Meghan Markle's Holiday Playlist Sparks Backlash as Andrew Loses Gun Licence and New Epstein Emails Emerge Description

0:03 Calorogus Shark Media. Hello and welcome to Palace Intrigue. I am your host, Mark Francis. Megan Markle has shared a personal list of her favorite holiday songs, wishing her Instagram followers what she described as a safe and cozy Christmas. The Duchess of Sussex revealed the sixteen track playlist in a video showing moments from her festive preparations. Fun holiday activities included baking, cutting ribbons, wrapping gifts, pouring drinks, slicing cured meats, ignoring your hospitalized father, fighting with you in laws, laying off staff, whisking an egg, and writing messages on the chalkboard. At the top of the list was have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas by Norah Jones, followed by Winter Wonderland performed by Ella Fitzgerald. Mariah Carey's All They Want for Christmases You appeared at number eight, with Last Christmas by Wham at number nine. Also included were I've Got My Love to Keep Me Warm by Frank Sinatra and Christmas Baby Please Come Home by Michael Booblay. Megan captioned the post all the sounds of the season. Here is my personal list of favorite holiday songs on rotation in our home this time of year, Wishing you are safe and cozy Christmas Enjoy. The list was naturally criticized.

1:22 One social media user said her playlist is exactly what you think it would be. More try hard picked me music. She wants you to think her music taste is elevated and refined, and that you couldn't understand the complexities of her preferences, so just listen. I'm suspicious of any millennial that thinks boomer music makes them edgy when user wondered, no Tailor or Beyonce. Every video she makes has songs that are lovely in their own way, but most are decades old, even when why as a self proclaimed modern feminist playing songs like she's a nineteen fifties housewife. Another issue was the lack of children's songs. She supposed to have small children. Where are the children's Christmas songs? Frosty the Snowman ruled off? The Red Nosed Reindeer. Harry and Meghan's holiday card has also come under scrutiny, with some viewers suggesting the image may have been slightly edited. Attention has focused on a faint smudge above the head of Prince Harry, where part of his hairline appears to be missing or blurred. The subtle mark was quickly noticed by eagle eyded social media users, particularly on Reddit, where one commenter wrote, what happened with the editing The back of Harry's head is missing above the hairline. Others offer their own theories. One user suggested looks like they used the stamp tool in photoshop the chunk of head floating above his head when you zoom in. Another joked it looks like the tree branch is coming out of his head lol, while a different commenter counted that would be a leaf in the foreground. Not everyone was convinced by that explanation.

2:50 Another user pushed back, saying I don't think it is. There is what appears to be a near perfect circle smudge that looked like someone was using the cloning tool in photoshop. Comments accused Meghan of wearing a see through dress and not brushing Litlabit's hair. Meghan and Harry responded to the job cuts at Archwell. A spokesperson told people the move toward a fiscal sponsor operating model does mean that some staff redundancies are inevitable, particularly with junior admin rolls. We will not be discussing these personal details further other than to say we are honored to have worked with incredibly talented and caring people who dedicate themselves to helping others. William and Kate shared a message tied to the Princess of Wales Annual Together at Christmas Carol Concert, which will air on Christmas Eve. Alongside the video, they wrote, love is how you live your life. Brilliant to be joined by Eugene Levy at this year's Together at Christmas Carol service.

3:45 The thirty six second clip features Canadian actor Eugene Levy, who made a surprise appearance at the event. In the footage, he says love, that's an important word for me. It's kind of how you live your life. Speaking at the concert, Levey expanded on the theme, saying it's with family and then generally spreads right through your associations, through your friends. Christmas is the one day when your family is together. My kids are grown, so it's special to me when everybody's home on the day and you kind of goof around. I'm glad that I'm here when love is such a predominant message here today. We'll take a break early here and come back and tell you a bunch of horrible things about a mysterious British sounding person named a content warning ahead more palace in just a moment. Andrew mount Batten Windsor has suffered another blow after having his firearms license revoked following a police visit to his home at Royal Lodge in Windsor. The sixty five year old was reportedly subjected to what sources described as a pretty thorough examination by Metropolitan Police firearms offices over how his weapons were stored and who could access them. The visit took place in November. The Metropolitan Police, which oversees royal and diplomatic protection, is understood to have imposed thosed strict conditions on Andrew following a security review. According to reports, these measures include close supervision should he wish to transport firearms in the future. It has been claimed that Andrew's ballet met officers during their visit. A sperksperson for the Metropolitan

5:16 Police confirmed the action, saying on Wednesday and number nineteenth, firearms licensing officers attended an address and Windsor to request that a man in his sixties voluntarily surrender his firearms and shotgun certificate. The certificate was surrendered and we will not be commenting any further at this stage. Earlier reports had suggested senior figures were already questioning whether Andrew should be allowed to continue hosting shooting events on royal estates. He has not been seen attending any such gatherings in recent months. The Telegraph reports the FBI demanded answers from Andrew over his relationship with a second millionaire sex offender, According to newly revealed material from the Epstein files. In April twenty twenty, American officials asked UK authorities to com held the former prints to answer questions about his links to Canadian fashion tycoon Peter Nigard. The request focused on visits Andrew made to Niguard's estate in the Bahamas and whether he saw any goals under the age of eighteen while there. It is the first time it has emerged that investigators wanted to question him over ties to Nigard.

6:21 In relation to Nigard, the FBI said it was investigating an international sex trafficking ring victimizing adult women and minor girls, including activity at his Bahamas property. Niguard, now eighty five, has since been sentenced to eleven years in prison in Canada for sexually assaulting four women between the late nineteen eighties and two thousand and five. Further proceedings remain ongoing in the US and Canada. A man identified as A is shown in newly released Epstein files discussing the facilitation of meetings with what he describes as inappropriate friends alongside Gilain Maxwell. The latest relase includes email exchanges from two thousand and one and two thousand and two between Maxwell and a correspondent listed as the Invisible Man, who says he is writing from Bow. Moral details contained in the messages include the use of the initial A, references to boo, moral mentions of a valet, and comments about having recently left the RN. Some observed that Andrew left the Royal Navy in July two thousand and one. A further email in two thousand and two includes a forwarded message stating that Maxwell had given someone named Andrew a phone number.

7:32 In an email sent in August two thousand and one, signed off A, the writer asks Maxwell whether she had found him some inappropriate friends. The message reads, I am up here at bow Moral's summer camp for the Royal family. Activities take place all day and I am totally exhausted. At the end of each day. The girls are completely shattered and I will have to give them an early night today as it is getting tiring splitting them up all the time. How's La, have you found me some new inappropriate friends. In a separate exchange, Maxwell apologizes that she has only found appropriate friends. The reply from AA is a single word distraught. Further correspondence from February two thousand and two shows Maxiwell forwarding messages involving a third party, one Estebahan Ganoza, discussing arrangements for a trip to Peru that included setting up meetings with girls. In the forwarded email, Maxwell writes, I just gave Andrew your telephone number. The reply from A says I will bring him today if I can. Another exchange in March two thousand and two, refers again to the planned trip to Peru. Maxwell forwards an email listing requests made on A's behalf, including some sightsecene and some two legged sightsecene. The message ads, I know I can rely on you to show him a wonderful time, and that you will only introduce him to friends that you can trust and rely on to be friendly and discreet and fun. Maxwell later describes a as a very English sounding gentleman on the phone, and they have it.

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