‘Meghan Markle’s mask slips!’ Expert says polo row shows ‘true colors’ | Palace Confidential

Why is the return of Prince Williams so important? What has attracted attention about Megan Markle's new show? Could one small move from Prince Harry have a bigger impact than people realizing our royal

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s will answer all those questions and more? Hello and welcome to Palace Confidential I'm Joe Elvin and I'm joined to discuss all the big talking points by Ma's Royal newspaper editor Rebecca English, Sunday Mail editor-at-large Charlotte Griffiths and Ma's newspaper editor Richard Eden , welcome everyone, now a quick reminder for To all our viewers, if you like Royal's great updates every week, be sure to hit the subscribe button and never miss another episode again.

Rebecca comes to you. I missed you. I know I missed being here. You all came back after your holiday, a scandalous two week break, I know, I couldn't believe I covered the church with a king on Easter Sunday and then just disappeared oh you're so glamorous, well it's great to have you back first , let's talk about the latest report in some court. cost that Prince Harry will apparently have to pay he was back in the high court and this is obviously very long, he has a long battle with the Home Office over their decision to strip him of his official police protection when he resigned from his duties in Rawal and also left the United Kingdom.

A judge told him that he had completely lost his case and, as a result, the judge was going to pay Ward's costs, the other party's costs against him, so now he has to pay. 90% of the head office cost, which is actually reimbursing the taxpayers because that's where their money comes from. The judge also made it very clear that he would not allow her to go to the appeals court for this because of his loss. was so comprehensive, but immediately Harry's lawyers said no, they would sort of get around it by going to the appeals court independently and well, if that wasn't all wild enough, apparently he had to issue an a

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gy, that's right, That's how it went. something buried in the court document, but he made it clear that the court knew that Harry had sent

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documents to a British MP with whom he is particularly close, as well as another member of his own legal team who was not part of the circle. of trust involving this particular case and uh, the court got caught and had to a

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gize for doing that, wow, Richard Mo Harry, he also made a video appearance this week in a role that has attracted attention in the past, yeah , this was the general meeting. from the traveler, the ecotourism company that Harry created, oh yes, we remember the traveler, well, he saved himself, you know, an air ticket because he didn't fly to the south of France, where this general meeting was taking place, he recorded a message on video, but this. is the organization that is always controversial because Harry, on the one hand, loves to fly on private jets, whether it's for a pop concert in Las Vegas or a vacation in the Caribbean, but then he is the boss of this company. or president of this firm that encourages other people to be, you know, very environmentally conscious and the speech he gave in this video message was quite strange, he really was his usual guy when you really look at what he said and didn't say.

I said a lot about how destinations have to be more environmentally conscious or something, but it seemed like a kind of meaningless blather, frankly, what, what kind of things, can you remember what he said, he said, if we didn't have communities? we wouldn't have destinations and if we didn't have destinations we wouldn't have anywhere to travel to, in other words if there was no destination there would be no travel so I mean yeah but I have to say I thought about it. it was really mediocre, this video was clearly reading some kind of Auto he had made for himself on his laptop, you could see his eyes following it, it changed halfway through, cut it off and then came back with a different video. suit on, uh, he looked like he'd been out sunbathing and just came in, you know, he looked a little tanned and B just kind of casual, he felt mediocre and it's supposed to be a pretty important part of the traveler Ste.

I'm back a little bit lately, I remember Prince Harry doesn't take drugs anymore, that's important to say he's stopped doing drugs, so I was there, yeah, no, I think he thanks you, thank you for pointing that out. I would also like to point out that there is nothing wrong with auto that quite useful, but it seemed like it was very written, he didn't say anything, he just seemed like he was busy, he quickly picked up his laptop, said a few things and passed them on to this company, Well, you're right, he felt like he was going through the motions a bit, didn't he?

