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Calarogu Shark Media. Hello and welcome to Palace Intrigue. I'm
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your host, Mark Francis. Let's keep an eye on William
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and Kate, as secondary sources had floated some rumors about
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her health. Now gb News reports William and Kate will
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not be joining King Charles and Queen Camilla at events
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marking the eightieth anniversary of Vjday this week. Hopefully this
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is more about their love of frequent vacations than anything
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more serious. In early July, when visiting Colchester Hospital, Kate
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discussed how she's learned to listen to her body. You
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put on a sort of brave face stoicism through treatment.
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Treatment's done, and it's like I can crack on get
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back to normal. But actually the phase afterwards is really
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really difficult. You're not necessarily under the clinical team any longer,
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but you're not able to function normally at home as
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you Perhaps once you and actually someone to help talk
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you through that show you and guide you through that
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sort of phase that comes after treatment, I think is
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really valuable. You have to find your new normal and
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that takes time and it's a roller coaster. It's not
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smooth like you expected to be. Middleton also said, but
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the reality is you go through hard times. The VJA
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Anniversary on Friday will commemorate the end of the Second
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World War in the Pacific and across the globe. King
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Charles will deliver an audio message on Friday morning to
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mark the occasion, before attending a service of remembrance at
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the National Memorial Arboretum alongside Queen Camilla. The service, hosted
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by the Royal British Legion in partnership with the Government,
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will be followed by a reception where the King and
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Queen will meet veterans. Other senior royals, including the Duke
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and Duchess of Edinburgh, will also attend commemorative events while
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the King and Queen lead the national service. The Duke
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and Duchess of Edinburgh will be in Edinburgh for a
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service at the Scottish National War Memorial, where the Duchess
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will meet veteran Jim Wrenn, who was held as a
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prisoner of war in Sumatra. Until the conflicts end. The
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Prince and Princess of Wales are not expected to undertake
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any engagements over the coming days. Prince Andrew once lashed
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out at a member of Royal household staff, calling him
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an effing imbecile for failing to use the Queen Mother's
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full title. According to explosive claims in a new royal biography.
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In Entitle The Rise and Fall of the House of York,
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historian Andrew Lowney paints a stark picture of the Duke
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of York's alleged behavior behind pallace walls. The book, being
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serialized by The Daily Mail, includes an account from two
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thousand and five when Andrew reportedly confronted David Anderson, then
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head of Hillsborough Castle after a storm hit Northern Ireland.
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When Anderson reportedly told the Prince that a tree planted
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by the Queen Mother had been damaged, Andrew was said
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to have gone cold before sneering, did you mean Queen Elizabeth?
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The Queen Mother. Lowney writes that what followed was a
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cutting rebuke and he still don't know the proper way
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to refer to my grandmother, uf ing imbecile get out.
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The Duke's supposed temper wasn't limited to that exchange. According
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to Lowney, Andrew's go to phrase with staff was I
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want this done, and I want this done now do
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it all things considered for Prince Andrew. This story isn't
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all that comparatively bad. Interestingly, just last week, Buckingham Palace
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found itself in an unexpected spot of bother after a
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social media post about King charles appearance that they may
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Highland games contained a subtle but significant error involving royal titles.
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In a post chaired to the King's official account on x,
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the Palace originally wrote, the King has attended the may
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Or my Highland games and Caithness, first established in the
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village of May in nineteen seventy to celebrate the seventieth
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birthday of the Queen Mother, that my games have since
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become an annual tradition. However, eagle eyed royal watchers quickly
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pointed out the misstep. The reference to the Queen Mother
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lacked a full proper title. Charles Grandmother, the wife of
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King George the six, was always officially sty out as
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Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother, a distinction used to avoid
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confusion with her daughter, Queen Elizabeth the Second. The Palace
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swiftly amended the post, correcting the title and preventing a
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minor faux path from turning into a full blown protocol flap,
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and it's not like Charles was pelling around with Jeffrey Epstein.
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Many people would like to tell Megan Mikael to put
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a stick in it well. In the new Instagram Stories
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video shared by the brand, the Duchess of Sussex is
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seen beaming as she carries a tray of elegant pink
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popsicles believed to be made from her own as Ever
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rose in featuring slices of frozen strawberries. The caption accompanying
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the video reads, What's better than the glass of Rose
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on a sunny day? Rosie popsicles? Per chance? Yes, Please,
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and thank you. An insider told Harper's Bizarre as Ever
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sold ten thousand bottles of its twenty twenty four Knapper
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Valley Rose in just the first ten minutes after going
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on sale. Roughly twenty percent of the those purchases came
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from repeat customers, many of whom opted for six or
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twelve bottle packs, signaling growing consumer confidence in the brand.
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The new Rose is the company's second wine release and
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follows several previous sellouts of legally fruit spread, baking mixes
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and floral garnishes earlier this year. For the August launch,
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inventory was increased threefold compared to July, and as Ever
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still managed to sell nearly fifty percent more on launch
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day than the previous month. The brand's spokesperson described the
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project as a journey of joy, learning and evolution, and
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so the company had refined the wine based on customer feedback.
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Nothing is more important than making sure our community can
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get their hands on what they love. They added. No
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word yet on when the next product drop will arrive,
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but Prince Harry's birthday is just around the corner on
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September fifteenth. Not everyone is convinced it will resonate beyond
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US borders. Branding expert Nick Eid has told The Express
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that the Duchess of Sussex may struggle finding traction in
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the UK market, saying I didn't think the UK is
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a focus for the as Ever brand, as it's driven
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by popularity. At the moment, Megan doesn't have the star
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power in the UK that she once had. He added
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that certain items such as flower sprinkles may feel unfamiliar
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to British consumers. There is such a huge choice of
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rose wines in the UK, from Connie Minogue to Lady
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A that another brand just won't drive the volume or
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demand they will need to make it a success. Since
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launching earlier this year, as ever, has only shipped within
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the United States, no announcements have been made regarding international availability. Well,
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we hear a Palace Intrigue. We're intrigued about trying this
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rose and I'll have some personal updates for you next week.
