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Ah Calorogu Shark Media. Hello and welcome to Palace Intrigue.
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I am your host, Mark Francis. Prince William has been
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described as quite cold by Daily Mail show business editor
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Nicole Lampert. She made the comments during an appearance on
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Kinsey Schofield's Unfiltered podcast, as the pair discussed the very
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different ways William and Harry handled public life. Schofield praised
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William and Princess Catherine for maintaining boundaries around their private
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lives rather than sharing every detail with the public. Lampet
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praised Catherine in particular, but suggested William could show another
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side of himself more often. She said, William seems to
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be quite cold, so maybe we want him to be
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a bit warmer. Lampet contrasted that with Harry's recent public appearances, saying,
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I think when Harry was in the UK recently we
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saw him preparing for the Invictus Games and joking around
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with people. We missed that joviality in the Royal familyssessment
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did not go over particularly well with some Royal watchers.
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One commenter wrote, William is not cold at all. He
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plays it well, hugs at the right time and then
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becomes professional when he has to be. Prince William and
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Prince Harry may still not be speaking directly, but a
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report claims the brothers remain extremely interested in what the
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other one is doing. The National Examiner's unnamed source claims
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they both have people in each other's respective worlds. William
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wants to know exactly what is being said between his
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father and Harry, what's being promised, and anything else that
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might have a bearing on his own situation. He can't
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ask the King, so he's having to rely on the courtiers.
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He's pumping all their mutual friends for info too. He
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always wants to know the latest about his brother and
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sister in law. But according to the report, Harry is
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doing essentially the same thing from the other side of
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the Atlantic. The source said it's very awkward because no
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one wants to upset him. It's also putting loads of
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people in the middle because Harry is doing the same thing.
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The source claimed. The Duke of Sussex wants to know
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exactly what's being said about him and may and just
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how far the dagger is going into his back. Neither
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William or Harry will admit it, but there's no doubt
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they're spying on each other. Prince George will attend Eaton
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College beginning in September, following in the footsteps of his father,
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Prince William, and the school is already preparing for the
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additional attention that comes with having a future king among
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its students. Hello reports that no photography science have been
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placed outside Eton, remaining members of the public and the
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media not to photograph pupils on school grounds. When William
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arrived at Eton in nineteen ninety five, the royal family
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and the press eventually reached an arrangement allowing occasional organized
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photographs in exchange for William being left alone during his
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everyday school life. A similar approach could potentially be used
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for George. Williams said that one of the things he
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valued about Eaton was the opportunity to be treated as
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just another student. In the news dot co dot Au
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Daniela also took a look at William's unwillingness to wear kilts.
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She writes, the last time that he was photographed wearing
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a kilt was in nineteen ninety aged eight, and in
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that rare sighting the week Chap looked like iron fisted
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nanny must have forcibly zipped him into it. The man
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clearly does not want to wear one, no matter the
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political repercussions. It would be very tempting to spend the
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next five hundred words decoding William's obstinate refusal pathological knee
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shyness maybe, but I'll nobly refrain and focus on the
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bigger picture. His obstinate refusal to put on traditional dress
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is not any kind of weird, but bigger picture speaks
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volumes about William's approach to much of royal life these days,
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which comes down to yeh nah, he will do the
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bits of royal in his fancies and boot sucks to
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the rest of it. He clearly does not want to
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wear a kilt, so does not, nor does he now
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attend the Chelsea Flower show Lord hundreds of meat and potatoes,
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working engagements of opening you diesel pumping plants, or do
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these sorts of extended overseas tours that the Foreign Office
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must be chumping at the bit for he and Kate,
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the Princess of Wales, to get on with. The couple
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has not undertaken a joint international tour since March twenty
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twenty two, when their Caribbean visit skittered off course and
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became all about race power and the ghosts of slavery
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and republicanism. Even footage of Kate eating a raw conch
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didn't manage to get people to look away from the
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car crash. Obviously, the princess cancer diagnosis, chemotherapy and recovery
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has played a part in this long gap between tours.
