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Calorogus Shark Media. Hello and welcome to Palace Intrigue, am
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your host Mark Francis. It turns out Megan Michael might
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just be tuning in to what the Internet has to
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say about her and sending jam or at least something
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that is legally fruit spread. In response, podcaster Amanda Hirsch,
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host of the popular Not Skinny But Not Fat Show,
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revealed that she received a handwritten letter from the Duchess
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of Sussex herself after expressing concern about Meghan's Netflix series
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With Love Meghan back in January, Hirsch had said she
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was scared for Meghan of the show's potential reception. Nothing nasty,
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just a mix of cringe and compassion. I was making
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cringing faces at the trailer, she admitted, but I'm genuinely
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scared she'll be ripped to shreds and to Meghan stage
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left with a monogramm M and a pen March, Amanda
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received a note written in Meghan's famously legant calligraphy that read,
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Dear Amanda, I heard you, but feeling scared, don't be
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This is the fun part. Let's enjoy it. Hersh said
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she had to read it twice first thought, oh my god,
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her second weight. Did I just get a handwritten life
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advice from Meghan Mankle And that wasn't all After signing
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with WMME, the same powerhouse agency that reps Meghan, Amana
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says she got another surprise just two days later, a
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care package of jam and t straight from the Duchess.
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Amanda tells page six she believes Meghan's gesture was sincere.
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I think it was genuine from her. I think she
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was like, don't be scared, Amanda. She explained friends that
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Meghan reportedly confirmed the note was the Duchess's idea and
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that Meghan had told her team we should start sending notes.
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She's got good press out of it. Hirsh said. People
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thought it was snarky, funny, that she has a sense
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of humor. She gets it. She's tuned in her advice
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to Meghan keep it casual. Meghan recently spoke candidly about
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her marriage to Prince Harry, describing the couple of being
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in their honeymoon period just weeks before their seventh wedding anniversary.
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On May nineteenth, on the Jamie Kern Lema Show, Meghan
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revealed h which is secret cove Harry. That man loves
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me so much, and you know what we've built. We
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have built a beautiful life and we have two healthy,
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beautiful children. I always think about it when you get
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to the end of Super Mario Brothers, the final final level,
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and what's the goal. It's to slay the dragons, to
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save the princess. It's my husband. He is just out
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there and constantly doing whatever we can to make sure
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our family is safe, protected, that we are uplifted, and
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still make time for date nights. However, a source told
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Okay magazine that some of Megan's remarks surprised listeners. Megan
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wants everyone to move on from the talk of divorce,
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but some of what she said wasn't particularly relatable, and
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that's probably why a lot of people were shocked. She
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and Harry love each other and would love to put
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an end to the speculation once and for all, because
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it's hurtful and they've been through so much together. Meghan
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wants to tell everyone how close they are, and she
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speaks passionately because because that's her personality, but it doesn't
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always land the way she wants it to. Harry is
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dealing with quite a few difficult things, so hearing her
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say they're in a honeymoon period was quite surprising. Megan's
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words could well have the opposite effect of what she wanted.
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Some of it seemed pretty over the top, but other
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parts came across as quite flippant, especially her comparisons with
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a Super Mario game. But she's a very positive person
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and understandably doesn't like the negative rumors. In the same interview,
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Meghan spoke about her own sense of self and personal
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growth over the past year. I know that I'm a
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great friend, and I know that the kind of mum
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I am, and I know the kind of human being
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I am, and I know how I show up. And
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I love being able to be that person with the
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people that I love. There have been so many major
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storylines lately that we didn't get to share this gem
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about Meghan from Claire Cohen in Vogue. It's like something
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out of one of my nightmares. An inbox over which
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you have no control and to which you have no access,
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steadily filling up with emails that you can't read, file
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or delete screen for eternity. So Sparrah thought for Prince
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Archie aged five and Princess Little three in a podcast
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interview with her friend, beauty entrepreneur Jamie Kerne Lima, Meghan
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explained that she is putting together a time capsule for
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her children with Prince Harry, sending photographs and anecdotes daily
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to email addresses that she's created on their behalf so
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that they may enjoy them later on. They won't be
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able to open the inboxes until they're sixteen or even eighteen,
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hopefully along with the trust fund, or, as Meghan put it,
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here's everything, every moment that I wanted to tell you
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how much I love you and like how proud I
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am of you. She emails them most nights before bed,
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because it doesn't have to be a heavy lift, which
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former members of her staff, who claimed in The Hollywood
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Reporter that Megan would fire off regular five am emails
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might find all two familiar. Aside from how overwhelmed I
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now feel on behalf of two children under six, I
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think of the heavy lifting they're going to have to
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do reading all whose emails as teenagers when they'd rather
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be up with their friends. Meghan's Letters project says so
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much about millennial parenting. Turns out it's not all that
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different whether you're in Montecito or Mile End. I thought
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it was such a great time capsule to create for
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them because I used to have scrap books and photo albums.
