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Ah Callarogus Shark Media. Hello and welcome to Powers Intrigue.
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I am your host, Mark Francis. Meghan Duchess of Sussex
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has faced fresh criticism from US broadcast to Megan Kelly
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following a recent public appearance with Prince Harry in Los Angeles.
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Speaking on The Meghan Kelly Show, Kelly accused Mirkale of
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playing a role in her marriage and suggested she doesn't
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know who she is. Kelly questioned what she viewed as
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a contradiction between the couple's stated desire for privacy and
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their presence at a high profile sporting event. She recently
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attended an NBA game because she doesn't really like publicity,
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she sat court side. Kelly said she was a referred
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to a viral clip circulating online that showed Prince Harry
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looking away before Meghan touched his arm, after which he
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waved toward the camera. Kelly offered her interpretation of the moment, saying,
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you can't miss the darling. This is the whole reason
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we're here, looking to the camera and get me my shot.
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If you're not looking and they're not looking at me,
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that's really what she is saying there. Kelly went on
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to argue that public life requires a strong sense of identity.
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You really have to know who you are to be
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able to handle this, she said, adding I think that's
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part of the problem with this woman. She doesn't know
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who she is exactly at all. She's playing a role
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and she has been from the start, especially with Harry. Megan,
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the Duchess not the TV host, was the subject of
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sharp criticism during a segment on Sky News Australium where
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commentators discussed reports she and Prince Harry could be offered
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Royal Lodge if they visit the UK this summer. Host
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dunnaka d Georgio opened the segment by referring to Megan
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as everyone's favorite non Royal, the Duchess of Privacy, and
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described a potential UK return as carefully orchestrated. She questioned
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whether Royal Lodge would be an appropriate residence, saying I
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reckon that Lodge is tainted by all of Andrew's misdemeanors,
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but surely not. She was joined by writer and comedian
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Michael Loftus, who made a series of pointed remarks about
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the Duchess. Loftus suggested Megan would need to wipe down
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the whole place and search for hidden cameras, before adding
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maybe she and Andrew used to be a thing. You
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hear these rumors. To be fair to Megan, We've been
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doing this podcast for several years now and have never
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come across such a rumor. Continuing his criticism, often said,
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she is the queen of Tachy. Can't you just come
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over for a family visit, have a picnic, do a barbecue. No,
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she's got to slide into town and try to get
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a free place to stay. She is the Queen of
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Tachy and awkward. In Thenews dot com dot Au, columnist
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Daniella Elsa commented on the Sussex's Jordan trip, writing, this
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is exactly what the Sussexes should be doing all day,
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not trying to make light infatiment about the joys of
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hand dipping candles, are training to shift creates of overpriced jam.
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The issue with the Sussex's spot of day royling isn't
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what they did, but when they did it. If there
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was ever a moment for the Duke and Duchess to
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not to remain King Charles that they are indeed still
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a Duke and Duchess and off doing some diy roiling
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it is now the images of Harry and Meghan and
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Jordan a clear reminder of the need to draw clear
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lines between the crown and the people who just happen
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to be related to the king. Right now, there is
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extreme public sensitivity about members of the King's family doing
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anything that looks like trading off royal status conferred by
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the accident of birth rather than a devotion of duty.
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So what better moment for the Sussexes to pop their
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heads above the parapet and to remind childs in the
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world that they exist and continue to trade off their
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royal titles. Despite having spent the last six years energetically
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rubbishing the royal family. The countdown is on to what
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will be a massive, once in a century rearrangement of
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the royal furniture, and there is no scenario where the
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Sussexes walk away untouched. Harry and Meghan have reportedly offered
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their Montecito home to Princess Beatrice and Princess Eugenie if
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they wish to take a break from the intense scrutiny
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surrounding the Epstein fallout. A source told The Mail on Sunday,
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Harry has communicated with the goal, saying something along the
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lines of he knows what it's like to be at
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the wrong end of the institution. He said, there's an
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open invite, especially for Beatrice if she ever once won.
