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They have glittering palaces, unreal fortunes, medieval crowns, and weird traditions. But what really makes the British royal family tick? Hidden secrets, unreal scandals, bitter feuds, wild rivalries, fantastic fashion… and, of course, corgis. Now Tom Sykes, the royal correspondent whose fearless reporting has delivered scoop after scoop on the Windsors is cracking open all the family’s secrets in an unmissable podcast: The Royalist. Nothing is off limits as Tom and his best-connected experts spill every drop of royal tea. From paranoid princes and disgraced dukes to haunted palaces and diva designers, this is insight into the royals people used to lose their heads to get. Make a royal appointment to join Tom in the throne room for The Royalist, every Wednesday.
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- 3 days ago43 min
LIVE: Sordid Markle Arrest Damages William and George’s Country Life PR Push
Prince William has spent six months working on his guest edit of Country Life, and this was supposed to be his week. Today the 300-page special issue finally goes on sale, with the Prince of Wales as its cover star, sharing his thoughts on the countryside, the people who look after it, and even his fondness for a pint of cider with ice down the pub. William to give insight into public and private life as he guest edits magazine Instead, the royal news agenda belongs to an 82-year-old man in Florida. Last Friday the FBI took Thomas Markle, Meghan’s estranged father, into custody, and he now faces a federal count of possessing child sexual abuse material. He has called the accusations false, and it is important to say that an arrest is not a conviction. But the story has swallowed everything else in the royal world whole. meghan markles father reportedly arrested on child sexual abuse material charges In this video, I look at how the Markle arrest has overshadowed William’s Country Life debut, and why a magazine issue that Kensington Palace would have expected to dominate the headlines for days has been pushed down the running order by a scandal that has nothing to do with him. William is following his father, Queen Camilla and Princess Anne into the guest editor’s chair. (Camilla’s issue is still the magazine’s best seller of all time.) For the heir to the throne, this was a chance to set out who he is and what he cares about: rural Britain, the environment, and the people working the land. I also look at what the arrest means for Meghan. She addressed the allegations against her father when they first emerged in October, though her representative would not comment on the arrest itself. And I ask the bigger question: more than six years after Harry and Meghan left royal life, why does the Sussex story still have the power to blow the Prince of Wales off the front pages? oxygen Let me know what you think in the comments. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
- 3 days ago1h 11m
Why Humiliated Harry and Meghan Will Quit UK
In this episode of The Royalist, Tom Sykes is joined by Paula Froelich ( @PaulaFroelich , https://thescoopwithpaulafroelich.substack.com/) and Mark Dolan for a revealing look at the latest royal drama. From Prince Harry’s controversial Remembrance Sunday appearance and Prince Andrew’s life away from the royal spotlight to the explosive questions surrounding Meghan Markle and her father, Thomas Markle Sr., no stone is left unturned. Plus, Mark Dolan delivers his take on the Sussexes’ troubled UK return, the future of their royal brand, and why he believes Harry and Meghan could be heading back to California within a year. Is a royal escape plan taking shape? Tune in for sharp analysis, royal family news, behind-the-scenes insight and plenty of debate. Follow Tom Sykes on Substack: https://theroyalist.substack.com/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
- 5 days ago40 min
LIVE: EXCLUSIVE: Prince Harry’s Lonely UK Life: No New Friends and the King STILL Hasn’t Seen Him
