Kate buys some pints. Do the British viewing public have internalised racism that they're not even aware of?

0:03 Calorogu shark media at Hello and welcome through palace intrigue. I'm your host, Mark Francis. Colonel Kate was back on parade yesterday, raising a half pint of guinness to celebrate Saint Patrick's Day with the Irish Guards. The Princess of Wales, looking absolutely gorgeous in green Alexander McQueen, made her triumphant return to the annual celebration after missing last year due to her cancer treatment. Princess Kate had a generous even put money behind the bar for the troops, telling them it's the least I can do. She beamed as she inspected the regiment, pinned traditional shamrocks beneath her gold Cartier brooch, and even presented one to Turlough Moore, the Irish wolfhound mascot who serves as the regiment's most adorable soldier. During candid chats with the guardsman, Kate revealed she's been keen to take her children down under. George finds it fascinating that he has been to Australia and New Zealand. She told an Australian reservist, I would like to go back there with them now. Little Prince George, now eleven, was just nine months old during his parents twenty fourteen tour.

1:11 While no joint trips have been announced yet, we're all hoping to see the Wales family on a royal tour soon. In a delightful moment of Royal Bartal Gossip, Kate commented on her husband's newly grow and facial hair during conversations with officers. These trends come and go, she said. I was saying to my husband, I'm not sure how long he's going to keep his for a beard sporting William. Royal fashion watchers are divided, but the Prince of Wales can certainly pull off the rugged look. Eagle eyed Royal fans have noticed that Princess Catherine has been switching up her jewelry lately, often leaving her iconic sapphire engagement ring at home. The stunning twelve carrot oval salon blue sapphire, once worn by the late Princess Diana, has been replaced during recent engagements with what appears to be a more subtle eternity band featuring sapphires and diamonds. Social media was a buzz with speculation after the Wales appearance in Cardiff for the Six Nations rugby match. The Princess of Wales seems to be alternating between her engagement ring and this new one, which is most likely a gift from Prince William, wrote one royal watcher on x Experts suggest the change might be purely practical. Maxwell Stone of Stephenstone Jewelers noted, unlike Kate's twelve carrot engagement ring, which she typically removes during physical activities, sports, or any situation where there's an increased risk of damage or ross, this ring is more practical for daily wear. Some have romantically suggested the new piece might even be a University Day's promise ring from William,

2:42 making a sentimental reappearance. Whatever the reason, both rings are certainly beautiful symbols of the Wales rock stolid marriage rugby royalty. Prince William and Princess Catherine have revealed that their sons are following in their sporty footsteps, with both Prince George and Little Prince Louis embracing rugby on the week. During Saturday's visit to Cardiff for the Wales versus Scotland match, the couple shared details of their family's sporting schedule at weekends. We go from one competition to the next with him, told players, while Kate added Louis is six and he's just started touch rugby, and George's eleven and he plays it a bit more. They do really enjoy it. This isn't the first time the princess has commented on young Louie's enthusiastic approach to sports. Back in twenty twenty two, she memorably described her youngest as Kamakazi, adding we're worrying about when he gets older. He'll be in the middle of everything. With Louis already established a reputation for stealing the show at Royal events, we can only imagine the energy he brings to the rugby pitch. The Wales children come by their sporting passion. Honestly, Rugby has long been a fixture in the Middleton household, with Kate's sister Pepper once revealing to Vanity Fair that international matches were the focal point of family weekends. We'd plan our weekends around the big matches, she said, adding that their father would be in a state of despair for the rest of the afternoon if their favored team last. Meanwhile, nine year old Princess Charlotte purportedly prefers gymnastics with her mother, once sharing that she spends most of her time upside down

4:12 doing handstands. Cart Wills family of athletes in the making. Could Prince William be adding another important title to his resume. Royal watchers are speculating that the Prince of Wales might soon become godfather after his close friend Hugh Grovner, the Duke of Westminster, announced he and his wife Olivia Henson, are expecting their first child this summer. The friendship between William and Hugh run steep, with the Prince serving as an usher at Hugh's wedding in Cheshire last year, and the Duke is already godfather to eleven year old Prince George, continuing a close into family connection that spans generations. King Charles is Who's godfather as well. But here's where things get interesting. Prince Harry is also close with the Duke, who serves as godfather to five year old Prince Archie.

4:54 This creates the intriguing possibility that both royal brothers could be in the running for the prestigious god parent roll. The potential godfather decision comes at a time when the royal brothers remain estranged. Have you not seen each other in public since their grandmother's funeral. While William attended the Westminster wedding last year, Harry was notably absent. Despite his own friendship with the Duke. The Duke and Duchess of Westminster announced their happy news on Wednesday with a simple statement, The Duke and Duchess of Westminster are very pleased to share that the Duchess is expecting a baby in the summer. The couple are delighted with the news and are very much looking forward to starting a family together. We'll be watching closely to see which royal if either, receives the Godfather nod when Baby Westminster arrives this summer. More palacing just a moment. In Slate, Nadeira Goff writes about Meghan's new TV show, the food looks good, and I'm sure it is. For the most part. It's relatively simple. One pan pasta, ditches for tatas crude tay platters, take a drink every time she makes or mentions crude Tay, and prepare to have your stomach pumped. And ways to cutesy up roots simple sandwiches, charcuterie, and more. Over All, the show is calming and esthetically pleasing, but it's also completely irolling.

