Aug. 30, 2025

Prince Harry’s Surfing Scandal, King Charles’ Bed Truck & William’s Housing Headache

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Prince Harry’s wave-riding Instagram moment backfires as critics call out his eco-hypocrisy. Meanwhile, King Charles travels with his own toilet seat and bed setup—because of course he does. And Prince William wants to live a “normal” life at Forest Lodge, but insiders say Buckingham Palace may not give him the choice. Plus: Queen Camilla wants a library, and locals react to having the Waleses as new neighbors.

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Calorogus Shark Media had lo and welcome to Palace Inturgue game,

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your host mark for answers. Prince Harry has found himself

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at the center of a fresh wave of online criticism,

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this time for catching a barrel and a man made

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surf pool. To celebrate the launch of season two with Love, Megan,

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the Duchess of Sussex shared a playful video and Instagram

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showing Harry surfing a perfectly sculpted waved Kelly Slater's surf

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runch in California. The moment set to Sultan Pepper's What

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a Man and captioned, we interrupt your regularly scheduled programming

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to bring you this important message. Featured aglee for Harry

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riding the high performance wave before triumphantly throwing his hands

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in the air. But the moment of joy didn't last long.

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Critics were quick to pounce, accusingly self styled eco conscious

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royal of hypocrisy. One social media user riots eco warrior Harry,

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who lives on the Californian coast, drives inland to an

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artificial surf school that uses vast amounts of energy to

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create waves. Others mocked the artificial setting calling the ranch

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a surfing compound miles away from the actual beach. The

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surf ranch, located in California's Central Valley, is indeed far

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from the Pacific Ocean, but not without its own environmental credentials.

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According to GQ, the facility boasts to sell the powered

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wave generators, sustainable construction materials, and a strong anti plastics policy. Still,

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the debate continues, with environmentalists like surf Rider Europe previously

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criticizing such facilities as out of touch with the current

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climate crisis. Yet not everyone is buying the outrage. Local

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surfer Angel Chung, from the legendary Channel Islands of Surfboards

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shop in Santa Barbara, came to the Duke's defense. Oh yeah,

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it's great, he said when asked about Harry surfing the

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artificial wave. I've got a couple of friends who work there.

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Americans are enjoying a holiday weekend, a great time to

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hit the beach or perhaps binge watch their favorite cooking

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show on Netflix. When most people pack for a weekend away,

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they grab a change of clothes and a toothbrush. King Charles, however,

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takes a rather different approach, one that includes his own

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bed toilet seat, and entire truck of home comforts. According

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to royal biographer Tom Bauer, during a visit to friends

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in the north of England, Childs center truck ahead, carrying

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not just a few favorite items, but the entirety of

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his and Queen car Miller's bedroom set up, complete with

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orthopedic mattress, personal linens, and handpicked decour including two Scottish

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landscape paintings. Among the more eccentric items in the royal

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cargo were a personal radio, bottles of the Fried Whiskey

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special bottled water, and what Bauer describes as cleanex premium

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comfort lavatory paper, accompanied by His Majesty's own laboratory seat.

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If that wasn't enough, Child's personal chef team arrived separately

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with the monarch's preferred or organic produce in tow. While

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this level of attention to detail me pure excessive, it's

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hardly new. Former palace staffers have long whispered about the

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king's very particular habits. In his book yes Man, Tom

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Quinn described how Charles allegedly requires six eggs to be

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cooked so he can pick the two done to his

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exact liking. The palace has since denied the clan, charles

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culinary quirks don't stop there. In the Palace Papers, Royal

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Inside of Tina Brown revealed the King often arrives at

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dinner parties with a pre mixed martini in his own glass.

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Unlike the Queen, who always ate what she was served,

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Brown wrote, Charles stipulated his menu preferences up front. He's

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also known to skip lunch, or at least used to.

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At the encouragement of Queen Camilla and his doctors. Charles

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has since taken to enjoying a light midday meal, often

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featuring half an avocado. His dar jealing tea is served

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with milk and honey, not the standard English breakfast, and

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he sometimes swaps out and eaten dairy for plant based

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options to reduce his environmental impact. It's not all about indulgence.

