Donald Trump received the most spectacular royal treatment in history this week—unprecedented golden carriage rides, 1,300 military personnel, 41-gun salutes, and a state banquet where he repeatedly called Princess Kate "so beautiful." King Charles pulled out all the stops for Trump's second state visit, creating diplomatic theater on the scale of a coronation.
But behind the pageantry, the royal family was imploding! Prince William was reportedly FURIOUS after discovering King Charles had secretly met with Prince Harry without telling him. When Harry's disastrous Guardian interview dropped 24 hours later—doubling down on demands for "truth" and "accountability"—William reached nuclear meltdown levels. Insiders now say the future king will "throw you out of the room" if you mention Harry's name! Plus: explosive revelations from former royal butler Paul Burrell about Queen Elizabeth's secret cancer battle, Andrew's funeral ambush that left William seething, and why this week of spectacular diplomacy may have permanently destroyed any chance of royal reconciliation forever!
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But behind the pageantry, the royal family was imploding! Prince William was reportedly FURIOUS after discovering King Charles had secretly met with Prince Harry without telling him. When Harry's disastrous Guardian interview dropped 24 hours later—doubling down on demands for "truth" and "accountability"—William reached nuclear meltdown levels. Insiders now say the future king will "throw you out of the room" if you mention Harry's name! Plus: explosive revelations from former royal butler Paul Burrell about Queen Elizabeth's secret cancer battle, Andrew's funeral ambush that left William seething, and why this week of spectacular diplomacy may have permanently destroyed any chance of royal reconciliation forever!
👑 The Palace Intrigue Social Hub is Live! Join the conversation on Facebook and Instagram or click the links to start your royal journey!
👑 Follow our hit series Crown and Controversy! Season 1 is fully available now for everyone. Season 2 starts Sunday 9/21 with new episodes every Sunday on the regular feed. GET THE FULL SEASON 2 BEFORE REGULAR LISTENERS as a subscriber! Hit that "UNINTERRUPTED LISTENING" Banner on the top of the Apple player. AND listent to Crown and Controversy "NORWAY'S ROYAL REBELS" here and get the full season as a premium subscriber now.
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Speaker 1 (00:03):
Caloroga Shark Media.
Speaker 2 (00:17):
Hello and welcome to Palace Weekly. I'm your host, Mark Francis.
This is our weekly roundup of all the stories that
happened during the week on Palace Intrigue, and if you
want the expanded stories, please go back and take a
listen to those daily shows. What are we to be
covering the Royals? Between a spectacular state visit that redefined
(00:37):
diplomatic excess, explosive new revelations about Queen Elizabeth's final days,
and a royal family civil war that's moved from cold
to absolutely arctic, This week had everything pomp, circumstance and
seriously petty royal drama. Monday marked Prince Harry's forty first birthday,
and if you thought that might bring some family unity,
(00:59):
you clearly haven't paying attention to this soap opera. Instead,
Harry's big day became the catalyst for what can only
be described as a royal meltdown of epic proportions. Richard
Eden in The Daily Mail didn't mince words about King
Charles's decision to meet with Harry the week before. Charles is, however,
not only a father but also our monarch, and I
(01:20):
worry that he is making a mistake by appeasing Harry
after his appalling behavior towards the royal family. The criticism
stung because it highlighted a fundamental truth. Charles was being
pulled between his roles as father and king, and many
believed he was failing at the latter. But the real
bombshell came from Rob Shooter's revelation that Prince William had
(01:42):
been completely blindsided by his father's tea and reconciliation session
with Harry. According to a source close to William, he
had no idea Harry was on the schedule and certainly
wasn't asked for input. If William had been consulted, he
would have tried to block it. That's why Charles went
ahead quietly. This wasn't just a family disagreement anymore. This
(02:03):
was the future king being deliberately excluded from major royal
decisions by his own father. The implications were staggering. If
William was already furious about being kept in the dark,
Harry's subsequent interview with the Guardian from Ukraine was like
pouring gasoline on the fire, and what can only be
described as spectacularly poor signing Harry doubled down on every
(02:26):
criticism that had strained his family relationships in the first place.
