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Speaker 1: Your host Mark Francis completely overshadowed by the Kate video.
Speaker 1: Netflix announced the release date for Harry's so called by
Speaker 1: the press release highly anticipated documentary series Polo, premiering in December.
Speaker 1: The series will give viewers an exclusive behind the scenes
Speaker 1: look at the world of elite polo players, pulling back
Speaker 1: the curtain on the intense skill and dedication required to
Speaker 1: compete at the top level. The series also promises to
Speaker 1: give podcasters something to make fun of before rehashing the usual.
Speaker 1: The King will have the family to Sandringham Stories Thanks Harry.
Speaker 1: Produced by Harry's Archwell Productions and collaboration with Boardwalk Pictures,
Speaker 1: the series with film primarily at the super relatable us
Speaker 1: IT Open Polo Championship in Florida. It's set to showcase
Speaker 1: not only the social and glamorous aspects of polo, but
Speaker 1: also the grit and passion that drive the sport. The project,
Speaker 1: which has been in the works since April, is close
Speaker 1: to Harry's heart, and he has played polo for decades,
Speaker 1: often participating in charity matches. His longtime friend and polo
Speaker 1: pro Nacho Figeris expressed excitement about the project, noting it
Speaker 1: as a golden opportunity to introduce the sport to a
Speaker 1: wider audience. Both Prince Harry and Megan Michle are serving
Speaker 1: as executive producers on the series, further expanding their creative
Speaker 1: ventures with Netflix, for which no doubt Netflix is super
Speaker 1: happy about. Meanwhile, the Wales promo machine is up and
Speaker 1: running in full force. The Daily Beast even spoke with
Speaker 1: a friend of the couple who said the video is
Speaker 1: the reset to end all resets. This is Kate and
Speaker 1: William as they mean to go on. It's family first
Speaker 1: and f the haters, f the press, and f Harry
Speaker 1: and Megan. It helps that they actually are like this.
Speaker 1: If you go to a kid's birthday party at their house,
Speaker 1: they will be the ones organizing games for all the kids,
Speaker 1: whereas the rest of us would happily get an entertainer
Speaker 1: in and be drinking wine in the kitchen. The Beast writes,
Speaker 1: the reign of King William and Queen Kate we were
Speaker 1: put on notice. Monday will be shiny, professional and digital first,
Speaker 1: with a heavy focus on artfully configured corn fields, butterflies, positivity,
Speaker 1: flattering light, sunsets, picnics in the forest, card games, and
Speaker 1: snogging prints William on the beach. The great lesson that
Speaker 1: Kate learned from the late Queen Elizabeth, and has applied
Speaker 1: much more diligently than any of her children or grandchildren
Speaker 1: ever have, is the importance of mystique. Kate has never
Speaker 1: given a personal interview. We don't know her favorite foods
Speaker 1: or what her preferred colors are. Like the Queen, she
Speaker 1: has guarded her privacy by simply never talking about herself,
Speaker 1: her feelings, her opinions, or her emotions. In the deeply
Speaker 1: personal video released Monday, Kate broke with the habit of
Speaker 1: a lifetime and let us in. She told us about
Speaker 1: the deep stuff of her life, her hopes and fears
Speaker 1: for her soulf and her family for the first time ever.
Speaker 1: This video was a declaration of war on the stiff
Speaker 1: upper lip. The rejection of the strictures of royalty also
Speaker 1: meant there was no room in the video for an
Speaker 1: embrace with King Charles or Queen Camilla. Despite the relentless
Speaker 1: messaging from the King's office over the past nine months
Speaker 1: about how close he and Kate have become in their
Speaker 1: shared cancer journeys. Instead, we were treated to family time
Speaker 1: at Middleton Household, with the ostoonormal Waleses hanging with Kate's parents,
Speaker 1: Michael and Carroll among the billions of people watching what
Speaker 1: could in another world be a two minute add for
Speaker 1: a dating site. There can be little doubt that among
Speaker 1: them was one particular resident of Montecito, and Megan. Michael
Speaker 1: might be forgiven for wondering what the world, and specifically
Speaker 1: the British media, would have said if it was she
Speaker 1: and Harry who had released a video vignette of such
Speaker 1: toothaching sacarinity, our royal inside a deep crown took it
Speaker 1: a step further, telling us by featuring her own parents
Speaker 1: instead of her royal in laws, Kate is subtly undermining
Speaker 1: the traditional power structure of the monarchy. She's painting a
Speaker 1: pure of a normal family it just happens to be royal,
Speaker 1: rather than a royal family trying to appear normal. This
Speaker 1: calculated omission of Charles suggests a growing rift between the
Speaker 1: King's vision of monarchy and the Wales modernization agenda. It's
Speaker 1: a bold move that positions William and Catherine as the
Speaker 1: true power center of the Royal family, relegating Charles to
Speaker 1: a figurehead role even before he's had a chance to
Speaker 1: leave his mark on the throne. Piers Morgan really liked
Speaker 1: Kate's video and the Sun. Piers writes, in forty years
Speaker 1: of covering the Royal family, I have never seen anything
Speaker 1: like Catherine's video. First, it represents a seismic departure from
Speaker 1: anything that Royals have ever done before. As a former
Speaker 1: newspaper editor, and I'm used to very brief, terse unemotional
Speaker 1: statements about anything to do with the private lives or
Speaker 1: health of the Royal family if they deigned to comment
Speaker 1: at all. But Kat and William that we live in
Speaker 1: a very different time now and that young people today
Speaker 1: expect a more touchy feely Instagram friendly sharing approach if
Speaker 1: the magic of the monarchy is to be be maintained.