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For gb news, Lee Cohen writes, at a time when
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the monarchy faces serious reputational pressure, the last thing the
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Royal family needs are two royal turncoats jetting to the
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volatile Middle East, exploiting titles they have abandoned in spirit
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but cling on to in practice, and staging a parallel
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court for relevance and personal glorification. PRINCEI and Megamical abandoned duty.
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They abandoned service. They abandoned their obligation. What they did
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not abandon other trappings of rank, the inherited symbols that
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continue to give weight to their vanity projects. In Jordan
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last week, this became painfully obvious to private influences without
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office or mandate, carrying themselves as though officially sanctioned to
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operate abroad training on princely styling while producing nothing of
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institutional significance. As long as Printeria Mega Michael retained their titles,
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every overseas appearance carries an implied endorsement. That is not opinion.
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It is a consequence, and Britain must not continue embowering
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a frivolous brand masquerading as a monarchy. The remedy is obvious.
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Strip the titles, remove the privileges and the theater or
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palancing just a moment. Radar Online is reporting that Andrew
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is increasingly turning to religion as he faces legal scrutiny
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and mounting isolation. Following a discreete visit from the King's
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domestic chaplain. Reports have said that Reverend Canaan Paul Williams,
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the King's Domestic Chaplain and rector of the Sandringham Group
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of Parishes, drove to wood Farm over the weekend and
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remained for around an hour. A witness quoted by Radar
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said life for Andrew has become strikingly solitary day after day.
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The only people coming through the gates are household staff,
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officers connected to the investigation, and the occasional supermarket delivery van.
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There is no sign of the social circle he wants upon.
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It is very quiet but very contained existence. The same
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source added that the visit from Canaan Williams was unusual,
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precisely because so few outsiders call in and suggested the
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meeting appear to be private and pastoral in nature. An
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insider told the publication Andrew has effectively withdrawn from the
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outside world. Public engagements have vanished, and even private appearances
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are rare. In that vacuum, religion has become one of
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the only steady frameworks left to him, and he appears
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to be embracing it more deliberately. He is basically trying
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to find God. The Daily Mayor wondered how Sarah Ferguson
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is paying for it all. The mayor claims Ferguson spent
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several weeks at the Paraclesis Recovery Clinic in Zurich, a
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facility that reportedly charges up to thirteen thousand pounds per
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day and cater's to ultra wealthy clients. A Swiss source
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told the paper Sarah left for Zurich just after Christmas
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and stayed until the end of January. She always feels
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at home at Periclesis and knows she'll get love and
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attention there, as well as expert health treatment when she
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is feeling at her most vulnerable. Another friend said it
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was the obvious place for her to retreat. From there,
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she is said to have traveled to the UAE, where
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she has long standing contacts, and then to Ireland, where
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she has ancestral roots and the history of retreating during
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difficult periods. A royal source told the paper she seems
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to be very keen, indeed, to avoid being seen while
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she works out what to do next. The article leans
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heavily on historian Andrew Lowney's book entitled The Rise and
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Fall of the House of York to frame this pattern
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as long standing. Lowney wrote that Ferguson's response to crisis
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has often been to go on holiday, detailing previous extended
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stays in Spain, Portugal, the United States, Hawaii, Sardinia, and
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Neckro Island during earlier scandals. One source quoted in his
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book claimed she thought nothing of arriving at an airport
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with twenty five cases and paying between eight hundred pounds
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and four thousand pounds in excess baggage. Royal biographer Ingrid
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Seward has weighed in on Sarah Ferguson's position, suggesting that
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Sarah is unlikely to find herself socially isolated despite the headlines.
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Speaking to Okay magazine, so it said Ferguson has some
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rich and powerful friends who probably will stick by her
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because we know rich and powerful people like drama, and
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this is a great drama, isn't it. So we described
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Ferguson as someone with a massively endearing type of personality,
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but added it's a tragedy that her bad side has
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got the stronger hold over her than the good side.
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So the bad side is the greed, the stupidity, and
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obsessively wanting things. She desperately, desperately wants to be liked,
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