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Hello and welcome to Palace Intrigue. I am your host,
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Mark Francis. Daniela Ulsa, writing for news dot co dot uk,
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warns the Duchess of Sussex to use her title while
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she still can. Also writes the Duchess of Sussex posted
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an Instagram video of her Worligig talk fest trip to Washington,
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where she swapped pushing her Jammy Kashmere Cottage Corpusona to
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tout her entrepreneurial learns and included a fleeting shot that
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showed she has what appears to be a monogrammed DS
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Toat's bag. She should use it every day, all day
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while she still can. According to a new report, that
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Tote could end up woefully redundant, with the forty four
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year old reduced to being Plain of Missus Meghan Baton Windsor.
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Within weeks of King William's reign, he will strike the
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match on a bonfire of royal titles. According to the
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incredibly well sourced and well connected Tom Sykes, the question
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of who gets what title brought back to the four
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last week as the Andrew dumpster fire grew and grew
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a conflagration that is doing more damage to the Royal
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family than Catholicism the Liftwaffer, Gout and Gin has ever done.
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Under William, things will reportedly change as fast as modern
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sovereign with his own MacBook air can bang out new
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letters patent. As part of these sweeping reforms, Sykes writes
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in The Beast, the Sussexes will also have their dukedoms
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and hrhs formally revoked. This will leave them legally as
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mister and missus Harry Mount Baton windsor nothing more. A
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friend of Williams has told Sykes of this across the
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board title action. It should have been done by Charles
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this week, but William knows he doesn't have the strength
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because of his illness. William's understanding of his father's situation,
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William won't be afraid to take the next step. Royal
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biographer Andrew Morton tells the ABC for years, Prince Andrew
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has been following the monarchy around like a bad smell.
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I don't envy King Charles. He has made it clear
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that Andrew is no longer wanted on board when it
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comes to royal engagements and royal duties, and that he
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wants to get him out of Royal Lodge, but his
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hands are tired. I mean, it's a mess. There's no
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easy way around it. They can't send him to jail.
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They just have to accommodate them. And I think just
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staying where they are in the open prison of Windsor
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Great Park is probably the only solution. But Morton says
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Prince Andrew isn't the only problem facing the royal family.
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The continuing estrangement between Prince Harry and Prince William has
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left what he calls a Harry and Megan sized hole
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in the monarchy. Harry and Meghan are bumping along at
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the bottom of the opinion polls currently, but I think
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they would soon get up there if they started royal
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work again. But I just don't see that happening. I
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spend quite a lot of time in Montecito, and all
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the mood music is that they've made their lives there.
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The kids go to school there, they go surfing on
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Butterfly Beach. Harry makes the odd flight to London for
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his charities. Megan's got a circle of friends who call
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a meg. I don't see her flying back to London
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at any time soon. Morton said, Princess Diana would have
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been heartbroken by the split between her sons. She said
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to me that she saw Harry as William's wingman, certainly
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not a hit man, and she would have been absolutely
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devastated to have seen this split between the two brothers.
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I think everybody was shocked by the ferocity in the
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feud because they seemed very amicable Joshing brothers. They organized
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concerts for Diana's memory to charity, motorbike rides over in
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Africa together, and Harry, Kate and William were quite the troyker.
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He reflected that even as children, the contrast between the
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brothers was clear. William had more gravitas, he said, while
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Harry was the mischievous imp who would shoot at you
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with a water pistol hiding behind the door. The sad
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thing for me is that I was there at the
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wedding of Harry and Meghan, and there was such potential.
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They seemed like a genuine step change for the monarchy
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to have this divorced biracial American in the family. But
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it didn't work out like that, did it. In her wisdom,
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her Majesty gave both Harry and Meghan positions in the Commonwealth.
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If they wanted to live in New Zealand or in Sydney,
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that would have suited them, and it's a great shame
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that they didn't because it has left a big hole
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not just in the Commonwealth but in the monarchy more palace.
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for tradition, discretion and a distinctly non American calendar, the
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royal family has dabbled in Halloween costumes over the years,
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some charming, others less. So let's begin with the more
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wholesome entries. Princess Eugenie once revealed she and her sister
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Beatrice loved Halloween growing up and would dress up like
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any other children, a rare glimpse into royal domesticity that
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involved witches, pumpkins, and reportedly, one year a spice calls phase.
