159: The Grand Old Duke Of Yuck
Page 94: The Private Eye Podcast
Page 94: The Private Eye Podcast
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🗓️ 4 November 2025
⏱️ 45 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Page 94, the Private Eye podcast. |
| 0:04.0 | Hello and welcome to another episode of page 94. |
| 0:06.7 | My name is Andrew Hunter-Murray, and we're here to discuss all the latest goings on in and out of the magazine and in the news over the last fortnight. |
| 0:13.7 | I'm here with Helen Lewis, Richard Brooks and Ian Hyslop. |
| 0:17.3 | Helen, we turn to you because we look to you society correspondent, to find out what's been going on with |
| 0:23.3 | the royal family. |
| 0:24.1 | Any news of them recently? |
| 0:25.3 | Or have they been maintaining their usual monastic silence? |
| 0:28.3 | Do you know, the worst thing is it for quite a long time? |
| 0:30.1 | When I particularly and I worked at the Daily Mail, everyone used to say that I looked like |
| 0:32.9 | Princess Beatrice. |
| 0:33.9 | In fact, my leaving page from the Daily Mail is I'll be off. Anyway, the worst thing about it now is that my poor brother turns out he looks quite a lot like Prince Andrew. Luckily, he's in New Zealand, so it's fine. They don't have the newspapers there. Anyway, so I feel a personal involvement in this as a satellite branch of the Yorks. He is now, of course, Andrew Mountbatten Windsor. He's given up the knight |
| 0:55.1 | of the garter. He's given up the princeton. He's agreed not to use the titles. Would you |
| 0:59.5 | like to know when the relevant legislation for this comes from, for having your princestom |
| 1:05.0 | taken away or your titles? 1917, because, of course, quite a lot of Queen Victoria's grandchildren had got British |
| 1:13.3 | dukele or princely titles and had ended up on the wrong side of the First World War |
| 1:18.1 | and so there were quite a few people called Ernst and various like variations of that |
| 1:21.8 | who got de-princed during the First World War wow so that's the legislation that they |
| 1:26.4 | will be used as a template here to kind of I Gosh. I mean, that's, you know, the previous version he had just agreed not to use them. Yes. But the statement from the king and queen seemed to imply that they were actually going to move forward with an official debagging and deprincing. Yes, that's still, if you agree not to use them, but you still got them, that seems like a bit of a fudge. He wrote this email, you know, the famous email to Epstein that I think really did for him, |
| 1:47.8 | which proved that he had lied to Emily Maitlitz. |
| 1:49.8 | You know, this one he'd wrote in 2011 that said... Is that officially unacceptable now? Yeah, right. He said, you know, we're in this together, he'd said, about the photo of Virginia Roberts |
| 2:01.1 | Geoffrey coming out. |
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