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Speaker 1: Calaruga Shark Media. Hello and welcome to Pallace Intrigue. I'm

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your host, Mark Francis. King Charles the reportedly removed prominent

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photographs of Meghan Michael from his private residences, even as

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he and Prince Harry appear to be taking cautious steps

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toward rebuilding their relationship. According to Radar Online, a framed

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photograph from Harry and Meghan's twenty eighteen Windsor wedding, once

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displayed prominently in one of Heigrove's main rooms, is no

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longer visible in its place. Visitors reportedly now see photographs

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of Charles with his sons, including one showing Harry alongside

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Prince William and the King, as well as another of

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Charles holding Prince Louis. One palace source told Radar Online

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Higrove is one of the places where the King allows

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his private feelings to show. The photographs he chooses to

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keep on display are a big part of that. When

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an image like Harry and Meghan's wedding portrait stops occupying

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pride of place, people inside the household do notice now.

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The pictures that stand out are of Harry and William

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and his father of Charles with young Lewis in his arms,

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those other relationships being quietly highlighted. Meghan, by contrast, is

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no longer front and center. Meghan's presence has faded from

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the most prominent frames, and that absence is widely read

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as a sign of how strained things remain between her

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and the King. A second insider described the placement of

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family photographs inside royal residences as carrying symbolic meaning. Within

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royal homes, the placement of photographs is a kind of

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quiet language. It signals which relationships are being brought to

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the forefront and which are being allowed to fade into

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the background. When a picture is shifted from a prime spot,

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particularly one as symbolic as a wedding portrait, it is

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generally understood to be a deliberate choice, rather than a

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casual reshuffle. What you see now is a clear emphasis

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on Charles as a father and grandfather. Images of him

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with Harry and William, or holding Lewis are given prominence.

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Megan's image, meanwhile, as far less visible, and that reduced

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presence is widely seen as reflecting the ongoing tension around

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her place in the family. Harry is expected to return

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to Breton in September for this year's Well Child Awards,

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and according to reporting from The Sun, King Charles's once

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again offered his youngest son a room at Buckingham Palace

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during the visit. The report says the offer comes just

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weeks after Harry's previous trip to the UK. On that visit,

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he ultimately did not stay at the palace after reportedly

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waiting too long to confirm his plans. According to the Sun,

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that delay frustrated the King, and Harry instead stayed elsewhere.

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Sources quoted by the newspaper say this time Harry is

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expected to accept the offer well in advance. It is

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not yet known whether Megan will accompany him on the

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September trip, or whether Archie and Lulibet will travel to

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Britain as well. Royal author Robert Jobson told The Son

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Obviously there does appear to be a sense that it's

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a gradual process and things are improving. Majesty magazine editor

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in chief in With Suard, also viewed the reported invitation

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as significant. She said, Harry realizes it is a very

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generous offer by his father and needs to respect that

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this time and be gracious about it. This is a chance,

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perhaps for Harry to show his father he knows how

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to behave. Has Megan Michael's relationship with royal author Ohmud

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Scoby cooled dramatically. Gossip columnist Rob's Shooter, writing in his

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Naughty but Nice substack, suggests the friendship between Megan and

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Scoby has become ice cold after years in which the

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journalist was widely viewed as one of the Duchess of

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Sussex's strongest public supporters. One unnamed source told Shootor Megan

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was his biggest story, his meal ticket. If someone ended

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this relationship, it wasn't him. Another source adds people are

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incredibly valuable until they aren't. Once she feels she's gotten

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what she needs, she cuts ties and rarely looks back.

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And insider added, Ohmer built a career covering Megan. Walking

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away from your biggest story doesn't make sense being pushed aside, does.

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Scoby became closely associated with the Duke and Duchess of

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Sussex through books including Finding Freedom and Endgame. While he

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has denied acting as their spokesperson, he has frequently defended

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the couple in media appearances and his reporting. Robs Shooter's

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Naughty but Nice Newsletter reports that some people close to

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the Sussexes are questioning whether the couple's increasingly separate schedules

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could signal deeper issues. According to the unnamed source quoted

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by Shooter, Harry and Meghan are living very separate lives now.

