John Travolta Snubs Prince Harry, and Meghan Faces More Scrutiny

0:03 Caloroga Shark Media. Hello and welgome through palace intrigue. I am your host, Mark Francis. Prince Harry is reportedly reeling from what inside as are calling a deeply personal snub by actor John Travolter, a blow that underscores the Duke and Duchess of Sussex increasingly strained standing in Hollywood's In a Circle. The pair, once seen as rising stars in celebrity society, are said to be nursing wounded pride after Travolter, long admired by Harry, not least for his famous nineteen eighty five dance with Princess Diana, appeared to distance himself from the couple. Travolta and Harry had struck up a warm friendship in recent years, culminating in Harry's twenty twenty three induction as a Living Legend of Aviation, an honor Travolter personally presented, but the dynamic shifted when Travolter began publicly praising actor Britney Spears.

0:56 Ex sam Ashgari on social media confused by that, but it seems that Harry felt left out and that Travolter is ignoring him so if you're listening now and on Instagram, be sure to tag Harry on all your mentions. However, recently, Harry feels like Dravolter is ignoring him, and his fears came true when he dropped the Instagram post with Britney Spears ex Sam and Inside had said that Harry doesn't have an issue with Sam personally, it just made it painfully clear that John still makes time for others, just not for him anymore. According to sources cited by Radar Online, Harry felt sidelined, reportedly telling a friend it feels like yet another opportunity has been taken away someone I genuinely relied on. Attempts by Harry to reconnect have gone unanswered, with one insider bluntly declaring the friendship is dead. Sources add Harry's deeply suspicious that William is turning people against him, and this only fuels that anxiety he's been saying. He wants to call John directly and ask him to be honest about what's really going on. Meghan is also said to be disappointed. Travolta had been seen as a potential ally for the couple's brand, especially as Meghan prepares to grow her lifestyle label as ever, but with Travolta keeping distance and only a handful of celebrities backing the couple publicly, the Sussex's A list circle appears to be narrowing. Adding to Harry's unease is a belief that his brother, Prince William may be quietly influencing these shifting loyalties. Harry's deeply suspicious that William is turning people against him, said a source.

2:17 It's fueling is anxiety. As their Hollywood alliance is cool, the Sussex's may be facing the hard truth of fame in Los Angeles. Loyalty isn't guaranteed, even if your mother once danced with Danny Zuko. Meghan might want to put out a podcast or release more fruit Speak because the tabloids need something to write about and another overblown story. Prince Harry is totally whipped by Meghan Markle and King Charles knows it. According to royal commentator es to crack You. Speaking to The suncrag You claimed it's well known in royal circles of the Duke of Sussex's firmly under his wife's influence. She said, we know that King Charles said something about him being whipped. Fresh revelations from Royal biographer Sally Bedell Smith have ignited a storm of controversy, with claim Queen Elizabeth the Second harbored serious doubts about Meghan Margle long before the Sussex's stepped back from royal duties.

3:07 Speaking on The Son's Royal Exclusive show, Royal commentator Phil Dampier described the allegations as dynamite, suggesting they confirm long held suspicions that Meghan viewed Prince Harry as a stepping stone rather than a life partner. Dampier emphasized the credibility of Biddell Smith's account, noting her close ties to Lady Elizabeth Anson, a cousin and confidante of the Queen. According to beddel Smith's substack feature Royal's Extra Lady Elizabeth relayed that the Queen once remarked Harry was possibly besotted and a bit weak, and feared he was being manipulated. The Queen had initially welcomed Meghan warmly, but that enthusiasm reportedly gave way to concern and disappointment. Harry has blown his relationship with his grandmother Lady Elizabeth said, reflecting on what she saw as a growing rift. The late Queen was said to be especially unsettled by Meghan's behavior in the lead up to the couple's twenty eighteen wedding, including a reported refusal to disclose details of her dress and a last minute request to have the Archbishop of Canterbury officiate by passing royal protocol and the authority of the Dean of Windsor. These are not trivial matters in palace circles, said Dampia, adding to have this confirmed by someone so close to the Queen as really dynamite. Fellow commentator Esther Craguwe agreed, pointing to a recurring pattern in the allegations surrounding Meghan. She noted that while Meghan was embraced by much of the public and the palace early on, cultural and class differences may have played a role in the eventual fallout. I think in some ways Meghan thought she was marrying a billionaire that was marrying a millionaire with like sort of.

