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Speaker 2: Kate Middleton's PR machine appears to be ramping back up
Speaker 2: as we are seeing Kate's wonderful articles again for the
Speaker 2: first time in a few months. Royal author Robert Jobson,
Speaker 2: out promoting his book, told Hello Magazine, she's a person
Speaker 2: who wants to find solutions and rise above the noise
Speaker 2: and the drama. And I think, given what she's gone through,
Speaker 2: you don't want to waste any time on noise on
Speaker 2: drama when you've had anything to do with your health.
Speaker 2: Jobson also emphasize that Kate is making her health and
Speaker 2: family her top priorities and isn't rushing back into her
Speaker 2: royal duties. That takes quite a lot of courage, because
Speaker 2: you're in a very alienated world. But I think she
Speaker 2: realized that she only has one shot at this. She's
Speaker 2: got three young children and they have to come first,
Speaker 2: so she's taking advantage of time she won't get back
Speaker 2: with her kids. Jobs and spork appears to have restated
Speaker 2: the entire Kate's wonderful industry. Vanity Fair tells us Kate
Speaker 2: Middleton and Prince William went full Grease with a dance
Speaker 2: number at their twenty eleven wedding. In that excerpt from
Speaker 2: Jobson's book, William and Kate actually lip synced to a
Speaker 2: song from the nineteen seventy eight movie Grease at their
Speaker 2: Buckingham Palace reception. They stood holding hands in the middle
Speaker 2: of the dance floor, grinning. Then suddenly the opening bars
Speaker 2: of the song You're the One that I Want from
Speaker 2: the musical Grease came booming out. William and Catherine then
Speaker 2: began dancing around, pointing at each other and mouthing the
Speaker 2: words with the style of the lead characters Danny and Sandy.
Speaker 2: It brought the house down Before that, Jobs and tells
Speaker 2: us Kate let her hair down during her bachelorette party
Speaker 2: by delivering a rendition of English pop star Sheryl Coles
Speaker 2: Fight for This Love. According to Jobs and Kate dressed
Speaker 2: up in a figure hugging bodysuit and gave an exaggerated
Speaker 2: impersonation of the early orts singer. Even Middleton's future husband,
Speaker 2: Prince William, caught wind of the show and spilled Middleton's
Speaker 2: secret to Cole, who performed at Queen Elizabeth's Diamond Jubilee
Speaker 2: in twenty twelve. Did you know that you've got a
Speaker 2: bit of competition with him, asked Cole at the time.
Speaker 2: William wasn't the only one to reveal Kate's impersonation to
Speaker 2: the singer. Pepper and James Middleton also tattled on Kate,
Speaker 2: sharing details of the performance with Cole. Kate even learned
Speaker 2: the dance routine and was step perfect by all accounts,
Speaker 2: as her sister Pepper and brother James also came over
Speaker 2: and told me all about it. Counted It Jobson's book.
Speaker 2: Kate also met her hero, Cole told Closer that the
Speaker 2: princess was easy to get along with. Per Jobson, we
Speaker 2: had this amazing moment, Cole said, she's so ordinary. I mean,
Speaker 2: obviously she isn't because she's a princess, but she's easy
Speaker 2: to get along with. William's bachelor party was much less eventful.
Speaker 2: According to Jobson's book, the prince enjoyed a low key
Speaker 2: event with twenty of his close friends. The group went
Speaker 2: clay pigeon shooting before going surfing during a weekend at
Speaker 2: a Devon mansion named Harland Abbey. On slow news days,
Speaker 2: the press will often dust off old stories such as
Speaker 2: this one, which will be familiar to Palace intrigue listeners,
Speaker 2: this time with some new sprinkles from Jobson. In two
Speaker 2: thousand and eight, Kate sent an email to her friends
Speaker 2: requesting they start calling her by her full name, Katherine.
