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A Right Royal Podcast

A Right Royal Christmas Special

A Right Royal Podcast

Hello! Magazine Ltd

Entertainment News, Society & Culture, News

3.8630 Ratings

🗓️ 20 December 2023

⏱️ 70 minutes

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Summary

On this week's show, we visit Windsor Castle to learn all about how a palace is turned festive and we also visit the Tower of London, where Curator and Public Historian Charles Farris talks us through Christmas and coronations past with some astonishing anecdotes. We'll also be speaking to Call the Midwife star Leonie Elliott fresh from her appearance at the Princess of Wales' carol service, plus we also have podcast favourite the brilliant Alexis Ffrench playing us out with a very special Christmas performance. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

The menu, as you can imagine, is ridiculous. There's an absolute plethora of roast meats and soups and pies and gravies.

0:08.8

There were thousands of diners and one of the great spectacles of this event was when the king's champion

0:14.0

challenge all the diners effectively to a fight or a duel if they dared question the authority of the king.

0:19.5

One of the things though though, that didn't go

0:20.9

quite so to plan is after the king left, things really started to break down. Obviously, a lot of

0:24.9

wine had been drunk, a lot of beer had been drunk. The people who had just been watching from above

0:28.6

broke down and started helping themselves to the food. They were rather ravenous by that point,

0:33.3

and they even started to take the table decorations and things as souvenirs.

0:39.3

Hi, everyone, and welcome back to another episode of a Right Royal podcast with me, Andrea.

0:44.4

And the Emmy.

0:45.4

In this week's episode, we're talking all things festive and how the Royal celebrates Christmas time in their own special way.

0:51.2

While the family flocks to Sandringham for some Yule Thai celebrations,

0:54.8

we also visited some very popular royal haorns to find out more about how they have prepared for Christmas

0:59.5

this year. Yes, we have visited some stunning properties, including the King's very own home,

1:04.9

Windsor Castle, where we spoke to Sally Goodsor, curator of decorative arts, and Catherine

1:09.7

Jones, senior creator of decorative

1:11.6

arts at the Royal Collection Trust. We also went over to the Tower of London, where we spent

1:16.7

some time with curator and public historian at Historic Royal Palace's Charles Varys.

1:21.9

We'll also be looking back at the standout royal moments of 23. Most of which

1:27.5

we have discussed on this podcast.

1:29.4

Yes. But first, we can't kick off the show

1:31.4

without the angel on top of our

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