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

I'm Josh Buboff, Vanity Fair Senior Writer, and I'm here with Julie Miller, Vanity Perry, Senior Hollywood Writer.

On In The Limelight, we analyze the hands announced of pop culture, entertainment, and celebrity

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

So much to catch up on this week.

All sorts of reports about Megan's behind the scenes, antics.

We're going to discuss Hurricane Megan, I think, is how it was deemed in the Daily Mail

over the weekend. Oh, and everyone's favorite new character, Melissa, who we were all introduced

to last week, the one name only. It sounds like she's like a pop star or something, like Allie

and a Star is born. She should be. I would buy concert tickets. Melissa should release a pop single, but Melissa, the former, emphasis on the word former personal assistant to Megan Markle. We have more intrigue, which I'm excited to hear about. Also, a royal we don't talk about very often, but who kind of decided to get up to all sorts of fun things this week.

And we have no choice but to discuss Princess Beatrice. Welcome to the stage.

I know. I've been wondering what she's been up to ever since that immortal Great Gatsby reading.

And now we know she's been up to a lot.

She has on a really big stage, and I'm glad to see that she is using it to do all sorts of things,

including, well, actually, I don't want to spoil it. We'll get to it.

Let's start with Megan, though, as ever, Julie. I don't even like, there's so much to get into.

I'm very excited.

A very quick recap. So somewhat surprisingly, one of Megan's aides named Melissa departed the palace, and it was

unusual for a royal kind of dismissal because the palace released this unprecedented, glowing

recommendations citing how wonderful her contributions had been

throughout her tenure there, wishing her the very best of luck. It was the kind of recommendation

letter Josh and I would have paid hundreds of dollars for. Something smelled, there was

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