You cannot have reconciliation before you have truth, Harry declared,
seemingly oblivious to the fact that his father had just
extended an olive branch. He dismissed suggestions that it aired
dirty laundry, saying his book was a series of corrections
to stories already out there. Most damaging of all, he
(02:47):
appeared to allude to his father's mortality, saying the focus
really has to be on my dad. Tom Sykes in
The Royalist was incredulous. Incredibly, the interview appears to have
been given less than twenty four hours after his father
broke with his other son William an overwhelming public opinion
in the UK, and welcomed Harry to his London home
(03:09):
for afternoon tea, breaking a nineteen month estrangement. One asked
from the King's side in connection with the meeting was
a period of silence on the issue of the family's
interpersonal relationships from Harry. Afterwards, the interview revealed a man
who seemed fundamentally unable to read the room. While Charles
had been hoping for discretion and gradual healing, Harry was
(03:32):
back to making demands for accountability and truth, code words
that had become synonymous with public embarrassment for the royal family.
The fallout was swift and brutal. By Saturday, Charlotte Griffiths
in the Daily Mail was reporting insider accounts that painted
a picture of William at his absolute breaking point. William
(03:52):
was back at the point where if you mentioned Prince
Harry in his presence, he would throw you out of
the room. This wasn't just anger, This was a fundamental
shift in William's entire approach to his brother. A source
explained the psychological journey. For some time now, William's anger
had cooled to the point of indifference over his brother,
which was healthy for his mental well being. William had
(04:15):
got to the stage where Harry was a non person.
He had fallen so far beneath his radar as to
have disappeared from his mind altogether. It can't be good
that William has gone back to the point where he
would throw someone out at the very mention of Harry's name.
The revelation that William had gone through all the stages
of grief over his brother was particularly telling. When they
(04:36):
first fell out. He went to Bowmoral and went off
his food just before the Oprah chat screened. He wept,
then he turned to anger, and when that stage was over,
he simply compartmentalized it all then moved on. But Harry's
return had reopened all those wounds, forcing William to confront
the painful reality that his brother truly couldn't be trusted
(04:58):
into this family chaos. Walked Donald Trump, whose second state
visit to the UK was designed to be the most
lavish diplomatic spectacle in living memory. And spectacle it was
thirteen hundred military personnel, one hundred and twenty horses, a
forty one gun salute, and enough pomp to make Versailles jealous.
(05:18):
The day began with Marine one touching down at Windsor,
where William and Kate were tasked with greeting the Trumps.
William's reaction to the introductions became the week's most charming moment.
As he presented his parents to the President, he simply said,
this is my dad. The casual, almost mundane nature of
the introduction, as if Charles were just any parent rather
than the King of England, perfectly captured William's ability to
(05:42):
humanize even the most formal occasions. Trump, for his part,
seemed dazzled by the full royal treatment. He rode in
the Irish state coach with King Charles carriage richly adorned
with gold, as one observer noted, a detail the President
is famously fond of. The choreography was flawless carriages, military bands,
bagpipes from the Scott's Guards, and even enough ceremonial excess
(06:06):
to satisfy even Trump's notorious appetite for grandeur. But it
was the evening's state banquet that truly delivered the goods.
Held in Saint George's Hall, the dinner featured a fifty
two yard table set with fourteen hundred and fifty two
pieces of polished cutlery and one hundred and thirty nine candles.
The menu included Hampshire watercrest pancotta with quail egg salad,
(06:27):
and a nineteen forty five port in tribute to the
forty fifth and forty seventh president. The winelist even featured
cognac from nineteen twelve, the year of Trump's mother's birth.