I know with Travel List. I remember covering the launch of Travelist when he launched it, and it's actually a good idea, basically saying, "let's all get together." kind of stakeholders in the travel industry and trying to make travel a little more environmentally friendly, so I understand that point, but he gave a speech when he launched it saying: I think from memory it was like 90 % of my flights were commercial flights. So, being a journalist, I calculated his flights and found that actually 90% of 90% of his flights were private jet flights, which makes more sense. This was after a lot of visits to the south of France and things like that, and I remember his team.

He became apoplectic with me and you know, he demands that I not publish this story. I said no, absolutely I'm posting the story because what he's saying is not

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, no wonder he won't talk to you anymore, maybe maybe that's because he's working a little less for the travelers that before, so maybe that's why he wants to keep traveling privately and that's why he can't work as closely with it. He's very cynical of you, but it's

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, isn't that like Charlotte among things like? this is the traveler's speech and the work related to media disinformation or social media disinformation during the US elections you want to use your voice you want to use your voice the question is should it be, I mean, especially in the run-up to the US elections, so not an American citizen as we know him because we have all this kind of debate about his passport and things like that and um, but he's making a commitment through the Aspen Institute to get involved. to stop the spread of disinformation before the US election, which is a very noble goal, but he is a non-working British royal, so I don't think it's his place to engage in disinformation.

Plus, you know he's the biggest spreader of misinformation out there if you count the memories. Vary the time in his life where you know people say you know he wasn't right about some of the things he said about the royal family and the big joke on the internet is that he's the one who misinforms when it comes to the Royal family. Well actually, we'll have more on Netflix and Jam Controver will be coming out of Monito in a few minutes, but before that, some news about William and the king and queen Rebecca, let's start in Scotland with the king and queen, what are their news?

Well, they're in Scotland for a start, returning briefly to London to make a series of engagements. The king was obviously given the bills with his face on them and Camila made a great commitment this week, where she became young. children who are interested in involving schools in promoting healthy relationships, not toxic relationships, and highlighting the fact that young people are also often victims of domestic abuse between their parents and partners, but have now returned to Burke Hall, for a week or so, I would say that for a little more Easter in the center we will see Camilla a little, but I think this is a kind of prelude to what will be, as has been explained to me, an incredibly May and June busy for them. and I think that's all a pretty positive suggestion that you know the king's cancer treatment is going well and I think it's very likely that we'll see a lot more of him in May and June, well, that's great to hear, but there's also a lot of The People will be very happy to see Prince William, who is out and about today for the first time since Katherine's diagnosis was announced.

What is he doing? Yeah, so you're highlighting food waste and the importance of trying to reduce food waste. There are great links to your Earth Shop award is also one of your ideas to reduce admissions and get Phil, so he's in a charity that deals with, I think, three tonnes of surplus food, food waste a day that They come from the company's stores, restaurants and them. find ways to redistribute it to community organizations, food banks, charities, um, it's arrived, it's raring to go, um, I can tell you now because obviously the show will come out after the engagement ends, but it will accompany some deliveries today, bought some. own produce from his own kitchen to donate and when he arrived a couple of people asked him how his wife was and they gave him cards for Katherine and he said look, thank you, that's really nice.

Now, Richard, how important do you think this public commitment is to William and to the public? Well, I think you know it's great to see him back and I think every commitment now for him is important. I mean, let's face it, we're going to have to get used to seeing it alone, right? um, you know he will miss Catherine by his side, obviously they always used to have some engagements together and some alone, but I think what will be difficult is for him to be at every engagement. They'll ask me how Katherine is, yes, and I'm sure you know they've already said they don't want to give regular updates, so I suspect we'll hear a lot of things like, "Oh, she's fine, thanks or whatever they won." I didn't hear too much on that front and that's understandable, it's coming from a good place, isn't it?

Because people really love her a lot and she's been very concerned about what's going on and people will want to know if he might want to. to prepare a handful of answers, you know, it gives us a little, you have provoked my question, surely they must have done that, they must be doing that with William in I, so far it doesn't seem like they have, but you DAT, the event is not over yet, no, but they do. I mean, look, they won't. You know people aren't ready to ask questions, but obviously you do it with your team.

