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Callaroga Shark Media. Hello and welcome to Palace Injury Game.
I'm your host, Mark Francis. In The Daily Mail, Alison
Bouschow suggests we will get a third season of Meghan's
cooking show after all. Bouchof writes there will be a
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third series of the Duchess's lifestyle show With Love Meghan
if she wants to make one, and I hear she does.
Multiple sources say the couple are getting a new first
look deal with the screener, which will be in line
with the sixty five million dollar deal that Barack and
Michelle Obama now have and it doesn't get bigger than that.
I also hear there are options on the table for
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other lifestyle shows from the Duchess, tied to hosting gatherings
at Thanksgiving or Christmas. The idea is to announce those
in September, when the second series already shot of With
Love Meghan drops. In fact, one well placed source believes
the Sussex are going to make more money next year
from Netflix and Megan's Netflix backed brand as Ever than
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they did this year, but it's bad news for their
own large team at Archiweald Productions, which has been funded
up to now by the Netflix exclusive deal. Insiders suggest
that running the team in the office costs around three
million dollars a year, Although the team won't comment, some
belt tightening on the production stage looks inevitable. The fate
of projects and development, including a rom com film based
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on the book Meet Me at the Lake and a
retelling of Charles Dickens's Great Expectations, is not known. The
piece quotes Puck News Lauren Sherman, who said, I've never
understood why marcl who legitimately moves product when she wears
or endorses something, didn't team up with a licensing firm
faster sister's style, or go ahead and raise capital from
her inner Montecito circle to start a Goopsdale business. But
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there are a few things holding her back. First, she
is terribly polarizing, and even more so than Gwyneth. A
lot of people who might by a sweater Markel is
wearing from J Crew or le Lynde would be embarrassed
to serve a bottle of her wine at a dinner party.
A former Sussex employee told Sherman the one thing Meghan
and Harry have done consistently is make the wrong decision.
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That's not for want of trying, because, as another close
source told me, they are horrible at making decisions. They
ask everyone and then don't take their advice. Radar Online,
which tends to be a little more gossipy than the
British tabloids, suggests Meghan is growing increasingly unsettled as Prince
Harry pursues reconciliation talks with the Royal family without her
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by his side. The unease reportedly began after a quiet
but significant meeting took place on July twelfth at the
Royal Overseas League in London, where King Charles Communications Secretary
Tobin Andrea met with two of Harry's senior UK advisors,
Meredith Mainz and Liam McGuire. A source close to Meghan
said Meghan knows it's wise for them to rebuild ties
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with the Royals, but the pace of it all has
left her rat She feels like things are slipping out
of her hands, especially now that Harry's calling the shots
without checking in with her the way he once did.
She's afraid the Royals are trying to win Harry back
while sidelining her in the process. She's made it clear
to him that he has to respect their partnership and
not shut her out of these decisions. Another insider noted
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Harry's stepped up to handle the talks himself, partly because
he knows Megan, despite his love for her, can be
perceived as confrontational. But this whole situation is way outside
her comfort zone and she's increasingly paranoid the royals are
working to break them up. Megan, sources say, worries that
history could be repeating itself, recalling the Queen's fateful letter
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to Charles and Diana that helped bring their marriage to
an end. One source explained, she's clinging to the hope
that this doesn't backfire and end with them manipulating him
to turn on her as a reconciliation process moves forward.