Kate resplendent in a gold lace gown, and the lovers
not Tiara, was seated beside Trump, who used his dinner
speech to repeatedly call her so beautiful, and so radiant,
(06:47):
and so healthy. While the comments raised eyebrows among protocol experts,
they served their purpose, keeping Trump focused and complimentary throughout
the evening. The contrast couldn't have been starker. While praised
the King for raising a remarkable son in William, notably
making no mention of Charles's other son, the actual family
dynamics were more fractured than they'd been in years. More
(07:12):
palace in just a moment, The visit provided endless moments
for royal watchers to dissect. Trump chose not to bow
to the King and Milania skipped the traditional curtsey, but
as royal protocol experts quickly clarified, such gestures aren't actually required.
What was required, however, was the kind of diplomatic theater
(07:34):
at which the Royals excel. Kate and Milania's joint engagement
with the Scouts Squirrel's program at Frogmore Gardens was particularly
well choreographed. Kate embraced an elegant countryside look in a
forest green swede jacket, while Malania participated in activities like
building a bug hotel with four to six year olds.
The symbolism was perfect America and Britain working together with
(07:57):
the next generation as The most telling moment came in
a candid photograph by Matt Porteus showing William and Catherine
holding hands in the darkness outside Windsor Castle after the banquet.
The couple had quietly defied protocol to share a private
moment amid all the pageantry, a reminder that even royals
need authentic connection sometimes. Tuesday brought another complication, when Prince
(08:21):
Andrew made an unexpected appearance at the Duchess of Kent's funeral.
Photographers captured what can only be described as Williams barely
contained fury as his uncle attempted conversation. Shannon Miller in
The Mirror described the scene. Prince Andrew seemed to be
giggling while talking, but Prince William rubbed his nose and
gave the slightest nod, like he was trying to end
(08:41):
the conversation quickly. A friend of Williams told The Daily
Beast it was a disgrace that Andrew had been seated
directly behind William and Kate, and that William was furious
at being ambushed. The Photographs of a scowling William standing
alongside Andrew and Charles became symbolic of the heir's frustration
with his father's approach to family scandals. By Week's and
(09:04):
the broader implications were impossible to ignore. Tina Brown dropped
a bombshell in her substack, revealing that the King is,
I am told, currently less irritated with the prodigal Harry
than he is with his oldest son and heir. The
reason Charles apparently sees William as not working hard enough,
a perception that Sting's given charles own cancer treatment and
(09:25):
grueling schedule. Brown's analysis was brutal. Somehow, William's parenting dedication
always seems couched as a tacit criticism of the King's
own paternal deficiencies. With five confirmed family vacations in seven months,
William's work schedule paled in comparison to Charles one hundred
and seventy five official engagements during his cancer treatment year.
(09:47):
The iony was rich. While Harry was being celebrated for
his four day charm offensive, William was being criticized for
prioritizing his family. Tom Sakes captured the paradox perfectly against
William and Kate's button dup image. Harry's exuberance was a
reminder of how dull the heir and his wife can see.
Their rushed diary fillers, heritage sites and textile factories only
(10:10):
made Harry shine brighter. Former Royal butler Paul Burrell chose
this week to release explosive new details about Queen Elizabeth's
final days. His memoir revealed that the Queen had been
diagnosed with cancer in summer twenty twenty one, shortly after
Prince Philip's death, and had initially been told she might
not survive past Christmas that year. Well that's a shame,
(10:33):
the queen, reportedly responded, because next year is my Platinum Jubilee. Yeah,
and I'd quite like to have seen that. Can you
keep me alive for that? The revelation that she had
given up her beloved Gin and Tonics and endured blood
transfusions to make it to her jubilee added poignancy to
Harry's apparent urgency about reconciliation. Perhaps he understood it better
(10:54):
than anyone realized just how little time was left. Burrell
also revealed that Harry had sent the Queen a secret
mobile phone to bypass courtiers and contact her directly after mexit.