If someone said this, what would your response be? I know what you'd like to say, so I'm sure that happens behind the scenes because they want to reassure people, but they've made it very clear that they want to keep this private, so they don't want to do that. they give more than they are willing to give and do we still know what the indication is for when Katherine might return to the public? No, I don't mean, even with William, I have to say, I would say that although it's a great return to public duty today um, I still think we'll only see him in public maybe once or twice a week, it'll be a sort of replication of what we've seen in February and March because of course she's still going through this preventative chemotherapy and the point was he wanted to be there to support her and her family so I think it's going to be little by little for him and you know I've been told that she could immerse herself in things that you could, I think. hear the odd message or possibly even know of some sort of video contribution or audio contribution to something but I wouldn't expect to see it in public for a while well we know a lot of you say you're probably all fans of walers. and if so, you'll want to stay until later in the program, when we again have a very special montage for you for the King.

Rebecca and the house our Monarch bought for the Queen's late dresser Angela Kelly have been revealed. you tell us and you tell us why it's so important there's a little scoop in the Daily Mail's sister newspaper on Sunday showing this type of house in the countryside for the first time, we all knew the king had bought this or had it for him had provided. for Angela Kelly, you know, the rest of her, her natural life, to live, but it's the first time we see her because obviously she had a beautiful, kind of beautiful house on the Windsor estate that she lived in when she was working for Queen Elizabeth, which he had to leave unceremoniously after his employment ended following the Queen's death, and obviously comes with a warning because Queen Elizabeth had, very unusually, given him permission to write a series of three books about their working relationship, one of those books had not yet been written and I understand that the condition that he be given grace and favor in the home for the rest of his life will mean that the third book will never come out, it is So unusual for that type of arrangement. to have those kinds of conditions, I think it's quite unusual, but Angela Kelly's case is quite unusual because he knows the king that she was supposed to write this book and he was very attentive to her and the other thing I heard about a year ago.

What I did on the circuit was that she was planning on going on cruises and talking about her time with the Royals or who knows,It could have been many things, but she was basically a huge risk factor for the king because she had this incredibly special relationship with the queen where she could have Blanch's car to do whatever she wanted, that was the unusual case with her, was that he had the former monarch's permission and could have said anything and could be taking advantage of Paul Borl. style that you know for the rest of your life unless a She stopped, you know, everything stopped so we won't see her on I'm a Celebrity Get Me Out of Here and then I tell you I would love to see Angela in that because I bet that she Do you absolutely know, from what I understand, that the brand snakes would be running away screaming AK-47, so it's more entertaining, more entertaining than Gary Gold, yes, yes, but

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Richard has been criticized in the past for how they look after their staff, but this

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that they will go the extra mile where necessary.

I think it's always complicated when you, your job, you know that your home comes with it most of the time and then if that ends suddenly, you know when your employer dies, in this case, what about So, it's always awkward and it's been with servants in the past, but yeah, this

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that King Charles was obviously interested in caring and there's good reason for that, like they said, you know she was extremely close to the queen. Elizabeth and she was a formidable character, what was her nickname AK-47 of her. I think it was her. She didn't take prisoners, so I think if they hadn't taken care of her this way, who knows what, they wouldn't forget about her.

I know what we could have seen, she was center stage at Tiara Gate, she was center stage at Tiara Gate, so she saw a lot of things happening behind the Palace walls and they probably want to keep that nice too. fenced ring, isn't it like that personally? I would love to read her genuine love for reading the updated version. I think you would probably know that she was talked about in Prince Harry's book, um spare, so hearing her response to those claims of hers would really be a bestseller, well, Angela Kelly, we are. here every Thursday if you ever want to come and chat for a bit there's a lot more to come before we move on but I just want to read a couple of your comments now we love getting them.

