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Hello and welcome to Palace Intry a Gay I'm your host,
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Mark Francis. The Princess of Wales has spoken candidly about
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her ongoing recovery from cancer, describing it as a roller
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coaster and acknowledging the pressure to maintain composure even when
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daily life feels unmanageable. During a visit to Colchester Hospital,
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the Princess reflected on the challenges of finding a new
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normal after illness, adding it's a roller coaster. It's not
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one smooth plane, which you expected to be, but the
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reality is it's not. You go through hard times. The
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Princess was visiting the hospital's well Being Garden, a space
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designed to offer calm and restoration to NHS staff, patients
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and visitors. The triples marked the donation of fifty Catherines
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rose plants, named in honor by the RHS, to the hospital.
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Proceeds from the roses sales support the Royal Mind and
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Cancer charity. The Times took a closer look at Royal expenses,
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with Michael Lecky writing news just In from Buckingham Pallace,
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where the chief accountant has been romping through the numbers
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and reminding us what joy the royals bring even when
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they're not in a horse and carriage. The gist of
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this annual exercise and the message they'd like you to
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take home is here's what it costs for something you
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can't put a price on. The bad news, though, if
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you're James Charmers, keeper of the Privy Purse, is that
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you then have to put price on it. Will credit
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then to mister Charmers and his admirably straight faced for
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saying soft power is hard to measure, but its fair.
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He is.
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I believe now firmly understood about an organization that spent
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forty four thousand, eight hundred and twenty two pounds on
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a two day boondoggle to Stafford and six hundred five
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thousand dollars on you plants for the East Terrace at
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Windsor Hurrah tho for the royals around whom there's there
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are dull moments unless you ask them about sustainable aviation.
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They seem, with notable exceptions whose surname is usually York
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like decent people to mean recent job. Besides the alternatives
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of varying degrees of unpalatable, even if we staged a revolution,
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I wouldn't get my hands on the Vladimir Tiara, So
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why bother? So why is the payroll of the new
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regime six million pounds more than it was in twenty
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twenty two? How many people does one man need to
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squeeze his toothpaste and build flowing pathways on the East
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Terrace while we're spending four hundred million pounds making bucking
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and Palace habitable when nobody wants to live in it.
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I realized that Charles likes Clarence House, but he has
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six million pounds worth of staff. You'd think one of
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them could point out that living at Buckhouse is part
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of the job. In the Mirror of Norman Baker writes,
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Bucky and Palace pretends the Royals are being prudent with
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public money. What utter hogwash. They even have the cheat
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to suggest that Charles is being generous because he only
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takes twelve percent of the income of the Crown at state.
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The shocking truth is that the Royals really don't care
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how much public money they spend. Last year, they incredibly
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run up a bill for the taxpayer of almost one
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point two million pounds on charter flights just within Great Britain.
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Two places as difficult to reach as Glasgow, Edinburgh Newcastle
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and to keep lectorious about climate change, please when you're
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in the top one percent of the world's mitters. With
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the Royal Train set to be whether the Royal Train
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set to be decommissioned by twenty twenty seven, the Royal
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family will soon be saying farewell to the nine carriage train,
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complete with bedrooms, dining rooms, office space that serve the
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monarchy for decades, but offering a private and comfortable way
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to travel around the UK, but single trips sometimes exceeding
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forty four thousand pounds, the cost has become increasingly difficult
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to justify. In its place, the Royals will rely more
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on regular trains in their existing fleet of other vehicles.
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The Sovereign Grant Report revealed that Royal travel now costs
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nearly four point seven million pounds annually, but the helicopter
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flights alone accounting for four hundred and seventy five thousand pounds.
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Last year, the family took one hundred and forty one
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helicopter journeys, most of them through the King's Helicopter Flight,
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which operates to Sikorski X seventy six Sea helicopters out
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of the arif Odaham in Hampshire. For land based travels,
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there are five state cars and active use to Bentley's
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and three rolls reserved for formal engagements. For more routine business,
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semi state jaguars and land rovers are deployed, and the
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King or some enjoys a personal collection of vehicles, including
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his recently acquired Lotus eleetree Ceremonial appearances sometimes call for
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a hybrid open topped range rover. While public transport is
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rarely used, it's not unheard of. The Late Queen famously
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opened the Victoria Line in the nineteen sixties and more
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recently was seen with an oyster card on the Tube.
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Charles and Camilla have also taken the underground to Heathrow,
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albeit more for publicity than practicality. The skies remain open
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to the Royal family can also chart of flights on
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two DESSORLT Falcon nine hundred Alex aircraft, or take to
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the air in larger government planes like the Airbus A
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three thirty MRATT or a three twenty one two fifty
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three NX when international duties call. As for the seas,
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there's no Royal yacht these days. H and Y Britannia,
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decommissioned in ninety seven, remains the last of its kind.
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Proposals for a modern replacement came and went, Boris Johnson
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announcing a two hundred and fifty million pound vessel in
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twenty twenty one, only for Rishi Sooner to scrap the
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plan in favor of a military surveillance ship. In short,
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from Rolls Royce to public trains and everything in between,
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the Royal family is still very mobile, just a bit
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more cost conscious than before. More palace in just a moment.