When it arrived, she said, what am I supposed to
do with it? The phone ended up in a drawer powace,
alongside another device Andrew had previously sent, a perfect metaphor
(11:16):
for the family's communication breakdown more palac In just a moment.
While royal drama exploded across the Atlantic, Meghan was maintaining
her carefully cultivated California image. Her Instagram posts marking Harry's birthday,
featuring thirty dollars rose in perfectly styled esthetics, felt almost
(11:38):
surreal against the backdrop of family warfare. A neighbour's description
of the sussexss as living rather splendidly but maintaining a
very controlled image seemed to capture the gulf between their
new life and the chaos they'd left behind. The week
also brought rumors that Jessica mulroney, Meghan's former best friend,
was planning to tell all book that could command up
to seven figure dollar some depending on what she is
(12:01):
prepared to say. If true, it would represent yet another
potential source of embarrassment for a family already struggling with
internal divisions. By Sunday. As Harry and Megan appeared in
a Disney documentary gushing about Space Mountain and Mickey Mouse ears,
the contrast with the week's earlier events was almost jarring.
He was a couple who traded state banquets and military
(12:24):
honors for theme park rides and product placement, and seemed
genuinely happier for it. But back in Britain, the Royal
family was grappling with fractures that seemed irreparable. Charles's attempt
to reconcile with Harry had backfired spectacularly, alienating William and
exposing the fundamental incompatibility between Harry's need for public vindication
(12:44):
and the monarchy's requirement for private discretion. Former Royal butler
Paul Burell summed up the tragedy. Best. Diana's wish was
for Harry to support William throughout his journey to become monarch.
But williams on his own now, and he's resigned to that.
To him, his brother can't be trusted. The week that
began with Harry's birthday ended with the Royal family more
(13:04):
divided than ever, an aging king caught between feuding sons,
an air apparent, isolated and angry, and a spare who
seemed incapable of understanding that some bridges, once burned, can
never be rebuilt. As one insider put it, William originally
went through all the stages of grief over his brother.
He never expected to be regularly in the same postcode
(13:25):
as his brother again, like he was last week. The
fact that they were, and that it went so badly
might have sealed Harry's fate forever. The monarchy had survived
the week's spectacular state visit, but the cost to the
family at its heart might prove irreparable. And there have it.
Judge to email us addresses the Palace intrigu at gmail
(13:46):
dot com, Please fall uce on Spotify, Apple while the
app of your choice, and leave us a nice review
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big day Sunday. So not only do you get a
Palace Intrigue episode, and you get a Palace Weekly and
subscribers get Deep Crown, but now we've got Crown and controversy.
We've got the season one just wrapped up last week.
(14:06):
Season two debuts today. You can get that episode. And
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Check out that little banner up top there on the
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(14:28):
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Speaker 2 (00:17):
Hello and welcome to Palace Weekly. I'm your host, Mark Francis.
This is our weekly roundup of all the stories that
happened during the week on Palace Intrigue, and if you
want the expanded stories, please go back and take a
listen to those daily shows. What are we to be
covering the Royals? Between a spectacular state visit that redefined
(00:37):
diplomatic excess, explosive new revelations about Queen Elizabeth's final days,
and a royal family civil war that's moved from cold
to absolutely arctic, This week had everything pomp, circumstance and
seriously petty royal drama. Monday marked Prince Harry's forty first birthday,
and if you thought that might bring some family unity,
(00:59):
you clearly haven't paying attention to this soap opera. Instead,
Harry's big day became the catalyst for what can only
be described as a royal meltdown of epic proportions. Richard
Eden in The Daily Mail didn't mince words about King
Charles's decision to meet with Harry the week before. Charles is, however,
not only a father but also our monarch, and I
(01:20):
worry that he is making a mistake by appeasing Harry
after his appalling behavior towards the royal family. The criticism
stung because it highlighted a fundamental truth. Charles was being
pulled between his roles as father and king, and many
believed he was failing at the latter. But the real
bombshell came from Rob Shooter's revelation that Prince William had
(01:42):
been completely blindsided by his father's tea and reconciliation session
with Harry. According to a source close to William, he
had no idea Harry was on the schedule and certainly
wasn't asked for input. If William had been consulted, he
would have tried to block it. That's why Charles went
ahead quietly. This wasn't just a family disagreement anymore. This
(02:03):
was the future king being deliberately excluded from major royal
decisions by his own father. The implications were staggering. If
William was already furious about being kept in the dark,
Harry's subsequent interview with the Guardian from Ukraine was like
pouring gasoline on the fire, and what can only be
described as spectacularly poor signing Harry doubled down on every
(02:26):
criticism that had strained his family relationships in the first place.