6:08 Meganan says, so I'm making microwave popcorn with a dried cob of corn and a brown paper bag instead of you know, microwave popcorn. Shortly after, because apparently we've used all our energy making bath salts and not so easy popcorn, Megan dumps some Trader Joe's peanut butter pretzels. The name is covered, but I'd know that blue and white packaging anywhere, straight from the bag into another plastic bag, only one adorned with a handwritten label. In a later episode, she notes that dehydrating fruit slices is a great way to fancy up a meal or cocktail. But when I expected her to roast them and low in the oven for hours, she used a dehydrator. This is great advice for everyone I know with a dehydrator, which means it's great advice for no one that I know. Underlying all this fantasy is wealth. These simple hosting tricks are achievable only for someone who has a certain amount of money, time, or both.

6:56 Everything is presented as artisanal as boutique as shoppy. You could imagine it staged perfectly and various aesthetically pleasing wire bale glass jars. Even the essential oils for the candle making are pre decanted into dark amber glass dropper bottles. Seriously, production has to have spent hundreds of dollars on just glass containers for the things. I have never felt more isolated from someone on screen than in the last episode when Meghan shows off to waters her bounty of eggs produced by Meghan's own chickens. That's at least twenty dollars worth of eggs with deep orange yolks. She's marveling at. Still the real luxury present here is time when you are mother of two children without a real job, and you can afford full time child care and help. Of course, you have time to make rainbows out of fruit for your kids in the morning, to press dried flowers into everything, and to make crapes because they feel more special than a pancake. Comedian Katherine Ryan discussed Meghan on her podcast, telling Everybody Everything, saying she is very Hollywood, even for me, and I don't like that. In people, I liked Meghan Markele I was rooting for Megan Markles several things true at once. I think a lot of the British viewing public do have internalized racism that they're not even aware of.

8:06 This is a very racistly structured country. I mean, colonialism is the most racist thing ever. We have a royal family in a palace, we speak about working class. We don't even have words like that in Canada. There is an unconscious bias in this country and in most countries really that a lot of people don't even realize they have. When she says, oh, I feel that I was victimized by institutionalized racism, then you have to believe her like that is her experience. And it's really weird for white people to say, no, you weren't. We're not racist, we just don't like you. It must feel incredibly gaslighting as a woman of mixed ethnicity to be told no, it's not racism, you're wrong. Yes, of course, So I think this country does have institutionalized racism, yes, and unconscious bias yes, not every single person, but a great many. Yes. And to be someone with a mother who's black entering the royal family, I'm sure they had some feelings about that because that's the royal family. Addition to that, though, she is very Hollywood, even for me, and I don't like that in people I see now. And maybe it's just the projects she's choosing, it does feel like she has lied about whether she knew who Prince Harry was, and these details about her childhood change and don't add up.

9:14 Like she said on her new Netflix show that they ate TV dinners growing up, but then in an old interview she was like, we would eat farm fresh, you know, just little things. Her whole act seems very manicured and very forced, and I was rooting for her. So I think I've known a lot of Hollywood people. They're not bad people. I certainly don't think she's a bad person, but I think she likes cozying up to the celebrities, and she wants the one million dollar deal or ten hundred million dollar deal anyone would, and she likes the fact that she's married to a prince, like of course. But I would rather someone lean into that and be like, oh my god, look I used to be on suits and now I'm married to a neving prince. I would rather that than this act of oh, I'm just so humble So Netflix continues to try and make Meghan Sussex formerly Meghan Markel and technically Megan mount Baton happen with her latest peak behind the Royal Adjacent Curtain titled with Love Comma Megan. Like, who knows what Netflix are doing?

10:09 They are smart, people are tuned in whether they love something or hate something, whatever keeps them watching more episodes and they're posting loads about it online. If this was Netflix's intention to be, like, let's throw Megan under the bus, like personally where even the people who really liked her are sort of turning not against her, but this is just she doesn't seem to be the kind of gal that I would want to be friends with. It's too manicured, it's too bige. And there you have it. Like to email us and addresses the Palace in Drink at gmail dot com. Please follow us a Spotify apple on the apple of your choice and leave us a review of five stars if you're enjoying the show, don't forget. We have a new show out from Callaogushark Media called White Smoke The Path to a New Pope. It's a very timely and historical and cool look at the people election process.

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