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Caloroga Shark Media. Hello and welcome to you Palace Weekly.
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I am your host, Mark Francis. This is the abbreviated
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version of our daily show, Palace Intrigue. And if you
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want these full stories, please go back and listen to
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the shows during the week and you'll get the full
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length versions. So let's take a look back at last
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week's royal news. Megan Michael, the former podcaster and cooking
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show host, has announced the return of her sold out Rose,
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this time with a fresh twenty twenty four vintage released
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under her lifestyle brand as Ever. The Napa Valley Wine
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will be back in stock next week, following the swift
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sellout of the twenty twenty three edition earlier this month.
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Megan shared the news via an as Ever newsletter, along
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with a warm note reflecting on summer sunshine and the
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joy of clinking glasses with friends. Now it's time for
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us to fill your glass. The message bad describing the
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twenty twenty four Rose as an elegant medley of delicate
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yet memorable flavor and calling it the perfect companion for
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sunset dinners barefoot or a dressed to the nines. Megan
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may be sitting on a retail gold mine if she
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can just keep it stocked. New analysis suggests her lifestyle
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brand as Ever could have pulled in as much as
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four point five million dollars in a single week had
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supply met demand. The Duchess of Sussex launched the venture
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with a modest drop of jams and teas back in April,
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followed by another release in June and a Napa valley
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rose in July, all of which sold out in minutes.
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According to Newsweek, the as Ever website saw half a
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million page views during that second product drop, giving us
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a glimpse of the intense consumer interest. If every visitor
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had purchased just the cheapest item, a nine dollar raspberry jam,
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that alone would have equated to four and a half
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million dollars in sales. Secret vacations may be all the rage,
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as Prince Harry has reportedly gone off the grid during
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a deeply personal return to Southern Africa, revisiting places tied
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to his mother's legacy and reconnecting with someone he calls mom.
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Harry reportedly began his journey in Angola earlier this month,
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walking through Africa's largest active minefield in Quito, Kwanavalle, echoing
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Princess Diana's landmark nineteen ninety seven campaign to ban land mines.
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According to a report in The Mail on Sunday, Harry
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extended his visit into a week long retreat, traveling next
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to Botswana, where he spent time with Tanya TJ. Jenkins,
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a wildlife conservationist whom he has described as a mother figure.
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During this leg of the trip, Harry was said to
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have gone completely off comms for two days, turning off
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his phone and stepping away from emails to find some
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peace and quiet. Source said this time he took some
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more time and space, enjoying total peace of mind and
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being somewhere so remote that he couldn't even get emails
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or texts or calls. Harry is reportedly taking a step
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toward thawing relations with the royal family by offering to
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share his official diary of engagements, a move intended to
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prevent future clashes over publicity and perhaps paved the way
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for a face to face meeting with King Charles later
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this year. According to The Mail on Sunday, Harry's decision
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follows last month's tension over his visit to Angola. His
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emotional retracing of Princess Diana's historic walk through a minefield
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drew widespread media attention, unfortunately at the expense of Queen
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Camilla's seventy eighth birthday portrait, which was promptly overshadowed in
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the headlines. It seems Prince Harry and Megan mark or
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maybe finding a new royal court, this time in Palm Beach.
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According to Radar Online, the Duke and Duchess of Sussex
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are growing increasingly close to Brooklyn Beck and Nicola Peltz,
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who have reportedly extended an open invitation for Harry and
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Meghan to spend their summers at the couple's lavish Florida compound.
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The friendship appears to be more than just a beachside
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cocktails and casual catchups. Insiders claim Meghan is eyeing Palm
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Beach is a potential hub for her lifestyle brand, seeking
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support from the area's affluent social scene. There are tons
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of networking opportunities. One tipster said the fact that Nicola
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and her family have a massive compound on the beach
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is just icing on the cake. With the Netflix deal
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reportedly ending, Royal watches wonder what Harry and Meghan will
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do for money. Royal expert Robert Jobson told The Sun, Well,
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the deal was always set at about one hundred million dollars,
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wasn't it. And the talk of that figure sort of
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blew a lot of people's minds. But I think that
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was for productions and things that they're supposed to have done.
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Where does it leave them probably with a bit of
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a bowl out looking for some handouts. Maybe that's why
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they were over with their stuf. We're over here having
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discussions with the King. I don't know. The reality is
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in the past they got support from the King and
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the late Queen and they said they were going to
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go and make their way. They've lost Spotify, they've lost Netflix.
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They can't rely on the spare money forever, can they.
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Sky News Royal correspondent Rhianna Mills added, it's just fascinating.
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They have this very expensive lifestyle. They have to pay
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for their security, pay for that big mansion. How do
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you kind of keep that money coming in. Donald Trump
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may not have named names, but many Royal watchers believe
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he took a thinly veiled swipe at Prince Harry and
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Meghan Michael doing a press conference in Scotland. Speaking warmly
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about his connection to the British royal family, Trump said,
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being with Charles, Camilla and everybody, I've got to know
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a lot of the family members. They are great people.
