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Hello and welcome to Palace Intrigue. I'm your host. Mark ronsis.
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Privacy minded Harry and Meghan, who fled the UK to
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get away from the paparazzi, were spotted enjoying a night
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out in New York City dining at the exclusive members
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only restaurant she Margo in the Meatpacking District, a favorite
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haunt of Taylor Swift and other A listers. The Duke
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and Duchess of Sussex appeared relaxed and good spirits as
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they left the restaurant, with Meghan wearing a chic black
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and white strapless tweed dress and Harry dressed smartly in
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a navy suit and white shirt. Singer Ed Sheeran was
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seen dining at she Margo the same evening, though it's
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not known whether he joined the royal couple's table. Meghan
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Michael has come under fire for her latest social media post,
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with royal commentator Richard It's Williams calling it off key,
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juvenile and very unroyal. The Duchess shared a short Instagram
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reel including clips of Meghan showcasing rows of designer dresses
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and shoes in her hotel room indispersed with playful moments
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such as cookies shaped like New York taxis and pizza slices.
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Prince Harry also makes an appearance barefoot and dressed casually
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and gray juggers and a T shirt. Fitz Williams told
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The Express the video undermined the serious purpose of their visit.
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Meghan's new video seems very off key, with rows of
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shoes and dresses. We hear Dinah Washington's if I had
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a bell whilst Harry lounges around barefoot. You feel that
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the allure of luxury is irresistible to her, but she
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should bear in mind that it would be beyond the
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reach of many. The trip was about a serious subject
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to which the Sussexes have contributed. The mishmash of video juvenile,
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unsophisticated and very unroyal. There are reports Meghan quietly met
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with the new editor of American Vogue, Chloe Malley, at
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the Whitby Hotel in Manhattan. According to the Daily Mail,
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the private meeting was held in a quiet corner without
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Prince Harry, who did not accompany her on this occasion.
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While neither Megan nor Vogue has confirmed the meeting, speculation
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is already mounting that it could pave the way for
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a future magazine feature or even a cover. William and
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Kate spent a day in Northern Ireland during the new
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fifty million pound Learning and Development College for firefighters near Cookstown,
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County Tyrone. The hard working royals watched emergency workers carry
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out a series of live demonstrations, including rescuing a casualty
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from fast moving water and performing high rise rope rescues.
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The couple also observed firefighters wearing breathing apparatus as they
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pulled a dummy from a smoke filled shop and practiced CPR.
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Wearing a forest green Alexander McQueen coach, the princess joined
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her husband for a short ride and a fire engine
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across the training grounds. According to firefighter Cahom McNeice, who
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accompanied them, Kate was in high spirits and joked that
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she wanted to drive the fire engine herself the sirens blaring.
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The princess was saying, I'd love to drive at the
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real speed and have the sirens on. McNeice said she
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was wanting the Prince to drive, but no, the driver
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God is there safely anyway. William clearly impressed by the equipment, remarked,
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there are so many toys. There's so much kit. Both
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he and Kate later attempted to throw rescue lines in
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the water during a flood simulation and both missed, laughing
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at their efforts. Before departing, the couple were presented with
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three red bump caps for Prince George, Princess Charlotte and
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Prince Louis. More Pallas and Just a Moment, A posthumous
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memoir by Virginia Geoffrey, the woman who accused Prince Andrew
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and the late financier Jeoffrey Epstein of sexual assault, will
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be published tomorrow. Nobody's Girl, a memoir of surviving abuse
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and fighting for justice, co written with journalist Amy Wallace,
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was completed before Miss Jeffrey took her own life in
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Australia earlier this year at the age of forty one.
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The four hundred page book marks the first time Jeffrey's
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public claims against the Duke of York will appear in
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print since the pair reached an out of court settlement
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in twenty twenty two. Prince Andrew has consistently denied all allegations,
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and the settlement did not constitute an admission of liability.
