Aug. 1, 2024

I mean is Kate Middleton really THAT great?

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A review of the new Kate Middleton bio suggests that we're getinng a little carried away paintig Kate as being THAT perfetct.

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A Calaroga Shark Media.

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Hello, and welcome to Palace Intrigue Game. Your host Mark

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Francis The Telegraph liked Robert Jobson's new book as much

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as we imagine Megan likes our podcast or some of

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you like to review our show. The headline the Princess

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of Wales never claimed to be perfect. This biography is ridiculous. Catherine,

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the Princess of Wales by Robert Jobson is grimly fawning,

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embarrassingly written, and devoid of insight into the real woman.

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One star. In the review, Alexander Laman writes, the difficulty

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faced by Robert Jobson's new biography of Catherine, now forty

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two and Princess of Wales is that it must fill

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its three hundred odd pages with an account of a

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life that has been both eventful and strangely airless. Brought

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up in affluent, middle class household and privately educated at

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Marlborough College, met her future husband in two thousand and

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one while the pair was studying at the University of

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Saint Andrew's. The relationship briefly founded but recovered after a

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reconciliation At a party, she arrived dressed as a nurse

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Jobson tells us and William made a bee line for

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her before they became engaged in twenty ten and were

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married in twenty eleven. They have since had three children,

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William has become heir to the throne, and if this

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were a fairy tale, they would be living happily ever after.

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Reality does not quite conformed to such scheme. As the

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Princess of Wales has continued to be one of the

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most discussed and photographed women in the world. She has

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largely avoided controversy, save what has been portrayed as an

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uncomfortable relationship with her sister in law, Meghan, Duchess of Sussex.

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Camp Sussex have leveled accusations, albeit through proxies such as

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the downmarket biographer Ohmered Scoby. That Catherine made Meghan cry

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during preparation for the latter's wedding was generally called and

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aloof before the Sussexes self exiled to America, and even

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in a tortuous development that involved a mysteriously revelatory Dutch

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translation of Scoby's twenty twenty three book nd Game, had

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asked what skin color Harry and Meghan's first child was

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likely to have there has never been much evidence for

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any of this invective or innuendo. Yet Catherine can't possibly

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have as composed a personality as the one we see

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in public. You might recall her rise, smile and sighed

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eye to the now Queen during Harry and Meghan's wedding

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as the American Bishop Michael Curry delivered a histrionic sermon.

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If there are more such human moments to share, Jobson

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doesn't include them here, although he does spend plenty of

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time on the innumerable other occasions that Catherine has been

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in the public eye. Were it not for the events

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of twenty twenty four, Jobson's book would be nothing but

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desperately dull and often comically overwritten hagiography, which portrays Catherine

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as little less than a secular saint who was put

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on this earth to steady the troubled house of Windsor

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and to make a stuffy monarchy appear more compassionate and sensitive.

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Kate's publicist is earning their money With this gem from

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Okay Magazine, quoting a source, It's clear Charlotte feels so

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proud to be Kate Middleton's daughter, and she loves doing

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special things with her mum like attending Wimbledon, she really

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seems to understand how lucky she is to have these

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incredible experiences. Relations between Prince Harry and King Charles have

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deteriorated further amid an increasingly bitter dispute over security arrangements.

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Sources close to King Charles accused Harry of using emotional

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blackmail by suggesting that the King might never meet his

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grandchildren Archie and Lilibet unless security provisions are met. Harry, however,

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maintains that threats to his family's safety are genuine and

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that his intention is to allow his children to know

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their home country without imposing costs on British taxpayers. According

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to The Daily Beast, friends of King Charles have described

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Harry's actions as manipulative, claiming he is leveraging the possibility

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of Charles never seeing his grandchildren to force the King's hand.

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Harry has lost his security case in court and is

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now trying the emotional blackmail route to get what he wants. Instead,

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cynically using the threat of Archie and Lulibet never meeting

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their grandfather again, is attackted to coerce the King into

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over ruling. Rayveck One friend told The Daily Beast thank

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You that Harry's threat of acid or knife attacks are

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exaggerated and being used as a tactic to coerce the King.

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The idea that security forces are going to allow the

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Sussexes to be attacked by an acid throwing or knife

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wielding maniac on British soil is absurd and Harry knows it. Conversely,

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a source close to Harry insists that the security concerns

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are legitimate, citing Harry's lifelong security risks in his military service,

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Prince Harry inherited a security risk at birth for life.

