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once upon a time there was a starlet who met a prince she's a very uh accomplished celebrity on a number of fronts megan before way before she met harry i think there's a a rather lazy narrative that she's you know just another sort of hollywood wannabe who married into the royal family she basically has given her life of freedom in america up to conform to what the royals do in britain their royal wedding was one for the history books but a year and a half later a right royal bust up with the palace and the fairytale couple decide they want to be royals of a different kind the duke and duchess of sussex have announced they don't want to be senior royals anymore and after a meeting with her son and grandsons today the queen said in a statement she respects their decision the bbc report indicates that no other member of the royal family even knew it was being put out they blamed the press i definitely think that the media hasn't learned from their past mistakes when it comes to putting these you know the royal women under a microscope and chasing them around and plastering their face all over the tabloids others blame windsor family feuds and i think as harry said himself when you're working with family there are going to be dumb disagreements while the british media blames duchess megan doctor what have they shown what have they shown of course you know it's absolutely fine that they want to go their own way but the way they have done it is extremely weird but now what does megan want to be a superstar royal a great actress or a future president or all three can the girl who wants everything have it all i just think she's a slight social climber i'm afraid you know i always believe in the phrase if someone shows you who they are then believe them and the reason i keep repeating my experience with meghan markle is i genuinely found it quite shocking and what about harry will harry be happy with his life in exile torn from country and family but with a new found freedom to make his own choices he did what he needed to do for his family and that's all i will say about that and i don't think anybody else has anything any right to say anything this is a career move neither of them planned let's look at how this happily ever after turned into mexit and changed royal history forever [Music] when prince harry introduced meghan markle to the world it seemed like a breath of fresh air new blood and new ideas to shake up the dusty old british royal family i'm gonna address the elephant in the room we all know that harry was a wild child we loved seeing them in the tabloids we love seeing what he was gonna do next so now since harry's together with megan you see this child blossoming i mean this man you don't see him in the news anymore like we did in his escapades he's doing these charities traveling across the world with megan and they're happy as can be i think that he is really making his mother proud yeah i think when megan first came on the scene we were excited we were curious and we wanted to know more i think we all just thought it was rumor because you know there's this young royal dating an actress we haven't seen anything like this before so i think we all thought number one it was a rumor but number two pretty excited if it was true because it's like nothing that's ever happened to the royal family before we were able to really have so much time just to connect and we never went longer than two weeks without seeing each other even though we were obviously doing a long-distance relationship so it's um we made it work so i think when we first saw her and it was so mysterious the romance wasn't it it just came out of nowhere all of a sudden they were sneaking off to africa and we were seeing them in toronto and then they were engaged and i think everyone was just on the edge of their seat she was far from what used to be considered royal princess material an ambitious actress and aspiring hollywood star who made her own living and knew her own mind obviously she's the most watched and visual person in the world you know she was she's a beautiful young woman obviously a hollywood starlet at the time so she's somebody who wants to get attention who'd always make some of the dress lists she's a mature woman she's been round the trap she's an accomplished actor she's been working on humanitarian projects prior to getting married which is exactly why we loved her in the first place was that she was so against the grain and so different to the norm the world fell in love with the fairy tale couple and together with william and kate they formed the younger generation royal fab four well part of that fab four thing is always a creation of the tabloid press in particular because the royal family is the ongoing soap opera of britain pop stars may come and go movie stars may come and go but the royals are there they're permanent celebrities and yet they have a responsibility the royal family the queen has a monarchical and a constitutional responsibility america gets its very own royal and harry finds the love of his life harry seems to have met his match and and megan i think has met her match as well so they're all pretty good and diana looking from above looking down on her boys would very much approve you know this guy's in love he's he's uh he's not interested in where she reigns from where she comes from the color of her skin this is this is the most important thing in my view that's happened to the royal family for for centuries this couple was to take us into this new century as the new face of the royals the commonwealth the multicultural commonwealth was to be an area that harry and megan were to be responsible for in their royal duties megan i give you this ring harry i give you this ring as a sign of our marriage as a sign of our marriage with my body i honor you with my body i honor you all that i am i give to you all that i am i give to you and all that i have i share with you i share with you i share with you after