Seeing Prince Harry standing alone in Brackley, with no friends or neighbors around him, was a salutary reminder of just how much he has lost in his idiotic decision to go to war with the royal family. He cut a lonely figure for a man who was once so beloved, had so many friends and was so social. He is now cut off from almost all of them, especially the ones who can’t forgive how he treated William and Catherine (the couples shared many friends). I am now told he and Meghan have made no new friends since moving to the UK. “The only people they see regularly are Ellen and Portia,” my source says. They are completely isolated, totally paranoid about privacy and security, and battered by the news cycle about Meghan’s dad, Thomas. Meghan is not keen on shooting invitations, which are of course the social lifeblood of the region at this time of year. The one bright spot is the kids’ school, which feels “normal,” and the children are settling in well. The same cannot be said for the parents. School is often a way to meet new people, but I’m told they haven’t really bonded with the other parents, partly because of their habit of arriving in a convoy of two or even three Range Rovers, which has started to annoy the other parents, many of whom are also high profile and rich. Meghan is adrift socially, even though hustling like crazy for work is keeping her busy. Harry is traveling a lot (New York last week, Brussels this week), again trying to hustle for business as the two of them try to figure out how to create a sustainable life here. And the King still has not seen them in person, which is becoming a source of frustration. A friend of the King says he is not in a position to just wheel out social visits, and that Harry’s refusal to go through official channels to schedule an audience is making this difficult, as is his decision to appeal the Mail on Sunday judgment (very awkward for the King). Can Harry rebuild a life here, or is this it? Let me know what you think in the comments. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
- 5 days ago41 min
LIVE: Harry Vowed Not to Pull Focus. Then He Turned Up in Brackley in His MEDALS
Harry promised he wouldn't pull focus. In the run-up to Remembrance Sunday, a friend told HELLO! that he would do nothing to distract from the Royal Family or the national commemorations at the Cenotaph. Then, at just before three o'clock this afternoon, there he was. He was standing beside The Crown Hotel in Brackley, a Northamptonshire market town he has no connection with whatsoever, with his medals on his chest and a poppy in his lapel, being filmed. There was no Meghan. By teatime, the pictures were everywhere, sitting right alongside the King at the Cenotaph. He couldn't resist. And I think it is desperately sad. In tonight's live, I go through why this matters. Harry has spent the best part of seven years taking the institution apart in public. There was Oprah, the Netflix series about his privacy, Spare, and the BBC interview in which he said he couldn't see a world in which he would bring his family back to the UK. Now he lives in the Cotswolds and wants to stand at a war memorial as the nation's solemn veteran. We look at the medals (one earned in Helmand, three jubilee medals from his grandmother). We look at the uncanny habit cameras have of finding the Sussexes at their most "private" moments. And we look at the timing, given that last year his people made a point of releasing his Remembrance essay on a Wednesday to avoid pulling focus. I also look at the Andrew comparison. Harry hates it, and on conduct he's right. But in the hunger to stand in the light of a royal occasion you've been shut out of, the two Dukes of Hazard are looking awfully alike. Above all, Brackley shows the profound difficulty Harry is going to have living in the UK while estranged from the royals but pretending to be a royal. If he were in, there would be no problem. He's not. So is this the model now? Christmas, Easter, Trooping the Colour, Diana's anniversary: will it be Harry in a crowd nearby, on camera, every time? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
- 1 weeks ago31 min
LIVE: Bursaries, Tailcoats and a Chequebook at 13| The Royalist at Eton; Episode 1
I’m taking a couple of days off the royal news to do something a little different and tell you about my own schooldays at Eton College, where Prince George has just started. I arrived in 1987, aged 13, as a new boy in Keate House. My father had been there before me (and was expelled, I hasten to add, as was I in the end). The only reason I got through the door at all was my brilliant mum, a children’s fashion designer, who tracked down the War Memorial Bursary that paid half my fees. In this first episode I talk about how the money was found, the family who went before me, being kitted out with my one new tailcoat on Eton High Street, and being handed a Coutts chequebook at 13 so I could pay for bacon rolls at Rowlands. It ends in the car on my first day, my stomach flipping like a pancake as the spires of Eton loomed up ahead. Part two is out tomorrow. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
- 1 weeks ago58 min
Meghan's New Victim Strategy Exposed
