Macron's Royal Farewell, Camilla’s Wimbledon Moment, and a Surprise from Princess Anne

0:03 Calorougus shark media. Low and welcome to palace. Intrigu, I am your host, Mark Francis. The curtain came down on Emmanuel Macron's state visit with a flourish of affection, symbolism, and royal farewells. As the French president and his wife Brigitte bid adieu to King Charles and Queen Camilla outside Windsor Castle, Macron sealed the moment with a flurry of kisses, including one for the Queen and a heartfelt on tonte amassal if I pronounced that correctly directed at the King, echoing Charles's own words from the state banquet the night before. The men lingered in conversation, holding a handshake that stretched twenty eight seconds, as Macron gripped the King's arm and offered warm thanks for the royal hospitality. The Queen and missus mcron meanwhile double cheek kisses and quiet words that appeared to hint at future plants involving Camilla's private secretary. Earlier in the day, the Macrons had laid flowers the Queen Elizabeth the seconds tomb in Saint George's Chapel before joining their Majesties for a walk through the Windsor Castle gardens. There, Charles presented Macron with a nine foot oak sapling, reciprocating a similar gift given by Macron during the King's visit to France in twenty twenty three. As the King and President explored the grounds, Queen and Missus mcron was shown horses and a historic French carriage gifted to Queen Victoria

1:33 in eighteen forty four. Camilla doted on one particularly notable steed, Fabulaurd de Messeur, a horse given to the late Queen Elizabeth by mcron in twenty twenty two. Fabulous Fabulaus, she called him, praising his looks and temperament. As the women posed for photos in classic royal style, the Queen gave the King a light pat on the bottom to keep him on schedule. The playful nudges the monarch lingered, chatting over historic four photos. Once reunited, the group took a final tour together, then returned to the castle's quadrangle for goodbyes with members of the royal household. On Wednesday, Emanuel mcran tweeted, thank you Your Majesty's for the most heartfelt welcome at Windsor Castle long lived the Franco British friendship.

2:18 The French President and his wife Brigitte were treated to the full royal treatment in a no to King Charles artistic pursues. Mister mccron had brought along thoughtful gifts, a ceremonial trumpet, a rare Debussy opera score and a personalized watercolour set. The French President lad a wreath at the grave of the Unknown Warrior in Westminster Abbey, a British tomb with French soil, before heading to Parliament to address lawmakers on pressing global issues. His remarks, which referenced climate change, immigration and nuclear threats, were met with a standing ovation. But it was Tuesday night's royal banquet at Windsor Castle that brought the sparkle. King Charles welcomed his guest in full regalia, presiding over a table set with candles, florals and finery. The meal, created with French born British chef Raymond Blanc, included chicken with asparagus and tarragon cream and an iced black currant par feit topped with elderflower jelly.

3:12 Guests sipped lntonte a cocktail of British gin lemon curd and French pastize, while Champagne, port and cognac flowed freely among the crowd. Mc Jaggert, Elton John and Kristen Scott Thomas. The Royal Family Order of King Charles the Third, quietly introduced in twenty twenty four, is now making its more visible debut during this week's state visit events. Traditionally bestowed upon senior royal women as a personal honour from the monarch, the order features a portrait of King Charles set against a sash and a pale blue chosen by the King himself, a nod to the colour used by his great grandfather, King George the Fifth. Queen Camilla was the first to wear the new order publicly donning it at the state banquet in honor of Emperor Narrahito and Empress Masako of Japan last year. At the time, she wore it alongside the Royal Family Order of Queen Elizabeth the Iond, which he was in two thousand and seven. Now the order has appeared again, this time more not just by Camilla but also by Kate the Princess paired birth Charles and Elizabeth the Second's orders with her evening gown and Tiara.

4:12 Continuing the tradition of wearing multiple honors at major royal occasions, The Royal family's Pride Month celebration ended on a bold and for some unexpected note, as the Coldstream Guards performed Chapel Roans LGBTQ plus anthem Pink Pony Club outside Buckingham Palace. The moment, captured in a now viral video on the official Instagram account for King Charles and Queen Camilla, was accompanied by a simple caption Happy Pride, followed by rainbow and disco bowl emojis. While many fans praised the gesture as a refreshing show of support for the LGBTQ plus community, not everyone was impressed. Royal historian Alexander Laman told gb News he was most surprised by the performance, calling it not exactly what I had in my bingo kant for twenty twenty five and suggesting the Palace us might be traying a bit too hard. The move marked the first time the Royal Family has formally acknowledged Pride in London, and the decision to do so with a brass band rendition of a queer pop anthem did not go unnoticed.