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He remains six in line to the throne, served two

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tours of combat duty in Afghanistan, and in recent years

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his family has been subjected to well documented neo Nazi

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and extremist threats. While his role within the institution has changed,

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his profile as a member of the royal family has not,

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nor has the threat to him and his family. A

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source tells The Mirror the King is absolutely committed to

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being present in all of his grandchildren's lives. He values

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family above everything, and whatever the course of his relationship

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with his son, he would never be content with just

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seeing his grandchildren on the odd video call. An insider

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remarked that the King could potentially overrule the security decision,

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but has chosen not to, possibly to prevent Harry and

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Meghan from establishing a rival royal presence in the UK.

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I think Harry needs to ask himself why Charles has

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an overruled Raveck, which, for all the insistence that he

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couldn't he could, being the King and all, it's because

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the last thing the Palace wants is Harry and Meghan

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turning up unannounced on a regular basis, or setting up

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a rival royal court in the UK. People ran a

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similar story, quoting a friend of Harry's who says he

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gets unavailable right now. His calls go unanswered. He has

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tried to reach out about the King's health, but those

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calls go unanswered to a friend claims the conversation has

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now shifted from frustration to complete silence from the King.

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Charles ferries a repeat of the past. When his wife

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divorced the institution, she took the headlines, overshadowed his work,

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and became a global superstar. Seeing his sodden leave with

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his wife was not part of the plan. Palace intricum

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right back Queen Elizabeth the Second's private secretary, Lord at

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Robert Fellows, who was Princess Diana, his brother in law

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and uncle of Princess Harry and William has died aged

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eighty two. The British courtier was the late monarch's most

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important advisor between nineteen ninety and nineteen nine, during the

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divorces of three of her children and Diana's death. He

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helped the queen through what she dubbed as annas horribilis.

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In nineteen ninety two, when Charles was at war with

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Diana Andrew separated from Sarah and divorced, Windsor Castle went

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up in flames and public opinion turned against the royals.

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Lord Fellows was also forced to deny bizarre claims by

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Harold's owner Muhammad al Fayed that he was involved in

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a conspiracy to murder his son, Dodi and Diana. He

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married Lady Jane Spencer in nineteen seventy eight, the older

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sister of Diana, and they had three children, Alexander, Eleanor

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and Laura, who is Princess Charlotte's godmother. In his later life,

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he remained an extra equerry to Elizabeth I until her

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death in September twenty twenty two, and was played by

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actor Andrew Havell in the Netflix series The Crown. The

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death immediately started a sideshow, with the tablauds wondering if

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Harry will attend the funeral. The Daily Beast wrote, Harry's

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representatives were not immediately able to say whether he would

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attend the funeral of his uncle, for which has not

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been announced. Interestingly, no one even bothered to ask if

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Megan would be attending. Possible reasons include security concerns not

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having a babysitter, although one was presumably available for a

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recent Hampton's trip, or perhaps a recording session for a

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new Lemonade podcast coming out in twenty twenty five. A

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former friend of Harry's told The Daily Beast the death

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will be a huge blow to the Spencer family. In

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normal times, would be unimaginable that Harry would not be

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there to support Jane. Of course he would want to

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be there. It will be a huge gathering of the

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Spencer clan. But these are not normal times, and it

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may well be that everyone fills. Harry's attendance would just

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create too much drama. It would be very sad for him.

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If you can't make it. King Charles appeared cheerful as

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he arrived at force Inard Flows, one of Scotland's natural wonders,

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for a special visit before starting his summer holiday in

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the country. Force and Ard Flows, nestled in the heart

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of Flow Country in force in Oard Sutherland is a

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National nature reserve known for its diverse bog ecosystems. Dressed

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in traditional Highlands tire, including a small dagger touched in

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his sock and a cornflower under the pell of his

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tweed jacket, King Charles and Veildor Plark to mark the

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area's recent designation of Scotland's seventh World Heritage Site and

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the thirty fifth in Britain. With such exciting royal opportunities,

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it's hard to fathom where Megan Michael prefers her montecito

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lifestyle of making two million dollars per podcast episode when

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she could be walking with the bogs. A source tells

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Heat magazine, Harry was watching Wimbled and I was thrilled

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to see Kate looking so radiant. He sent her a

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note to congratulate her and let her know how happy

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he was to see her out. He's just so grateful

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that she's on the mend and able to get back

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to her duties after taking time off Harry and apparently

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remember to add as is Megan Sure, Harry Man. There

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