the wedding it seemed like the royals were just one big happy family megan got along famously with the queen and the fab four were making their mark everyone thought that the windsors had finally found their groove after years of trials and tribulations i think the fact that megan's an american and married into the royal family has opened everyone else's eyes to the possibility it is still very much a fairy tale but so much more achievable and the fact that she was totally a girl next door uh you know her mom's a yoga instructor her dad was a lighting guy on married with children and megan has found herself living behind the palace walls so it's pretty surreal and i think it's a real exciting time for girls to you know look at that and grow up that way but beneath the surface there were tensions these started to come public with tiny observations made by the press rumors that kate and megan were not the chummiest of sisters in law in fact it was claimed megan had made kate cry just before the wedding the girls definitely are annoyed with the situation um i think kate was so used to being in the spotlight and then now all of a sudden she's having to hand that over to megan um kate's now got three children and megan's just starting her journey into motherhood which is so exciting so i do think there's some jealousy there in november there was an us weekly magazine and it said megan and kate's feud ruins christmas but the magazine came out in november it wasn't even christmas yet uh it was completely ridiculous uh but i mean again because i took a picture of it i thought it was hilarious that's the stuff that i enjoyed though just caddy nonsense but it's not even based on reality so i don't actually don't feel too bad laughing at it because it's all made up comparisons began to be drawn between the two beginning with their clothes kate versus megan who has more style i i think that's a really unfair um sort of question because there's a big thing i think about uh not sort of pitting women against each other and because these two women have both recently joined the royal family they're inevitably put in this position where they draw comparisons and the same thing happens to their predecessors the you know duchess of york and princess diana they were great friends but people pitted them against each other in terms of what they wore what their physiques were like you know fergie was always a little bit curvier than diana so she you know favored uh you know she wasn't compared favorably uh so it's difficult you know it'd be very easy to sort of weigh in and say i think this one's better or that one's better but they're two very different girls they're totally different people um not only do they look different but they also um dress different they speak differently they come from different backgrounds um so that's never going to be a comparison that's going to make sense for anybody clothes send out messages the british royals are conscious the designer dressing can cause jealousy and put distance between them and ordinary brits but megan is used to hollywood where you dress to impress i i wouldn't say that she's necessarily broken the rules i think she's sort of like skirting along the edge so she's sort of playing with the rules a little bit so i'd say now her transformation has become more demure which is what happens when people marry into the royal family if they're a woman because you have to adhere to royal protocol when i think of meghan markle's style i think of her on suits if you actually take a side by side and put an outfit of megan on suits next to her royal look it's almost as chic and the same her style is simplistic it's simple but it's chic with that a little little bit of sexy uh you know casual if you will but i i love her commitment to her as just an effortless woman um we might see a little bit of an edge walking the streets of la during the day but i don't i don't think it's going anywhere that i feel like that bran that's her brand and it's going to carry over here her style well i think her actual personal style apart from her role as a princess uh would be a little bit sexy quite casual actually because she loves a bit of denim uh you know she she loves sort of quite sporty looks that are very streamlined and simple it's not fussy she's not the sort of girl that is into ruffles and floral prints or polka dots or sequins i don't think you're going to see her in in those sorts of looks you know it's always quite paired down and chic sort of you know mixture between la and and new york megan was glamorous megan was beautiful megan was elegant in an expensive kind of way great for grabbing headlines and magazine covers but publicity can cause jealousy and it doesn't always go the way you want it some believed that megan stole the spotlight when she announced her pregnancy on the day of princess eugenie's wedding harry and megan are expecting a child extraordinary news megan's baby shower also made the headlines but for all the wrong reasons not long ago megan had been a little-known actress on just another tv series now to many in britain it looked like she was using her royal status to mix with legions of falling new a-list friends who might once have ignored her megan decided to jet off to new york for her baby shower i feel like no other royal would have done that she hopped on a private jet heavily pregnant went over to new york and of course all these superstars attended this amazing event you had the likes of serena williams priyanka chopra jonas was there it was so hollywood and i can't even imagine what food and drink were there but apparently it was all of megan's favorites don't have another baby shower in the united states have it privately and if you must fly fly commercial the royal couple came under further criticism when they refused to pose with a new royal baby immediately after the birth for generations royal babies were presented straight away even princess diana introduced both william and harry in this manner monarchy is dynastic and