Is Kate OK? Royals Skipping VJ Day PLUS Meghan’s Rosé Popsicles, and Camilla’s Superyacht Holiday

0:02 Calarogu Shark Media. Hello and welcome to Palace Intrigue. I'm your host, Mark Francis. Let's keep an eye on William and Kate, as secondary sources had floated some rumors about her health. Now gb News reports William and Kate will not be joining King Charles and Queen Camilla at events marking the eightieth anniversary of Vjday this week. Hopefully this is more about their love of frequent vacations than anything more serious. In early July, when visiting Colchester Hospital, Kate discussed how she's learned to listen to her body. You put on a sort of brave face stoicism through treatment.

0:46 Treatment's done, and it's like I can crack on get back to normal. But actually the phase afterwards is really really difficult. You're not necessarily under the clinical team any longer, but you're not able to function normally at home as you Perhaps once you and actually someone to help talk you through that show you and guide you through that sort of phase that comes after treatment, I think is really valuable. You have to find your new normal and that takes time and it's a roller coaster. It's not smooth like you expected to be. Middleton also said, but the reality is you go through hard times. The VJA Anniversary on Friday will commemorate the end of the Second World War in the Pacific and across the globe. King Charles will deliver an audio message on Friday morning to mark the occasion, before attending a service of remembrance at the National Memorial Arboretum alongside Queen Camilla. The service, hosted by the Royal British Legion in partnership with the Government, will be followed by a reception where the King and Queen will meet veterans. Other senior royals, including the Duke and Duchess of Edinburgh, will also attend commemorative events while the King and Queen lead the national service. The Duke and Duchess of Edinburgh will be in Edinburgh for a service at the Scottish National War Memorial, where the Duchess will meet veteran Jim Wrenn, who was held as a prisoner of war in Sumatra. Until the conflicts end. The Prince and Princess of Wales are not expected to undertake any engagements over the coming days. Prince Andrew once lashed out at a member of Royal household staff, calling him

2:17 an effing imbecile for failing to use the Queen Mother's full title. According to explosive claims in a new royal biography. In Entitle The Rise and Fall of the House of York, historian Andrew Lowney paints a stark picture of the Duke of York's alleged behavior behind pallace walls. The book, being serialized by The Daily Mail, includes an account from two thousand and five when Andrew reportedly confronted David Anderson, then head of Hillsborough Castle after a storm hit Northern Ireland. When Anderson reportedly told the Prince that a tree planted by the Queen Mother had been damaged, Andrew was said to have gone cold before sneering, did you mean Queen Elizabeth? The Queen Mother. Lowney writes that what followed was a cutting rebuke and he still don't know the proper way to refer to my grandmother, uf ing imbecile get out.

3:06 The Duke's supposed temper wasn't limited to that exchange. According to Lowney, Andrew's go to phrase with staff was I want this done, and I want this done now do it all things considered for Prince Andrew. This story isn't all that comparatively bad. Interestingly, just last week, Buckingham Palace found itself in an unexpected spot of bother after a social media post about King charles appearance that they may Highland games contained a subtle but significant error involving royal titles. In a post chaired to the King's official account on x, the Palace originally wrote, the King has attended the may Or my Highland games and Caithness, first established in the village of May in nineteen seventy to celebrate the seventieth birthday of the Queen Mother, that my games have since become an annual tradition. However, eagle eyed royal watchers quickly pointed out the misstep. The reference to the Queen Mother lacked a full proper title. Charles Grandmother, the wife of King George the six, was always officially sty out as Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother, a distinction used to avoid confusion with her daughter, Queen Elizabeth the Second. The Palace swiftly amended the post, correcting the title and preventing a minor faux path from turning into a full blown protocol flap, and it's not like Charles was pelling around with Jeffrey Epstein.

4:21 Many people would like to tell Megan Mikael to put a stick in it well. In the new Instagram Stories video shared by the brand, the Duchess of Sussex is seen beaming as she carries a tray of elegant pink popsicles believed to be made from her own as Ever rose in featuring slices of frozen strawberries. The caption accompanying the video reads, What's better than the glass of Rose on a sunny day? Rosie popsicles? Per chance? Yes, Please, and thank you. An insider told Harper's Bizarre as Ever sold ten thousand bottles of its twenty twenty four Knapper Valley Rose in just the first ten minutes after going on sale. Roughly twenty percent of the those purchases came from repeat customers, many of whom opted for six or twelve bottle packs, signaling growing consumer confidence in the brand.

5:09 The new Rose is the company's second wine release and follows several previous sellouts of legally fruit spread, baking mixes and floral garnishes earlier this year. For the August launch, inventory was increased threefold compared to July, and as Ever still managed to sell nearly fifty percent more on launch day than the previous month. The brand's spokesperson described the project as a journey of joy, learning and evolution, and so the company had refined the wine based on customer feedback. Nothing is more important than making sure our community can get their hands on what they love. They added. No word yet on when the next product drop will arrive, but Prince Harry's birthday is just around the corner on September fifteenth. Not everyone is convinced it will resonate beyond US borders. Branding expert Nick Eid has told The Express that the Duchess of Sussex may struggle finding traction in the UK market, saying I didn't think the UK is a focus for the as Ever brand, as it's driven by popularity. At the moment, Megan doesn't have the star power in the UK that she once had. He added that certain items such as flower sprinkles may feel unfamiliar to British consumers. There is such a huge choice of rose wines in the UK, from Connie Minogue to Lady A that another brand just won't drive the volume or demand they will need to make it a success. Since launching earlier this year, as ever, has only shipped within the United States, no announcements have been made regarding international availability. Well, we hear a Palace Intrigue. We're intrigued about trying this rose and I'll have some personal updates for you next week.

