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Speaker 1: Calaroga Shark Media. Hello and welcome to Pallace Intrigue. I
Speaker 1: am your host. Mark Francis, the Hollywood Reporter, writes, looks
Speaker 1: like Harry and Meghan have done it again. They've chewed
Speaker 1: up yet another American advisor. Josh Kettler, the Santa Barbara
Speaker 1: based consultant who had been serving as chief of staff
Speaker 1: to the Duke and Duchess, reportedly resigned in August after
Speaker 1: just three months on the job, becoming the latest member
Speaker 1: of the ever expanding Sussex Survivors Club, as some former
Speaker 1: employees have taken to calling themselves. A source close to
Speaker 1: the couple tells Thhr everybody's terrified of Megan. She belittles people,
Speaker 1: she doesn't take advice to them. Both poor decision makers.
Speaker 1: They changed their minds frequently. Harry is a very very
Speaker 1: charming person, no heirs at all, but he's very much
Speaker 1: an enabler, and she's just terrible. She's absolutely relentless, says
Speaker 1: one source. She marches around like a dictator in high heels,
Speaker 1: fuming and barking orders. I've watched her reduce grown men
Speaker 1: to tears. Their unsparing portrait of her is in marked
Speaker 1: contrast with the kinder, gentler image Mirkael has been painting
Speaker 1: of herself. In recent years, the former princess has become
Speaker 1: an ardent admirer of best selling Texas self help author
Speaker 1: Brene Brown, who urges readers to cultivate gratitude and joy
Speaker 1: in their lives. While touring Columbia with her husband last month,
Speaker 1: Mikael said of her new attitude of gratitude that had
Speaker 1: led her to a chapter of Joy. If you're going
Speaker 1: to be grateful for your life, you have to be
Speaker 1: grateful for all aspects of it, she said. And in
Speaker 1: a recent episode of her Archetypes podcast, Megan spoke about
Speaker 1: the challenges she has faced asserting herself and overcoming natural
Speaker 1: reticence in professional situations. I find myself cowering and tiptoeing
Speaker 1: into a room. And the thing I find most embarrassing
Speaker 1: when you're saying a sentence and the intonation goes up
Speaker 1: like it's a question, and you're like, oh my god,
Speaker 1: stop like whispering and tiptoeing around it. Just say what
Speaker 1: it is that you need. You're allowed to set a boundary.
Speaker 1: You're allowed to be clear. It doesn't make you demanding,
Speaker 1: it doesn't make you difficult. It makes you clear. The
Speaker 1: pr battle between the Sussexes and Wales's continues, with Town
Speaker 1: and Country getting a thorough account of what happened during
Speaker 1: Meghan's recent bookstore appearance. Town and Country tells us in
Speaker 1: the puff piece. Meghan stood at the front of a
Speaker 1: new bookstore in the ocean side enclave of Summerland, California,
Speaker 1: over the weekend and recalled the last time she set
Speaker 1: foot in a similar spot. It was back in twenty
Speaker 1: nineteen during a covert trip to New York from the
Speaker 1: UK to watch her friend Serena Williams playing in the
Speaker 1: US Open. She stayed for a night in the West
Speaker 1: Village with another friend, designer Miche Nonu. Before anybody knew
Speaker 1: Meghan was in town, she went for a walk to
Speaker 1: a bookstore. For me, sneaking to New York five years
Speaker 1: ago was a really big deal, the Dudges said, describing
Speaker 1: how she put on a cap and kept her head down.
Speaker 1: I was still so uncomfortable being out in the world,
Speaker 1: she continued, hinting at that fraught time in her tenure
Speaker 1: as a working royal. The safety of what I was
Speaker 1: craving I knew I could find in a bookstore. The
Speaker 1: DJ took the Evening's soundtrack from Carol King to Chapel Roan.
Speaker 1: The party was in full swing when the Sussex's arrived,
Speaker 1: slipping out of a darkened range rover and into the
Speaker 1: evening sun splashed its store. Meghan, claddened an ivory Ralph
Speaker 1: Lauren tank and long trousers with a diamond necklace around
Speaker 1: her neck, greeted people with kisses to both cheeks, while
Speaker 1: Harry turned handshakes into backslapping hugs. At the end of
Speaker 1: the founder's brief remarks, as they thanked Winfrey for her support,
Speaker 1: Megan held her hand to her mouth and let out
Speaker 1: a whoo. The Sussex's then spent an hour deep in
Speaker 1: several conversations, moving seamlessly from one group to the next.
Speaker 1: Meghan said, I'm looking at this time as my chapter
Speaker 1: of joy. The more you are able to look at
Speaker 1: your life and really truly recognize and be able to
Speaker 1: be grateful for your life, you have to be grateful
Speaker 1: for all aspects of it. My intentionality is to enjoy
Speaker 1: this chapter and be able to love through every piece
Speaker 1: of this as best we can. Meghan also thanked the
Speaker 1: founders for not just creating the space, but for holding
Speaker 1: the space for so many people to fill seen through
Speaker 1: the pages, either in laughter and grief in feeling less alone.