public but it seemed megan needed her personal space for us i think we'll be seeing you guys in probably two days time as planned as a family to be able to share it with you guys and so everyone can see the baby this wasn't what the press or public expected from the royals in fact they thought it was a royal snub i think that that we live in a world that's too much show and tell too much instant gratification and i commend megan and harry for trying to keep this private i think ultimately megan should do whatever she wants to do supporters of megan were reported complaining of the dysfunctional royal family but there were problems too with megan's own family many of whom pointed to megan as a source of conflict questioning her motives and behavior um prince harry and megan have quite a bit of apologizing to do this you know we're not talking about teenagers we're talking about adults who i believe knew exactly what they were doing and and with regards to my father it was so incredibly wrong and unfair and shocking really i will let him address that at a future date but you know i and it's sad that he has not had the opportunity to meet archie but i think it's also sad for archie even though he's really small now as he gets to be a little bit older my dad is a great dad and so it's it's a loss to archie not to have that opportunity while my dad is alive megan's very public charity appearances advertised her kindness but many were less than impressed by her treatment of her own father which seemed less than charitable i just think she's a slight social climber i'm afraid and when i see the way look at her wedding there was only one member of her family there the rest couldn't be risked there was like considered too dangerous thomas markle for whatever reason was not welcome to the wedding supporters of megan blamed the father rather than the royal daughter until thomas could stand it no more and spoke out i can't be i i can't be like a monk in a monastery i can't never speak again i mean i'm going to have to defend myself people if people were saying things about me that aren't right or wrong i'm going to have to defend myself as simple as that i can't totally quiet be quiet the entire last year uh should have been one of the greatest moments in my life it's something people dream about and it turned into a nightmare for me i've been attacked by everyone i've been accused of terrible things and my daughter isn't speaking to me and i don't know why um it can come to an end when my daughter picks up a phone and calls me or sends me a text and lets me know everything's okay i've done nothing wrong so i expect some kind of answer i've said this before it's not the first time and i'm gonna have to keep on talking now until i do get an answer silence has gotten me nowhere i have to keep talking reports claim megan was devastated and harry went into protective mode to me it looks like megan's father is a total opportunist he's out there cashing in on everything he now has a documentary coming out they showed pictures of his house he's got all the memorabilia with his daughter's wedding pictures on it it's too much he is uh he really looks ridiculous in all of this the selling of the pictures he really looks like an opportunist in my opinion and he even published a letter that she wrote to him basically trying to level with him and be like look like there's a lot of lies like let's stop this let's carry on with our lives in a peaceful way and he went and i'm sure made plenty of money publishing it and i don't blame her if she never bothers with him again but i mean the hard thing is obviously having a family who are pretty dysfunctional in many ways who are selling their daughter out or their sister out has probably been really effective you know affected her in a massive way i think one of the things she did do was obviously she got her friends to talk about her and us weekly where she basically insinuated that you know she had spoken to her father that she was not the person that people had made her out to be i think that was a really good move because the fact of the matter is she was getting a lot of uh you know issue a lot of you know hate well i feel like it's tough for megan um she has moved into this new type of lifestyle coming from america and having the background of having been in a previous marriage having separated parents and living a life as a biracial child of a biracial relationship i think it comes with a lot of challenges i feel as if harry coming from an outside perspective i feel like harry's really the one in her court for a while the new family took some time off to bond with their son but soon after they were off on a south african tour also making the trip with the royal couple was baby archie [Music] at first it seemed the tour was a success but during a revealing british documentary both harry and megan hit the world with a couple of bombshells both harry and megan voiced their concern and displeasure not only with royal life but how treatment from the royal press was affecting them on a personal level it's um hard yeah i don't think anybody can understand that but i in all fairness i i had no idea which probably sounds difficult to understand here but when i um when i first met my now husband my friends were really happy because i was so happy but my british friend said to me i'm sure he's great but you shouldn't do it because the british tabloids will destroy your life and i very naively i'm american we don't have that there what are you talking about that doesn't make any sense i'm not in tabloids i didn't get it so it's um yeah it's been complicated you get the impression that it's all about glossy magazines and and cameras shouting oh you know this way please and but it's actually a little hard graft and and carrying out a lot of engagements that are not necessarily seen by the public a lot of the interaction with the public and sometimes your king george the next day you're george king the fact is you know it's not you the media will love you one