Eva Baron agreed with Richard's suggestion that the Middletons should be given a royal title for their support of the family, she wrote. The Middletons should get a title. They work hard to support their children and grandchildren. They are private and simply get on with the work to support future royals. Meanwhile, Karen Christopher was one. of a few who disagree with Richard Eden's suggestion that the king explore ways to get Princesses Beatrice and Eugene back to work, she wrote no to bric in Eugene, they don't live in the UK all the time and Plus they work, these things should be excluded like Harry does and Megan T Randall thinks Harry has lost all his influence now Harry has fallen too far to help his family again He has been removed from the royal family and doesn't seem to understand what removed is a word from the heart, isn't it?

Harry has a title that no longer means anything to anyone. Tracy B has this to say about Harry's involvement in American affairs. The problem is that he is meddling in politics. He's part of this Aspen Institute. He said our first amendment is crazy and they keep talking about monitoring information they don't like on the internet it's ridiculous sounds a little like you Charlotte is that you are my tweet they aliens strong words as always and as always please keep those coming comments well, let's get on with Harry Now that I bring my guests back, Richard, you've written about a change in Prince Harry's situation that could have a bigger impact than people realize this is really interesting because it relates to the company we were talking about a moment ago, traveler and Prince Harry.

She updated his details with the company's house in Britain because she has to give her house his place of residence and finally said that he now resides in the US. It took her four years since they left Britain. . He always said: "You know Britain always will." be my home and it clearly isn't now and you know there are all kinds of implications of this remember we have that case that we've discussed quite a bit on this show about Harry's immigration status, what he wrote on his forms, is the subject of a case at this time with the Heritage Foundation.

I think a group of

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s wants to know what he wrote. They want to be able to show you what he said about that last year of drugs. And then there are other questions about his future roles. Also, residency has nothing to do with citizenship, no, no, yes, but I think what's really interesting is that that date he gave goes back to the day King Charles kicked him out. Frogmore, this is really direct, so when you said when and how long have you resided in the US, you pointed out that it was that day my father evicted me from my beautiful home in Windsor, oh, not that I'm keeping count absolutely.

Now Rebecca, we also have an update, right?, on Sussex's Netflix projects, what can you tell us? Yes, this made me smile, so there it was, it suddenly found itself in the way of some very supportive posts that Harry and Megan were working on two big new projects for Netflix, one was a project curated by Megan, which I think It's a pretty interesting choice of words, it doesn't suggest she's in it or features it, but it's about lifestyle or cooking or friendship or that sort of thing. of something and the other is a show about Polo and the Polo World kind of fast paced behind the scenes um then miraculously a couple of days later um first of all I'm sure we'll start discussing these pots. of jams associated with Megan's new business venture start appearing on social media after she sent them to friends and influencers and appear at the Barlay Center fundraising polo match in Florida with a Florida sorry um with a Netflix team on the toe is Almost like it was planned, no strategy is coming, yeah amazing Richard what do you think of these Netflix shows?

Are they setting the world on fire? The light from the box office. I think it's fascinating. I mean, remember there have been rumors for years that the next Prince Harry. The project for Netflix would be about Africa, you know he loves Africa, it has been central to his life and the idea that was proposed to him was for him to return there and make a documentary, well that hasn't happened, it makes you wonder, I can imagine it in the meeting, you know, saying, I want to do a show about Africa and them saying, wouldn't that be very expensive?

What has been left? You know, the show about the posh sport where there's a privileged white man is Polo. I mean, my goodness, both projects. You know, we've heard all these rumors about his deal with Netflix going away. which will end soon, at the end of this year, probably for me this justifies it in a way because both projects are very cheap. Netflix has huge budgets, but instead it's just a cooking show, you know, filmed in a house on Monito and Polo, which is kind of how they do it anyway, you know, it takes a long time to have a camera crew, they're spending their budget on the deal, you know, the £100m deal with Harry.

