Kate Opens Up About Cancer Battle as Royal Spending Hits £100M

0:03 Calorogus Shark Media. Hello and welcome to Palace Intry a Gay I'm your host, Mark Francis. The Princess of Wales has spoken candidly about her ongoing recovery from cancer, describing it as a roller coaster and acknowledging the pressure to maintain composure even when daily life feels unmanageable. During a visit to Colchester Hospital, the Princess reflected on the challenges of finding a new normal after illness, adding it's a roller coaster. It's not one smooth plane, which you expected to be, but the reality is it's not. You go through hard times. The Princess was visiting the hospital's well Being Garden, a space designed to offer calm and restoration to NHS staff, patients and visitors. The triples marked the donation of fifty Catherines rose plants, named in honor by the RHS, to the hospital.

0:57 Proceeds from the roses sales support the Royal Mind and Cancer charity. The Times took a closer look at Royal expenses, with Michael Lecky writing news just In from Buckingham Pallace, where the chief accountant has been romping through the numbers and reminding us what joy the royals bring even when they're not in a horse and carriage. The gist of this annual exercise and the message they'd like you to take home is here's what it costs for something you can't put a price on. The bad news, though, if you're James Charmers, keeper of the Privy Purse, is that you then have to put price on it. Will credit then to mister Charmers and his admirably straight faced for saying soft power is hard to measure, but its fair. He is. I believe now firmly understood about an organization that spent forty four thousand, eight hundred and twenty two pounds on a two day boondoggle to Stafford and six hundred five thousand dollars on you plants for the East Terrace at Windsor Hurrah tho for the royals around whom there's there are dull moments unless you ask them about sustainable aviation.

1:55 They seem, with notable exceptions whose surname is usually York like decent people to mean recent job. Besides the alternatives of varying degrees of unpalatable, even if we staged a revolution, I wouldn't get my hands on the Vladimir Tiara, So why bother? So why is the payroll of the new regime six million pounds more than it was in twenty twenty two? How many people does one man need to squeeze his toothpaste and build flowing pathways on the East Terrace while we're spending four hundred million pounds making bucking and Palace habitable when nobody wants to live in it. I realized that Charles likes Clarence House, but he has six million pounds worth of staff. You'd think one of them could point out that living at Buckhouse is part of the job. In the Mirror of Norman Baker writes, Bucky and Palace pretends the Royals are being prudent with public money. What utter hogwash. They even have the cheat to suggest that Charles is being generous because he only takes twelve percent of the income of the Crown at state.

2:46 The shocking truth is that the Royals really don't care how much public money they spend. Last year, they incredibly run up a bill for the taxpayer of almost one point two million pounds on charter flights just within Great Britain. Two places as difficult to reach as Glasgow, Edinburgh Newcastle and to keep lectorious about climate change, please when you're in the top one percent of the world's mitters. With the Royal Train set to be whether the Royal Train set to be decommissioned by twenty twenty seven, the Royal family will soon be saying farewell to the nine carriage train, complete with bedrooms, dining rooms, office space that serve the monarchy for decades, but offering a private and comfortable way to travel around the UK, but single trips sometimes exceeding forty four thousand pounds, the cost has become increasingly difficult to justify. In its place, the Royals will rely more on regular trains in their existing fleet of other vehicles.

3:32 The Sovereign Grant Report revealed that Royal travel now costs nearly four point seven million pounds annually, but the helicopter flights alone accounting for four hundred and seventy five thousand pounds. Last year, the family took one hundred and forty one helicopter journeys, most of them through the King's Helicopter Flight, which operates to Sikorski X seventy six Sea helicopters out of the arif Odaham in Hampshire. For land based travels, there are five state cars and active use to Bentley's and three rolls reserved for formal engagements. For more routine business, semi state jaguars and land rovers are deployed, and the King or some enjoys a personal collection of vehicles, including his recently acquired Lotus eleetree Ceremonial appearances sometimes call for a hybrid open topped range rover. While public transport is rarely used, it's not unheard of. The Late Queen famously opened the Victoria Line in the nineteen sixties and more recently was seen with an oyster card on the Tube.