minute and within a very short time could be very crawl and crucify you the next i applaud megan for being honest in that interview because that goes against everything you're not supposed to have an opinion you can't talk about politics you have your nail color has to be a certain hue i mean it's ridiculous so i give her a lot of credit for being honest on camera and just being like yeah that's challenge she's a human at the end of the day and not only that but that really gets the sympathy from people when you see someone being uh vulnerable like that fans of megan praised her for showing a vulnerable side but the british press didn't take it well journalists it seemed were meant to report good news only and know their place well there's the press and there's the press the tabloid press in britain the paparazzi are really all over the royal family all the time in fact if anything has changed since princess diana it's been that there are more outlets and now there's social media but the british media is a different kettle of fish we have ten national newspapers every single day of the week on the breakfast table at seven o'clock in the morning and they're all hungry for news and if it's raw news and if it's salacious um and if it's gossipy they'll publish it so you've got to watch what you're doing you've got to think you've got to think on your feet am i doing the right thing an even bigger reveal came when harry publicly admitted that his relationship with his big brother was under strain for some time now many had wondered if there was a growing rift between the royal brothers after william asked harry to take it slow with megan and not rush into marriage the rumors were confirmed after harry's comments on the south african trip um part of the part of this role and part of this job and this family being under the pressure that it's under inevitably you know stuff um stuff happens but look we're we're brothers we're we'll always be brothers and we're certainly on different paths at the moment but i will always be there for him and as i know he'll always be there for me um you know we don't see each other as much as we as much as we used to because we're so busy um but you know i love him daily and you know the majority of the stuff is probably well the majority of stuff is created out of nothing um but you know it's just as brothers you know you have good days you have bad days after the south african tour the duke and duchess chose to retreat to north america to spend thanksgiving with megan's mom and christmas at a multi-million dollar mansion in canada snubbing the queen and other royals the palace played down any talk of a rift a normal service seemed to have resumed when harry and megan returned to the uk for a visit in early 2020 but it was not to last it is a family crisis but one that involves queen elizabeth and her heirs to the throne how to deal with a grandson and his wife who wants to step back from royal duties queen elizabeth has called a meeting today it's about start now at an estate in sandringham for many of the key players to try and thrash out the way ahead for prince harry and megan no one quite knew what a partial retreat from royal life might involve and the news is reported to have deeply affected the queen this was a pretty astonishing break if it were on an earthquake seismic scale i would put it at about an eight i think the royal family was so tight-knit in english culture and british culture that it just seemed surreal the first thing that came to my mind was megan is going to be destroyed in the press for this here we go this is going to be the next big thing i thought about prince harry and his life and he's a millennial and i was thinking like people of our age group we really kind of reject the old way of doing things this couple has been breaking the norm since day one we have an la native she is biracial she's been previously married so for them to make this announcement for me as a millennial it's no shock no surprise because i consider them almost the royals of our decade 2020 we're in a new decade to begin with and that's why i feel like a lot of the younger uh audience gravitates to them uh yeah you know i have a lot of sympathy for the queen i mean she is the queen um and it is a lot of responsibility to sort of keep the family moving along as she keeps the country moving along and all that good stuff i think there was one statement from the queen um on the 13th and she said that she supported um the independent lifestyle choice that harry wanted for him and his family and that's and that he they will still be important to their royal family this seemed an uncanny echo of a royal bust-up that led to the current queen taking the throne i expect this had a sense of deja vu all over again for the queen who was a child when her uncle abdicated the throne but it's important to remember that what she saw growing up was tension and estrangement between two royal brothers edward viii the former king and her father the present king who were close friends for all of their young manhood and all of a sudden their duties were separated they were physically separated it was a great source of strain and tension in the family and i'm sure that was in her mind when she was trying to negotiate harry's exit from the royals her uncle's abdication was a blow to the crown and left a scar on her majesty harry's stated desire to retreat from royal duties seemed to bring it all back now in 1936 king edward viii the uncle of the current queen used an american woman named wallace simpson as his get out of jail free get out of royal jail free card he abdicated the throne to marry her to become her third husband now with this you have a very close attachment a close family and i don't think they wanted to leave altogether their advantages to staying connected to the royal family but they also i think wanted to separate themselves from the duties that drew the paparazzi and drew the attention and there i think that may not be possible in britain megan came