Speaker 1: Prince Hary and Megan Minkel have reportedly been hit with
Speaker 1: a one hundred and twenty five thousand dollars tax bill
Speaker 1: for their Montecito mansion. According to recent claims, the Duke
Speaker 1: and Duchess of Sussex spent around thirteen point seven million
Speaker 1: on their seven bedroom home four years ago. Santa Barbara
Speaker 1: County figures show Harry and Meghan were charged one hundred
Speaker 1: forty thousand dollars in property taxes for twenty twenty three,
Speaker 1: paid in two installments. The property tax bill has increased
Speaker 1: in recent years, leaving the couple with rising costs. Records
Speaker 1: indicate that in twenty twenty two they faced a one
Speaker 1: hundred and thirty seven thousand dollars tax bill, while in
Speaker 1: twenty twenty one the figure was one hundred thirty y
Speaker 1: five thousand dollars. According to reports from the sun. As
Speaker 1: Harry struggles to make ends meet, Megan wore a diamond
Speaker 1: necklace to the bookstore. According to Royal Style blog Royal
Speaker 1: Fashioned Police, Megan wore the eighteen carrot for Tuna tennis
Speaker 1: necklace with diamonds in yellow gold from Logan Hollwell, a
Speaker 1: piece that set its square about thirty thousand dollars. Fortunately
Speaker 1: for Harry, the Queen Mother reportedly set aside approximately twenty
Speaker 1: three million dollars into a trust fund for her great
Speaker 1: grandchildren in nineteen ninety four, then equivalent to around two
Speaker 1: thirds of fortune. It was suggested at the time that
Speaker 1: Prince William and Prince Harry would receive the inheritance and
Speaker 1: two installments, one at age twenty one and the other
Speaker 1: at forty and tomorrow Harry turns forty. It is understood
Speaker 1: that the brothers received seven point five million dollars between
Speaker 1: them at twenty one, and were set to receive a
Speaker 1: further ten million dollars upon turning forty. Prince William, who
Speaker 1: turned forty in June twenty twenty two, went on to
Speaker 1: inherit twenty nine million dollars from the Duchy of Cornwall
Speaker 1: after becoming the Prince of way when Charles was sent
Speaker 1: in the throne. In addition to the inheritance from the
Speaker 1: queen mother, Harry and William were left around eight million
Speaker 1: dollars each when their mother Diana passed away in nineteen
Speaker 1: ninety seven. The sum grew over time through investments, and
Speaker 1: Harry reportedly inherited around twelve and a half million dollars
Speaker 1: when he turned thirty. Palacindri could be right back amusing
Speaker 1: to us is that something Harry and Meghan's polo video
Speaker 1: was designed to distract from Kate's video, whereas we feel
Speaker 1: Kate's video was to distract from a week of talking
Speaker 1: about Harry. Royal commentator Kinsey Schofield told gb News, I
Speaker 1: understand why a lot of people do feel that way
Speaker 1: about the polo video because we have seen Harry and
Speaker 1: Meghan's one up and ship in the past, like when
Speaker 1: the Princess's whale was announced, she'd attended trooping the Color
Speaker 1: and one of Meghan's friends uploaded her dog biscuits on
Speaker 1: social media. There are definite examples where it feels like
Speaker 1: Harry and Meghan are trying to steal the spotlight. It's unfortunate,
Speaker 1: it's especially unfortunate when this is such a beautiful video.
Speaker 1: Royal fans were quick to notice a surprising detail in
Speaker 1: Kate's video, a sparkling new ring on Kate's hand, which
Speaker 1: many believe was a gift from Prince William. The accessory,
Speaker 1: a stunning Eternity band, appears early in the video as
Speaker 1: Katy's seen driving. The thick gold ring, adorned with diamonds
Speaker 1: and sapphires, compliments her iconic engagement ring, which once belonged
Speaker 1: to Princess Diana. Kate is later shown gently running her
Speaker 1: fingers through tall grass, revealing both her wedding ring and
Speaker 1: the new piece of jewelry. This is at the first
Speaker 1: time fans have spotted the ring. It made a brief
Speaker 1: appearance earlier this summer in a video the couple shared
Speaker 1: to congratulate teen GB after the Olympics. Fans are convinced
Speaker 1: that the ring is a special gift from Prince William,
Speaker 1: with one commenting the new ring again definitely with him present.
Speaker 1: Another speculator the Eternity ring could symbolize a fresh start
Speaker 1: for Katy's She celebrates the end of her treatment, marking
Speaker 1: the next phase of her life, and there you have it.
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