4:27 Charles and Camilla have also taken the underground to Heathrow, albeit more for publicity than practicality. The skies remain open to the Royal family can also chart of flights on two DESSORLT Falcon nine hundred Alex aircraft, or take to the air in larger government planes like the Airbus A three thirty MRATT or a three twenty one two fifty three NX when international duties call. As for the seas, there's no Royal yacht these days. H and Y Britannia, decommissioned in ninety seven, remains the last of its kind. Proposals for a modern replacement came and went, Boris Johnson announcing a two hundred and fifty million pound vessel in twenty twenty one, only for Rishi Sooner to scrap the plan in favor of a military surveillance ship. In short, from Rolls Royce to public trains and everything in between, the Royal family is still very mobile, just a bit more cost conscious than before. More palace in just a moment.

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6:05 Then you can even get a thirty day free trial of the service. For other podcast apps, go to calaruga dot com slash plus. We have a link in the show notes. Crown and Controversy launches July thirteenth. Wimbledon may serve strawberries and cream, but when it comes to the Royal Box, there's no sweetening the rule. In twenty nineteen, Megan turned heads not just for her celebrity status but what she wore, Denim Jee's, which are clear no go in Wimbledon's members' areas. As a result, she wasn't seated in the Royal Box. To make matters worse, she left after Serena Williams match, skipping Andy Murray's, which was viewed as a breach of etiquette for someone tied to the royal family. In what Summer calling a subtle shift in tone, James Holt, Meghan and Harry's longtime right hand man, has been spotted publicly acknowledging the work of two senior Palace aids, including one of the center of some of the Sussex's most bitter allegations. Holt, executive director of the Archiable Foundation and formerly part of the Sussex in a Circle, recently liked several LinkedIn posts from royal figures, including one by Jason Nuf, the former Kensington Palace staffer who famously accused Meghan Markle of bullying. The post praised Prince William's Earth Shot Prize work and came just weeks after Prince Harry's appeal for reconciliation with his father and brother during the BBC interview. Nowf wants a close adviser to both Harry and Meghan, claimed in twenty eighteen that Meghan's behavior towards staff was totally unacceptable, leading to a formal complaint that ultimately helped fracture the relationship. Meghan has strongly denied the bullying accusations, calling them part of a smear campaign. Now meanwhile,

7:37 has consistently stood by his version of events, even saying earlier this year that he has no regrets about coming forward. The LinkedIn interaction visible to anyone following Holt's surprised Royal watchers given the long standing animosity. Holt also liked and celebrated posts by Helen Cook, Assistant Private Secretary to King Charles. The third included one showing the King celebrating twenty five years of the Royal Drawing School. According to sources close to Holt, his interactions were more collegial than political. When inside had told Mail Online that Holt has known Helen Cook since their time working together at Downing Street as for now if, the source added that Holt had helped develop the Earthshot Prize during his Royal Foundation days and was simply showing support for a worthy cause. Still, the timing is hard to ignore. Prince Harry recently lost a high profile court case over his security arrangements and used the moment to issue a public plea for family reconciliation. Meanwhile, Meghan continues to face the lingering fallout from the Bullying Act. Meanwhile, Meghan continues to face the lingering fallout from the bullying allegations, allegations that re emerged in February when Nouf stated on camera that he wouldn't change a thing whether Holt's digital olive branch is a signal of shifting sussex strategy or merely a personal gesture, remains to be seen. But in a feud as public and polarized as this one, even a quiet like can speak volumes. If you like to email us addresses the Palasindrigu at gmail dot com. Please follow us on Spotify, Apple, or the apple of your chains and leave us a nice review. If you're joining the show, you're like this nice reviews by my Francis

9:09 my thanks to John mcdermith. This pealas intrigue and good terms. The following is a paid presentation of the happiness experiment 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 generous of 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.

9:56 I had to do it right otherwise it was not going to work. So that 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. 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, you know, 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.

10:36 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. Well, 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 cognect. 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?

11:19 I said, I want a happiness plan, and they said, a happiness plan? What's that? So 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.

12:00 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, devastated, 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.

12:41 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 said, we're going to wait until you die, why not do it now. And they did that 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.

13:34 And the coach turned there thinking their 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 Kilimungarrett. These people are loving life. And it was a major change. That is one of the most heartfelt, wonderful results of the innocy. 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.

14:16 It's really it can 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 that sounds like it was for these folks. 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, 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 work on it. And it's not that hard, but it is challenging, but it's a wonderful exercise and if they do it, I guarantee they will increase their happiness.

15:36 I guarantee it. Carl Barney is the author and the book is called The Happiness Experiments, 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.