Hello and welcome to In The Limelight, Vanity Fair Entertainment and Pop Culture Podcast.

I'm Josh Duboff, Vanity Fair Senior Writer, and I'm here with Julie Miller, Vanity Fair's Senior Hollywood writer.

On In The Limelight, we analyze the ins and outs of pop culture, entertainment, and

celebrity from the past week, from the Kardashians to Kate Middleton, and everything in

between. Welcome to our special holiday edition episode. I'm in Boston, Julie's in Pittsburgh.

We are coming to you from our respective childhood homes.

And we are going to get into all sorts of fun stuff in a bit.

But of course, who else would we be if we didn't?

We were going to be discussing the Megan Markle, Prince Harry, Engagement photos

that as luck would have it, were released this morning the day we were prepping to record this podcast.

I think she knew. We had been asking listeners for questions, comments, anything to really

discuss on the special episode. And of course, Megan, she delivered. What does she do if she does

not deliver? I feel like there's been so many times this year, Julie, that we've been like about to record a podcast and Megan like perfectly times her news break for us. I feel like she always is in sync with us. That's what I like to believe at least. She really is. So after we discussed these incredible engagement photos, we're going to get to all the questions, comments, concerns you guys sent to us.

Got a lot of feedback, so thank you.

So let's talk about these photos that so many of you sent us, but you guys are the best.

There's three photos in total, and these are the engagement photos officially released by the palace that were sprung

on us, I guess. We're now about a few weeks from the engagement announcement. We're still obviously

months away from the wedding. Julie, what was your first initial, there's a lot to break down in these photos, but what was your like just gut take first thought when you saw them?

Well, first of all, I love it you say sprung on us because I feel like we've been waiting our entire lives for these Megan Markle formal engagement photos.

But this morning, Kensington Palace, I kind of thought the photo call, that awkward walk about in the sunken garden was as much as we were going to get, forgot about the engagement photos.

So they tweeted and Instagrammed out too.

And then did you notice, Josh, that for the third one, which was a candid. Kensington Palace said,

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