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Caloroga Shark Media. He hello and welcome to Palace Intrigue Game,
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your host Mark Francis, The Duchess of Sussex, appears to
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have taken a fresh jab and her time within the
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royal family, suggesting the role required her to hide her
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voice and her personal style. Speaking with Bloomberg's Emily Chang
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over burghers and Beer, Meghan Markel reflected on the inauthentic
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nature of her time as a working royal, saying it
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was different several years ago where I couldn't be as
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vocal and I had to wear nude pantihose all the time.
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That felt a little bit inauthentic. I hadn't seen pantios
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since movies in the eighties. Meghan said she's now simply
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being herself, a theme running throughout the new season of
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a Netflix lifestyle series with Love Meghan. In one moment
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from the series, the Duchess admits she doesn't enjoyed baking,
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despite launching a line of pre measured mixes earlier this year.
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Meghan says, let's get out puff pastry ready. We're going
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to use pre made good puff pastry as opposed to
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making our dough from scratch. I love the idea of
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being able to rethink baking to be just a little
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more spontaneous. We learned that Meghan used to get apple
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pie's from McDonald's after failed acting auditions. She also recalls
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giving up her popular lifestyle blog The Tig before her
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engagement to Prince Harry, saying that as ever, her current
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lifestyle brand is a return to her authentic self. I
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haven't been able to share it with you in the
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same way for the past few years, she said, but
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now I can. While promoting the series, Meghan was asked
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whether she feels tension between her public image and her
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role as a duchess. She mostly sidestepped the question, noting
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only that she's excited about this chapter and prefers to
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remember our humanity amid political polarization. Chang referenced Meghan's twenty
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sixteen appearance on The Nightly Show with Larry Wilmore, when
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the former actress described Trump as divisive and misogynistic and said,
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you don't really want that kind of world. But when
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asked whether she still feels compelled to speak out in
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such terms, Megan replied carefully, no, I just make a
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choice of what matters to me and what's important to me,
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and that was a different time in twenty sixteen. Certainly
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I haven't said anything political since twenty sixteen, which was
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well before I met my husband too. Change tried again,
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noting how politically charged the climate has become and how
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many are afraid to speak out, but Meghan continued to
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strike a neutral tone, saying, I think right now it's
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a really interesting time for the entire world. I just
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hope people are able to maintain the values that they
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feel are important to them and to feel safe. We
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are all human beings and should try to find a
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way to connect rather than divide. Still, she opened up
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in other ways, including about life at home with Prince
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Harry and their children, Archie and Lived. In one episode,
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she recalls being not well after spending nearly three weeks
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away from her children, a moment that may reference the
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death of Queen Elizabeth in twenty twenty two. Megan did
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not elaborate, but Prince Harry has previously written about that period.
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In his memoir Spare the Duchess describes Archie as the
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most tender, sweet child of all time, says Lilibet loves
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cheer seeds on her pancakes because they look like freckles,
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she was a reveal of the children are lobbying for
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a cat. Season two with Love Meghan includes a mix
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of guests from chrisy Tagan to John Legend and Chef
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Jose Andres, and features Megan crafting, baking with puff pastry,
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reminiscing about Deal or No Deal, and reflecting on her
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early acting struggles. In one segment, she makes a salad
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she calls a love letter to California. The Duchess also
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expresses a bit of fondness for the UK, saying she
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misses British radio stations, particularly Magic FM. Her children, she notes,
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have picked up both British and American pronunccess, though neither,
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she says, uses cooking terms because Papa's not cooking as much.
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Tom Sykes reviewed the new series in Royalist writing, Can
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anyone imagine a third season of We've Love Megan after this?
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The central conceit hasn't changed. We're meant to imagine we're
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inside Megan Markle's fancy home, sharing in her cooking and
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hosting rituals, but we're not. The locations are set dressed
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to look lived in, while the cameras cut away to
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exterior shots of manicured gardens, and even a sequence of
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Megan packing upstairs. The artifice gnaws away. It shows biggest weakness, inauthenticity,
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the episode's wabble between banal and baffling. One cooking party
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collapses under the weight of its own chaotic editing as
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pots move, dishes, vanished food drops on the floor, until
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we're left watching s'mores on a bonfire. Nobody looks good
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biting into molten marshmallow, no matter how soft the lands.
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In another section, Meghan confesses she doesn't way baking, which
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seems a crazy thing to admit, and cooking show. The
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guest appearances are super weird. Chrissy Tagan and Meghan exchange
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self satisfied notes about how far they have come since
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their days as briefcase girls on Deal or No Deal.
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Ten France from Queer Eye arrives after Meghan has spent
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what looks like about two hundred dollars on children's books
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for her new friend, only for them to greet each
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other with mutual so nice to meet you. Any pretense
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of warmth vanishes as the two strangers play confidence for
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the sake of forty minutes television, The attempt to cast
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Meghan as Martha Stewart lifestyle guru hasn't taken root. The
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camera can't fake warmth, and it can't bridge the gulf
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between the meganon screen and the Megan in real life.