You cannot have reconciliation before you have truth, Harry declared,
seemingly oblivious to the fact that his father had just
extended an olive branch. He dismissed suggestions that it aired
dirty laundry, saying his book was a series of corrections
to stories already out there. Most damaging of all, he
(02:47):
appeared to allude to his father's mortality, saying the focus
really has to be on my dad. Tom Sykes in
The Royalist was incredulous. Incredibly, the interview appears to have
been given less than twenty four hours after his father
broke with his other son William an overwhelming public opinion
in the UK, and welcomed Harry to his London home
(03:09):
for afternoon tea, breaking a nineteen month estrangement. One asked
from the King's side in connection with the meeting was
a period of silence on the issue of the family's
interpersonal relationships from Harry. Afterwards, the interview revealed a man
who seemed fundamentally unable to read the room. While Charles
had been hoping for discretion and gradual healing, Harry was
(03:32):
back to making demands for accountability and truth, code words
that had become synonymous with public embarrassment for the royal family.
The fallout was swift and brutal. By Saturday, Charlotte Griffiths
in the Daily Mail was reporting insider accounts that painted
a picture of William at his absolute breaking point. William
(03:52):
was back at the point where if you mentioned Prince
Harry in his presence, he would throw you out of
the room. This wasn't just anger, This was a fundamental
shift in William's entire approach to his brother. A source
explained the psychological journey. For some time now, William's anger
had cooled to the point of indifference over his brother,
which was healthy for his mental well being. William had
(04:15):
got to the stage where Harry was a non person.
He had fallen so far beneath his radar as to
have disappeared from his mind altogether. It can't be good
that William has gone back to the point where he
would throw someone out at the very mention of Harry's name.
The revelation that William had gone through all the stages
of grief over his brother was particularly telling. When they
(04:36):
first fell out. He went to Bowmoral and went off
his food just before the Oprah chat screened. He wept,
then he turned to anger, and when that stage was over,
he simply compartmentalized it all then moved on. But Harry's
return had reopened all those wounds, forcing William to confront
the painful reality that his brother truly couldn't be trusted
(04:58):
into this family chaos. Walked Donald Trump, whose second state
visit to the UK was designed to be the most
lavish diplomatic spectacle in living memory. And spectacle it was
thirteen hundred military personnel, one hundred and twenty horses, a
forty one gun salute, and enough pomp to make Versailles jealous.
(05:18):
The day began with Marine one touching down at Windsor,
where William and Kate were tasked with greeting the Trumps.
William's reaction to the introductions became the week's most charming moment.
As he presented his parents to the President, he simply said,
this is my dad. The casual, almost mundane nature of
the introduction, as if Charles were just any parent rather
than the King of England, perfectly captured William's ability to
(05:42):
humanize even the most formal occasions. Trump, for his part,
seemed dazzled by the full royal treatment. He rode in
the Irish state coach with King Charles carriage richly adorned
with gold, as one observer noted, a detail the President
is famously fond of. The choreography was flawless carriages, military bands,
bagpipes from the Scott's Guards, and even enough ceremonial excess
(06:06):
to satisfy even Trump's notorious appetite for grandeur. But it
was the evening's state banquet that truly delivered the goods.