4:34 A reduced status. Lady Elizabeth, who died in twenty twenty, reportedly told Buddel Smith that Meghan had been not bad in the early days, but had grown increasingly difficult and demanding, even allegedly earning the nickname me Gain among Pallace staff. She sees things in a different way, Lady Elizabeth said in twenty eighteen, foreshadowing the couple's eventual break with the firm. By twenty nineteen, her tone had hardened further. I don't trust Megan an Inch. The biographer also record how tensions between the brothers had become a matter of quiet concern inside the Palace. The wedge between the. Brothers is really too bad, Lady. Elizabeth lamented, more Palace in just a moment. Our new spinoff series Crown and Our new spin off series, Crown and Controversy kicks off tomorrow with season one taking a look at the courtship of William and Kate. There will be new episodes every Sunday on its own feed, So follow Crown and Controversy on your podcast app, and if you'd like to listen to the entire season right now and commercial free, just become a premium subscriber to Caloroga Plus for just five bucks a month. You'll get this show, Palace Intrigue without ads. Ground and Controversy's full season available ad free right now, and over twenty five other series on our network, which is thousands of shows, all without ads or feed drops. So if you're an Apple podcast, just could come that banner up. There is uninterrupted listening and you can get thirty days free. So for other podcast apps, just go to Calaroga dot com slash plus

6:07 the linkers in the show notes and you can do this on any player, any app, any device. Crown and Controversy launches tomorrow. We'll see you there. From time to time, we like to see what the other royal houses are up to. In Sweden, elite bodyguards are facing a wave of scrutiny, and not from foreign spies but from their own fitness trackers. According to a Swedish newspaper, members of the country's security services uploaded more than fourteen hundred workouts to the popular Strava app between twenty fifteen and July twenty twenty five, among them roughly seventy logs connected to King Carl the sixteenth gustav and Queen Sylvia revealing the locations of their secret holidays, including a private island in the Seychelles, the mountain village of Storlion and most recently a luxury villa on the French Riviera visited in June.

6:55 The data was so precise that their movements could have been tracked in real time. The hotel was confirmed the royals had indeed stayed at the listed properties. They also stressed that they were bound by confidentiality and could not comment further. The security breach raises serious questions about operational protocols and how seemingly mundane digital habits composed very real risks to national figures. Meanwhile, Queen Maxima and the Dutch royal family are facing a deeply troubling mystery as one of their most trusted staff members, Carlos and Capeachin, has now been missing for every month in the rugged wilderness of Patagonia, and Capinchin had been a devoted caretaker of the royal family's residents in Villa La Angustura, Argentina, home close to Queen Maxima's heart given her Argentine roots, known and respected in the local community, he was lasting in June thirteenth after crossing into Chile to visit family and inspect construction sites. His disappearance has since sparked a wide scale search involving local police via fighters in the army, but with no trace of the man himself. Authorities discovered and Capitchin's truck abandoned in a remote wooded area, observed and containing clothing, boots, and tools. Police believe it's unlikely he disappeared voluntarily, as he left behind his belongings and made no farewells to his family. As the search entered its fifth week with no new leads, questions remained unanswered, and after decades of legal wrangling and public controversy, Germany has reached a landmark settlement with the House of hohen Zolen, descendence of the country's last Emperor, Wilhelm the Second. The agreement,

8:27 signed in June twenty twenty five, ends the royal family's long and often contentious effort to reclaim properties and millions in compensation for the palaces and possessions lost after World War II. George Frederick, Prince of Prussia, withdrew those financial claims in twenty twenty three, clearing the way for negotiations. Now, a new nonprofit, the hohen Zolen Art Foundation, will manage around three thousand cultural objects from furniture and silverware to artworks, most of which will remain on public display in major German museums, including the German Historical Museum and the Prussian Palaces and Gardens Foundation. The resolution also closes the book on whether the family deserved restitution at all, a debate driven by Crown Prince wilhelms documented ties to the Nazi regime.

9:11 The historians remain divided on whether his support was significant. The law barred at restitution for Nazi collaborators, one reason the case dragged on for years. In the end, it's the public who benefits. Germany keeps its cultural treasures and the owen Zoln's get a carefully curated legacy minus the lawsuits. And there I haven't like to email us that addresses the Palace Intrigue at gmail dot com. Please follow us on Spotify, Apple or the app of your choice and leave us a nice rebus. You're joining the show and Mark Francis thanks to John McDermott. This is Palace Intrigue and good terms. The following is a paid presentation of the Happiness Experiment.

9:52 Our sister, I'm going to bring forward and yours and give it to you now. And he said, oh wow, that's great, thank you, that's so general. So you, Carl, that's great. But his wife, my sister in law, went ballistic. She said, this is too much money, this is wrong. I don't want anything to do with and stormed out of the room. And I thought, well, that's not what I expected. Oh my god. So I realized from that that this was not an easy thing to do. So I learned a lesson from that, and I knew that I had to do this authentically. I had to do it right, otherwise it was not going to work. So that happened. And then the third thing that happened was that I was looking at my financial statements and I had more money there than I was really using.

