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Caloroga Shark Media. Hello and welcome through Pallas Weekly. I
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am your host, Mark Francis. This is the weekend edition
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of Palace Intrigue, where we bring you some shortened versions
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of all the stories we heard or brought you during
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the week, and if you'd like to hear those full versions,
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please go back and listen to the daily shows. So
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what happened last week in Royal news? Well, the new
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season of With Love Megan was out on Netflix. In
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The Times, Kevin Mayer writes, if God does love a trier,
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and provided that he's on the right streaming package, the
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Great Ward Almighty, like every seemingly star strug guest on
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With Love Meghan must deeply adore the Duchess of Sussex.
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Megan is pretty good at filinting of fish, says Claire Smith,
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the no nonsense chef who runs the Michelin starred notting
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Hill eatery Core. Regular guests include Ed Sheeran Adele and
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the Beckhams and who featured in last week's show. Smith adds,
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Meghan is actually really good at cooking, and she's creative,
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with a good palette, honestly and being consciously kind because
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that's Megan's like brand. It was a slightly strange show,
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somewhere between a Stepford wife's fever dream and an infernal
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version of celebrity Stockholm syndrome, where ostensibly trapped z listers
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blazed out badly scripted lines that included compulsory phrases such
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as that's one of my favorite things about you, Megan,
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while chowing down on sticky doughnuts that seem to be
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covered in torn clumps of couch grass and Japanese not weed.
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For The Daily Mail, Liz Jones writes, what did we
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learn from all eight episodes of season two with Love Megan?
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Megan ate lots of dates while pregnant. She has boxes
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of mac and cheese in her freezer. Harry hates cinnamon
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and lobster, and yet she still married him. She loves
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the McDonald drive through apple pie and is triggered by
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a sink full of dirty dishes. She repeats the phrase
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so sweet often and seems warm with the crew I
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adore to the day drinking. There is nowhere she goes
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without a cup of champagne. So here, at last is
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the chink in her armor? Who wouldn't resort to alcohol
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given the headlines the hate. She alludes to the rumors
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and trolling obliquely, even referring to an old cannard that
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she'd had as a child pre Harry. If ad have
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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 cab she made for him to mark
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his fortieth. He's like a ginger ghost, however, haunting every scene.
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If the reviews for season two of Megan's new show
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are any indication, it may be remembered more for her
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lavender latties and flower sprinkles than for any meaningful content.
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Critics across the British press have wasted no time tearing
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into the show, calling it everything from Narcissus to a
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TV program about watching glue dry. The Daily Mail's Liz
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Jones called the series staged, fake and dull, but did
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offer a surprising compliment she seems genuinely earnest. It really
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is not an act. Jones described the show as televisual valion,
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as soothing as warm chie on a windswept beach. The
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Guardian's Lucy Mengan less generous gave the show two stars,
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calling it boring, contrived and effortfully whimsical. She jokes that
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if viewers stand still in Meghan's kitchen too long, they'll
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be covered in violets and served alongside her mug of
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gray foam to a nano celebrity who realizes he hasn't
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been paid enough. Celebrity chef Jameson Stocks, who has previously
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cooked for King Charles, isn't holding back on his views
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about Megan Michael's Netflix series With Love Megan. I think
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Megan Michael needs Netflix more than Netflix needs her, he
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told The Daily Express, adding bluntly, she's becoming a bit
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of a liability. To be honest with you, they don't
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really know what to do with her. Maybe an actual
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chat show would better suited the audience. Figures prove that
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a lifestyle show doesn't work with her at the helm
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As Meghan Markle's lifestyle brand, as Ever, expands its footprint
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and returns to the spotlight with the second season of
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With Loved Meghan, sources say Prince Harry is struggling with
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his role behind the scenes. According to a report from
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Radar Online, the Duke of Sussex is said to be
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feeling increasingly isolated as his wife devotes long hours to
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her business ventures, He's feeling more isolated than ever, one
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insider cleaned, noting that Meghan starts her day before sun
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rays and shoulders much of the work load herself, leaving
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little time for their previously close knit home life. The
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source revealed that the couple's current reality differs greatly from
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the polished image often projected on social media. Harry's been
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telling friends, this isn't the life I thought I was choosing,
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the insider said. Prince Harry has found himself at the
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center of a fresh wave of online criticism, this time
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for catching a barrel in a man made surf pool.