Held in Saint George's Hall, the dinner featured a fifty
two yard table set with fourteen hundred and fifty two
pieces of polished cutlery and one hundred and thirty nine candles.
The menu included Hampshire watercrest pancotta with quail egg salad,
(06:27):
and a nineteen forty five port in tribute to the
forty fifth and forty seventh president. The winelist even featured
cognac from nineteen twelve, the year of Trump's mother's birth.
Kate resplendent in a gold lace gown, and the lovers
not Tiara, was seated beside Trump, who used his dinner
speech to repeatedly call her so beautiful, and so radiant,
(06:47):
and so healthy. While the comments raised eyebrows among protocol experts,
they served their purpose, keeping Trump focused and complimentary throughout
the evening. The contrast couldn't have been starker. While praised
the King for raising a remarkable son in William, notably
making no mention of Charles's other son, the actual family
dynamics were more fractured than they'd been in years. More
(07:12):
palace in just a moment, The visit provided endless moments
for royal watchers to dissect. Trump chose not to bow
to the King and Milania skipped the traditional curtsey, but
as royal protocol experts quickly clarified, such gestures aren't actually required.
What was required, however, was the kind of diplomatic theater
(07:34):
at which the Royals excel. Kate and Milania's joint engagement
with the Scouts Squirrel's program at Frogmore Gardens was particularly
well choreographed. Kate embraced an elegant countryside look in a
forest green swede jacket, while Malania participated in activities like
building a bug hotel with four to six year olds.
The symbolism was perfect America and Britain working together with
(07:57):
the next generation as The most telling moment came in
a candid photograph by Matt Porteus showing William and Catherine
holding hands in the darkness outside Windsor Castle after the banquet.
The couple had quietly defied protocol to share a private
moment amid all the pageantry, a reminder that even royals
need authentic connection sometimes. Tuesday brought another complication, when Prince
(08:21):
Andrew made an unexpected appearance at the Duchess of Kent's funeral.
Photographers captured what can only be described as Williams barely
contained fury as his uncle attempted conversation. Shannon Miller in
The Mirror described the scene. Prince Andrew seemed to be
giggling while talking, but Prince William rubbed his nose and
gave the slightest nod, like he was trying to end
(08:41):
the conversation quickly. A friend of Williams told The Daily
Beast it was a disgrace that Andrew had been seated
directly behind William and Kate, and that William was furious
at being ambushed. The Photographs of a scowling William standing
alongside Andrew and Charles became symbolic of the heir's frustration
with his father's approach to family scandals. By Week's and
(09:04):
the broader implications were impossible to ignore. Tina Brown dropped
a bombshell in her substack, revealing that the King is,
I am told, currently less irritated with the prodigal Harry
than he is with his oldest son and heir. The
reason Charles apparently sees William as not working hard enough,
a perception that Sting's given charles own cancer treatment and
(09:25):
grueling schedule. Brown's analysis was brutal. Somehow, William's parenting dedication
always seems couched as a tacit criticism of the King's
own paternal deficiencies. With five confirmed family vacations in seven months,
William's work schedule paled in comparison to Charles one hundred
and seventy five official engagements during his cancer treatment year.
(09:47):
The iony was rich. While Harry was being celebrated for
his four day charm offensive, William was being criticized for
prioritizing his family. Tom Sakes captured the paradox perfectly against
William and Kate's button dup image. Harry's exuberance was a
reminder of how dull the heir and his wife can see.
