Princess Eugenie Welcomes a Baby Girl as Charles Reportedly Invites Andrew Back to Balmoral

0:03 Calorogus Shark Media headlong Welcome through Palace Intrigue. I am your host, Mark Francis. Princess Eugenie and Jack brooks Bank have welcomed their third child, a baby girl, born in Lisbon. The baby arrived on Monday at six twenty pm British summer time, weighing six pounds. Nine Ouncers Buckingham Pallace announced the birth and the statement, saying their majesties, the King and Queen and other members of the royal family were delighted to be informed of the news. Princess Eugenie also shared the happy news on Instagram. She wrote, Jack and I are so excited to announce baby girl brooks Bank.

0:43 We are beyond in love with our girly. The couple did not announce their daughter's name. The decision to wait before announcing a baby's name is common within the royal family. Royal commentator Victoria Arbota previously told Town and Country the reasoning is perhaps to fold. On one hand, there's a desire to inform the families before a public declaration is made, and any new parent appreciates having a little private time to get to know their new edition before the onslaught of announcements. Kaith and William revealed Prince George's name two days after his birth, and followed the same pattern with Princess Charlotte. Prince Harry's name was made public in less than twenty four hours after he was born, and the longest wait of all came in nineteen forty eight, when Queen Elizabeth and Prince Philip did not publicly announce the name of their first child, the future King Charles, for an entire month. The new arrival joins older brothers August, who was born in twenty twenty one and Ernest, who arrived in twenty three. The baby will not hold the title of his or her Royal Highness, since Princess Eugenie is not a working royal and her children do not automatically receive royal titles. She will, however, become fifteenth in line of succession to the British throne. The baby may have been born in Lisbon, but that doesn't make her any less British. According to barrister Ben Keith, British nationality is generally determined by the nationality of a child's parents, not by the country where the child is born. Keith explained when one parent is a British national by birth, in this case a member of the Royal family, the child's nationality is British even though she is born in Portugal.

2:15 King Charles is reportedly extending another olive branch to his younger brother, Andrew Batton Windsor, with an invitation to baal Moral later this summer. According to the Daily Mails e from hard Castle, Andrew has been invited to spend time at the royal estate in Aberdeen Sheher, where he will be able to play golf and enjoy a quieter environment away from public attention. The report claims Charles is concerned about Andrew's well being following years of intense scrutiny over his association with the late convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. The column says the King is acutely conscious of the poor state of Andrew's mental health and believes to stay at Baumorl would allow his brother to remain unseen while enjoying the estate's golf course and a stress free change.

2:57 The invitation is also said to extend to Princess Beatrice and Princess Eugenie, who traditionally joined members of the royal family during the annual summer gathering in Scotland. According to the report, however, the invitation comes with one important condition. Andrew would not arrive until after the King Charles and Queen Camilla had already left bal Moral. New photographs of King Charles attending the my Highland Games have received a small but persistent royal debate. Will Prince William eventually embrace one of Scotland's best known royal traditions. Although William carries the Scottish title Duke of Rothsay while in Scotland and regularly undertakes engagements there, he has never publicly worn a kilt.

3:37 Former royal butler Grant Harold tells the Scottish Daily Express. He said, it's safe to say he doesn't have the same love for Scotland that his father, grandmother and great grandmother had. It's not to say he doesn't like Scotland, he just doesn't have the same passion. He holidays at Sandringham. While the King and late Queen always escaped to Scotland, it is important for the royals to have strong ties with Scotland. Queen Elizabeth said and did everything in her power to join the two countries, and this has been inherited by King Charles, but Prince William has not shown it in the same way, which is worrying. These are important historical ties and for William not to show the same support of interests is sad. I think they will be looking at trying to increase his popularity up there, and this is a start, but I think he will need to go and stay up there for periods of time to really make a difference. We know that William is doing things his own way and they won't be able to force him. We have already seen this different approach to the monarchy, so time will tell on how he approaches this relationship. Harold also pointed to one symbolic difference between William and earlier generations of royals. William also never wears a kilt, and historically royals have always worn kilts.

4:41 The fact that he hasn't done this shows he doesn't want to go down the traditional route, which we have seen in many aspects of his modern approach to royal life and more palacing just a moment. King Charles has reflected publicly on one of the closest calls of his life, recalling the avalanche struck during a skiing holiday in Switzerland nearly four decades ago. The King spoke about the nineteen eighty eight tragedy while hosting members of the Ascent Mountain Rescue Team at the Castle of Mayan, Caithness. Eleven volunteers from the rescue organization were invited to the reception as the team marked its fiftieth anniversary. During the event, Charles discussed the dangers of mountain rescue and recalled the avalanche at Clusters that killed his close friend, Major Hugh Lindsay, who had served as an equerry to Queen Elizabeth. On March tenth, nineteen eighty eight, the then Prince Charles was skiing off Pissed above Clusters when an avalanche swept through the group. Major Lindsay was carried hundreds of meters down the mountain and later died from his injuries. Another member of the party, Patty Talmer Tomkinson, was seriously injured, while Charles and several others managed to escape. According to The Times, Ascint Mountain Rescue Team leader Ben Dyson said the King's memories of the incident remained vivid. The King spoke of the neemis he had in that avalanche and the context of the dangers mountains contain. He said it was a close thing of his. After all these years, it is still much in his memory, but it has given him an insight to the valuable work we do in the dangers we face, Dyson said. The king also showing a keen interest in modern rescue techniques, particularly the growing use

6:13 of drones during mountain emergencies. He added, but obviously his own experience has helped inform him of the work we and other mountain rescue teams carry out. Charles also spent time asking the volunteers about their careers outside mountain rescue, since the forty member team serves entirely on a voluntary basis. Dyson described the King as being in very good form, adding that Charles treated the group to locally produced whiskey, as well as tea and coffee. One of the more unusual stories from King charles childhood has resurfaced, involving a medieval church font that was transported more than five hundred miles so the future king could have it nearby when he was at school. According to the BBC, the twelfth century Norman font originally stood inside Saint Michael's Church at Upton Cresset in Shropshire, but after Prince Philip visited the church in the sixties, he arranged for it to be moved to Gordonstown School in Scotland, where Charles had enrolled in nineteen sixty two. The church had closed in nineteen fifty eight and was in poor condition wheny of its historic contents were expected to be placed into storage, but Prince Philip reportedly decided the ancient font deserved a more prominent home. William Cash, whose family had cared for the church for the past fifty years, said the Duke of Edinburgh believed it would be better used at Gordonstown than sitting in storage. I think Philip thought what a ways to have it just sitting in a storage unit. The heavy stone font remained in the school's chapel throughout charles time there, before eventually returning to Saint Michael's during the seventies.

7:39 Cash said the story is still surprises visitors today. This is a strange story that to this day most people don't know about, he said, adding that visitors find it almost impossible to believe that this font has moved so many hundreds of miles for the king's esthetic benefit. It always feels like something out of an Arthurian legend, like this was a font that was fit for a king. I'd like to email us or addresses the Palace Intrigue at gmail dot com. If you're listening on Spotify, leave us a comment. If you're on Apple, hit that button that says listen uninterrupted and you can get this show for five bucks a month commercial free. It's a bargain. Let me appreciate the support. Mike Right is my thanks to John McDermott. This is Palace Intrigue and good Times.