Speaker 1: The film might have felt a bit smoltzy to older
Speaker 1: people from the stiff upper lip generations, but I loved it.
Speaker 1: It felt real, authentic and very human, and it made
Speaker 1: me feel quite emotional watching it, probably because, like so
Speaker 1: many other people, I currently have first and experience of
Speaker 1: someone very close to me going through cancer. Hell At
Speaker 1: its core was the message that the dreaded big Sea
Speaker 1: can strike anyone at any time, and it doesn't matter
Speaker 1: how much money and privilege you have, or how many
Speaker 1: tr as you wear. We hear a lot about the
Speaker 1: need to always remember what's really important in life, but
Speaker 1: how much do we truly think about it until something
Speaker 1: terrible happens to force us too. Katy's a woman who,
Speaker 1: on the face of it, has everything many women would love. Palaces, servants,
Speaker 1: virtually unlimited budgets for clothes and jewelry, global superstardom. Yet
Speaker 1: cancer has transformed her into a woman who would gladly
Speaker 1: give up all those material and ephemeral things for good
Speaker 1: health and the ability to continue being with a family
Speaker 1: of simply loving and being loved. It's great to hear
Speaker 1: she's cancer free at the moment, but I was also
Speaker 1: glad she made a point of saying she knows she's
Speaker 1: not out of the woods yet. It will be at
Speaker 1: least five years before doctors will be able to say
Speaker 1: with any confidence that she's cured. And as Kate said,
Speaker 1: my path to healing and full recovery is long, and
Speaker 1: I must continue to take each day as it comes.
Speaker 1: We don't know exactly what cancer she's had or how
Speaker 1: rough her treatment has been on her, But we do
Speaker 1: know it's been serious and rough enough for her to
Speaker 1: make barely any public appearances this year, and she's not
Speaker 1: yet made any firm commitment to do more any time soon,
Speaker 1: to which I say, I am sure, I speak for
Speaker 1: minions of others. Take all the time you need, your
Speaker 1: Royal Highness. Kate's illness and lengthy enforced absence from the
Speaker 1: public stage has been enforced just how beloved and important
Speaker 1: she is to this country, as is her immediate family,
Speaker 1: who all came across so wonderfully well in the film.
Speaker 1: Nothing defines the character of a human being more than
Speaker 1: how they need to respond to adversity, and Kat has
Speaker 1: responded with such magnificent courage, dignity, and grace to her
Speaker 1: biggest challenge. Our future Queen is a national treasure whom
Speaker 1: we will now feel very protective and unlike the bitter
Speaker 1: California duo spewing their bile and filling their boots across
Speaker 1: the Atlantic, she is the epitome of what it really
Speaker 1: means to be a royal Palacentric can be right back
Speaker 1: as this back and forth pr war between the Whales
Speaker 1: and the Sussex continue. Another notion was floated in Hello.
Speaker 1: Meghan and Harry are said to be planning their third
Speaker 1: foreign tour in a year. A friend of Prince Harry
Speaker 1: told Hello, that's his world, that's what he's used to.
Speaker 1: Lesotho or Botswana have been floated as potential next destinations
Speaker 1: because of ties to Harry's charity center Balle Hello also
Speaker 1: reports that Harry's birthday party may actually be small and
Speaker 1: not a Megan driven celebrity bash. A small party would
Speaker 1: be followed by a relaxing weekend in the mountains. We'll
Speaker 1: see and they have it. If you'd like to email
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