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Hello and welcome through palace intrig yea I'm your host,
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Mark Francis. Kate Middleton turned heads during the French state visit,
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not just for her diplomatic fashion, but for her noticeably
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lighter locks. Stepping out in a blush pink door skirt
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suit and matching hat, a nod to Deorr's iconic nineteen
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forty seven new look, the Princess of Wales debuted a
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sun kissed hairstyle, her golden curls peeking up beneath the brim.
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This wasn't Kate's first flirtation with lighter tones. She quietly
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unveiled the brighter color earlier this year during an anniversary
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visit to Scotland, prompting a wave of admiration. Hair expert
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Shady Harb previously described the look as dimensional, sun kissed
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tone achieved with bellly age and face framing highlights, adding
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that the honey gold hues bring up healthy, racey It's
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perfect for summer. We'll have to keep an eye on
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Kate's style as Natasha Archer, Kate Middleton's trusted assistant and
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behind the scenes style guru, is stepping away from royal
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life after fifteen years to launch her own consultancy. Archer,
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affectionately known as Tash, joined the Royal household in twenty
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ten and became a key figure in Princess Kate's inner circle,
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serving as personal assistant, unofficial stylist, and most recently senior
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private executive assistant. From royal tours to wardrobe triumphs, she
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helped shape Kate's evolution into a global fashion icon, known
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for championing British designers and pioneering sustainable fashion within the palace.
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Archer also stood beside Kate during deeply personal moments, including
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the birth of Prince George. In twenty thirteen. Prince William
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was in full voice as he cheered the Lioness's to
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a commanding for nothing victory over the Netherlands in the
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Euro twenty twenty five group stage clash in Zurich. Will's
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patron of the Football Association, watched proudly from the stand
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as England bounced back from their opening defeat to France
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in emphatic style. Lauren James led the charge with two goals,
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joined on the scoreesheet by Georgia Stanway and Ella Toon.
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When King Charles invited celebrated French chef Raymond Blanc to
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help prepare the state banquet for President Emanuel Macron. Buckingham
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Palace built it as letante cordial in the kitchens, but
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not everyone is applauding the move, reports Richard Eden for
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The Daily Mail. Former Royal chef Darren McGrady, who cooked
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for Queen Elizabeth, Princess Diana and young Princess William and Harry,
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was left fuming cirru, he exclaimed, calling the decision a
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huge slap in the face to the Palace's royal kitchen staff.
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Raymond Blanc may be one of the best chefs in
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the world, but mccron won't be bringing in British chefs
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for a state dinner in Paris. McGrady argued the Palace
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had said Blanc was brought in to assist with the
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first course and dessert. Blanc, however, says he was invited
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to work on the main course as well, but declined
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out of deference to longtime Royal chef Mark Flanagan, calling
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him a great friend. In a show of respect, Bloc said,
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I could have done everything if I had insisted, but
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Mark did a beautiful course, we all have an opinion,
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and I've got a different one. I like to bring
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people together. The New York Times is keeping an eye
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on Wimbledon's Royal Box, a curated blend of royalty, celebrity
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and societal luminaries, all seated under one very exclusive roof
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with space for just eighty hand picked guests. Entry to
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the oak paneled enclosure is strictly by invitation and comes
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with rules smart attire only, no hats for women lest
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they block someone's view, and a suitably refined lunch menu
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featuring poached cornish lobster and lamb from a Beatrix Potter
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linked flock. This week's lineup of spectators was as star
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studded as the tournament. Queen Camilla watched a quarter final
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match on Wednesday, while Hugh Grant and Sir Ian McKellen
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also made appearances. Billy jan King, a six time Wimbledon champ,
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was spotted alongside her wife Lana Kloss. Hollywood was well represented.
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Cate Blanchet arrived with her mother Jodie Foster seeing courtside,
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and Russell Crowe, fresh off announcing a reboot of Highlander,
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made the rounds Olivia Rodrigo turned up with boyfriend Louis Partridge,
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as did Prianca Chopra and Nick Jonas and John Cena
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were spotted with wife Shay, Sherri and Zada. On Monday,
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Princess Beatrice and Sarah Ferguson, marking her first Royal Box
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appearance in over two decades, joined King Frederick the tenth
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of Denmark for a day of tennis, and naturally, David
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Beckham now Sir David, was among the Sporting royalty in attendance.
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As historian Robert McNichol explained, the guests list included individuals
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of distinction and others who, in various ways contribute to
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the betterment of our lives in society, or put another way,
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Wimbledon's Royal Boxes where tennis meets the top tier of
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the social register more palace in just a moment. Our
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link there is in the show notes. Crown and Controversy
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starts this Sunday. Congratulations to Harry and Meghan'm being named
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the world's most boring couple. Royal expert esther Crack. You
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told the Sun they are boring and unprofitable. I think
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Netflix are going to have to swallow the fact that
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they've invested in the world's most boring and unprofitable couple.
