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British Scandal

Harry v Wills | What The Butler Saw | 4

British Scandal

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History, Alice Levine, Society & Culture, True Crime, British, Great Britain, Exhibit C, Scandal, Matt Forde, Documentary, England

4.47.2K Ratings

🗓️ 25 March 2026

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Summary

Grant Harrold served King Charles and Princes William and Harry for years. He saw the formalities, the wedding days, the pranks played behind palace doors. Now he's talking. From the surprising way he first met a young Harry, to what Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor was really like - this is royal life with the filter off.


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0:00.0

From Audible, I'm Matt Ford.

0:04.4

And I'm Alice Levine.

0:05.8

And this is British Scandal.

0:19.5

So Alice, at the end of our Harry and Will series, would you ever fancy marrying in to the royal family?

0:24.9

No, actually let me think about that. No. That was just completely nuts.

0:29.0

I mean, family feuds are dramatic enough, but a family feud in the public eye, my God.

0:34.9

Documented, photographed, gossiped about, poured over on social media.

0:40.1

I mean, it's honestly the stuff of nightmares.

0:42.9

How did it make you feel about the Royal Brothers?

0:45.1

We really went through all kinds of emotions in this series, didn't we?

0:49.0

Which we always do with British scandal.

0:50.6

But you sort of yo-yo between these extremes of feeling incredibly sorry for these

0:55.2

young men who had to mourn their mother so publicly. And then obviously these instances of extreme

1:03.0

privilege where you feel like really what are we talking about in, you know, in real terms,

1:08.5

oh no, sorry, you've had your title taken away. You know,

1:11.7

there's real stuff going on in the world. So some of it felt like tabloid fodder and other moments

1:16.9

of it felt really relatable. And I'm sure a lot of people can empathise with the feeling

1:22.3

of becoming estranged from family members. Yes, no one in body stiff up a little more than the royal family.

1:28.5

I mean, even that unofficial motto, never complain, never explain, really sums up their

1:32.1

complicated relationship with their own privilege.

1:35.0

Harry has given us a bit of a glimpse into that.

1:37.0

So it's made me desperate to see more of what goes on behind closed doors in the royal household.

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