The King's Comeback - and does Trump wants Prince Harry gone?

0:00 A calorogus shark media at lo and welcome to Palace Intrigue. I'm your host, Mark Francis. King Charles and Queen ca Miller brought their four day United States visit to it close with a stop in the small town of Front Royal, Virginia, where crowds had gathered along Main Street in warm spring sunshine, waving British and American flags as the Royal motorcade arrived to cheers. The visit marked a shift from the tightly controlled engagements of Washington and New York, with the King and Queen stepping into a more informal setting, meeting residents, greeting a local youth baseball team, first responders and veterans, and taking in what one correspondent described as a full display of small town American pageantry. Accompanied by Virginia Governor Abigail Spanburger and local officials, the couple watched marching bands, cheer groups, and a parade of vintage cars passed down main Street, pausing to wave to crowds and observed perform went as bluegrass music and Appalachian traditions, including clog dancing, formed the backdrop to the event. At the block party itself.

1:08 The King and Queen sampled the atmosphere and met community groups including Scouts and young farmers, while also viewing local produce and agricultural displays. In keeping with American custom, they arrived bearing food contributing a coronation keach created to mark the King's twenty twenty three coronation, along with a victorious sponge cake and honey from Royal hives, some of it prepared at the British Embassy in Washington. During the visit, Queen Camilla made a brief stop at a stand run by the Boy Scouts and Girl Scouts, youth organizations focused on leadership and life skills. The Girl Scouts, dressed in their traditional uniforms, were selling cookies to raise funds for their activities, and the Queen was seen giving them cash in exchange for what appeared to be their well known thin mints. The King and Queen appeared quite comfortable royal inside at Deep Crown observed there is a quality that the best of them have, and it's almost impossible to define precisely, which is why people spend so much time trying.

2:04 It is not charm exactly, although charm is part of it. It is not warmth, though warmth helps. It is the ability to stand on a pavement in a small town in front of people who have been waiting two hours in the spring sunshine, and make those people feel that you are genuinely pleased to be there. Charles has it. He has always had it, which is one of the great underreported stories of his public life. William has it. Catherine has it in abundance. Harry has his own version of it, less formal, more instinctive. It is a real thing, and it matters enormously. People are sometimes whether this quality can be learned, and the honest answer is, up to a point. You can learn to hold a conversation. You can learn to remember names, you can learn not to look at your watch. What you cannot learn, or at least what no one in this family has successfully learned after the fact, is the ability to make the machinery disappear.

2:54 The machinery has to actually not be there, or it has to have been running so long that it has become invisible even to the person operating it. Charles has been doing this for fifty years. The machinery is invisible. That is what Front Royal looked like for the BBC, Shawn Coughlin wonders have the Royals got their mojo backed from the US visit. Coughlin writes, King Charles must be pitching himself at the moment. After months and months of terrible headlines, He's suddenly surrounded by applause, and many commentators, even critics of the monarchy, seemed delighted at the spectacle. It was the underdog winning the cup against all expectations. Let's be honest. The multiple scandals about Andrew mount Batten Windsor have really put the Royals on the ropes. King Charles sometimes has the melancholy look of someone who keeps getting disappointing phone calls. Of course, the sudden international popularity for the King could be as fickle as a holiday romance.

3:45 Once he's away from the bright lights of the US, he'll be back home to the questions about Andrew MP's will be digging around his finances, and there will inevitably be more front pages about Prince Harry. But it's quite possible that at some point in the future when there are clips being played of King Charles's most successful moments of his reign, will be watching that speech at the US Congress and those US lawmakers so unexpectedly cheering him to the rafters. Richard Eden had a few interesting notes in his column. One suggests that Trump would like William and Kate to visit. While it has been assumed William wilcome for the world cup, Eden adds, Millennia wants Catherine in particular to come, says a US source, She admires her greatly and would love her to visit. The first Lady's enthusiasm is shared by many of the Americans I spoke with in the past few days. While they are respectful of the King and Queen, they are more excited about William and Catherine. And when it comes to a visit, what better timing could there be than July fourth, and the biggest Independence Stays celebration in two hundred and fifty years.

4:42 The other items of note, Eden writes, I learned of an interesting comment Trump made to a British visitor when the conversation turned to Harry, can you take him back, poor palasin? Just a moment following the trip to the United States, the King arrived in Bermuda, making a low key arrival in Hamilton, the island's capital, where he was greeted by officials including Governor Andrew Murdock, Premier David Burt, along with a guard of honor from the Royal Bermuda Regiment. The King also met Bermuda born Michael Frith, a designer of many of the Muppets characters, along with his wife, Catherine Mullen. The pair briefly showcased their internationally acclaimed puppetry work and explained the Bermudian inspiration behind elements of their creations.

5:26 At the Royal Naval Dockyard, the King visited the keep yard and joined members of the public to watch a performance by the National Gombie Dance Troupe. He ended the day with a garden party at Government House, attended by a cross section of guests representing Bermudian life. The Queen did not make the Bermuda trip, but did turn heads when she was spotted casually walking unaccompanied through US airport social media. Onlookers were surprised by the sighting, with some questioning whether she was traveling home on a commercial flight. One commenter praised the lack of fuss and drama in her exit, while others admired her unruffled and relaxed demeanor. Gossip colonist Rob Shooter suggests Harry and Meghan went out of their way not to watch the King's address to Congress.

6:08 Shooter reports they didn't watch it, not live, not later, not at all. One insider says, once upon a time that would have been unthinkable. Now it makes the point for them. There is no relationship right now. One source says, no calls, no messages, no outreach, no back channel. It has gone completely cold. They are done looking back. One insider says they do not need Charles, they do not need the Palace, they do not need permission. They've moved on. President Trump said he would remove tariffs on Scottish whiskey, trumpling to the decision to both the royal visit and long standing tires between the Scotch whisky industry and the American bourbon sector. Posting on social media, he said, the King and Queen got me to do something that nobody else was able to do without hardly even asking. In honor of the King and Queen of the United Kingdom, who have just left the White House, I will be removing the tariffs and restrictions on whiskey, having to do with Scotland's ability to work with the Commonwealth of Kentucky on whiskey and bourbon to very important industries within Scotland and Kentucky. People have wanted to do this for a long time in that there had been great inter country trade, especially having to do with the wooden barrels used. On social media, Peers Morgan posted texting with President Trump and he's ecstatic about the royal visit. Told me King Charles is a great guy and the state dinner was a wonderful evening, very special. I think the Monarch and Queen Camilla single handedly repaired the special relationship. Congrats, Your Majesty's.

7:32 Royal author Robert Hardman met with the President in the Oval Office, where Hardman presented a copy of his biography of Queen Elizabeth. During the exchange, Trump is said to have praised King Charles, stating he's a great guy. He really is. And he also spoke positively about the Prince of Wales, saying William He'll be a good king, won't he. He's very nice, great guy. I like him. Trump then reportedly asked whether Harry could return to royal duties, saying so can Harry make a comeback after being told to move was unlikely. He reportedly added to many things I guess before making a critical remark about the Duchess of Sussex, saying that wife of his boy, what she has done to that guy? And there you have it. If you like to email us and addresses the Palace Intrigue at gmail dot com, please follow us on Spotify or the app that you're using. Mark Francis My thanks to John McDermott.

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