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Publisher Knopf shared a statement that included one of Jeffrey's
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final emails to her co author, in which she expressed
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her wish for the memoir to be released no matter
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what I believe it has the potential to impact many
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lives and foster necessary discussions about these grave injustices, she wrote.
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Knopf said the book aims to shed light on the
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systemic failures that allow the trafficking of vulnerable individuals across
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borders and to help ensure that the truth is understood.
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In the Telegraph Victoria Ward, it suggests the King is
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running out of options when it comes to dealing with
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the Dune of York. Ward writes, the revelation that he
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not only stayed in touch with the convicted pedophile longer
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than he had previously admitted, but also that they were
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seemingly in cahoots has prompted renewed calls for Buckingham Palace
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to act to preserve the reputation of the monarchy. Aides
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note that the King, who has long suffered these scandals
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surrounding his younger brother, has already used various sanctions in
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an effort to apply pressure to the errant Duke. However,
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as one well placed source mold over potential options following
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the latest slew of damaging headlines, they suggested, plaintively, there's
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nothing else left. Efforts to remove the pair from Royal Lodge,
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their sprawling seven bed home on the Windsor estate, by
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cutting off the duke's personal allowance failed when he insisted
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he had independent income through various business deals and held
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a meeting with Palace officials to prove it. Unfortunately for
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the King, his long standing lease agreement with the Crown
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of State that does not expire until twenty seventy eight
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is water tight, providing he can afford the upkeep. Having
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exhausted most feasible options concerning the Duke's public persona, talk
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has inevitably turned to the many perks and privileges he
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retains in his private life. One of the options that
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source admits could be looked at yet is the use
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of the Royal estates, where he still hosts shooting parties
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and other activities. The withdrawal of such privileges has thus
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far not been considered, not least because the King has
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long maintained that for all his faults, The Duke does
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remain a member of the royal family, however, with few
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avenues left, one aid admitted that it was theoretically possible
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to restrict his access to Balmoral, Sandringham and Windsor, a
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move that would prove a bitter pill to swallow for
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someone who has long reveled in the trappings of royal life.
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The Duke has already been stripped of his military titles
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and charity affiliations, and his band from using his much
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cherished honorific there have been a growing There has been
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a growing public clamor to remove his last remaining title,
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the Dukedom, which would require intervention from Parliament. All things considered,
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the palaces at a loss. Many have suggested that the
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King should have acted more decisively from the outset. Much
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of the negative publicity has arisen from the Duke's jovial
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and high profile appearances at family gatherings such as Eastern
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Church services, or, more recently, the Duchess of Kent's funeral,
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where he laughed and chatted to stony faced Prince William.
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He cannot ban the Duke from such events, but he
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can insist and has that he be more discreet and
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make himself less visible for the cameras. Some have gone
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so far as to say invisible. On the BBC website,
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Shawn Coughlin discussed the removal of the Night of the Garter,
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which Coughlin points out is a high chivalric honour which
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in theory could be taken away. However, at present he
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doesn't take part in the annual public procession in Windsor
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and is confined to the private parts of the annual ceremony.
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It would require the intervention of Parliament, but there is
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a legal mechanism. It was used during the First World
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water sanction aristocrats who had UK titles but were fighting
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in the German army, so it's not impossible. Such as
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symbolic move might be pursued if the drip drip of
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scandal became too much to ignore. There once was an
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elaborate process for excluding someone from being a member of
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the Order of the Garden, known as degradation, but that
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hasn't been used since the eighteenth century. More recently, members
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were simply removed, such as the leaders of Britain's opponents
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in the First World War, will Helm the Second of
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Germany and Franz Joseph of Austria, Hungary, Benito Massolini, Robert
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mcgaby and Nikolay Charchescu who had honors withdrawn cofflin ads.
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The Romanian dictator had his order of the bath honor
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taken away the day before he was shot by a
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firing squad, so it might not have seen his biggest worry.
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