10:38 It was sitting there. I mean, it was growing, making profits and so forth, but it wasn't being used. I wasn't using it for me. I wasn't using it for things that I really cared about, not for my people. So I thought, well, if I have all this money now, why should I wait until I die? Why don't I bring it forward? And then it was a long process for me to come around to that, but that's what finally started this, and I said, well I'll do it now. Let's back up just a bit. Tell us a little bit about your new book. What is the Happiness Experiment. Well, this is a recording of the real events with real people who I decided that I would bring forward the inheritance the money I had for them in my will and made it a prequest. So it was a chunk of money that they were going to get while they were still young enough to enjoy it. And I was still alive to see it happening. So I saw what they were doing. So when I sat down with them, I talked about money and happiness and how one can magnect.

11:36 And I said, look, I'm going to bring this forward to give it to you, but what I want from you is a plan so you use this money, so it's really a big benefit for you. I don't want this to overwhelm you. And they said what kind of plan? I said, I want a happiness plan, and they said, a happiness plan? What's that? So, you know, nobody has seems to have a happiness plan, but it's one of the most important plans you can get, and it doesn't have to be very complex. What is it that makes you happy? What values do you want to pursue? You know, what goals and dreams do you have and you can pursue them? And so I got them to write a happiness plan. And then when I saw the plan, I gave them all the money all at one time, and so then they took it and I watched them with their plan. I saw all their plans, what they did, and how they became happier, and so you know, that had to be written about so because I wanted other people to see what they did so they too could do the same thing.

12:31 Which prequest is the most unique one you've come across. Well, it was a very very painful and sad story because two dear friends of mine had a beloved daughter and she was hit head on by a drunk driver and killed. She happened to be eight months pregnant at the time, so that killed the granddaughter too, and. Also their daughter. They were totally totally wiped out stated and they died emotionally. They had decided that they could never be happy again. They would be wrong to be happy. They didn't deserve to be happy because their darling daughter had been killed.

13:11 Tremendously painful, awful, awful story. So they were grieving six years later, and I met with them, and I told them how much they had added to my life and how much I was so grateful to them, and that I wanted to express the gratitude and I put them in my will and they could accept that. And I said, but I want you to have it now, and they said, oh no, no, we can't accept it. They turned it down. They turned it down. Well, we worked, and I said, look, I'm leaving it open. So several months later, I think his wife persuaded him to do it. Actually, you know, and you know, so they said, okay, we'll do it, because I say, we're. Going to wait until you die, why not do it now? And they did it. And it wasn't the money interesting life, they said, it was the coaching that made the big difference, that changed their mind their mindset from being so negative. You know, we'll never be happy again. We don't deserve to be happy.

14:04 And the coach turned there thinking that mindset around and said, look, you know it can be you can be happy again. And they started to get the mindset of happy people. And now you cannot believe what these people. They're traveling all over the world. They're in Tahiti right now. They climbed Killimungarrett. These people are loving life and it was a major change. That is one of the most heartfelt, wonderful results of the And in a sense she said, the wife said, this prequest changed or saved my life because we were no longer living, we were dead, and this brought us back to life. Yeah, I mean dealing with grief and many of us have I have. You know, when you're in those depths, it's really it could be really difficult to find your way out of it, and you know, often it looks like there isn't a way out of it, and you know, sometimes you want to map right, and it looks like this concept could be a good map for you if you're that It sounds like it was for these folks.

15:03 I always like to interviews by asking is there anything that I didn't ask that I should have? How can my listeners benefit from this book? What should they do? What would be good for them? And so I'll answer that question. First off, think about happiness. Think about being happiness. Do you you deserve to be happy? And you can be happy, but you have to make it as a choice. I'm going to increase my happiness just that if you make that realistically. I want to and I'm going to increase my happiness that choice, and then talk to people about it. Talk to a husband or wife, or a girlfriend or a friend, a therapist or coach, talk to somebody about it and say, look, I'm made the decision that i want to be happier, and I'm like you to help me create a happiness plan and then.

15:54 Work on it. And it's not that hard, but it is. It is challenging, but it's a wonderful exercise and if they do it, I guarantee they will increase their happiness. I guarantee it. Carl Barney is the author and the book is called The Happiness Experiment, A Revolutionary Way to Increase Happiness. Carl, where could people find the book? Wherever books are sold? And it's now available for pre order from Amazon, and they can go to the Happiness Experiment dot com and they can pre order it there, and I hope they will. Carl, thanks so much of the time. I really appreciate it. Yeah, thank you, Dan, It's been fun