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That we're past that generation now, the Dutchess continued on
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the podcast. There's that nostalgia again, trapping us in a
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parenting cycle of trying to give out digital kids and
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analog experience. Except there's a huge difference between sticking a
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few pictures into a notebook and waking up on your
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sixteenth birthday to your mum giving you somewhere north of
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four thousand emails to read. At least they won't have
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to reply to them all. I suppose more pounds in
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just a moment. A newly published study has cast fresh
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light on one of history's most infamous royal lineages, suggesting
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that the distinctive facial feature known as the Hasburg jaw
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was in fact a product of extensive inbreeding. The Hasburgs,
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who once ruled over the vast stretches of Europe, including
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the Spanish and Austrian empires, have long been recognized for
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their unusual jaw lines, most notably seen in Huls, the
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second of Spain, whose protruding lower jaw became a symbol
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of dynastic decline. Now, researchers have examined sixty six historical
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portraits of the Habsburgs, impaired their visual analysis with genealogical
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data to assess whether these facial anomalies were a direct
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result of close familial into marriage. The conclusion there is
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indeed a statistically significant link between the degree of inbreeding
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and the severity of mandibular prognathicism. The jutting lower jaw
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that came to define the dynasty. Charles the Second, the
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last of the Spanish Hasburg monarchs, was the product of
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a union between his father and his father's niece. Geneticists
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say his genome likely resembled that of a child born
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to first order relatives, with medical consequences to match. His
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ill health and infertility ultimately brought the Habsburg dynasty in
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Spain to an end. The study, led by Professor Roman Villis,
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analyzed eleven traits of the lower jaw and seven indicators
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of maximiary deficiency, such as an underdeveloped upper jaw that
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creates a pronounced overbite. Of particular interest were individuals such
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as Naximinion, the first Margaret of Austria, childs first, Phillip
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the Fourth and Charles Second, all of whom exhibited significant
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craniofacial irregularities. Mary of Burgundy, who entered the family by
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marriage in fourteen seventy seven, displayed the fewest science of
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these deformities, providing a useful control for the research team. Meanwhile,
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Philip the Fourth, who ruled Spain and Portugal in the
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seventeenth century, was found to possess the most pronounced features.
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The researchers mapped a family tree spanning twenty generations and
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over six thousand individuals, highlighting the sheer extent of consanguinity
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within the Habsburg bloodline. Across this sprawling genealogy, they found
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a clear positive relationship between the inbreeding and the appearance
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of the Habsburg jaw. Professor Villis explained, notably, the study
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was too explored the broader implications of inbreeding. While recessive
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genes often lied dormant in the general population, they can
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manifest in offspring when both parents carry matching copies, a
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risk dramatically heightened when those parents are closely related. This
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genetic mirroring, known as homozygosity, increases the likelihood of inherited
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diseases and physical abnormalities. Such patterns are not limited to
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the Habsburgs. The British royal family, too, has experienced the
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perilous consequences of intermarriage, with hemophilia, often dubbed the Royal disease,
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traced back to Queen Victoria and spread throughout various European
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royal houses. While the research has acknowledge that some degree
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of uncertainty remains, particularly regarding the possibility of random genetic drift,
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they maintain that the inbreeding hypothesis is by far the
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most convincing explanation for the recurring facial structure. In an
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interview accompanying the findings, Professor Villa's remarks that the Habsburg
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dynasty offered a rare opportunity to study the long term
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genetic effects of intermarriage with a closed population, describing the
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family perhaps with more candor than they themselves would have liked,
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as a human laboratory. Though they once ruled with authority
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over much of Europe, the enduring legacy of the Habsburgs
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may lie less in their imperial might than in their
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cautionary tale written into their very bones. And there you
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