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The HeirPod - Royal News & Interviews

Duchess Kate takes on her most important role yet

The HeirPod - Royal News & Interviews

ABC News

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4.01.1K Ratings

🗓️ 6 December 2019

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Summary

As the Queen hands down an important royal patronage to the Duchess of Cambridge, The HeirPod takes a look at the Karen’s focus on childhood development and family support. Plus, host and ABC Royal Contributor Omid Scobie catches up with The Mayhew animal charity to hear about their year working with Duchess Meghan. And royal expert Victoria Arbiter is in the studio to chat about the rise of Princess Anne, Trump’s visit to Buckingham Palace and the latest royal news. 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 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Good morning, good afternoon or good evening.

0:07.0

Welcome back to another episode of the Air Pod from wherever you're joining us on this wintery day, maybe sunny where you are if you're lucky.

0:16.1

It's been another very busy week for the Royal Family, a host of different stories to go through

0:21.6

this week. I'm going to be joined shortly by Victoria

0:24.8

Arbiter, Royal Experson Commentator, to run through some of those stories. Of course

0:29.3

Prince William has just returned from his travels to Kuwait an Amman. He kicked off his trip at a nature reserve

0:36.0

and learned more about Kuwait's environmental public authorities and about the work being done in the area. It was a really interesting trip because it covered so many themes in such a short amount of time.

0:47.0

We saw William with youth education programs, meeting local youth and a traditional Kuwaiti town and then of course

0:55.1

spending time with the military at the exercise desert warrior where UK troops are

1:00.6

training alongside Kuwaiti forces. I think we're quite used to seeing

1:04.3

William on his own on these trips now and this very statesman like role and really

1:09.9

coming into sort of it's I would say this is almost William 2.0 that we're seeing

1:14.9

now very much ready to step up as his father one day ascends the throne but that

1:21.2

doesn't mean that it's been quiet for the other members of the royal family.

1:24.0

Shortly we'll be talking about Duchess Kate's new patronages.

1:28.0

And we'll also be looking at what the Sussex is doing during their time off because social media has still

1:34.4

been very busy. And of course it was the NATO summit reception at Buckingham Palace where

1:40.6

Donald Trump wasn't the star of the show for once, Princess Anne was.

1:45.0

And so we'll be talking a bit more about that viral moment when I'm joined by Victoria.

1:50.0

And of course rounding out the show, we can't not talk about Prince Andrew has been in the news again this week

1:56.5

I'm going to focus on really the patronage that's moving away from him and what happens to those afterwards because of course these

2:04.7

are very important organizations doing great work and they are the losers in this situation.

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