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The truth is unavoidable. What began as a promise of
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glittering confection has ended up as just another tray of
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ready mixed Netflix filler. For The Daily Mail, Liz Jones writes,
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what did we learn from all eight episodes of season two?
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With Love Megan? Megan and eight lots of dates While pregnant?
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She has boxes of mac and cheese in her freezer.
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Harry hates cinnamon and lobster, and yet she still married him.
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She loves the McDonald's drive through apple pie and is
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triggered by a sink full of dirty dishes. She repeats
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the phrase so sweet often and seems warm with the
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crew I adore to the day drinking. There is nowhere
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she goes without a cup of champagne. So here, at
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last is the chink in her armor? Who wouldn't resort
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to alcohol? Given the headlines, the hate she alludes to
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the rumors and trolling obliquely even referring to an old
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canard that she'd had a child pre Harry. If I
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had kept a secret like that, that would have been impressive.
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Does Harry appear only in framed photographs, though we do
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see a baseball cap she had made for him to
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mark his fortieth. He's like a ginger ghost, however, haunting
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every scene. Megan also announced a restock of her as
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Ever lined via Instagram. Megan tells us, as ever, we
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keep growing and growing your favorite and more back, and
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we also celebrate the launch of season two with love Meghan.
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The post was accompanied by a glossy shot of Meghan
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and jeans and the buttoned down shirt watering greenery, her
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face turned away from the camera. This follows an earlier
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teaser showing crisps, sizzling and oil with the caption dare
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I say it's all that? And a bag of chips,
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nodding to a lion popularized by the Fresh Prince of
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bel Air. But the marketing push comes as sales of
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the twenty twenty four As of a Rose have been
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slow despite a similarly styled roll out. This year's vintage,
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released August fifth, has yet to sell out, Unlike the
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twenty twenty three edition, which disappeared within an hour. The
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minimum purchases three bottles at thirty dollars each, with added costs,
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pushing the lowest spend past one hundred and ten dollars.
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In an effort to boost interest, the brand recently posted
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a summary wine pouring clip hailing these drinkers Meghan's favorite
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poor more Palace in just a moment, Hey, don't forget
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to check out our new royal podcast called Crown and
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Controversy sort of takes off where the Crown the TV
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show left off. It's available every Sunday with new episodes.
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Check it out. Crown and Controversy. A new memoirle by
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former Royal butler Grant Harold, is stirring headlines and reportedly
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ruffling feathers within the Sussex camp. Harold, who served for
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years as a valet to then Prince Charles, Queen Camilla
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and Princess William and Harry, has released The Royal Butler,
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a behind the scenes look at royal life that ophecy
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notably glowing portrayal of the King. But one detail in
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particular has caught attention. Harold's insistence that William and Harry
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were happy about charles marriage to Camilla, directly contradicting Harry's
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own account In his memoir Spare the four of them,
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I promise you God on so well, Harold writes, I
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saw them having dinners together. I saw them having drinks together.
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I saw them going to parties together. Now, according to
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shut At Scoop Pallace, insiders believed the book may be
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more than just fond of recollections. It may be part
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of a strategic response. This is Charles hitting back. One
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insider told the outlet, Harold's book is a direct counterattack
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on Harry. It's basically saying, don't believe him, believe me.
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A friend of Harry's didn't hold back in their assessment,
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telling shut A Scoop he knows it's a takedown. This
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is the King using loyal old staff to trash historian
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make him look bitter and dishonest. The King and Queen
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have been continuing their annual summer retreat at Balmoral, joined
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by a number of senior family members in keeping with tradition.
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Among those making the trip to the Highlands are Prince
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Andrew and Sarah Ferguson. While it has now reported that
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Peter Phillips and his fiancee, Harriet Spurling, have also traveled north.
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The visit is particularly significant for miss Sperling, who is
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understood to be taking part in the so called Bow
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Moral Test, the informal right of passage for newcomers to
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the royal family, which you may remember from the Crown.
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A nurse by profession, Harriet has been spotted riding horses
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on the estate, enjoying excursions on electric mountain bikes with
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Zara Tyndall and children, and taking time to meet members
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of the royal family individually. The test itself has long
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been part of royal law. Princess Diana was said to
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have impressed both Queen Elizabeth and the Duke of Edinburgh
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doing her first stay, while other notable guests, including Scherie
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Blair and former Prime Minister Boris Johnson were reputed to
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have struggled. Royal commentator Omud Scobie once described the experience
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of a royal initiation, stressing that etiquette, adaptability and impeccable
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manners are essential. A source told the Son everyone knows
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Peter is smitten and his family have accepted Harriet into
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the setup, so she will likely pass the infamous bow
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moral test with flying colors, and they have it. Like
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