in for a great deal of criticism for not understanding the role of the royal family and british life and getting between harry and his family i think that meghan markle has broke the family up i think definitely with megan with her being divorced and also her being mixed race as well that's probably not gone down very well across the pond the reaction was quite different we're excited to have them it's about to be they're about to be the it couple in la so you know i can speak for an american at least a mixed american and one that cares very much about diversity and inclusion i love first of all megan and harry coming back to the states you know we haven't had uh real royalty here since kennedy outside britain the british royals are more of a soap opera everyone wondered what would become of the royal brothers once close it seemed that the rift had grown wider would they be reconciled or were these two royal houses at war yeah i think um harry's bond with william i think remains intact um it was never uh perfectly smooth i mean they've had their you know questionable moments they've had their discomfort like any family and any siblings do um that being said um you know and a lot of that had to do with megan let's be honest right i mean he sort of gave sort of you know harry a heads up at the very beginning and said hey i think you should take more time i think you should slow play this engagement slow play this marriage and this wedding um and harry didn't want to do that for obvious reasons he was very much in love and he felt like he want to go full steam ahead i don't know whether there's a rift so much as different choices that they have made william knew his wife kate for years six or eight years i think and they had an opportunity to become familiar from his experience the thing to do is not to rush into anything harry may have been too impetuous from his point of view of doing this but it's always hard to be the second brother in a royal family the heir william knows exactly what his life is going to be he knows what his job is going to be for harry it was different he had the army for a couple of years he was in afghanistan but then what does he do with his life if it is to become a royal ambassador his second sons may often do that may not be the role that he wanted and certainly his wife may have felt that's not the role that suits our talents best after private talks with palace courtiers the decision was finalized harry and megan would move to north america and agree not to use their hrh titles for any sort of financial gain part of the reason that the royal family is on a kind of payroll is because if they were to try to work any job they did people might be trying to use that job only to get to the royal family and so any work that they do there's always the suspicion that that's why they got that job that that's what's going on and so by separating themselves from that source of income they cut themselves off from that clean hands aspect of the monarchy and the royal family now they have to pick and choose very carefully they say they want to serve the queen even in their new lives but if they get set up if they look like they're commercializing their name and their brand and the royal brand it's going to blow back not well on them but are harry and megan really going to get normal jobs and start earning a living like the rest of us or will they cash in on the cachet of being royals that seemed to be what was happening when harry was filmed with the ceo of disney apparently using his royal influence to get megan work [Music] in britain the royals have a constitutional role and are paid out of taxation in america they're a brand and brands have commercial value there's a lot they can do and i don't see it stopping because there's a lot of people that can make money off of them and that brand so they'll just roll through that for as long as they can i mean we've had gwyneth paltrow's creator from goop say that she's goopy which puts her in the same light as jessica alba and of course gwyneth paltrow i mean people want to know what exactly megan's wearing what color is that shade on her lip what brand of that butt white button down is she wearing which is the easiest thing to go get it like an old navy but on her it looks so chic and financial independence is already in the works for them because they are moving to la as we heard for the summer and they're gonna become that it couple for megan being married to a british royal opens doors fame itself is a commodity but it needs managing to do it megan has hired a hollywood pr team but the brand that they have right now in this instagram meme culture where we're giving anybody money to do a podcast a digital series a short film a netflix series uh they'll never run out of work at least within like the next five years i mean their ability to make money off the social media is unparalleled in some ways i mean i think the number the average number of posts for most social media influencers is like 41. if they posted 41 times a year you know as estimated by clear they can make about 110 million dollars a year the brand can't just be about making money the royals are supposed to have a higher purpose and justification the couple say they will continue with their charity work and they want to use their influence to change the world for the better but here again they run into trouble royals are meant to be above politics getting political opens them up to the charge of hypocrisy they say they are shocked by poverty but they are among the very richest people on the planet they say the rest of us should travel less but they are constantly taking flights around the world for pleasure as well as for work they express concern about africa but for harry this too often is about wildlife preservation rather than increasing the income of ordinary africans the rest of our lives especially for you know our life's work will be predominantly focused on africa on conservation um you know there are 19 commonwealth countries or