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Prince William has admitted to being haunted by the memory
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of dressing up as a caterpillar at one point. No photos, thankfully,
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although we live in hope. As for Catherine, the Princess
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of Wales, she's kept her public Halloween appearances minimal, but
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it said she once wore a black cat suit to
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a university party back in the early two thousands, the
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same party where a young William supposedly realized he might
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like her more than just as a flatmate. The power
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of feline fashion. The Sussexes Harry and Meghan had their
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own Halloween moment in twenty sixteen, back when they were
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still under the radar. They reportedly spent the evening incognito
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at a Halloween party in Toronto, one of the last
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nights before it was out in the world. Megan would
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later say a very fun night out with people in
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silly costumes and nobody knew that bubble, of course, would
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soon burst. But not all costumes have been charming. In
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two thousand and five, at twenty year old Prince Harry
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caused a global outrage when he wore a Nazi uniform
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to a friend's costume party, a decision that remains one
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of the darkest marks on his record. The Sun newspaper
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ran the photo with the headline Harry the Nazi, and
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the backlash was immediate. Apologies were issued, lessons were supposedly learned,
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and in his memoir Spare Harry would later claim the
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idea had been encouraged by both William and Kate, a
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detail that Palace has never confirmed. Regardless of the moment,
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lives on as a cautionary tale in both royal conduct
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and poor costume judgment. As for King Charles, Halloween has
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never really been his thing, but he has been known
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to support spooky adjacent traditions like sam Haine and seasonal
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harvest festivals. During his organic farming events, less trick or treat,
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more apple bobbing with a side of compost. And while
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the royal family has never been known for decorating windsor
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castle with cobwebs or greeting children with pumpkin buckets. It
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is worth noting that many of their residences, particularly Sandringham
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and Bowmorl, have long histories of reported hauntings. The late
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Queen was said to be fond of ghost stories, particularly
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those involving Sandringham House. So if he ever wondered whether
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Halloween has a place behind the palace gates, the answer
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is yes. But like all things royal, it's wrapped in history,
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dressed modestly and never too scary unless you're talking about
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that caterpillar costume. As the nights grow longer and All
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Hallows Eve approaches, it's not just the ghouls and goblins
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we have to worry about for the British Royal family.
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Some of their grandest residences come with more than just
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creaking floorboards and drafty halls. They come with ghosts. Let's
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begin at Windsor Castle, the oldest and largest inhabited castle
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in the world. It's also one of the most haunted.
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George the Third, the Mad King, has been spotted peering
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out of the room where he was confined during his
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final years. Several guards have claimed to hear the sound
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of weeping from that very window, and King Henry the Eighth,
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who died there in fifteen forty seven, is said to
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still roam the halls. Heavy footsteps, dragging chains, and even
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ghostly moans have been reported in the cloisters. Moving north
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to Baumoral Castle, the Queen's beloved summer retreat in Scotland,
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a more cheerful setting in life, perhaps, but not without
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its shadows. Queen Victoria's Gilly John Brown was so close
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to her majesty in life that many whispered they were
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romantically involved. After his death, multiple staff members reported seeing
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him walking the corridors at night. Victoria reportedly instructed that
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his rooms never be touched, and after her death the
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sightings became less frequent, but locals still talk about a
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tall Highland figure watching silently from the trees. Then there's
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Sandringham House in Norfolk, quiet, idyllic, and by all accounts,
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are deeply haunted. Staff had spoken of doors slamming with
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no one near, footsteps and empty hallways, and the eerie
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sound of phantom typewriter in the library. Even Queen Elizabeth
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herself reportedly acknowledged the odd atmosphere. One royal footman once
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claimed he would never set foot in the attic again
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after seeing a woman in Victorian dress vanish before his eyes.
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Over at Kensington Palace, where Prince William and Catherine now reside,
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the haunting is said to be more residual than malevolent.
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Princess Sophia, one of King George the Third's daughters, is
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said to still haunt the state apartments, sometimes seen reading
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in a chair or looking out windows that no longer open.
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And finally, Glamous Castle in Scotland ancestral home to the
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Queen Mother and said to be one of the most
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haunted places in Britain. While not a current royal residence,
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its royal ties are strong, and so are the ghost stories.
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From the so called Monster of Glamous, a deformed child
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kept hidden in the walls, to the lady in gray
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who walks the chapel. It's a place where even the
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most skeptical guests tend to sleep with the lights on.
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So while the royal family may not hand out sweets
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at Halloween, they are certainly no strangers to the things
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that go bump in the night. Behind every tapestry and
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under every suit of armor, there may just be a
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monarch of the past, still roaming their favorite holes, Sleep
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