Help! My family is royally messed up!
Post Reports
The Washington Post
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🗓️ 14 January 2023
⏱️ 26 minutes
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Summary
Today, Post advice columnist Carolyn Hax offers some guidance to the splintered British royal family.
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Lately, there’s been a lot of news about the British royal family. There’s a Netflix documentary series about Harry and Meghan, and this week Harry released his new memoir, “Spare.” Both are packed with surprisingly intimate details about the lives of the former royals, including Harry taking magic mushrooms at a celebrity party as well as intentional palace leaks to the tabloids. From the outside, it seems like the royals have a lot of work to do to rebuild their relationships.
That’s where Post columnist Carolyn Hax comes in.
In today’s episode, Carolyn gives advice about a few key scenarios that are all about the royal family but could easily be relevant to many people’s lives.
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| 0:00.0 | So, Carolyn, because you are an advice columnist, we have brought you here today to talk about |
| 0:07.8 | a few hypothetical scenarios from a certain family that seems like they need a lot of advice |
| 0:13.4 | right now. |
| 0:15.0 | And just to be clear, these are questions that we on the Post Reports team have written |
| 0:19.4 | ourselves, but we're imagining that they might be on the minds of the people in this family. |
| 0:24.2 | So what we're going to do is we're going to read out some of these hypothetical scenarios |
| 0:28.0 | to you. |
| 0:29.2 | Are you game to give them some advice? |
| 0:31.3 | I am game to play for now. |
| 0:33.5 | We'll see. |
| 0:34.8 | So, I have been following the drama swirling around the British Royal family for some time |
| 0:42.6 | now. |
| 0:43.6 | And I know that I am not alone. |
| 0:45.6 | Lately, there has been so much news to consume about their royal Highnesses. |
| 0:51.0 | From the Netflix series about Harry and Megan to Harry's new memoir Spare, which was released |
| 0:56.2 | this week. |
| 0:57.5 | In the book, Harry shares some surprisingly intimate and maybe too intimate details about |
| 1:03.3 | his family and his life. |
| 1:05.3 | Tripping on truums to help deal with trauma, brawls with his brother William, intentional |
| 1:10.4 | leaks to the tabloids. |
| 1:12.3 | It's obvious that the royals have been going through it. |
| 1:15.2 | It's almost like they could use a bit of guidance on how to repair and rebuild. |
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