clinging to
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the past. They see Megan as the much stronger character
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of the two, carving out a commercial career, while Harry
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still pines for a royal role, still seeking to carve
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out a role for himself on the world stage. Royal
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commentator Richard fitz Williams tells The Express, Harry has always
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seen themselves as more than just having a walk on
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role in her cookery programs. There are no science this
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relationship is failing. Though she is obviously the much stronger
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of the two, he has admitted to a lot of
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trauma and needing therapy. She came along at a time
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in his life when he needed her, and he still
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needs her. But I think the bottom line is they
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do really get along. The personal relationship between them, I
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think remains strong for now, but they are clearly heading
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in very different directions. Professionally, they are most definitely on
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diverging paths and want different things. Whether this causes conflict
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in the future remains to be seen, but for now,
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at least I see them very much together. Royal biographer
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Tom Bowers told The Daily Expresso. I think in the end,
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he needs her and she needs him. He said. It's
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a relationship based on a good business standing, and so
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I am not one of those who thinks that they
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are about to in any way break up. I think
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on the whole he needs her because he's a lonely
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sad man and she needs the label. We probably won't
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see Prince William wishing the couple a happy anniversary today,
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and insider tells Radar Online there's a public perception that
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William has completely turned against Harry and wants nothing more
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to do with him, but people close to the situation
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and says that isn't really the case. Deep down, William
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still sees Harry as his little brother and someone he
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had once said incredibly close bond with the real resentment
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in his mind is directed toward Meghan because he believes
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the family dynamic dramatically changed after she entered the picture.
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William feels Meghan fundamentally altered Harry's relationship with the monarchy
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and with the people closest to him. He thinks she
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encouraged the anger, the distance, and ultimately the decision to
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publicly air private grievances in a way the family never
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could have anticipated. If William believed he could still reach
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Harry without outside influence or distrust getting in the way,
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he probably would try. But at this point he feels
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the damage is too serious, so he's taken the attitude
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that all we can really do now is step back
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and wait to see how things unfold. Essentially, he has
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issued a pretty brutal prediction that Harry and Meghan's marriage
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has no hope of lasting. Harry and Meghan are developing
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a new feature film for Netflix based on the Afghan
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war memoir No Way Out, the searing true story of
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Men under Siege. The project will be produced through the
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couple's Archwall Productions Company. The film is based on the
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twenty nineteen memoir by British major Adam Jowett and focuses
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on a military operation in Afghanistan during the summer of
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two thousand and six. The book follows Easy Company, the
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unit made up of Paris and Royal Irish rangers tasked
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with defending the district center of the Musa Kala under
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siege conditions. Prince Harry's involvement in the project is notable
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given his own military background, serving two tours in Afghanistan
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during his decade in the British Army. OSCAR nominated writer
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Matt Charman, who received an Academy Award nominations for Bridges
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of Spies, has been hired to write the screenplay. The
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new film falls under Archwell's first look arrangement with Netflix
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after the expiration of the couple's broader overall deal. A
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new report claims Megan has privately expressed frustration over what
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she allegedly said thees as a double standard in the
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public reaction to a family photograph shared by the Prince
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and Princess of Wales. The claim follows the release of
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an anniversary portrait of Prince William and Princess Catherine with
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their children in Norfolk. The photograph, shared on the couple's
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official social media accounts, showed William and Catherine alongside Prince George,
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Princess Charlton and Prince Louis, as well as the family
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dogs All and Otto. According to Heat magazine, Megan was
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reportedly upset by the overwhelmingly positive public response to the image.
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Source claimed it's like there's one set of rules for
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William and Kate and another for Meghan and Harry. This
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latest photo has got all the resentment over the double
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standards bubbling back up. Kate and William are very clear
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using their children as part of the royal image and
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the branding of the family. Yet Megan's been criticized and
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picked apart for even including the smallest glimpse of Archie
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and Lilibet on her social media and she doesn't even
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know their faces. It's so unfair. No matter what she does,
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Kate will be the golden girl, and she will be
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the villain. She's still deeply scarred and deeply with sentful
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that they've been turned into total pariahs. More palace in
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just a moment, King Charles surprised guests at a Buckingham
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Palace guarden party by briefly stepping behind the DJ booth
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during celebrations marking the fiftieth anniversary of the King's Trust.
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The event had a very different atmosphere from a traditional
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royal guarden party, with DJs, live art and celebrity guests,
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and gathered on the palace lawns. Actor Sir Idris Elber
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and twenty two year old DJ Christian Saint Louis Noan
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professionally as DJ INC, provided music from a DJ booth
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stet up on the West Terrace. Shortly before heavy rain arrived.
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The King joined the pair at the decks and pressed
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play to start the music, prompting loud cheers from the crowd.
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So Idras later joked he said he was going to
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DJ today and he did. Asked whether the King's contribution
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really counted as djaying, he laughed, well, he pressed play.
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That's the hardest part as a DJ. I know, it's
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very difficult on whether the King enjoyed the music. So
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Idras added, he didn't stick around put it that way.
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Pepper Middleton and her husband James Matthews are facing a
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public inquiry over a disputed footpath that runs through the
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Berkshire estate. The couple purchased the one hundred and forty
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five acre Barton Court property in near Kintbury in twenty
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twenty two for a reported twenty million dollars and later
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blocked access to a track known publicly as Mill Lane,
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placing science around the estate reading private, no public access
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and no trespassing. More than thirty local residents, backed by
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the Ramblers Organization, applied to have the route officially recognized
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that the public right of way, arguing the lane had
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been openly used by the community for decades. West Berkshire
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Council ruled in favor of the application, prompting Matthews to
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challenge the decision at a six day public inquiry. West
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Berkshire Council ruled in favor of the application, prompting Matthews
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to challenge the decision at a six day public inquiry.
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Local resident Samuel Robins told the inquiry it's a calm
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and attractive walk. I've never been stopped or asked to
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turn around. Sophie Redmond and the Ramblers Organization argued the
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route had been walked by the community for more than
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twenty years. Without interruption. A spokesman for Matthews and Middleton
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mainteen there has never been a formal public right of
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way across the land, the spokesman said, for as long
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as records exist, there has never been a footpath public
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right of way on the land currently under discussion. There
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are other clearly marked footpaths nearby. Contrary to media reports,
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the previous owners of the property from as far back
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as the nineteen seventies did not allow public access to
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the land under discussion. It has always been a private property.
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As the world famous RHS Chelsea Flower Show opens in London,
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there is also royal attention to another major gardening event
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taking place later this season, the Royal Windsor Flower Show.
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The two events are often confused, but they are actually
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very different. The Chelsea Flower Show, which runs from May
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nineteenth through the twenty third at the Royal Hospital Chelsea
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in London, is Britain's premier international gardening showcase. It attracts
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celebrity designers, broadcast as major sponsors and senior royals every year,
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with King Charles and Queen Camilla traditionally attending alongside other
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members of the royal family. The Royal Windsor Flowers Show. Meanwhile,
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in a separate one day event taking place to see
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on June sixth, and winds a great park. It has
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a small but more traditional and community focused atmosphere centered
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around gardening, sustainability, food production and family activities, although it
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also maintains strong royal connections. This year, the Duchess of
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Edinburgh is playing a major role at a Windsor event
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by codesigning the plants with Purpose Garden, alongside award winning
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designer Alan Williams of Landform Consultants. According to the Royal Family,
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the garden will highlight the importance of healthy soil and
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an understanding of how food is growing. The project reflects
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Sophie's growing focus on sustainable farming and food education, particularly
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encouraging young people to pursue careers in the British food industry.
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