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Our spinoff series Crown and Controversy kicks off July thirteenth,
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show notes. Crown and Controversy launches July thirteenth. Wimbledon may
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serve strawberries and cream, but when it comes to the
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Royal Box, there's no sweetening the rule. In twenty nineteen,
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Megan turned heads not just for her celebrity status but
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what she wore, Denim Jee's, which are clear no go
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in Wimbledon's members' areas. As a result, she wasn't seated
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in the Royal Box. To make matters worse, she left
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after Serena Williams match, skipping Andy Murray's, which was viewed
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as a breach of etiquette for someone tied to the
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royal family. In what Summer calling a subtle shift in tone,
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James Holt, Meghan and Harry's longtime right hand man, has
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been spotted publicly acknowledging the work of two senior Palace aids,
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including one of the center of some of the Sussex's
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most bitter allegations. Holt, executive director of the Archiable Foundation
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and formerly part of the Sussex in a Circle, recently
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liked several LinkedIn posts from royal figures, including one by
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Jason Nuf, the former Kensington Palace staffer who famously accused
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Meghan Markle of bullying. The post praised Prince William's Earth
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Shot Prize work and came just weeks after Prince Harry's
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appeal for reconciliation with his father and brother during the
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BBC interview. Nowf wants a close adviser to both Harry
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and Meghan, claimed in twenty eighteen that Meghan's behavior towards
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staff was totally unacceptable, leading to a formal complaint that
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ultimately helped fracture the relationship. Meghan has strongly denied the
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bullying accusations, calling them part of a smear campaign. Now meanwhile,
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has consistently stood by his version of events, even saying
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earlier this year that he has no regrets about coming forward.
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The LinkedIn interaction visible to anyone following Holt's surprised Royal
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watchers given the long standing animosity. Holt also liked and
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celebrated posts by Helen Cook, Assistant Private Secretary to King Charles.
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The third included one showing the King celebrating twenty five
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years of the Royal Drawing School. According to sources close
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to Holt, his interactions were more collegial than political. When
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inside had told Mail Online that Holt has known Helen
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Cook since their time working together at Downing Street as
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for now if, the source added that Holt had helped
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develop the Earthshot Prize during his Royal Foundation days and
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was simply showing support for a worthy cause. Still, the
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timing is hard to ignore. Prince Harry recently lost a
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high profile court case over his security arrangements and used
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the moment to issue a public plea for family reconciliation. Meanwhile,
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Meghan continues to face the lingering fallout from the Bullying Act. Meanwhile,
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Meghan continues to face the lingering fallout from the bullying allegations,
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allegations that re emerged in February when Nouf stated on
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camera that he wouldn't change a thing whether Holt's digital
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olive branch is a signal of shifting sussex strategy or
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merely a personal gesture, remains to be seen. But in
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a feud as public and polarized as this one, even
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The following is a paid presentation of the happiness experiment
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our sister.
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I'm going to bring forward and yours and give it
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to you now. And he said, oh wow, that's great,
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thank you. That's so generous of you, Carl, that's great.
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But his wife, my sister in law, went ballistic. She said,
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this is too much money, this is wrong. I don't
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want anything to do with and stormed out of the room.
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And I thought, well, that's not what I expected. Oh
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my god. So I realized from that that this was
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not an easy thing to do. So I learned a
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lesson from that, and I knew that I had to
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do this authentically.
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I had to do it right otherwise it was not
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going to work. So that that happened.
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And then the third thing that happened was that I
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was looking at my financial statements and I had more
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money there than I was really using.
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It was sitting there.
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I mean, it was growing, making profits and so forth,
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but it wasn't being used. I wasn't using it for me.
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I wasn't using it for things that I really cared about,
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not for my people. So I thought, well, if I
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have all this money, now, why should I wait until
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I die?
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Why don't I bring it forward?
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And then, you know, it was a long process for
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me to come around to that, but that's what finally
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started this, and I said, well I'll do it.
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Let's back up just a bit. Tell us a little
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bit about your new book. What is the Happiness Experiment.
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Well, this is a recording of the real events with
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real people who I decided that I would bring forward
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the inheritance the money I had for them in my
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will and made it a prequest. So it was a
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chunk of money that they were going to get. Well,
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they were still young enough to enjoy it, and I
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was still alive to see it happening. So I saw
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what they were doing. So when I sat down with them,
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I talked about money and happiness and how one can cognect.
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And I said, look, I'm going to bring this forward
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to give it to you, but what I want from
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you is a plan so you use this money, so
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it's really a big benefit for you. I don't want
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this to overwhelm you. And they said what kind of plan?
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I said, I want a happiness plan, and they said,
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a happiness plan?
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What's that?
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So so you know, nobody has seems to have a
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happiness plan, but it's one of the most important plans
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you can get, and it doesn't have to be very complex.
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What is it that makes you happy? What values do
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you want to pursue? You know, what goals and dreams
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do you have, and you can pursue them. And so
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I got them to write a happiness plan. And then
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when I saw the plan, I gave them all the
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money all at one time. And so then they took
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it and I watched them with their plan. I saw
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all their plans, what they did, and how they became happier,
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and so you know, that had to be written about.
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So because I wanted other.
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People to see what they did so they too could
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do the same thing.
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Which prequest is the most unique one you've come across.
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Well, it was a very very painful and sad story
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because two dear friends of mine had a beloved daughter
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and she was hit head on by a drunk driver
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and killed. She happened to be eight months pregnant at
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the time, so that killed the granddaughter too, and.
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Also their daughter.
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They were totally totally wiped out, devastated, and they died emotionally.