I mean, what's much more interesting is that Megan's show is actually much more interesting because, from everything I see. Hear that they see it as an opportunity to recover some of Netflix's money because there will be commercial derivatives. We'll talk about that in a second, but I just want to stay in this polo match for the Right now, because in Charlotte there was some controversy, there was no controversy about Harry and Megan on the polo field, that has a lot of people talking, yeah , so Megan's

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slid off safely and we saw the

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of her tree, I would say, and I've seen this clip. a hundred times because Harry is standing there with his trophy and a woman comes up and tries to stand next to him, which is normal, you know, there are a lot of people in line and Megan basically verbally pushes her away from him and puts this woman next to him . her, so she's not next to Harry and she points several times in this video and you can watch it online, there's a clip and she

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would you like to stand here?

Would you like to stand here? over and over again and it just shows how choreographed this whole thing is and of course the Netflix cameras were rolling but I think Megan in her mind you clearly know that she has a very photographic mind. I guess she was imagining the photos and she wanted to be the woman. next to Harry clearly and uh I think she just shows that these things are very choreographed and it's not the first time in a polo match that her

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because it happened in 2022 and she kept trying to fight her way into the edge. front holding her hat in front of the same scene, the polo lineup and she couldn't walk away with her hat under all her arms and it was just Nightmare choreography and uh, that shows that she's desperate to be funded. and at the center of these things and I have to say that this woman who wanted to be next to Harry, was not just a beautiful model who is there for a pretty photo, she was actually Dr.

Sophie Chanduka, who is the head of the Prince Harry's Center Baro charity, she has every right to be next to him, so you know, gosh, that kind of dismissive mockery is really embarrassing, it makes her very bossy, she really points and tells him to get out of the way like was a lax Dr. Chanduka is a very distinguished character, so it will be interesting to see how long she stays in that Jing. Well, the things that were planned a little more precisely were the presentation of the jam, which would tell us who got the jam. This is what I want to know exactly why this is so.

I guess look, I'm not an influencer, you didn't get any jam fun enough, no, but I think I said before that I have some of my mom's picked onions if anyone would like that. Share them after the show. Well, we have to say that we have terrible problems with the post in Britain, so I'm sure those baskets of jam are on their way to us as we speak, yes, and it's a reservation, so we'll do it. Go on, don't do it, but I'm really curious how this works because suddenly these images started appearing. I think we had two in one day, now we had a third for a lady who happens to be the wife of the boss of Paramount, you know you have one of Megan's friends, I think now M Mindy Carling, I don't know if you pronounce who is a figure quite important in US entertainment, appeared on Megan's podcast, um, suddenly, all very similar photos with similar poses of this pot of jam cleverly arranged in a basket of lemons slightly inexplicably with the lid still on, yeah, and saying oh, I love your jam, it's amazing when it clearly hasn't even been opened, you know, those things just do, maybe they've had them for breakfast before when she's been hanging around and they're all numbered from the one to 50, so there must be a guessing game, who got number one and number 50?

Is this a pecking order of how important you are in terms of self? I'd be out if I got number 50 out of 50. I have to say King Charles might have the last laugh, though because the sources on his High Grove shelf, in the group, should tell me there's been a real run on his strawberry preserves high growth. So what happened is, these kind of loyal realists, you know all this talk about Megan's Jam, well, they want to go buy a pot of King's. The King is good and he also conserves. Is it bad of me to watch a little bit that you know Megan is giving? food for rich influencers and William is there today giving food to those in need, well there's a point and he did it today, he brought some things from his own kitchen to give to them and of course High grve jam and also Duy Originals products um.

All high growth money from high growth products goes to charities and the original duy range that Charles created many years ago. All of that originally went to charities and then they made a deal with wos that only a significant proportion of the profits still go to the king's charities so they are very different setups because I guess they haven't given us that yet. said, but I guess not a big part of the jam money will go to we don't know how much. The jam still costs, but Megan, you know, Megan will charge $200 a jar because she thinks so highly of it.