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They are really great people. But then came a pointed
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add on in that sense, I think the UK is
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very lucky. You could have people that weren't great people.
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I don't know if I can say that, but you
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could have people that weren't Trump didn't mention Harry on
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Meghan by name, but the implication was clear to many
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online when social media user wrote I love the shade
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President Trump throws at Prince Arian Meghan Merkel, while another
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said they were sure he was calling them out. The
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always hard working Prince interrupted his secret super yacht vacation
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by delighting Royal watches over the weekend with an unexpected
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guest at the YUIFA Women's Euro twenty twenty five final
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in Switzerland, none other than Princess Charlotte. The father daughter
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duo was seen sitting together in the stands cheering on
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England's Lionesses in what marked Charlotte's first overseas football match.
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The moment was quickly shared on the royal family's official Instagram,
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where fans were equally charmed by the appearance and struck
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by the uncanny resemblance between the young princess and her father.
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Author Robert Hartman, who previously noted that William is adamant
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about his children experiencing real world moments like these and
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what is more real world than leaving your super yacht
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and flying to Switzerland for one game and sitting in
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the skybox. King Charles has said to be very concerned
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about the potential for Donald Trump to go off script
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and off the rails during his upcoming state visit to
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the UK in September. Sources close to the monarch have
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told The Daily Beast that the King is particularly anxious
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about the former US president using joint appearances to air
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inflammatory views, especially on immigration, while standing beside the constitutionally
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apolitical head of state. Tensions have already been stirred by
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Trump's remarks in Scotland this week, where he warned reporters
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that immigration was killing Europe and declared you better get
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your act together or you're not going to have Europe anymore.
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One civil servant involved in the planning admitted the trouble
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with Trump is he doesn't feel bound by the rules.
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Prince William may be the future king, but it seems
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Princess Anne wished he'd pull a bit more royal weight
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in the meantime. In a new profile ahead of her
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seventy fifth birthday, The Sunday Times reports it Anne is
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quietly irritated that she's still handling the bulk of investiture
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ceremonies these formal occasions where honors are handed out, especially
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since William lives just down the road from Windsor Castle,
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where many of these events are held. She's still doing
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most of the investitures at Winsor, even though William lives there.
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It annoys her, a source close to the princess told
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the paper. Several sources suggest Anne would like to see
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William take on more of what they call the bread
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and butter duties, like those investitures, which she continues to
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handle with remarkable stamina. Only three royals, King Charles, Anne
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and William can lead such ceremonies, and while Charles is
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juggling his own reduced schedule and health issues, and William
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is either on vacation or managing a tightrope of royal
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responsibilities in family life, it's Anne who keeps quietly shouldering
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the load. According to a new biography titled Sophie Saving
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the Royal Family, author Sean Smith claims that Sophie, Duchess
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of Edinburgh chose not to attend Diana's funeral in nineteen
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ninety seven because she looked too much like the late princess.
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She had an obvious and reasonable excuse. Pallace source reportedly
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told Smith Sophie decided it would be too upsetting for
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the crowd if she went. She's well aware that she
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looks like Princess Diana from a distance, and made her
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decision in a caring and thoughtful way. The Royal family
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fully supported her. At the time, Sophie was still Sophie
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Rhys Jones, the future wife of Prince Edward. She was
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often compared to Diana due to their similar crupt blonde
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hair and striking blue eyes, a resemblance Sophie herself acknowledged.
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I don't deny that we do look alike, she once
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said in the nineteen nineties, but I could never compete
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with Diana's image. I'm not Diana more palacy, just a
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moment in a striking tribute, blending British tradition with rocky history.
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The Band of Cold Stream Guards performed at Black Sabbath's
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Paranoid outside Buckingham Palace, honoring the late Ozzie Osbourne. The
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unexpected musical moment unfolded thousands of fans lined the streets
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of London for the singer's funeral procession. Osborne, the heavy
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metal pioneer known globally as the Prince of Darkness, died
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on July twenty second at the age of seventy six.
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An emotional Sharon Osborne was joined by the couple's children, Jack,
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Kelly and Amy as they paid their respects during a
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city center parade before laying floral tributes of the Black
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Sabbath Bridge. Could your surname hint at royal blood? My
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heritage thinks so. The Genealogy Platform has released a list
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of thirty five surnames that might suggest a noble or
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royal connection, encouraging curious users to trace their family history
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and perhaps uncover a link to the Crown. Names like Windsor, Tudor, Stuart,
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and Plantagenet or make the list unsurprising given their deep
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ties to British monarchy, but others such as Darcy, Percy,
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nevilland Spencer may also signal aristocratic ancestry. The list spans
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centuries and bord is, including houses like Bourbon, Rominov, Medici, Orange,
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Nassau and whether you like it or not, Sussex and
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