Speaker 2: This request, Jobs and Notes only added to the speculation
Speaker 2: that Prince William was planning to propose. Jobson cites a
Speaker 2: two thousand and eight article by Sunday Express columnist Adam Helliker,
Speaker 2: who disclosed that Kate had written a humorous email to
Speaker 2: her close friends about her preference for being called Katherine.
Speaker 2: Helka wrote, I hear that in the past few weeks,
Speaker 2: the former accessories buyer has quietly informed friends that she
Speaker 2: would like to drop the informal Kate and in future,
Speaker 2: wishes to be known by her full name, Katherine. The
Speaker 2: debate over what to call Kate didn't end there. In
Speaker 2: his twenty twenty three memoir Spare, Prince Harry shared an
Speaker 2: anecdote about her name. He wrote that King Charles once
Speaker 2: asked Kate to consider changing the spelling of her first
Speaker 2: name to Katherine, with a K instead of a C.
Speaker 2: Harry explained that this was because there were already two
Speaker 2: royal ciphers with the letter C for Charles and Camilla.
Speaker 2: Make it Katherine with a K. They suggested. Separate from
Speaker 2: the jobs and book, The pr machine is letkters know
Speaker 2: of Kate's summer plans. The Daily Beast reports the couple
Speaker 2: are aiming to be in boal Moral, either for the
Speaker 2: opening of the grouse shooting season on August twelfth or
Speaker 2: shortly thereafter. According to a friend sourced by the Beast,
Speaker 2: Kate has been exceptionally open and honest about her health,
Speaker 2: making two appearances before the summer break at Wimbledon and
Speaker 2: trooping the Color was a clear signal that she is
Speaker 2: doing well. That is what we are hearing privately as well.
Speaker 2: It's not over, but there is lots of optimism, lots
Speaker 2: of positivity. It's obviously still an incredibly worrying time, but
Speaker 2: all the signs are there that her cancer treatment, which
Speaker 2: is ongoing, is progressing well and inside added, there's still
Speaker 2: nothing in her diary. My understanding is that people are
Speaker 2: going to have to get used to seeing a lot
Speaker 2: less of Kate. The priority for her now is going
Speaker 2: to be a family and children. The youngest of those kids,
Speaker 2: Louis is only six. Like a lot of people who
Speaker 2: have a brush with mortality, Kate is going to prioritize
Speaker 2: the things that mattered her from now on. In her case,
Speaker 2: that means her kids. Note how every source is getting
Speaker 2: the message out that Kate has focused on her kids,
Speaker 2: which appears to be a coordinated message. We asked our
Speaker 2: inside a Deep Crown about that. Who tells palace intrigue.
Speaker 2: When you see multiple sources suddenly singing from the same
Speaker 2: hymn sheet, it's a clear sign that the Palace pr
Speaker 2: machine is in full swing. These unofficial messages are typically
Speaker 2: disseminated through a carefully curated network of royal correspondence and
Speaker 2: trusted journalists. The Palace will subtly brief these individuals, often
Speaker 2: through intermediaries, providing just enough information to shape the narrative
Speaker 2: without appearing to do so directly. It's a delicate dance. Really,
Speaker 2: the Palace maintains plausible deniability while still controlling the story.
Speaker 2: The aim here is clear to paint a picture of
Speaker 2: a devoted mother prioritizing her family during her recovery. It's
Speaker 2: a relatable image that garners public sympathy and understanding by
Speaker 2: flooding the media with these stories, they're effectively setting the
Speaker 2: tone for how Kate's absence should be perceived. It's pr
Speaker 2: one oh one, and I must say they're rather good
Speaker 2: at it. Meanwhile, the Daily Beast's source added, Charles's doing
Speaker 2: a magnificent job fighting his cancer, but it is still unwell.
Speaker 2: It is being fantastically well managed to give the impression
Speaker 2: that everything is fine, but it is noticeable to those
Speaker 2: of us who are aware of such things that the
Speaker 2: engagements are shorter and carefully scheduled. For example, he sometimes
Speaker 2: arrives by helicopter at the last minute, before being choppered
Speaker 2: away and presumably collapsing in an armchair at home. Charles
Speaker 2: cancer hasn't gone away. The Palace have said as much,
Speaker 2: and to be brutally honest, the one's popular notion that
Speaker 2: he will live to a similar age as his mother
Speaker 2: ninety four or father ninety nine is now less wide spread.
