Speaker 1: Calorogus Shark Media. Hello and welcome to Palace Intriguing. Am
Speaker 1: your host mark for answers. Affiliate marketing expert Meghan Sussex
Speaker 1: is not receiving a good reaction to her latest business
Speaker 1: endeavor talk TVs. Mike Graham told The Express, I think
Speaker 1: we're seeing the collapse of the Meghan as humanitarian narrative.
Speaker 1: You simply can't talk about dismantling institutions advocating for women's
Speaker 1: rights and humanitarian causes and then pivot straight into affiliate marketing,
Speaker 1: influencer style, brand placements and monetizing your own taste. It's
Speaker 1: the kind of jarring contrast that's hard to ignore. One
Speaker 1: inside it, quoted by The Express, says Megan's affiliate marketing
Speaker 1: comes across as a bit of a word we won't
Speaker 1: repeat but rhymes with what and urged Meghan not to
Speaker 1: oversaturate herself by keeping the doors closed and preserving the mystique.
Speaker 1: Another less offensive word being thrown around is cringe. A
Speaker 1: source tells of The Express. Megan has access, reach and impact,
Speaker 1: but the strategy right now lacks clarity, consistency and direction.
Speaker 1: She's no longer blurring lines between personal brand and purpose.
Speaker 1: She's blowing them up. Pr expert Chad Tickserah adds, it
Speaker 1: honestly feels like Meghan has finally dropped the act of
Speaker 1: being anything more than a well dressed influencer. There's no
Speaker 1: shame in the affiliate game. It's a legitimate hustle. But
Speaker 1: let's not pretend this is some grand reinvention from royal
Speaker 1: tours to reward links. It's quite the pivot. We'll point out.
Speaker 1: Megan is much more than a well dressed influencer. She
Speaker 1: hosts a cooking show for Netflix, sells dog biscuits and
Speaker 1: jam online, and next week is releasing a mildly anticipated
Speaker 1: new podcast. Tax Sera adds she's basically gone from giving
Speaker 1: speeches about global issues to giving discount codes for blazers.
Speaker 1: This move feels like the final nail in the coffin
Speaker 1: for the serious thought leader narrative. In the end, Megan's
Speaker 1: gone from the palace to the Pinterest board. It's not
Speaker 1: that people don't want her to win, but this isn't
Speaker 1: the kind of powerplay most expected. The strategy lacks the
Speaker 1: gravitars of someone who once spoke about dismantling institutional structures.
Speaker 1: Now it's ten percent off handbags and a swipe up
Speaker 1: story away from becoming a full blown fashion affiliate. Queen
Speaker 1: Rebecca English warns Prince Harry to be careful about making
Speaker 1: a Netflix documentary Telling Palace Confidential. I think if he
Speaker 1: was to do it, making the show about Princess Diana,
Speaker 1: it would bring him into massive conflict with his brother,
Speaker 1: because although Harry and William together cooperated on I think
Speaker 1: two documentaries about their mother over the years to mark
Speaker 1: particular landmarks, I know Prince William has made a point
Speaker 1: of saying, look, it really is time to let my
Speaker 1: mother's memory rest in peace. Now. He's made that very clear.
Speaker 1: I mean, apart from joint charitable initiatives like the Diana Awards,
Speaker 1: which I think are very positive ones, they very much
Speaker 1: want to park that side of their mother's life royal inside.
Speaker 1: Deep Crown agrees, Telling Pallace Intrigue, Harry finds himself in
Speaker 1: an increasingly precarious position. The fraternal bond with William, once
Speaker 1: the monarchy's greatest strength, now stands as perhaps its most
Speaker 1: visible fracture. Should Harry proceed with documentaries revisiting Diana's legacy
Speaker 1: against William's explicit wishes. He risks not merely angering a brother,
Speaker 1: but potentially earning the permanent disapproval of a future sovereign.
Speaker 1: The California Prince would be wise to consider that while
Speaker 1: Charles may practice patients born for his own decades long wait,
Speaker 1: King William, shaped by different forces, might adopt a firmer
Speaker 1: approach to familial dissent once the crown rests upon his head.
Speaker 1: Harry apparently learned of his father's recent hospitalization the same
Speaker 1: way the rest of us did by social media, where
Speaker 1: told the Palace did not want to cause unnecessary alarm. Meanwhile,
Speaker 1: The Telegraph reports Center Bali's Sophie Chanduk fell out with
Speaker 1: the Sussexes after refusing a request by the couple to
Speaker 1: tell the media that Michael hadn't been mean to her.