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Charles takes genuine pride in his food, once sharing with

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Country Life magazine that he created his own recipes, including

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a grusaka, a musaka made with graus and his favorite

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pheasant crumble pie. In an iron New's Lucky Mangan writes,

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Prince William pretending to be normal is winding me up.

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Mangan tells us, I'm about to offer the future King

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of England some advice. And it's very much his fault

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for being young enough for me not only to remember

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him being born, but for me to have been just

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old enough when the momentous event took place to feel

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the first stirrings of pseudo maternal pride in this publicly

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owned baby. If you're going to attain something as essentially

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bonkers as a monarchy, something born of a belief in

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the divine right of kings, of the belief that the

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head of one particular bloodline is God's appointed flesh rep

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on earth and ultimately exempt from any earthly constraint or

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a judgment, well you've got to be consistent, otherwise you'll

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start to look mad. Context is everything. The contract that

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exists between a monarch and his people is we will

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provide the tax money, you provide the entertainment, in the

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form of esoteric traditions, excesses, and enigmatic signs and symbols

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that we simply cannot get elsewhere. To think that modern

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royalty means a modest royalty is to misunderstand not just

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the nature of the contract, but also the nature of

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human envy. William seems to think that by minimizing extravagance,

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he will pre appease a potentially angry mob. The reality

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is that if you go big enough, no one cares

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what you do. No one can truly comprehend that way

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of living in so they dismiss it, which is to say,

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we are not rational beings. And what looks like a

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sensible move literally and metaphorically on the Wales's part could

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well have irrational outcomes. Watching people in a gilded cage

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can breed far less resentment than watching someone lead an

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ordinary life, much better and more comfortable then you can

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ever dream of. Royal expert and biographer Robert Hartman spoke

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to gb News about William's plan to live at Forest

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Lodge when he is the monarch. Hartman said, I don't

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think that's tenable. When the Late Queen came to the

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throne in nineteen fifty two, she and Prince Philip had

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just done up Clarence House as a sort of family

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home with their two young children. They loved it and

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they didn't want to move The Queen mother, who was

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resident at Buckingham Palace, didn't want to move out. They

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presented their plans to the Prime Minister Winston Churchill, and

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it was Churchill who said 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 a visceral connection between

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the monarch and Royal h Q. Palace entry will be

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right back. What a home with no occupants really needs

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is a library. As the three hundred and sixty nine

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million pounds or renovation of Buckingham Palace continues, Queen Camilla

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has reportedly made one special request her own library. Despite

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generally avoiding involvement in royal property decisions, the Queen Consort

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is said to be making an exception for her lifelong

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love of reading. According to The Daily Mail, Camilla hopes

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to install a dedicated library in the palace, which notably

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lacks one after King George the Fourth donated the original

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King's Library to the British Museum in the nineteenth century.

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A source noted that Camilla is just trying to see

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if it would be possible at this stage given the

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extensive structural work already underway. Several locals from Cranbourne Hall

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residential Park, just a six minute drive from the new

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home of the Wales family, exposed excitement as having Prince William,

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Princess Kate and their three children as neighbors, while acknowledging

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that the new residence is notably less secluded than their

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previous home, Adelaide Cottage. I welcome them, but the public

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life them to live there quietly as a family, said

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eighty seven year old Gene Reeve. It's a less private

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spot than their previous home. From what I know about

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the location, I'd hate for people to always be going

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past and saying, oh, that's where they live. I've never

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heard anyone around here saying anything anti royalist, said local

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teacher Cynthia Sullivan. I think most people tend to like

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them around here. Reeve echoed that sentiment, describing the Whales

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as as lovely and praising the down to earth approach.

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It's a new style of monarchy. They'd like to be

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treated as normal people. It will be interesting to see

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if they pop into the local newsagent. It's their nearest now.

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Resident Steven Scorgie even offered a few personal recommendations and

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an invitation. They should go to the Firefield Inn. That's

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