Parallels to the Queen's direct an uncompromising letter to Charles
and Diana loomed large. With old woo still fresh, Meghan's
anxiety centers on whether history might repeat itself and whether
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her partnership may once again be deemed expendable in search
of royal repair. We may have a new budding royal
star beginning to emerge. Harriet Spurling, a pediatric NH nurse
and the girlfriend of Peter Phillips, has quietly become one
of this summer's most watched royal dresses, blending understated elegance
with the effortless charm of someone who doesn't appear to
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be trying too hard. Since making her public debut with
Peter at the Badminton Horse Trials in May of twenty
twenty four, where she wore a high street Zara dress
that suddenly mirrored Queen Camilla's own blue ensemble, Spurling has
consistently struck the right note with her wardrobe, from Royal
Ascot to Wimbledon and the Guard's Polo Club. She's opted
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for polished British labels like Susannah London, bulah Me and
m Wiggie Kitten Saint Clair, brands favored by the Princess
of Wales and Duchess of Edinburgh. She is stunning in
the flesh and charming too, says j Chadwick Healey, form
of Vogue editor and fashion advisor to the Princess of Wales.
I truly believe she's also happy and that brings so
much to an outfit designer. Wiggy Heinmarsh noted that her
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style feels effortless yet considered. She has a great eye
for color, what suits her frame and what's appropriate for
each event. Spurling Wiggi kits Linen Coor to Wimbledon and
a Saint Clair Midi dress with Gucci sunglasses to the
Royal charity Bollow Club, pairing elegance with a dash of
relaxed glamour. With no formal royal role war title, Spurling
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currently enjoys more freedom than official working royals, though that
could change if her relationship with Peter Phillips continues to deepen.
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as them. Available wherever you get your podcasts. England's Lioness
has returned home triumphant after retaining their European Championship title,
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but the celebration at Buckingham Palace came with a notable absence.
No members of the royal family were there to greet them.
According to the Daily Mail, the Football Association had expected
at least one royal to appear as the team's victory
parade passed by the Palace following their dramatic penalty shootout
when over Spain in the Euro twenty twenty five final.
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While Prince William, president of the FA, was present in
Basel for the match itself, he reportedly opted to remain
on holiday afterwards, with sources suggesting he is in Greece,
possibly even on a secret super yacht. However, royal sources
told gb News the absence was intentional, with the palace
keen that the Lionesses themselves remained the focus of the moment,
which is a nice way to cover that the president
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of the Football Association likes to vacation and may have
even been on a secret super yacht. Princess Charlotte may
have delighted Royal fans with her surprise appearance alongside Prince
William at the women's Euro twenty twenty five final in Switzerland.
But her name was notably absent from the official court circular.
While Prince William's attendance had been announced in advance, Charlotte's
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presence was kept under wraps until the two appeared in
these stands. However, the official Royal record of the day
made no mention of her. Some royal watchers wondered about
the omission, and as much as we like a good
royal conspiracy, the reason for Charlotte's mission is actually quite boring.
She is not a working royal and only official duties
carried out by senior, working members of the Royal family
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are recorded in the court circular. Caribbean nations are uniting
behind Jamaica's bold call for reparative justice, with regional leaders
endorsing a petition to King Charles that seeks legal clarity
on Britain's role in the Transatlantic slave trade. Prime Minister
Andrew Holness announced that the Caricom Leader's Summit that Jamaica
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had secured broad support for its petition, which urges the
King to request legal advice from the Judicial Committee of
the Privy Council. The Final Court would appeal for many
Commonwealth countries on whether slavery in Jamaica was a crime
against humanity and whether the UK has a legal obligation
to provide redress. Wholeness described the move as a watershed
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moment for CARICOM and the broader global movement for reparatory justice.
He said, if the petition succeeds, the United Kingdom bears
a legal obligation to provide reparations to Jamaica and its
people for the enduring harm caused. Antigua and Barbuda's Prime Minister,
Gaston Brown framed reparations as a matter of economic justice.
Not only were our forebearers exploited in terms of not
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being paid, but the profits that were generated were repatriated
to Europe and North America to build out their economies.
They left our countries bereft of importance social institutions, hospitals, schools.
Natalia Wheatley, Premier of the British Virgin Islands, praised cara
COM's resolve in the face of what he called ridicule
from parts of the UK. Some persons would just prefer
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not to listen to it, he said, but we appreciate
the leadership and they have it. If you'd like to
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