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But we are now passed the point where any conclusion
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can be drawn, but the obvious one that the Prince
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and Princess don't want to leave their kids at home
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with a friezer full of ready mills. Why they tray
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to boost English cheddar sales in what the Palace probably
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still horribly calls the orient or Palace in just a moment.
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King Charles was once mocked for his environmental views, but
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a former royal chef says the King has now been vindicated.
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Lison Anderson, who previously served as head chef for Charles,
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says the monarch's focus on organic food, seasonal produce and
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sustainability was years ahead of mainstream thinking, and said working
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for Charles was like an encyclopedia of learning about seasonality,
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vegetables and organic meats. Everything is made in house. What
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King Charles preachers he does. We would get everything from
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the Duchy estate that included dairy products, and then said,
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so when it comes to milk, it would come from
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the cows and we would pasteurize it for things like
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double cream. It's extremely self sufficient. We would make our
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own breads, cakes and juices everything. Charles's interest in environmental
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issues stretches back in decades. As Prince of Wales, he
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spoke publicly about pollution and the environmental damage caused by
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disposable plastics as early as nineteen seventy, long before those
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subjects became part of mainstream political conversation at the time.
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Those concerns sometimes earned him ridicule, including the nickname Mad Prince,
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and said, from a chef's perspective, when you come from
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restaurants at the time, I was learning there was no
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such thing as heritage produce, seasonality or ethical sourcing. Nothing
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about that. When I was starting out, Charles was way
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ahead of the curve. They called him the mad Prince,
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but that can be taken back. King Charles has found
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a new use for one of the more unusual buildings
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on the Sandringham estate. Sandringham has inveiled the newly restored
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water Tower, the Victorian structure that has been part of
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the King's Norfolk State for nearly one hundred and fifty years.
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The estate announced the restoration with a video and the
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message the weight is over, introducing the water tower. Built
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in eighteen seventy seven, the tower wasn't originally designed as
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a royal retreat. It was infrastructure engineer James Mansurg designed
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the circular building in a distinctive Neo Byzantine style to
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help provide fresh water for Sandringham House and the surrounding estate.
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At the top of the tower sat a cast iron
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tank capable of holding thirty two thousand gallons of water.
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The tower became one of the more distinctive landmarks on
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the estate, even after its original practical purpose became obsolete. Now,
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under King Charles, the Victorian building has been restored and
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repurposed to welcome guests. A letter from two children in
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Lancashire has made its way all the way to Buckingham Palace.
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Thomas and Charlotte wrote to King Charles after meeting him
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during his visit to Clithoro auction Mark in February. The
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children presented the King with their pedigree beef short horn
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bull calf, and later sent him a thank you letter
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along with the painting of Pendle Hill by Charlotte. Now
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their correspondence has been selected for a display in bucking
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and Pallas's Family Pavilion featuring letters and artwork sent to
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the King by children around the world. Thomas and Charlotte wrote,
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it was a very special day for our family and
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we felt very proud to present our pedigree beef short
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horn bull calf to you. We will always remember how
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kind and interested you were when you spoke to us.
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We are very grateful that you support British farming and
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rural communities. Your visit means a great deal to everyone
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at the market. The Royal Family says. The display includes
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correspondence from children as far away as News Zealand and
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the Falkland Islands, as well as letters I'm around Britain
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and there is plenty to choose from. King Charles and
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Queen Camilla received more than fifty thousand letters during twenty
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twenty five, nearly one hundred and fifty every day, A
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Royal Family spokesperson said, in the display at Buckingham Palace,
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we've shared some of these brilliant letters and drawings which
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have been sent to His Majesty from young people across
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the world, from New Zealand to the falk Ones, to
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Devon and Lancashire. Buckingham Palace's correspondence office sends hundreds of
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replies to young letter writers every week, and for Thomas
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and Charlotte, their message to the King has now become
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part of the Palace itself. And there you have it.
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