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The source claimed, it's gone beyond work schedules. They have

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different priorities, different routines, and they're spending much less time

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together than people realize. Another unnamed source claimed that Harry

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appears more at ease when traveling on his own, something

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we have noted repeatedly on this podcast. The Shooter's source said,

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when Harry is on his own, he seems like a

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different person. He's more relaxed, more spontaneous, and much more

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like the Prince people remember. Friends have noticed the change.

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The source added, nobody knows what will happen next. A

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petition calling for Prince Harry to be removed from the

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Invictor's Games has attracted more than twenty six hundred signatures.

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News Nation reports the petition was created on change dot

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org by Letitious Singletary, who argues that Harry's continued involvement

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with the Games as shifted attention from the athletes the

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event was created to support. The petition states Prince Harry,

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a private citizen with no official representation of any country,

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is leveraging his position within the Invictors Games to gain

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access to government entities, media and military facilities. His involvement

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raises significant concerns as he manipulates the event founded to

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support injured veterans for his personal gain and media exposure.

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The Invictor's Games were established with the noble intention of

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using the power of sport to inspire positive physical and

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mental recovery for injured veterans. However, Prince Harry's presences shifted

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focus from the heroic and inspiring stories of the competitors

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to a media circus centered around his persona. The petition

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also argues that the competitors are not media props, they

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are real heroes whose privacy and dignity should be zealously protected.

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It concludes by urging the Invictus Games Foundation to take

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a strong stand by removing Prince Harry from any formal

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role within the event. The Daily Telegraphs The Royal Tea

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podcasts host Camilla Tommeny has some advice for Harry. She said,

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I've always said and I would never take away from

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him how good he is with the general public, and

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how good he is with people with profound disabilities, how

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good he is in committing himself fully to the causes

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he champions. I don't think anyone can ever take away

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how genuine that is. I think he's like his mother.

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I think he really wants to make a difference, and

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I think he understands his position of privilege to do that.

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I think he's just got lost in the sort of

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sea of a degree of Woe's miism that completely misplaced,

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because at the end of the day, you're at multimillionaire

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living in Montecito. Just stop bloody grumbling and just get

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on with life. More palasing just a moment. Megan Michael's

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Daytime Emmy nomination may have given her more than industry recognition,

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It may also be reshaping the Sussex's priorities. According to

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Closer magazine, the judges sees the nomination for It with love,

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Megan is a major opportunity to rebuild her Hollywood career

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and expand her growing lifestyle brand. One unnamed source told

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the magazine she's very excited about Emmy Knight. She'll be

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with all sorts of power players and her peers, so

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it will be an amazing chance to network. Another source added,

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she's in full campaign mode and sees this is a

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very real opportunity to take her Hollywood dreams to the

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next level. A moment from Master sheeff Australia as being

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called cringe. Meghan's appearance as a guest judge included a

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surprise video call from Prince Harry, a moment that generated

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mixed reactions from viewers. During the episode of production, staff

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member handed Meghan a phone, revealing Harry on her live

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FaceTime call. Meghan smiled as she greeted him and remarked,

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He's a charmer, isn't he. She then showed in one

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contestant's dish, joking that while she enjoyed its spicy flavor,

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it would probably be too spicy for Harry. Harry Laughton

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replied from the other end of the call. According to

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some viewers criticized the segment on social media, describing it

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as staged or unnecessary for a cooking competition. Elsewhere in

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the program, Meghan spoke about cooking for her family, saying

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there are a lot of palettes to appease at home.

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She said Harry tends to prefer meat, potatoes, and cream sauce,

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while her own tastes leaned toward fish, grilled meats, and

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citrus flavors. She added that Harry enjoys a really good

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curry and can handle spicy food, and shared that Archie

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and little Bit even like Brussels Sprounce. Megan's appearance on

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Mastershef Australia protected one of the program's biggest audiences of

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the season, despite calls from some viewers to boycott the

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episode before it aired. According to TV Tonight, the episode

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drew an audience of approximately one point one six million

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viewers on Sunday Night. That made it the show's highest

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rated Sunday episode since mid June and one of the

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strongest performances of the current season. On June fourteenth, one

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point one seven five million people turned in to watch

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Adrian Zumbo kickoff Sweet. Week before the broadcast, some social

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media users had said they plan to skip the episode

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because of Beggan's appearance. However, the viewing figures suggest those

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calls had little impact on the overall audience. And there

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