Speaker 2: I think that has very much focused Kate's mind on
Speaker 2: the fact that there may only be a few years
Speaker 2: of freedom left. What does she want to do with him?
Speaker 2: Nurture her kids and try her best to equip them
Speaker 2: for the life ahead. Palace intrig will be right back.
Speaker 2: The Daily Beast report mentions that the royals were expected
Speaker 2: to descend on Moral en Mass for the opening of
Speaker 2: the grouse shooting season on August twelfth, known colloquially as
Speaker 2: the Glorious at twelfth. They source a friend of the
Speaker 2: royals who tells the Beast Bow Moral is basically a
Speaker 2: very fancy Victorian hunting lodge. That is what you do
Speaker 2: up there. You go out shooting fish, you have lunch
Speaker 2: in them. But it is an important ritual for Kat
Speaker 2: and William to take the children there for the Glorious
Speaker 2: twelfth and that is the goal this year. Royal author
Speaker 2: Phil Dampia told Fabulous there's so much space that they
Speaker 2: can go off for picnics, go off for a massive
Speaker 2: long walks and just enjoy the fresh air and the
Speaker 2: forest up there and enjoy the freedom. They might get
Speaker 2: pony up there and start doing some horse riding if
Speaker 2: they're not already. That's the sort of thing they'll get
Speaker 2: up to. It's all typical traditional royal pursuits that they
Speaker 2: can enjoy if they want to. Prince Harry is reportedly
Speaker 2: considering a return to the UK to attend at the
Speaker 2: funeral of his uncle Lord Robert Fellows. However, Harry is
Speaker 2: cautious about making the trip if it might cause too
Speaker 2: much drama. According to a friend of his, at this point,
Speaker 2: a temploid article would spend three paragraphs telling you that
Speaker 2: Harry and William don't get along, and then wildly speculate
Speaker 2: about whether or not Megan would come. She won't, Let's
Speaker 2: move on. Sophie, the Duchess of Edinburgh, demonstrated a warm
Speaker 2: and formal side of royal protocol when she celebrated in
Speaker 2: in Great Britain's historic gold medal win and the women's
Speaker 2: team sprint at the twenty twenty four Paris Olympics. The victory,
Speaker 2: which also set a world record, prompted Sophie to cheer
Speaker 2: year and Hager Fellows spectator, a gesture that highlighted the
Speaker 2: evolving nature royal behavior. This spontaneous and friendly act contrasted
Speaker 2: with the more traditional and formal interactions often associated with
Speaker 2: the British royal family. According to the official guidance from
Speaker 2: the Royal Family's website, while traditional forms are respect like
Speaker 2: bows and curtsies at common, there is no obligatory code
Speaker 2: of behavior when interacting with royals. This flexibility allows for
Speaker 2: more casual interactions such as the hug Sophie gave it
Speaker 2: the Velodrome, reflecting a broader trend within the royal family
Speaker 2: towards a more approachable and relatable image. Sophie's connection to
Speaker 2: cycling and her role as the patron of the British
Speaker 2: Cycling Federation further underscored her emotional investment in the event.
Speaker 2: Her history with the sport includes a four hundred and
Speaker 2: fifty mile cycling challenge for the Duke of Edinburgh Award
Speaker 2: in twenty sixteen, long before her husband, Prince Edward was
Speaker 2: conferred the title of Duke of Edinburgh. While Sophie has
Speaker 2: been actively present at the Paris Olympics, the Prince and
Speaker 2: Princess of Wales Kate have not yet made an appearance.
Speaker 2: There have been rumors that Kate would appear, however, the
Speaker 2: Games are almost over. It would be a good pr
Speaker 2: move in advance of the upcoming faux royal tour by
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