Tom Sykes is joined by royal editor Robert Jobson to unpack the explosive Thomas Markle scandal and its implications for Meghan and Harry. Is Meghan using this disturbing family story to portray herself as the victim of a media campaign? Tom and Robert examine the mysterious letter, the disputed timeline, the Sussexes’ media strategy, and whether King Charles should finally make a definitive break with the couple. Plus, in Royal News Update, Tom looks at Prince Harry’s plans for Remembrance Sunday and whether he can avoid another royal PR storm. And in Tea with Tom, NewsNation’s Paula Froelich ( @PaulaFroelich , https://thescoopwithpaulafroelich.substack.com/) joins Tom to dish on King Charles’ Caribbean tour, his dancing and rum-drinking, and the growing controversy over slavery reparations and the King's refusal to apologize. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
- 1 weeks ago50 min
LIVE: Exclusive Special! TOM BOWER'S Withering Analysis of The Markle Debacle
YES FOLKS BOWER IS BACK ON THE ROYALIST!!!! Tom Bower, the author of BETRAYAL and REVENGE and the most feared investigative biographer in Britain, has said nothing about the Thomas Markle story. UNTIL NOW. Join us this evening for a VERY SPECIAL LIVE SHOW, his FIRST since the news broke that Meghan’s father is under investigation over allegations he possessed child sexual abuse material, that his own son turned him in, and that the Markle family has split down the middle over it. Today he breaks his silence, live and exclusively on The Royalist, a man who has spent decades taking apart the powerful, and it is exactly why I wanted him on the show rather than another talking head with a hot take. Bower knows the Markles better than any journalist alive. He has investigated them, and he has watched their stories shift for years. He is the right person to ask the questions that matter: what do we actually know, what is being claimed, who is saying it, and what should we make of the fact that different members of the same family are telling completely different versions of events? We will go through the timeline from the beginning. We will look at what Thomas Markle Sr. has said, what Thomas Jr. has said, what Samantha has said and we will talk about what has to happen next. And we will get to the question everyone is really asking, how bad is this for Meghan? This is a live conversation, so MEMBERS PLEASE bring your questions, and I will put as many MEMBER'S QUESTIONS to Tom as I can. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
- 2 weeks ago48 min
LIVE: Now Meghan Blames William and Catherine For Covering Up HER DAD'S Alleged Crimes
When the news broke last week that Thomas Markle had been accused of hoarding a stash of child sex abuse material, a certain kind of comment piece went round the, ahem, progressive end of the media almost instantly. The headlines were all variations on the same theme: how long before Meghan’s father allegedly hoarding pedophile material turned out to be "Meghan’s fault?" Not long, was the implication, if the wicked tabloids had anything to do with it. A week on, there is an alternative spin on offer, and it is coming from the Sussexes’ new house magazine, The Telegraph, and what it looks very much like, to my eye, is Meghan’s side trying to lump at least some of the blame for what happened to that letter onto William and Catherine. The same double standard runs through everything. In February 2020 they announced that by giving up public funds they had removed the “supposed ‘public interest’ justification for media intrusion.” In September this year their office issued a media advisory headed “PRINCE HARRY, DUKE OF SUSSEX SEPTEMBER PUBLIC ENGAGEMENTS,” and their friends briefed that they are public figures, not private citizens. They are whichever suits the day. And so it is with the letter: private when it protects her, public when it convicts the press, and now, apparently, a matter for the wider royal household when the question turns to who sat on it. I find the choice of vehicle fascinating. This is The Telegraph that last week fired around 100 staff as its new owner, Axel Springer (which bought the paper in June for £575 million), announced its intention to turn it into a “global, AI-powered premium media and intelligence business.” I called that a Slopbait factory in a Substack Note last night, and I stand by the coinage (neologisms are what Substack is for). Any tidbit about Harry and Meghan drives traffic, and what we appear to be watching is a paper abandoning basic journalistic principles and taking what it is fed on trust from a team that has been shown, again and again, to be highly manipulative and to say things that are not true when it suits them. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
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