something uh across this continent so there's a lot of um there's a lot of there's a lot of things to be done and there's a lot of problems here but there's also huge potential solutions harry's latest campaign is mental health it is clear to me that many of the problems and difficulties people face both in the military and in wider society all begin with mental health yet support for mental health has been an afterthought after thoughts for far too long harry went through his own mental anguish as a child losing his mother an event which has clearly shaped him i mean obviously you know he was in his early teens when sadly his mother died in that tragic accident in paris but you know he he survived that he as a young lad walked behind his mother's coffin you know in front of the sort of world's media and he talks about it openly now he did suffer as a result of his mother's death it took him 20 years to actually come out and say he did but he's working tirelessly for that and he feels that by talking about it it's helping young people to overcome their mental health issues talking about it's not a cure but talking about it is a start to getting help and that's what is what is all about britain is more emotional than people think i covered princess diana's death and funeral and so i know what it was like to stand there london was absolutely silent as the coffin was brought down the street and occasionally you would hear people sobbing and wailing diana diana so there was an emotion in the princess of wales that people responded to her warmth of character and personality many people wonder if harry sees something of his mother princess diana in his american bride diana and megan do seem to have much in common both idolized both fashion icons both enjoying the company and friendship of a-list celebrities both apparently relishing the publicity that comes with being a royal but both also feeling confined and constrained by it and wishing to escape i think with her being present she would have offered a way more relatable now perspective and i think for that reason diana would really relate to megan and i think it's a shame that she isn't around because i think she'd be someone great for megan to lean on and i think things would be a lot different if diana was here still harry appears to see a spiritual echo of diana in megan oh absolutely i think it has everything to do with the decision that he made that she made that they made together um you know dinan only had a tragic sort of end but she had a very tragic journey she was deeply unhappy for a large uh part of her life and she was clear about that and vocal about that that's one of the reasons that sort of harry is so dedicated to mental health and mental awareness that's why he's doing the apple tv thing with oprah um so yeah absolutely uh played a huge role in his life and i think that harry takes after his mom like megan diana was a royal superstar but ended up causing havoc and division inside the royal family yeah so you know um harry and william have always been siblings and i think like most siblings they have you know shared number of upsets and discomfort in their relationship that being said they're great friends now remember in the very beginning when megan and harry were dating you know sort of william gave harry a heads up and said hey you need to slow play this engagement you need to slow play this wedding and this marriage because there are huge responsibilities at hand and you want to make sure that she's prepared for that and she's ready for that and that she's the right choice for you and of course you know harry was very much in love and so for obvious reasons he decided not to listen to that advice and so he moved full speed forward and full speed ahead um you know since that day they've had you know their difficulties they were associated with that they sort of just ramped up from that but i think that at the end of the day they're brothers they love each other they're going to find ways to work it out but there's always going to be bickering brothers don't carry on having the best time all the time and i'm sure there's going to be things they talk about which will be sort of off the record and they have a little bickering and little little chats but i think as a unit they're a fantastic unit and we as a british public have grown up with them we've seen them through grief we've seen them through their birth we've seen them through every sort of emotion and we've seen them blossom into really inspiring men who are hopefully going to be change makers for this country and beyond so i think that is a great thing and if they bicker that's fine because it's everybody needs to be taken down a peg or two the diana's story ended in tragedy megan seems determined for hers to be very different to maintain the profile of a royal means maintaining her position as a patron of numerous charities obviously very passionate about lots of different charities that just shows that probably any project she's going to be doing in this town it has to have a means to an end it can't just be that she's making her buck and providing for her family but there are rumors that megan harbors other ambitions too not just acting but possibly politics might she use her fame to run for president one day she has already shown herself an outspoken political advocate distinguished ladies and gentlemen i am tremendously honored to be u.n women's advocate for political participation and leadership i am proud to be a woman and a feminist she's very very clever she also wants to change the world you know one of the biggest things and probably the one thing that really attracted prince harry to her is that she really is very altruistic she's very compassionate she wants to be philanthropic she wants to change the world and she also knows that she's in a position now because of the fame that she has and also her state status that she has the ability to really make a lot of change she's been working on humanitarian projects prior to getting marriage