Prince Harry's Project Thaw, Camilla vs Kate Middleton Rumours, Sweden’s Epstein Link, and King Charles Goes Arctic

0:03 Calorogus Shark Media Now lo and welcome to the Palace Intrigue. I am your host, Mark Francis. In The Daily Mail, Richard Eden tells of a plot to bring Harry and Meghan back into the fold. Eden says Project Thor is to warm the frosty relationship between the Sussexes and the rest of the Royals. According to Eden, the reevaluation of Harry's security is part of the plan to allow Harry to educate his children in the UK. Eden told Palace Confidential, Harry loves life in California in many ways, but he's got old attachments here. He's involved with charity patronages, and he's really keen for his kids to grow up here.

0:44 Our royal inside had deep ground, commented in his free sub stack. Let us be clear about what such an arrangement would actually require. We're not discussing a brief summer holiday term a broad program. We're contemplating the placement of two young children in British schools while their mother remains some five thousand miles distant in Montecito, separated by eight time zones, and with them an entire continent. But the logistics tiresome as they are paled beside the emotional reality. This is Harry. We're discussing a man who has constructed his entire post royal identity around a single, immovable principle. He will not repeat his mother's experience. He will not separate his family. He has said as much repeatedly in every interview and memoir chapter. The Diana narrative isn't merely part of his story. It is his story. Every decision, every move, every bridge burned has been rationalized through that lens.

1:37 Does anyone seriously believe he would place an ocean between his children and their mother? There are fresh claims of tension behind palace walls, with one royal insider suggesting relations between the Princess of Wales and her mother in law, Queen Camilla, have become strained over the question of Prince Harry. According to reports, the Queen is said to be astounded that Catherine would entertain the idea of any reconciliation with the Duke of Sussex, and insider told the Globe Camilla wants nothing to do with Harry. She's revolted by the soft stance Charles is taking at the moment and fully supports William's zero tolerance, no forgiveness policy. She's astounded that Kate continues to stick up for him, but Kate couldn't care less what Camilla thinks. The inside claimed Camilla believes Harry is dangerous to the institution, fearing that any renewed contact or reconciliation could provide material for another horrific tell all.

2:29 Camilla and Kate had a poisonous showdown at the palace. The insider said. Camilla told Kate flat out that she is being naive and reckless not to mention disloyal toward her husband by refusing to respect his wishes. It got nasty. Kate's been very patient and biting her tongue for much of this year over Camilla's bad attitude toward her, but this Harry situation is making things one hundred times more tense. Meanwhile, Kate is said to have grown close to Sarah Ferguson in recent years, bonded in part by the shared experience with cancer. According to Shports, that closeness involved Kate confiding personal details about her life, something that is now causing unease amid concerns Sarah could speak publicly about their relationship and inside a told Radar Online, Kate has become friends with Sarah over time, but one thing she will not abide is her going on TV or writing a tell all for money. Now she and Andrew have been ousted from their lodgings and stripped of their royal titles over the Epstein scandal. She cares deeply for Sarah, yet she cannot allow herself to become entangled in another controversy. Her focus has to remain on her children, her well being and safeguarding the future of the monarchy. Meanwhile, although most reports have William being done with Andrew, royal expert Jenny Bond tells The Mirror, while there is no love lost between William, Catherine and Andrew, my understanding is that they and the rest of the royal family believe they still have a duty of care for his welfare. Bond added that Andrew is reported to have become isolated, describing his current situation as one of solitary living. Referring to recent photographs of Andrew circulating in the media, It's not his

4:01 fault of photographers are ready to balance if he dares to venture out, Bond adds, I don't think the Prince and Princess would begrudge him a ride around the park and some fresh air. Obviously it would be more convenient if it wasn't on the doorstep. Bond also pointed out that the situation is temporary, but they know that this is about to end, she said, and he will be living miles away in sandring Anne. Another royal family is getting dragged into the Epstein mess. The Swedish Royal Court confirmed that Princess Sophia was introduced to Jeffrey Epstein following the publication of emails that appeared to link the two. The confirmation came after a Swedish newspaper revealed email exchanges between Epstein and financier Barbo Enbom, who has been described as a mentor to Sofia and attended her wedding to Prince Carl Philip in twenty fifteen. In one email dated December two thousand and five, Enbom wrote, alongside a photograph, this is Sofia, an aspiring actress who just arrived in New York, the girl I told you about before I left, who I thought you might like to meet. Maybe we can visit before you go on holiday. Epstein responded, I'm in the Caribbean. Did she want to come for a couple of days. I'll send a ticket. In response to the report, the Swedish Royal Court said Princess Sophia has been introduced to the person in question on a few occasions around two thousand and five, stressing that this was before Epstein's two thousand and eight conviction. The palace added that Sofia did not accept the invitation to travel to the Caribbean, and stated the princess has not had any contact with the person in question for twenty years. The

