Behind Meghan and Harry's move to Windsor

Pod Save The King

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🗓️ 21 December 2018

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Summary

The royal family is assembling at Sandringham for Christmas, with the Sussexes and the Cambridge family among the guests.The family time comes during a period of increased attention on the relationship between William and Harry, Kate and Meghan after the announcement the newly-weds would be moving to Windsor, rather than staying at Kensington Palace. That news unleashed a swathe of claims of tensions between the couples and how palace staff find Meghan behind closed doors.And Thomas Markle's reappearance with a new interview hardly helps the festive spirit of peace and goodwill to all men.Daily Mirror royal correspondent Russell Myers joins Pod Save The Queen host Ann Gripper to discuss the tensions - and what the royals can look forward to at Christmas and beyond.Pod Save the Queen will return in January. For information regarding your data privacy, visit acast.com/privacy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Pod Save the Queen!
0:05.0	The Queen!
0:11.0	Hello and welcome back to Pod Save the Queen, the Daily Mirror's Royal Podcast. I'm your host Anne Gripper and I am finally reunited with my
0:15.3	wonderful royal colleague Russell Myers. Hello everybody hello and it's been a
0:20.3	long time coming. Yes so very sorry that we've been away so long.
0:25.0	A combination of work and life and sickness and Christmas have probably conspired to keep us apart.
0:31.0	But Russell's also been busy on the Royal Beat so he's got lots of
0:34.5	things to update us with. Yeah it's been busy few months and then we were just we're
0:38.2	just having a meeting about what's coming up next year and it's going to be I think
0:41.8	even busier.
0:42.6	Yeah, very busy and we've got some exciting plans for what we do next with Pod Save
0:46.2	the Queen as well. So we're glad to have you with this but one last one last
0:49.9	show for 2018 and it's fair to say that when Russell and I got back from our
0:55.2	holidays it had all kicked off so first of all you know the the news came out that Megan and Harry were going to be moving to Windsor rather than taking up their apartment in Kensington Palace.
1:10.0	Then stories started coming out about how well did the Duchess of Cambridge and the Duchess of Sussex and the two sort of, you know, showbiz royal couples get on with each other, were their tensions there?
1:21.0	What was it really like? What is what is Megan actually like, you know, in her in herself in her own home with the staff and that kind of thing? And then obviously just to make matters worse, Thomas Markle pops up this week with
1:35.2	another interview so I mean we did it we did an extensive episode about Thomas Markle
1:40.0	in the summer and I think probably everything we said at the time is still valid.
1:44.6	I know it's sort of history repeating itself isn't unfortunately and now he's sort of saying
1:50.4	you know he's not going to stop speaking I think that this this is
1:53.8	unfortunately I think we've said that time and time before and we and that this is
1:57.8	the problem that isn't going to go away and until they get actually a grip of
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