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Speaker 1: Deep Crown, filling in for mister Francis, who apparently is
Speaker 1: lost somewhere in the Atlanta airport. We feel your pain,
Speaker 1: mister Francis. We feel your pain. But let's talk about regrets.
Speaker 1: Does Meghan Markel have regrets? And are the regrets genuine
Speaker 1: or just about making money? Royal expert told Fox News,
Speaker 1: Meghan does regret certain statements that she made. They weren't
Speaker 1: received in the way that she had expected, and several
Speaker 1: of her comments have backfired. She and Prince Harry deeply
Speaker 1: regret the royal racist controversy. Meghan wanted the takeaway from
Speaker 1: their Oprah interview to be about her mental health, and
Speaker 1: I think Meghan regretted sitting down with the cut because
Speaker 1: she provided endless commentary for her. Critics describe Meghan's personal
Speaker 1: life in California as isolated but structured. The qualifications to
Speaker 1: be her friend are no secret. She typically gravitates towards
Speaker 1: people that can offer her something contribute to her personal goals.
Speaker 1: She also requires trust and privacy. Her friend's group is small.
Speaker 1: She is friendly with Monticito locals, as you never know
Speaker 1: someone's connection or status. Everyone in Montecito has accomplished something
Speaker 1: significant to be in a position to call it home.
Speaker 1: Sightings of the couple are rare, and advances towards establishing
Speaker 1: connections with the Sussexes are mostly rejected. It is important
Speaker 1: to Megan that it appears she has moved on and
Speaker 1: the drama is beneath her, but that is not the reality.
Speaker 1: There is still a resentment that fuels a lot of
Speaker 1: the work she has done over the last three and
Speaker 1: a half years. Harry and Meghan returning to the UK
Speaker 1: without meeting with the royals or acknowledging them just reminds
Speaker 1: the world of their estrangement. It attracts hostile headlines. I
Speaker 1: think there is a desire to win back that audience
Speaker 1: in the UK, but Harry recently said himself that he
Speaker 1: doesn't feel safe enough bringing his wife back to his
Speaker 1: home country. If American Riviera Orchard becomes a well oiled
Speaker 1: machine and keeps Meghan busy, she will find joy in
Speaker 1: that work. Megan is reportedly feeling abandoned after the eighteenth
Speaker 1: staff member quit working for her and Prince Harry. Josh
Speaker 1: Kettler who had been serving as Prince Harry's chief of staff,
Speaker 1: recently stepped down from his role after only three months,
Speaker 1: just days before the couple's faux royal tour to Columbia.
Speaker 1: The departure is said to be a mutual decision, but
Speaker 1: a source told Closer that the latest staffing change has
Speaker 1: been a humiliating and demoralizing blow for both Meghan and Harry.
Speaker 1: The source added, Megan's secretly feeling quite abandoned after this
Speaker 1: keeps happening. This isn't the first time staff turnover has
Speaker 1: plagued the Duke and Duchess of susse In late twenty eighteen,
Speaker 1: shortly after their wedding, Meghan's personal assistant, Melissa Tubati, quit
Speaker 1: after reportedly being reduced to tears by the Duchess's demands.
Speaker 1: Following this, Samantha Cohen, a seasoned royal aide who had
Speaker 1: worked for Queen Elizabeth for seventeen years, also resigned, allegedly
Speaker 1: frustrated by the couple's behaviour. Cohen reportedly likened working for
Speaker 1: Harry and Meghan to managing teenagers and described an environment
Speaker 1: where she was pushed to her limits and allegedly screamed
Speaker 1: at during their official tour of Australia and the Pacific
Speaker 1: in January twenty nineteen. Meghan's female bodyguard, who has never
Speaker 1: been named for security reasons, also left after just six months.