Speaker 1: At a charity polo match, a scene wildly circulated on
Speaker 1: social media in recent days shows Meghan directing the charity's
Speaker 1: CEO to move out of a photo so that Mikel
Speaker 1: herself could stand beside Prince Harry. Chanduka was seen ducking
Speaker 1: awkwardly beneath the trophy to accommodate the Duchess's request. A
Speaker 1: well placed but anonymous source told the Telegraph that it
Speaker 1: comes down to that polo match and the awkward moment
Speaker 1: with Mikl moving her out of the way. Harry then
Speaker 1: demanded that she make a statement to the press, basically
Speaker 1: saying Megan wasn't mean to me, and she refused to
Speaker 1: do that. All this is part of a narrative that
Speaker 1: finds Harry more and more isolated. An insider told the Son,
Speaker 1: first he was a spare to William. Now he's increasingly
Speaker 1: looking like a spare to Meghan, and it's not a
Speaker 1: great look. More palas in just a moment, There was
Speaker 1: an unexpected royal twist on The UK Apprentice, as Lord
Speaker 1: Allen Sugar took aim not at the contestants but a
Speaker 1: Prince Andrew. During the program's traditional shopping channel task, in
Speaker 1: which candidates attempt to flog products live on the air,
Speaker 1: the boardroom discussion turned to a facial steamer one contestant
Speaker 1: described as a device design to unclogged pause and improve
Speaker 1: skin tone. Lord Sugar, however, appeared more interested in its
Speaker 1: vapor output, cuipping, I didn't see you use it. I
Speaker 1: saw the steam coming out of it. Then, with a
Speaker 1: look of mischief, rarely seen in Whitehall or windsor the business.
Speaker 1: Nikoon added half an hour of that would even get
Speaker 1: Prince Andrew to sweat the boardroom, predictably corrupted in laughter.
Speaker 1: The remark was, of course, appointed reference to the Duke
Speaker 1: of York's now infamous twenty nineteen news Note interview in
Speaker 1: which he claimed medical condition rendered him temporarily unable to perspire,
Speaker 1: a claim that raised eyebrows at the time and has
Speaker 1: since become a cultural reference point for the absurd social
Speaker 1: media lit up following the broadcast Careful Sugar or You'll
Speaker 1: Be Handed Those titles back Tom Quinn's new book As
Speaker 1: We Surface, The Tales of Andrew's Teddy Bear Collection. Quinn
Speaker 1: told Fox News Digital he is quite eccentric, and he
Speaker 1: has a collection of teddy bears which he insists of
Speaker 1: places every day in a certain position, a pyramid shape,
Speaker 1: and he gets very cross if it's not done properly.
Speaker 1: He really doesn't do anything for himself. He has a
Speaker 1: member of staff who puts the teddy bears in order.
Speaker 1: There are quite a few twenty or thirty in the
Speaker 1: position that he likes every day, and I know that
Speaker 1: in the past if they're not placed exactly as he wants.
Speaker 1: He can be quite sure tempered and angry about it.
Speaker 1: So when he finds someone who is very good at it,
Speaker 1: he clings to them and he gets the same person
Speaker 1: to do it every day. A lot of his staff
Speaker 1: don't think very much of him because they think he's
Speaker 1: entitled and quite bad tempered, and a lot of his
Speaker 1: bad temper I think is frustration because in many ways
Speaker 1: he felt he would be a better king than Charles.
Speaker 1: His brother Andrew is less introspective, he's less sensitive, he's
Speaker 1: more of a tough guy, and I think he feels
Speaker 1: frustrated even more now that he's no longer a working royal.
Speaker 1: He does tend to take it out on the staff.
Speaker 1: While members of the royal family are no strangers to
Speaker 1: life in the public eye, there remains certain aspects of
Speaker 1: their private lives that are rarely discussed. Tattoos, for example.
Speaker 1: Though one hardly associates the monarchy with body art, a
Speaker 1: small number of royals have indeed sported ink, either discreetly
Speaker 1: or in some cases rather boldly. Take Princess Eugenie, for instance,
Speaker 1: in twenty twenty two, during the National Service of Thanksgiving
Speaker 1: held at Saint Paul's Cathedral in honor of Queen Elizabeth
Speaker 1: the seconds Platinum Jubilee. Eagle eye observers noted a small
Speaker 1: circle tattoo just behind her ear. Further a field on
Speaker 1: the royal family tree, Lady Amelia Windsor, granddaughter of the
Speaker 1: Duke of Kenton, third cousin to Princess William and Harry,
Speaker 1: has been rather more forthcoming in her esthetic choices. Lady
Speaker 1: Amelia has been seen with a tiger tattoo on her shoulder,
Speaker 1: as well as another design on her rebcage consisting of
Speaker 1: two small leaves. A third tattoo has also been spotted
Speaker 1: on her wrist, though the designs were something of a mystery.
Speaker 1: While such adornments may seem unconventional within royal circles, Amelia's
Speaker 1: fashion forward, sensibility and modeling work place her in a
Speaker 1: rather different category. Tattooing among royals is not, however, a
Speaker 1: modern invention. King George the Fifth through reigned from nineteen
Speaker 1: ten to thirty six, bought not only one but two
Speaker 1: tattoos before ascending the throne. The young Prince served in
Speaker 1: the Royal Navy, and during a visit to Japan in
Speaker 1: eighteen eighty one received a red and blue dragon tattoo,
Speaker 1: a customary practice among naval men of the era. He
Speaker 1: is also said to have had a tiger tattooed on
Speaker 1: his other arm. Both designs likely acquired well before it
Speaker 1: became apparent that he would one day become king following
Speaker 1: the untimely death of his elder brother, Prince Albert Victor.
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