5:12 Supporters flooded the comments with praise louding the King's openness and the symbolism of the guards, whose primary role is to protect the monarchy, stepping into the spotlight with a message of inclusion, more palacing just a moment. Our new spinoff series Crown and Controversy kicks off this Sunday 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 please follow Crown and Controversy on your podcast app. If youd like to listen to the entire season right now and commercial free, become a premium subscriber to Calaruga Plus for just five bucks a month. You'll get this show Palace Intrigue without any commercials. Crown and Controversy is full season available add free right now, plus more than twenty five other shows on the network or without ads or feed drops, so that's thousands of shows in that list. If you're on Apple Podcasts, click on the banner that says uninterrupted listening right there at the top, and you can even get a thirty day free trial of this service for other podcast apps. Just go to Caloroga dot com slash plus and we have the link there. In the show notes. Crown and Controversy starts this Sunday. Princess Anne has sent Royal watchers into a mild frenzy after unveiling a surprising change to her famously unchanging look. Attending Tuesday Nights Banquet alongside her husband, Vice Admiral Sir Tim Lawrence, the Princess Royal looked radiant in a white embellished gown paired with her treasured festoon tiara.

6:42 But what truly caught the public's eye was a here gone was the signature bufon she's worn for over five decades. In its place a softer, lower chinon style up to that, fans quickly celebrated as both elegant and flattering. Social media lit up with admiration, with comments ranging from ma'am is serving looks tonight to Princess Anne's hair looks so lovely when admirer declared a real princess through and through. Sophie also caught some looks, wearing a one million pound tiara that was once worn by Queen Elizabeth. The second Queen Camilla was back in familiar territory. On Wednesday, she took her a seat in the Royal Box at Wimbledon, this time to watch the men's quarter finals. A longtime fan of the sport, her majesty arrived at Center Court accompanied by her sister Annabelle Elliott, and made a point of shaking hands with Novak Djokovic, wishing the seventeen champion good luck ahead of his match against Italy's Flavio Koboli. Djokovic. Ever, the Gentleman thanked her for attending. In the morning, she and the King had seen their guests off before heading to Buckingham Palace to view an exhibition featuring artwork creator during the King's official travels. While King Charles stayed to mingle with the artists, Queen Camilla made her way swiftly to s W nineteen, where she was welcomed by tennis legend Billy Jean King. During her visit, she met several of the behind the scenes heroes of the tournament, Robin Murphy, the lead gardener tasked with overseeing more than fifty thousand plants during this year's challenging heat wave, and Will Breally the championship courts Leeds groundsman, both celebrating two decades of service.

8:12 She also spoke with Malene London, the club's collections manager, who has played a key role in preserving and showcasing Wimbledon's rich heritage. Elsewhere on the grounds, Peter Phillips, the King's nephew, was spotted enjoying the day with his girlfriend Harriet Spurling, further adding to the royal presence at this year's Championships and the habit. If you'd like to email us, our address is The Palace Intrigue at gmail dot com. Please follow us on Spotify, Apple the app. If you're Joyson, leave's a nice review of him joining the show and Mark Francis my thanks to John McDermott, This Palace Intrigue and good damns. The following is a paid presentation of the Happiness Experiment.

8:53 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. 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. 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.

10:01 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 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?

10:54 What's that? So you know, nobody has seems to have a happiness plan, but it's one of the most import and 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. Which prequest is the most unique one you've come across.

11:36 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. 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.

12:35 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. 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.

13:15 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.

14:04 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 work on it. And it's not that hard, but it is a it is challenging, but it's a wonderful exercise and if they do it, I guarantee they will increase their happiness. I guarantee it.

15:10 Carl Barney is the author and the book is called The Happiness Experiment, A Revolutionary Way to Increase Happiness. Carl, where can 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.