Speaker 1: By March, Senior Communications Secretary Jason Nouf resigned amid a
Speaker 1: series of unsubstantiated bullying complaints against Meghan. He later went
Speaker 1: to work for Prince William and Kate's Royal Foundation. When
Speaker 1: the Sussexes stepped down from royal duties, fifteen Pallace staff
Speaker 1: members were let go. Despite the ongoing staff issues, Meghan
Speaker 1: has been defended by many friends and former colleagues. Daniel Martin,
Speaker 1: Meghan's friend and makeup artist, broke down in tears while
Speaker 1: defending her, saying, what's so frustrating is that you hear
Speaker 1: these stories and there's no truth to them. It's not
Speaker 1: the same person. In the years I've known her, the
Speaker 1: years i've worked with her, She's never had a diva
Speaker 1: fit never, he added, I think because I know her
Speaker 1: so well and I know she doesn't deserve all this
Speaker 1: negative press. Janina Gavankhar, another close friend of Megan's, also
Speaker 1: spoke out amid the fallout from Mexit and the bullying allegations. Janina,
Speaker 1: who took the Sussex's Christmas card photo in twenty nineteen,
Speaker 1: said in a tweet, I have known Meghan for seventeen years.
Speaker 1: Here's what she is kind, strong, open, Here's what she's
Speaker 1: not a bully. A source close to the Duchess of
Speaker 1: Sussex has dismissed recently ais that Meghan has been struggling
Speaker 1: to find a CEO for the ro brand, leading to delays.
Speaker 1: The source emphasized that these reports are untrue, stating that
Speaker 1: Megan has been working diligently behind the scenes. An insider
Speaker 1: previously revealed that the new venture will reflect everything that
Speaker 1: she loves family, cooking, entertaining and home decor. The insider
Speaker 1: added this is something she's been wanting to do for
Speaker 1: a while. She is excited to share her style and
Speaker 1: things that she loves. Royal expert Kinsey Schofield told gb
Speaker 1: News Meghan and Harry will have a hard time trying
Speaker 1: to find staff that want to work under them. I
Speaker 1: do think that they're going to continue to have a
Speaker 1: hard time finding people that want to work underneath them.
Speaker 1: I'm intimidated just thinking about it. There are rumors that
Speaker 1: Netflix has said, allow us to manage the retail strategy.
Speaker 1: If she can't manage to find a CEO or somebody
Speaker 1: willing to work with her, Netflix sees an opportunity there.
Speaker 1: Gb host Amon Holmes added, to be an influencer, people
Speaker 1: have got to want to be like you, and they've
Speaker 1: actually got to like her. Most people have to be
Speaker 1: liked or admired. She'll have difficulty on both fronts. Schofield
Speaker 1: replied this has been her biggest issue in the last
Speaker 1: few years, realizing there's been a shift when it comes
Speaker 1: to their popularity. Harry and Meghan believed their own hype
Speaker 1: when they said on that Netflix series that the reason
Speaker 1: they were ostracized was because they were much more popular
Speaker 1: than the British Royals. They were more popular than Prince William,
Speaker 1: more popular than Princess Kate, and their popularity has declined
Speaker 1: immensely and now they are desperate to win people over again.
Speaker 1: Royalists are very much tuned out when it comes to
Speaker 1: Harry and Meghan, not rooting for their success anymore, because
Speaker 1: they feel like they have been cruel and toxic towards
Speaker 1: the royal family over the last few years. It's going
Speaker 1: to take somebody that's really tough. It's going to take
Speaker 1: somebody who realizes that there's a rainbow at the end
Speaker 1: of the tunnel and they just have to persevere. I
Speaker 1: don't think I could do it more Palace in a moment.
Speaker 1: Apparently the brothers were discreet at last week's not quite reunion.
Speaker 1: One source told the Son how they only saw the
Speaker 1: brothers at the end of the service, adding I didn't
Speaker 1: know they were there. They arrived very discreetly. Another source
Speaker 1: noted they sat very far apart. William and Harry were
Speaker 1: both there, but we never saw them speak to each
Speaker 1: other and they were keeping their distance. No someone with
Speaker 1: lavish life, no job. The Times of India reports that
Speaker 1: when the South Yorkshire Police put out a social media
Speaker 1: appeal inviting inputs on anyone living a lavish lifestyle but
Speaker 1: without having any job, they intended to nab economic crime,
Speaker 1: but the social media post was inundated with people reporting
Speaker 1: the royal family for doing nothing and enjoying a lavish lifestyle.
Speaker 1: Royals including King Charles and Prince William were reported to
Speaker 1: the police. Read Yes, his name is Charles and he
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