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To celebrate the launch of season two with Love, Megan,
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the Duchess of Sussex shared a playful video on Instagram
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showing Harry surfing a perfectly sculpted wave at the Kelly
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Slater surf ranch in California. The moment set to Saltan
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Pepper's What a Man and captioned, we interrupt your regularly
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scheduled programming to bring you this important message. Featured a
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gleeful Harry riding the high performance wave before triumphantly throwing
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his hands in the air. It was a day of
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drama at crathy Kirk, the small stone church near bow Moral,
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where the royal family traditionally gathers on the penultimate Sunday
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of August. The headlines were dominated not by speech or
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by scandal, but by the Princess of Wales's hair. Catherine
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arrived with locks that appeared noticeably blonder than usual, a
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striking change that immediately drew attention. Her long chestnut blowout
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had been part of a public image since her Saint
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Andrew's days. When William first noticed her, Kate's hair was
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described as incredible by The Express and jaw dropping. Others
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observed that Kate and her husband barely do any work.
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Stylist Sarah Gatston blamed the sun the actual star, not
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the newspaper, telling The Daily Mail that the combination of
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sea air, sunshine and salt water had generally lifted her
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heir to a softer shade, creating the perfect starting point
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for her next salon visit. Royal expert and biographer Robert
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Hartman spoke to gb News about William's plan to live
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at Forest Lodge when Monarch, Hardman said, I don't think
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that's tenable. When the late Queen came to the throne
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in nineteen fifty two. She and Prince Philip had just
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done up Clarence House as a sort of family home
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with their two young children. They loved it and they
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didn't want to move The Queen Mother, who was resident
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at Buckingham Palace, didn't want to move out. They presented
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their plans to the Prime Minister, Winston Churchill, and it
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was Churchill who said no, no, no, no no, You've got
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to move into Buckingham Palace. The monarch has to live there.
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That will be a difficult conversation for whichever Prime minister
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it is. Of course, Prince William will be a harder
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nut to crack for a future prime minister. But I
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think Buckingham Palace depends on having visceral connection between the
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monarch and royal hh. Americans are enjoying a holiday weekend,
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a great time to hit the beach or perhaps binge
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watch their favorite cooking show on Netflix. When most people
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pack for a weekend away, they grab a change of
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clothes and a toothbrush. King Charles, however, takes a rather
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different approach, one that includes his own bed, toilet seat,
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and an entire truck of home comforts. According to royal
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biographer Tom Bauer, during a visit to friends in the
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north of England, Charles sent a truck ahead carrying not
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just a few favorite items, but the entirety of his
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and Queen Camilla's bedroom sat up, complete with orthopedic mattress,
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personal linens, and handpicked decorp including two Scottish landscape paintings.
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Among the more eccentric items in the royal cargo were
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a personal radio, bottles of La Fray whiskey, special bottled water,
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and what Bower describes as Kleenex Premium comfort lavatory paper,
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accompanied by His Majesty's own seat. The King and Queen
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have been continuing their annual summer retreat at Bowmorl, joined
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by a number of senior family members in keeping with
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the tradition. Among those making the trips to the Highlands
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are Prince Andrew and Sarah Ferguson, while it is now
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reported that Peter Phillips and his fiancee Harriet Spurling have
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also traveled north. The visit is particularly significant for Miss Spurling,
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who is understood to be taking part in the so
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called Bow Moral Test, the informal right of passage for
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newcomers to the royal family, which you may remember from
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the Crown. A nurse by profession, Harriet has been spotted
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riding horses on the estate, enjoying excursions on electric mountain
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bikes with Zara Tyndall and the children, and taking time
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to meet members of the family individually. A new memohile
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by former Royal butler Grant Harold is stirring headlines and
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reportedly ruffling feathers within the Sussex camp. Harold, who served
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for years as a valet to then Prince Charles, Queen
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Camilla and Princess William and Harry, has released The Royal Butler,
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a behind the scenes look at royal life that offers
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a notably glowing portrayal of the king. But one detail
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in particular has caught attention. Harold's insistence that William and
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Harry were happy about charles marriage to Camilla, directly contradicting
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Harry's own account in his memoir Spare the four of Them.