Their rushed diary fillers, heritage sites and textile factories only
(10:10):
made Harry shine brighter. Former Royal butler Paul Burrell chose
this week to release explosive new details about Queen Elizabeth's
final days. His memoir revealed that the Queen had been
diagnosed with cancer in summer twenty twenty one, shortly after
Prince Philip's death, and had initially been told she might
not survive past Christmas that year. Well that's a shame,
(10:33):
the queen, reportedly responded, because next year is my Platinum Jubilee. Yeah,
and I'd quite like to have seen that. Can you
keep me alive for that? The revelation that she had
given up her beloved Gin and Tonics and endured blood
transfusions to make it to her jubilee added poignancy to
Harry's apparent urgency about reconciliation. Perhaps he understood it better
(10:54):
than anyone realized just how little time was left. Burrell
also revealed that Harry had sent the Queen a secret
mobile phone to bypass courtiers and contact her directly after mexit.
When it arrived, she said, what am I supposed to
do with it? The phone ended up in a drawer powace,
alongside another device Andrew had previously sent, a perfect metaphor
(11:16):
for the family's communication breakdown more palac In just a moment.
While royal drama exploded across the Atlantic, Meghan was maintaining
her carefully cultivated California image. Her Instagram posts marking Harry's birthday,
featuring thirty dollars rose in perfectly styled esthetics, felt almost
(11:38):
surreal against the backdrop of family warfare. A neighbour's description
of the sussexss as living rather splendidly but maintaining a
very controlled image seemed to capture the gulf between their
new life and the chaos they'd left behind. The week
also brought rumors that Jessica mulroney, Meghan's former best friend,
was planning to tell all book that could command up
to seven figure dollar some depending on what she is
(12:01):
prepared to say. If true, it would represent yet another
potential source of embarrassment for a family already struggling with
internal divisions. By Sunday. As Harry and Megan appeared in
a Disney documentary gushing about Space Mountain and Mickey Mouse ears,
the contrast with the week's earlier events was almost jarring.
He was a couple who traded state banquets and military
(12:24):
honors for theme park rides and product placement, and seemed
genuinely happier for it. But back in Britain, the Royal
family was grappling with fractures that seemed irreparable. Charles's attempt
to reconcile with Harry had backfired spectacularly, alienating William and
exposing the fundamental incompatibility between Harry's need for public vindication
(12:44):
and the monarchy's requirement for private discretion. Former Royal butler
Paul Burell summed up the tragedy. Best. Diana's wish was
for Harry to support William throughout his journey to become monarch.
But williams on his own now, and he's resigned to that.
To him, his brother can't be trusted. The week that
began with Harry's birthday ended with the Royal family more
(13:04):
divided than ever, an aging king caught between feuding sons,
an air apparent, isolated and angry, and a spare who
seemed incapable of understanding that some bridges, once burned, can
never be rebuilt. As one insider put it, William originally
went through all the stages of grief over his brother.
He never expected to be regularly in the same postcode
(13:25):
as his brother again, like he was last week. The
fact that they were, and that it went so badly
might have sealed Harry's fate forever. The monarchy had survived
the week's spectacular state visit, but the cost to the
family at its heart might prove irreparable. And there have it.
Judge to email us addresses the Palace intrigu at gmail
(13:46):
dot com, Please fall uce on Spotify, Apple while the
app of your choice, and leave us a nice review
if you're enjoying this show. By the way, today's our
big day Sunday. So not only do you get a
Palace Intrigue episode, and you get a Palace Weekly and
subscribers get Deep Crown, but now we've got Crown and controversy.
We've got the season one just wrapped up last week.
(14:06):
Season two debuts today. You can get that episode. And
if you're a subscriber, you can binge the entire season.
Check out that little banner up top there on the
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every single show. And that's along with thousands of others
from Keller Roger Shark Media. Also our new series Crown
and Controversy Norway The Royal Rebels. Check out that new series.
If you're a fan of Palace Intrigue, you've seen how
the Norwegians are a handful as well, and we're diving
into that family. Check it out wherever you get your
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podcasts like this one, and all the links are in
the show notes. I'm Mark Francis my thanks to John McDermott.
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