Harry and Meghan: Part two

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🗓️ 5 May 2024

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Hello, everyone! As far as scandals go, there aren’t many bigger than Harry and Meghan’s dramatic estrangement from the British royal family. So, how did we get here? And who was really at fault for one of the great family fracturings of our time? This episode was researched by Eilish Gilligan and Chloe Wilson, and audio produced by Annabelle Lee. Big thanks to Bridgerton, and their season three wallflower Pen, for making this episode possible. Season 3, Part 1 is only on Netflix from 16 May! To celebrate this and give away these tickets, we’re looking for the best real-life ‘mates-to-dates’ stories of our listeners! This giveaway will begin tonight, May 6, over on our IG stories - head to @shamelesspodcast on Instagram to enter. Want to support our show? Clicking ‘follow’ on Apple and Spotify is the best way to do that, and we're super grateful to anyone who leaves a five-star review while they're at it. Also! An old-fashioned 'Tell a Friend In Real Life' is equally appreciated. Want more? We've got more... Subscribe to the Shameless newsletter, Smart Dumb Stuff: http://eepurl.com/iH2sV-/ Aaaand everything else your heart could ever desire is here: https://linktr.ee/shamelesspodcast Thanks for listening! We are very big fans of yours. Big thanks to X for making this episode possible.

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0:00.0	You're about the new moves, call me a renegade, the one in the lions cage,
0:07.0	sipping on lemonadeo.
0:09.0	I'm a dream, got your match, stick the actor, I'm a dream, dramatic estrangement from the British Royal Family.
0:24.0	So how did we get here and who was really at fault for one of the great family fracturings of
0:29.0	our time?
0:30.0	Welcome to Scandal from Shameless Podcast, the stories of the biggest celebrity controversies revisited.
0:39.5	Hi, hello.
0:41.1	We are at Part 2 of three. Part two baby. And we did a lot in our first episode. We focused on Prince Harry. We tracked his childhood in the public eye. We spoke of course about when his mother, Princess Diana,
0:54.4	Prince Charles became, you know, single parent. He spoke a lot about how he
0:59.5	didn't feel Prince Charles was built for that. He spoke about when Prince Charles was telling him that his mother had died, he didn't even hug him.
1:05.6	Yeah, we also spoke about how after Diana's death there were new rules on what could be published when it came to Prince William and Harry's lives,
1:15.2	their time in the public eye and of course their lives at school.
1:19.4	Harry struggled with the perception growing up that he was the unruly, unintelligent royal.
1:25.5	Nasty headlines about him cheating on a test which were replete with a shoddy recording,
1:30.6	apparently taken by his former art teacher, made the press and seemed to really
1:35.2	affect Harry.
1:36.2	Yeah, now in January 2005 when Harry was 20, he, William and Kate were invited to a party.
1:42.4	The theme of the party was natives and
1:44.4	colonials and for that party Harry decided to wear a Nazi costume. In his book
1:51.0	spare Harry did appear to shirk off at least some of the blame onto his brother and Kate who he said approved the outfit
1:58.2	It was without a doubt Harry's worst and most inexcusable controversy to date. As the Sydney Morning Herald put it,
2:07.2	the 20-year-old Harry is already the veteran of several controversies.
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