so she's she's well attuned to the sort of things that the royal family do in terms of charities and organizations that they're associated with whatever her future megan with the help of her hollywood pr team seems to be working on her image having received some criticism for dressing too lavishly she is trying to work fashion into her charity work she became royal patron for smart works a charity aimed at helping women back to the workplace by providing them with high quality clothing for the office styling advice and interview training these women will now be equipped in a project that will just be a couple weeks but will give us enough units to be able to have the women at smart works have these key essentials for a year and that in and of itself to be able to have one small project that has such big impact is something that i'm really connected to she will continue her work with smart works from north america and even pull in partners at john lewis to lend a hand if this is going to be classics and essentials what are traditional and quintessential british brands that i've become introduced to once i moved here that for me resonated and i knew would resume with a smartworks customer and that seemed obvious to do m s and john lewis which i've worn quite a bit in the past year or two since i've been here and they thankfully said yes as well as the couple begins a new life in north america so much is still uncertain how long will their royal celebrity last how will making big money tarnish their status will megan make the transition into full-blown politics and will harry began to feel a loss ripped from his country his family and the only life he has known as an official member of the royal household you know when the announcement was made and the further announcement by the palace they said we're going to re-examine this in a year and i think that is the opening to the door that they can say didn't work out not what we thought it was going to be or the royal family can reach out prince charles who i'm sure was very hurt by this because he was the one who had planned this new kind of royal family prince charles can extend a hand after this year and say what do you what about it what do you think we can renegotiate the terms of your being in the royal family so that one year is kind of a magical space that everybody gets a breather and gets an opportunity to say okay we'll be back and see how this is working and perhaps they will say this isn't to our liking it isn't what we hoped it would be so let's come back and workouts work out something else they'll go back and it'll be awkward i mean it'll be awkward but they have to go back that's where their their family is and um they're gonna have to visit and i don't think they're going to stop their charitable work but what i do hope they do is they offer uh archie an opportunity to make a decision either way and how he wants to live his life that i think they really should let allow him to make choose choose his own destiny really the harry and megan affair has undoubtedly brought trouble to the royals but there's no doubt that megan also brought glamour and sparkle i think when you talk about beatrice and eugenie filling the roles it's more about fulfilling the engagements that the sussex has left behind between them harry and megan had two maybe 300 engagements a year and so eugenie and beatrice are the ones to fill it them taking the place of harry and megan you know it's not newsworthy right so um it's great we'll keep things moving and i'm sure they'll do a great job and uh nobody will um you know i don't know if it's all that newsworthy it's just not that imaginable boring also it's like people are obsessed over kate's sister's butt during her wedding like do we really care about beatrice and anyone else have we ever talked about that as to filling that magical role that drawing power that harry and megan had i don't think they can do it certainly their father is on the outs with the royals they are born royal they are blood princesses of the united kingdom but that high power that wattage that drew people to harry and to megan it just isn't there they'll be cutting the ribbons they'll be shaking the hands but it's going to be a different vibe some still hope the royal rift will not be too great and will not last too long we need to find out what invitationless harry and megan are going to be on will they be invited to go to balmoral in august when the queen is there will they be invited to significant royal events um for example harry with his love of the military will he go to the remembrance ceremony for november 11th commemorating world war one and all the war dead we have to watch over the next year and see how much they choose to take part and how much the palace chooses to include them it's going to be a little bit of a waltz but however it turns out despite their critics many wish them well i support them one thousand percent who doesn't feel what that takes to make that decision to give up everything you've known in your whole life to say i'm going to choose this new life of what i believe to be the truest truest vision for myself you know these um folks for the most part they are already beginning to embark on a brand new life that they seem very excited about quite frankly yeah i think that's the biggest question is what is the future of the monarchy and what does it look like and i think at the end of the day the royal family is like a reality tv show we love it we want to understand more we want to see more of it and i think that um a lot of the public is to blame for this right because we are just eating up every single second that we catch them on camera and breaking down what's really happening behind the scenes and behind the palace walls and i think that we live for it whatever happens this is a story that goes well beyond the couple themselves and what happens next is anyone's guess

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Length: 43min 13sec (2593 seconds)

Published: Fri May 14 2021