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More palasing, just a moment. So we spent a week
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talking about Andrew instead of Meghan last week, and we
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were rewarded with a bad review on Twitter. Stale and political.
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I used to love the show, but lately it's become stale. Also,
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I don't need to hear political takes about you as politicians.
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If I wanted that, I'd listen to a political pod.
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Two stars. All right, So I want to take a
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moment here to address reviews. Let's start with that one
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stale and political. Well, the show is called Palace Intrigue.
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It's a show about the royals. There aren't that many
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of them. We do talk about the same people every day,
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but we try to bring it to you in an entertaining, fun, informative,
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sometimes snarky kind of way. But the show is what
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it is. As for politics, we never talked about US politics,
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unless Donald Trump wants to have a little meet and
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greet with Charles. But there's no politics here. It's a
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politics free zone. So one problem with these reviews is
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that there is no rebuttal. There is no chance to
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address the issue in written form except here in audio form,
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and I'm I'm not going to spend time addressing reviews
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in every show now. I don't like bad reviews, not
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because they're bad, but because they're usually ninety percent off point.
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I love good constructive criticism, and when you do that,
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it's great. But let me address bad reviews. We have
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four main types of bad reviews here at Pallace Intrigue.
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Number one, you talk too much about Megan and Harry.
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We do talk about Harry and Meghan a lot. You
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know why, because they're the most interesting, the most polarizing,
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the most fun to make fun of and talk about.
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The rest of the family gets a great amount of respect,
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and as a Commonwealth citizen, they are very much part
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of my upbringing. But there's only so much we can
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talk about Camilla's trip to open a Marx and Spencer.
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Second reason for bad reviews you play too many commercials.
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It's the nature of the beast. Unfortunately, this is a
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business for us, not a hobby, and we have to
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make money to keep the operation going. You can always
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avoid all the commercials by supporting us for five dollars
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a month and get everything commercial free, including our new
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series Crown and Controversy before everyone else. And we really
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appreciate it when you do support us here behind the show,
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but don't leave reviews saying there's too many commercials. It's
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the same with every podcast. Number three. You call Catherine
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and Kate, and I've addressed this before, but this is
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a US based podcast, and she is very affectionately referred
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to as Kate here. It's not any disrespect to her title,
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but we'll stick with Kate. When you see People magazine
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it says Kate is going on vacation, not Catherine. And
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the worst reviews are the ones like I don't like
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this show, it's too political and stale. Who wants to
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listen to this drivel? Listen. You can't go into a
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Greek restaurant and say this place sucks because you don't
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like Greek food. The show is what it is. We
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have a nice, large audience every day who seem to
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agree and we love you for that. So if you
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don't like the show, just don't listen, don't need to
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review and say you suck anyway. Next couple of weeks
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we'll have some new Facebook and Instagram pages up heah
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our very twenty ten of us where you can interact, converse,
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review all you want. It's up now, but we'll build
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it out more over the next couple of weeks, So
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thank you for those nice reviews. Moving on, the Royals
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really like vacationing on secret Saudi super yachts. This time
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it's not the oft vacationing Prince William, but rather his stepmother,
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Queen Camilla, has been spotted enjoying a summer cruise through
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some of Greece's most exclusive destinations aboard the thirty million
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pound super yacht Zenobia, owned by billionaire Syrian Saudi businessman
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Wafique Sad. Mister Sad, a longtime friend of the Parker
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Bowls family, is a former Conservative Party donor and was
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closely linked to the nineteen eighties aur Yamama arms deal
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between Saudi Arabia and the UK. He was not on
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board during the Queen's holiday, and there is no suggestion
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of wrongdoing. However, the site of the monarch's wife holiday
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on a vessel belonging to a political donor has prompted
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questions about public perception given the royal family's duty to
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remain strictly neutral. Former Minister Norman Baker said members of
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the royal family really ought to consider the public perception
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of such episodes. They are representing the country at all times.
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Let's be honest. It's not as if they are short
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of cash. The Zenobia, registered in Monaco, features six guest cabins,
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accommodation for thirteen crew, and facilities including a cinema, library
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and outdoor dining area. Mister Sad said he had been
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friends with Camilla and her family for over forty years
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and that offering his yacht to close friends was natural.
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When not in use, The King was not with the
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Queen on the trip, attending the my Highland Games in
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Scotland instead. In the Royalist newsletter, Tom Sykes writes, if
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Queen Elizabeth I were still with us, one suspects she
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would be surveying photographs published this weekend of her daughter
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in Laura bought a billionaire Tory donors thirty eight million
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dollars super yacht in the Aegean with an expression of
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flinted disapproval. The late monarch prided herself on never taking
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a being from anyone, never accepting freebies, and considered a
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summer holiday to mean Scotland, not Santorini. She believed to
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her bones the Charles taste for grandeur sent the wrong message.
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And yet, as a remarkable scoop by The Mirror revealed,
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here is Queen Camilla wafting from one of Greece's most
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exclusive bays to another on a Monaco registered floating palace
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in full view of the world during a cost of
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living crisis, on the dime of one of the Conservative
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Party's most lavish benefactors. And there you have it. If
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