We must admit that it was a great publicity stunt. You know, I want to try the jam. Wanna. I think it's her grandmother's recipe, that's what I heard. Yes, what flavor is jam, it's strawberry, strawberry, but that's why people said a little inexplicably in a basket full of lemons, but you know what they say when life gives you lemons, now Charlotte, the other element of Megan's cooking show is apparently friendship, which has raised a couple of eyebrows, including your male colleague, Man Pels, who has been writing about it, yes, Amanda. Amanda Platel pointed out that there is actually a verb calledto be marked in the Urban Dictionary, oh dear, because she has stopped being friends with many people she knows, including uh. family members, including suit co-stars, including her best friend Jessica Malone, whose children were pageboys at the raw wedding, so for someone who is really famous for not being friends with her friends or leaving out her friends, It's surprising that you mentioned the word friendship in this. uh, in the blur of this documentary that's been leaked, um, and you know, going back to the jam thing, I know you'd like to get back to the jam thing, the other big joke that's been going around all week is how does she know that 50 people she sends to Jam because that means this is a woman who doesn't have 50 friends, as far as we know, of course she does, she just sent 50 of them, Jam, very good, 51 including Rebecca when she Too bad, it's a bit like royalty. wedding guest list, you know she invited people to that real wedding of hers that she barely knew, you know, like Oprah, who was actually right after an interview with her, but she barely knew Oprah at the time.

You know, I think she's a little strategic with her friends and once she's done with them, she puts them aside and completely forgets about them. and she deletes her number and blocks her number in some cases my God, she takes no prisoners, she takes no prisoners. Oh my goodness, H, now, Richard, we don't often hear about Princess Margaret in Palace Confidential. I don't remember the last time we talked about her. What have you been writing about her this week? This is a very interesting revelation from Susanna Constantine, who used to be the girlfriend of Princess Margaret's son David, Snowden's ear.

I don't know about you, but I really enjoy watching her. property websites, you know, I love that kind of looking at other people's houses, it's so intriguing. Well, it turns out that Princess Margaret had a rather more sophisticated version of that, so when she was on the little island of Musque where she had a house, she was friends with the owner of Mustique and it seems that she would sneak into people's houses when They weren't there. She had access to what was described as virtually a skeleton key and she would go and poke around. And went. with Susanna to see some of them, including David Bowie's house, um, that's the dream, right? um, yeah, so she was going over there, she commented on the decor, she said she, oh, it's kind of in the center of Tokyo, she wasn't, um, she was.

I don't think it's illegal in the sense that they weren't forcing entry. um, certainly someone who had a key let him in. um, because I think all the properties there, you know, there's some kind of ultimate owner, um, but anyway, very curious and, um, it makes me feel less bad about snooping around other people's properties online. I think that's downright creepy, actually, but, um, anyway, it was someone I listen to the most about this show about the Princess Royal, yes, it's the princess, a section of the show that's a regular thing and this week it's for our viewers on the other side of the pond because Rebecca is going to Canada, yes, from the third to the 5th of May she is leaving.

To Canada we still don't know many details about what she's going to do, but I think it's worth noting that Her Majesty the King and Queen were due to go to Canada in May and obviously haven't been able to do so due to her cancer. treatment um, they hope you know to reschedule that at a later date. I know it's very important to him now that he's King to be able to go to all those Kingdoms and Canada is at the top of the list, but I suspect there's an element of trying to make the visit work when it was going to work and you know the Princess Anne is very loved, she will take part in as many engagements as she can, you know, it's only two days, she's over 70, but don't ever ever let that stop her again, thank goodness for Anne, right, she should .

Actually she should do two investitures on Wednesday too, back to back, big investitures at Windsor Castle replacing the king, um, so you know, on top of all the other commitments she does. in a week she is remarkable, go princess Anne, listen well, Prince Loui will turn five next week, if you can believe it, and to celebrate, here are some beautiful photos of him that you won't want to miss la la, well, I think that you get the prize. for one of the most beautiful montages we have done, what do you think? Oh, it's sweet, it's sweet, isn't it?

Listen, that's what we have time for today. My thanks to Rebecca Charlotte Richard and you for watching, see you around. at Palace Confidential next week