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I promise you got 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 the parties together. Now, according to
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shutter scoop Pallas Inside has believed the book may be
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more than just fond recollections. It may be part of
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a strategic response. This is Charles hitting back when Inside
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it told the outlet Harold's book is a direct counterattacked
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on Harry. It's basically saying, don't believe him, believe me.
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In Slate, Emmajeen West Knights writes about Andrew Lowley's book
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about Prince Andrew, saying, name an undesirable trait a person
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might have, and this book will demonstrate Andrew having it.
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He is supposedly, in addition to being a sex offender, cruel,
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is enraged, stupid, boring, naive, attention seeking, unfunny, childish, arrogant,
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and out of touch, as well as a misogynist, a lion,
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a thief, a bully, a pervert, a bad lover, a
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bad husband, a bad father, a brat as a child,
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a brat as a teenager, and a brat as an adult.
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Just when you're thinking that surely every possible slight has
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been leveled at the Prince and that there can surely
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be no greater depth to which your opinion of him
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can sink, Lowley relates that Stafford Buckingham Palace used to
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have to clear away collections of soil tissues in his
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bedroom when he hear more on that story. Check out
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Friday's Palace Intrigue from the Royalist. Tom Sykes writes that
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he believes Princess Diana was murdered. Sykes writes, there is
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too much about the death of Diana to blithely accept
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the official line that it was just an accident at
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the risk of being branded a Diana truther or conspiracy theorist.
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I believe there is just way too much about the
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events of that night and its aftermath to fit the
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accident narrative. And you can get more about that story
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in today's Palace Intrigue. More in just a moment. Don't
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once saw a kindred spirit in another icon of the era,
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John F. Kennedy Junior. The two reportedly met in nineteen
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ninety five when jfk. Junior was in London pitching a
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cover profile for his new magazine George. According to his
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former assistant Rose Marie Torenzio, writing in Fairytale Interrupted, Kennedy
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hoped to feature Diana in a respectful and thoughtful piece.
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The princess, however, declined the invitation, sending a handwritten note
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that read simply thank you so much, but not right now.
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Charles is seeking a new member of staff to help
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manage the complexities of royal life at Buckingham Palace, a
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role for the royal Engagement's officer has been advertised on
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the Royal Household's official website. The successful candidate will join
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the Private Secretary's Office on a fixed one year contract
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from November of twenty twenty five, earning forty thousand pounds
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a year for a thirty seven and a half hour
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week Monday to Friday. The Royal Mint has confirmed that
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the final batch of one pound coins bearing the image
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of Queen Elizabeth is now entering circulation, marking the end
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of an error in British coinage. More than twenty three
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million of the late Queen's coins dated twenty twenty one
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and twenty two are being released, alongside seven and a
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half million new coins featuring the portrait of King Charles
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the Third. The Mint described the moment as pivotal, symbolizing
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the transition between monarch's and everyday currency. Rebecca Morgan, the
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Mint's Director of Commemorative Coin, said, as we release more
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of the King Charles the Third one pound coins into
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circulation alongside the final coins of Queen Elizabeth, I we're
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witnessing the physical representation of our monarchy's transition. She added
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that discovering one in your change could spark a rewarding
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hobby for collectors. We have some more details on those
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three hundred dollars teddy bears the King is selling at
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Highgrove House. The Estate Gift Shop has unveiled the limited
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edition silver Teddybear, created to honor the King's roles both