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Spotify realized quite early on and got out early. I
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really don't think the public understands just how little is
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at stake for Megan, Like who cares if as ever fails.
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It wasn't exactly a passion project. Royal author Phil Zampia
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adds Netflix would like to get some of their money
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back with the launch of the items, explaining, I think
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having invested one hundred million dollars in the shows that
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they did and the thing about Polo which universally panned,
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but I mean they've obviously made a decision. They're going
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to stick with them for the time being. They're going
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to go for it, and they're going to go in
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for a penny, in for a pound, and you know,
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if they can get some money back with the merchandising, great.
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With the main Royals getting all the attention this week,
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we find the timing of this story from Radar Online
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to be curious. A security insider told Radar Online Harry,
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his wife, and their kids have their names all over
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the dark web and encrypted channels used by terrorists to communicate.
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They are a high value kidnap and torture commodity for
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g artists to use against Britain and the West. The
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source added that there are also complete obsessives constantly discussing Harry,
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Meghan and their children. The threat level against them is
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now on red. Royle commentated Duncan Laco and backed the claim,
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saying the threat is very real. There are people out there, lunatics,
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radical individuals and terrorist elements who would see attacking Harry
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or Meghan as a symbolic act. That's the reality they're
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dealing with. These are not paranoid fears, they are credible risks.
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Private security simply doesn't compare. They don't have access to
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British intelligence, counter terrorism briefings or police networks. That gap
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could mean the difference between life and death. Behind Harry's
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insistance on state level protection is the trauma of his mother,
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Princess Diana's death in ninety seven when she was without
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false security support. That history is never far from his mind,
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said one insider. It informs every decision he makes when
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it comes to protecting his family. Another source close to
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the couple said Harry can't risk bringing Meghan and the
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children over with that proper protection. It's not a matter
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of ego, it's about safety. These threats aren't vague, they're specific,
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and they're terrifying. Megan reportedly shares these same concerns. She's terrified.
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The source said, she wants her children to be safe.
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Coming back to the UK without full protection is not
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something she's willing to consider, and they have it. If
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The following is a paid presentation of the Happiness Experiment.
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Our sister, I'm going to bring forward and yours and
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give it to you now. And he said, oh wow,
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that's great, thank you. That's so generous of you, Carl,
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that's great. But his wife, my sister in lot, went ballistic.
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She said, this is too much money, this is wrong.
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I don't want anything to do with and stormed out
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of the room. And I thought, well, that's that's not
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what I expected. Oh my god. So I realized from
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that that this was not an easy thing to do,
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so I learned a lesson from that, and I knew
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that I had to do this authentically. I had to
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do it right, otherwise it was not going to work.
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So that happened. And then the third thing that happened
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was that I was looking at my financial statements and
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I had more money there than I was really using.
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It was sitting there. I mean, it was growing, making
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profits and so forth, but it wasn't being used. I
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wasn't using it for me. I wasn't using it for
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things that I really cared about, not for my people.
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So I thought, well, if I have all this money, now,
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why should I wait until I die? Why don't I
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bring it forward? And then it was a long process
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for me to come around to that, but that's what
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finally started this, and I said, well I'll do it. Now.
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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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and 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? What's that? So you know, nobody has
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seems to have a happiness plan, but it's one of
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the most important plans you can get, and it doesn't
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have to be very complex. What is it that makes
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you happy? What values do you want to pursue? You know,
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what goals and dreams do you have, and you can
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pursue them. And so I got them to write a
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happiness plan. And then when I saw the plan, I
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gave them all the money all at one time, and
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so then they took it and I watched them with
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their plan. I saw all their plans, what they did,
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and how they became happier, and so you know, that
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had to be written about 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 also
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their daughter. They were totally totally wiped out, devastated, and
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they died emotionally. They had decided that they could never
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be happy again. They would be wrong to be happy.
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They didn't deserve to be happy because their darling daughter
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had been killed. Tremendously painful, awful story. So they were
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grieving six years later and I met with them and
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I told them how much they had added to my
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life and how much I was so grateful to them,
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and that I wanted to express the gratitude, and I
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put them in my will and they could accept that.
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And I said, but I want you to have it now,
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and they said, oh no, no, we can't accept it.
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They turned it down. They turned it down, well, we
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worked and I said, look, I'm leaving it open. So
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several months later, I think his wife persuaded him to
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do it. Actually, you know, and you know, so they said, okay,
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we'll do it because I say we're going to wait until
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you die, why not do it now? And they did it.
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And it wasn't the money. Interesting Now, they said, it
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was the coaching that made the big difference, that changed
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their mind their mindset from being so negative. You know,
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we'll never be happy again. We don't deserve to be happy.
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And the coach turned there thinking their mindset around and said, look,
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you know it can be. You can be happy again.
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And they started to get the mindset of happy people.
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And now you cannot believe what these people they are
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traveling all over the world. They are in Tahiti right now.
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They climbed killimungarratt. These people are loving life. And it
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was a major change that is one of the most heartfelt,
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wonderful results of the And in a sense, she said,