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The HeirPod - Royal News & Interviews

Coronavirus and the royals

The HeirPod - Royal News & Interviews

ABC News

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4.01.1K Ratings

🗓️ 13 March 2020

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Summary

As the coronavirus officially reaches global pandemic status, members of the British royal family prepare to lead a nation fearing the worst. ABC News foreign correspondent Maggie Rulli joins the show to reveal the drastic safety measures being taken by the Queen and other senior royals including Prince Charles and Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall. Plus, host and ABC News royal contributor Omid Scobie reports exclusively from Duchess Meghans final engagement as a senior working royal. All this and the latest royal headlines, every Friday on The HeirPod. Follow Omid: https://twitter.com/scobie Talk about the show using #TheHeirPod Discover more ABC News podcasts: http://www.abcnewspodcasts.com The HeirPod is produced by ABC Audio. For more information: http://www.abcnewspodcasts.com

Transcript

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0:00.0

Hello one and all welcome back to the airport I'm your host

0:07.2

Ahmed Scopi bringing you the latest going on in the House of Windsor and I'm not alone

0:12.1

Maggie Rooley.

0:13.3

Hi, oh man.

0:14.7

Joining me again, friend of the show, part of the family.

0:18.1

Ah, I always love being here.

0:19.3

It's been the end of a whirlwind, Harry and Meggner officially back in Canada.

0:24.4

It went by long and fast.

0:26.7

Can that happen?

0:27.3

Yeah, well, the bill, I think we had a really long build up

0:30.7

to this from the start of the year up until now and it then just there was this

0:35.2

whirlwind farewell tour and then boom the end. That's a good point I think I I think about

0:40.5

how many live shots I did talking about them coming and the countdown and then finally they were here and I was like we've been talking about this for months the moment is here

0:50.2

So it definitely was you're right a long build up definitely a bittersweet end I think for the couple but of course an exciting start for something new as well

0:58.9

We'll go right into that later into the show including my experience going to Duchess Megan's last

1:05.8

engagement.

1:06.8

Pointiently at Buckingham Palace, it was an emotional morning, shall I say, before the Commonwealth ceremony. We haven't even spoken about

1:15.8

the Commonwealth story. It feels like a lot has actually happened since the last episode.

1:19.0

We haven't. Oh my gosh, wait're too much as happy.

1:22.8

Yes, a lot.

1:24.4

But before that, top headlines, coronavirus

1:28.0

has affected everyone and every sphere of the planet including the royal family who you know I guess are famous for their keep calm and carry on approach to things but at the moment are now

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