5:34 revelation emerged as the Swedish Royal family gathered in Stockholm for the annual Nobel Prize ceremony. Princess Sophia, who has regularly attended the event in previous years, including last year while pregnant, was notably absent the day after the report was published. Before joining the royal family, severe Helkvist was known publicly as a model and reality television contestant. After her relationship with Prince Carl Philip became public in twenty ten, she faced intense online criticism. She later said in a twenty eighteen interview, I was met with an enormous hate storm from people who had opinions about me as a person, about my relationship. I was surprised and it definitely affected me. It was very tough. More palacein just a moment. Hey, if you hate those commercials, why don't you buy yourself a subscription to Calorogo, Shark Medium and Palace Intrigue and you can get this show and hundreds of others commercial free.

6:30 Just click that banner up there that says listen uninterrupted in four ninety nine a month. You get them all commercial free. You can try it out for a month for free, and it really supports us behind the scenes. Here at Palace Intrigue. During a Christmas gathering for children hosted by the Queen at Clarence House, family photographs displayed on a table were visible in the background of official images from the event. Among them was a portrait from Prince Louise Christening in twenty eighteen showing Prince William Kate Middleton, Prince George, Princess Charlatt, and the Duke and Duchess of suss Beside it sat a framed black and white photograph capturing a moment from Megan and Harry's wedding in twenty eighteen. The image shows King Charles, then Prince of Wales, walking arm in arm with Megan inside Saint George's Chapel at Windsor Castle. While Meghan began her walk down the aisle, she was accompanied by Charles for the latter part of the procession. As Charles reached his son, Prince Harry, was heard to say thank you, Pa. The moment came after a late change to the wedding plans. Charles stepped in to escort Meghan after it was confirmed that her father Thomas Michael, would not attend the ceremony. The decision was made less than forty eight hours before the wedding. Charles had spoken with striking frankness about his fears for the world his grandchildren will inherit as he continues to put climate change at the center of his public work. In a new ATV documentary Steve Blackshaw's Royal Arctic Challenge, the King tells environmentalist Steve Baxall that he finds it very frustrating that scientific warnings about global warming are still not fully acted upon even as the planet approaches would he

8:00 calls a tipping point for change. The program looks back at his nineteen seventy five journey to the Canadian Arctic, when as Prince of Wales, he took part in an under ice dive, now acknowledged by organizers as to have been more dangerous than they realize at the time. Speaking to Backsaw, the King says, these things are rescuable, but it seems very peculiar to me that in other areas everybody takes what the scientists are saying is absolutely vital truth. But in this case, for some reason or other, it is not so apparently simple. Reflecting on his decades long campaign to highlight environmental dangers, he explains, you have to just go on trying I find because I mind, for what it's worth about the younger generations. To me, it's not fair to leave them something in a far worse state than I found it, if you know what I mean.

8:44 The whole point I've always felt is to improve it for people so they don't have a ghastly legacy of horror to have to deal with. That's why I spent all these years, because I don't want to be accused of my grandchildren of not doing anything about it. That is the key describes his Arctic expedition nearly fifty years ago as a formative experience, saying it helped shape his determination to protect the natural world. Baxel now retraces that journey to show how dramatically the region has changed in the intervening decades, and spoke to the King before departing. Recalling his own thirty minute dive some thirty feet beneath the ice with physician and researcher Joseph Mcinness, the King admits the challenge is no longer one he could undertake.

9:25 I'm afraid I've always tended to live life dangerously, he chuckles. Thank God I was young in those days. I could never have survived. Now I think I'm too old to go back. He remembers that die It was a fascinating experience, adding I wouldn't have missed it for anything. It was amazing in those days. Thank god I saw the Arctic as it should be. I learned a great deal from going there. That's the tragedy now that it's all going so fast. I was very glad I was able to see it. I just want others to witness the same thing. Reflecting on how wildlife is struggling to adapt to the rapidly changing conditions. The King warns, this is what I had been trying to warn about for years. We have forgotten. I think that we are as well totally connected with nature. The problem is trying to rediscover this link. What we do to nature is fundamentally a disaster for ourselves. Steve Basor's Royal Arctic Challenges scheduled to air on ITV one at nine pm. And there you have it. If you'd like to email us and addresses the Palace intrigu at gmail dot com. Please follow us on Spotify, Apple or the app of your choice, and check us out on Facebook, Instagram, YouTube are all over the place. Come by and say hi, Hey, Mark Francis my thanks to John mcdermy. This is Palace Intrigue and good times.