Harry’s Wedding Heartbreak, Meghan’s Birthday Photos Backfire, and the Mystery of the Missing Corgis

0:00 Ah Calorogus Shark Media. Hello and welcome to Palace Intrigue. I'm your host, Mark Francis. Not too many of us were expecting Harry and Meghan to be invited to Taylor Swift's wedding, but gossip columnist Rob Shooter has a concrete reason. According to Shooter's substack, one source said Taylor wants to look around the room and recognize every face. She doesn't want people there simply because they're famous. Another source told Shooter Taylor has no interest in turning her wedding into a power summit. She wants a celebration, not a networking event. Harry was reportedly left reflecting on his family relationships over the weekend as relatives gathered in Gloucestershire for the wedding of Peter Phillips and Harriet Spurling. According to a source quota by New Idea magazine, Harry put on a brave face at home over the weekend, but seeing his closest family altogether happy and getting on with their lives without him is still very painful. Harry desperately wants his children to have some connection to his home country. Meghan is still unwilling to make the trip. For now, Harry will just watch happy family gatherings from afar. Harry has never felt more homesick than he did seeing all of Peter's wedding photos. Everyone looks so happy on the big day, and it particularly stings because Harry was once so close to his cousin. The most heart wrenching part is not just that Harry didn't make the guest list, but that his children had to miss out on another important family occasion too. If Harry was still in the UK and not as strange from his royal relatives as every chance that his kids could have been included in the wedding party as a page boy or a flower girl, but

1:30 that wasn't to be. Harry may not be too pleased with a paparazzi living inside his own house. Megan marked Princess Littlebit's fifth birthday by posting previously unseen family photographs on social media, describing her daughter as our dream goal and wishing her a happy birthday. Royal commentator Duncan Larcom believes there's every chance that Harry might be allowing it through gritted teeth. He knows what it's like being a child in the public eye, and he doesn't want that for his kids. But I think we know who wears the trousers in the relationship. It will make Harry p what are you uneasy? Given what we know and what he's said in the past, I'm sure who accusers will say she's exploiting the children, lecturing about children's privacy but then posting her own children as clickbait. We will likely see them more and more as they get older. It becomes impossible to keep it private. Piers Morgan discussed the photos at a panel at south By Southwest It's London, saying they've put up photographs of their five year old child and social media to millions of people, immediately recognizable, and I'm like, what are you doing? What is this about?

2:29 Why would you preach about privacy, Why would you lecture the world about the need to be very careful with online stuff about children and so on, and then put your own child out there to millions of people. It makes no sense to me. Maybe it makes sense to their fans, I don't know, But to me, it's like that is a classic example of that kind of double standard that I think is ridiculous, where if you're going to start preaching about stuff, at least try and live up to it. Questions are being raised about the scale of Megan Markel's lifestyle brand as Ever after new analysis compared the company's reported inventory levels with website traffic figures from the first half of the year. According to analysis published by Newsweek, Meghan's as Ever website attracted just under four hundred thousand visits from the US between January and May.

3:10 The publication compared those figures with inventory information that reportedly became visible earlier this year through a floor in the website's design. The figures have reignited debate over the success of Meghan's post royal business ventures. Those supporters of the Dudges argue the brand is performing strongly and continuing to grow. A source familiar with the business told Newsweek, by any measure for any startup, you can't deny that is anything but a success. People are obsessed with wanting her to fail. The common pariat are clouded by their own prejudice and a need to perpetuate a narrative that her business is a failure because they pegged her that way from the start, and they can't take being wrong. A report that we are not sure. We believe suggests Meghan recently sent King Charles a huge gift basket. According to the National Examiner report, the gift was sent on May six, shortly before the couple's eighth wedding, and averse yis it is unclear what might have been in the basket. Meghan might want to send a basket to William. A royal commentator has predicted that Harry and Meghan could eventually lose their royal titles, arguing that Prince William was likely to take a firmer approach towards the Sussexs when he becomes King. Mare In Callahan told the Royals Uncensored podcast, I do think Harry and Meghan their titles will be stripped. We in America will be cheering William on more Palace in just a moment.

4:30 We have a new royal mystery. What has happened to Queen Elizabeth's Corgy's USA Today took a look. The dogs, Sandy and Meck were inherited by Andrew Mountbatten Windsor and Sarah Ferguson following the Queen's death in September twenty twenty two. At the time, the arrangement seemed straightforward. Ferguson frequently shared photographs of the pair on social media. Royal watches received regular updates about their lives that changed dramatically over the past year. Following Andrew's move from Royal Lodge to Norfolk, and with both he and Ferguson largely absent from public life, life sightings of the famous dogs have become increasingly rare. The last major public appearance by Sandy and Mick King during Queen Elizabeth's funeral, when photographs of the two corgies waiting outside Windsor Castle captured the attention of people around the world. The final official photograph of Sandy and Meck appears to have been released in September of last year.

5:19 Sharing the image on social media, Sarah Ferguson wrote, caring for her Majesty's beloved Corgies is an honor and a daily reminder of the times we shared together. At a pub close to the Sandringham Estate, employee Sarah Hayworth told USA Today, though the corgies are about someone saw them the other day. Prince William delighted Royal fans during a visit to South East London last week after a spontaneous exchange with a young member of the public produced one of the day's most memorable moments. The Prince of Wales was carrying out a series of engagements before stopping to greet members of the public who had gathered to see him. As William left one venue and prepared to partner this vehicle, a group of enthusiastic and people called out to him from the crowd. Among them was one boy. We shouted, I love you, bro. Rather than simply waving goodbye, the Prince leaned out and reached over to shake the boy's hand.

6:08 Mike Tyndall has revealed that he and Zara are considering a major family cruise holiday with their three children, a trip that has apparently been in the planning stages for quite some time. The former England rugby star shared the details while attending an event at the Other House in South Kensington to promote his Black Eyed Gin brand. Mike said, we've been trying to plan this for ages and we're trying to get dates that we can go do it. I would definitely do it. The conversation arose as Mike discussed cruising holidays with close friend and fellow Formert rugby player James Haskell. Haskell encouraged him to give it a try, saying you've got to try it. I do it, Daddy Daughter Cruise. Mike suggested that public perceptions of cruising may be changing. Cruising gets bracketed into an older generation, which I think has massively changed at the moment. As a total coincidence, the discussions came as Black Eyed Gin expands his partnership with MSc Cruises, with the brand now available across the company's fleet. And there you have it. Hey, all this month we're encouraging listeners of Palace Intrigue. That's you.

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