6:40 More palasing, just a moment. So we spent a week talking about Andrew instead of Meghan last week, and we were rewarded with a bad review on Twitter. Stale and political. I used to love the show, but lately it's become stale. Also, I don't need to hear political takes about you as politicians. If I wanted that, I'd listen to a political pod. Two stars. All right, So I want to take a moment here to address reviews. Let's start with that one stale and political. Well, the show is called Palace Intrigue. It's a show about the royals. There aren't that many of them. We do talk about the same people every day, but we try to bring it to you in an entertaining, fun, informative, sometimes snarky kind of way. But the show is what it is. As for politics, we never talked about US politics, unless Donald Trump wants to have a little meet and greet with Charles. But there's no politics here. It's a politics free zone. So one problem with these reviews is that there is no rebuttal. There is no chance to address the issue in written form except here in audio form, and I'm I'm not going to spend time addressing reviews in every show now. I don't like bad reviews, not because they're bad, but because they're usually ninety percent off point.

7:55 I love good constructive criticism, and when you do that, it's great. But let me address bad reviews. We have four main types of bad reviews here at Pallace Intrigue. Number one, you talk too much about Megan and Harry. We do talk about Harry and Meghan a lot. You know why, because they're the most interesting, the most polarizing, the most fun to make fun of and talk about. The rest of the family gets a great amount of respect, and as a Commonwealth citizen, they are very much part of my upbringing. But there's only so much we can talk about Camilla's trip to open a Marx and Spencer. Second reason for bad reviews you play too many commercials. It's the nature of the beast. Unfortunately, this is a business for us, not a hobby, and we have to make money to keep the operation going. You can always avoid all the commercials by supporting us for five dollars a month and get everything commercial free, including our new series Crown and Controversy before everyone else. And we really appreciate it when you do support us here behind the show, but don't leave reviews saying there's too many commercials. It's the same with every podcast. Number three. You call Catherine and Kate, and I've addressed this before, but this is a US based podcast, and she is very affectionately referred to as Kate here. It's not any disrespect to her title, but we'll stick with Kate. When you see People magazine it says Kate is going on vacation, not Catherine. And the worst reviews are the ones like I don't like this show, it's too political and stale. Who wants to listen to this drivel? Listen. You can't go into a

9:26 Greek restaurant and say this place sucks because you don't like Greek food. The show is what it is. We have a nice, large audience every day who seem to agree and we love you for that. So if you don't like the show, just don't listen, don't need to review and say you suck anyway. Next couple of weeks we'll have some new Facebook and Instagram pages up heah our very twenty ten of us where you can interact, converse, review all you want. It's up now, but we'll build it out more over the next couple of weeks, So thank you for those nice reviews. Moving on, the Royals really like vacationing on secret Saudi super yachts. This time it's not the oft vacationing Prince William, but rather his stepmother, Queen Camilla, has been spotted enjoying a summer cruise through some of Greece's most exclusive destinations aboard the thirty million pound super yacht Zenobia, owned by billionaire Syrian Saudi businessman Wafique Sad. Mister Sad, a longtime friend of the Parker Bowls family, is a former Conservative Party donor and was closely linked to the nineteen eighties aur Yamama arms deal between Saudi Arabia and the UK. He was not on board during the Queen's holiday, and there is no suggestion of wrongdoing. However, the site of the monarch's wife holiday on a vessel belonging to a political donor has prompted questions about public perception given the royal family's duty to remain strictly neutral. Former Minister Norman Baker said members of the royal family really ought to consider the public perception of such episodes. They are representing the country at all times.

10:55 Let's be honest. It's not as if they are short of cash. The Zenobia, registered in Monaco, features six guest cabins, accommodation for thirteen crew, and facilities including a cinema, library and outdoor dining area. Mister Sad said he had been friends with Camilla and her family for over forty years and that offering his yacht to close friends was natural. When not in use, The King was not with the Queen on the trip, attending the my Highland Games in Scotland instead. In the Royalist newsletter, Tom Sykes writes, if Queen Elizabeth I were still with us, one suspects she would be surveying photographs published this weekend of her daughter in Laura bought a billionaire Tory donors thirty eight million dollars super yacht in the Aegean with an expression of flinted disapproval. The late monarch prided herself on never taking a being from anyone, never accepting freebies, and considered a summer holiday to mean Scotland, not Santorini. She believed to her bones the Charles taste for grandeur sent the wrong message.

11:51 And yet, as a remarkable scoop by The Mirror revealed, here is Queen Camilla wafting from one of Greece's most exclusive bays to another on a Monaco registered floating palace in full view of the world during a cost of living crisis, on the dime of one of the Conservative Party's most lavish benefactors. And there you have it. If you'd like to email us or addresses the Palace Intrigue at a gmail dot com, please follow us on Spotify or Apple or the app of your choice, and check us out on Facebook Now search for Palace Intrigue and leave us a nice review. Chewing the show. I'm Francis my thanks to you, John McDermott. This is Palace Intrigue and good terms