Inside the Prince Harry Book Blitz and What It Means for the Monarchy

On with Kara Swisher

New York Magazine

Society & Culture

4.2 • 3.2K Ratings

🗓️ 19 January 2023

⏱️ 56 minutes

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He was King Charles’s Communications Chief for almost a decade. She wrote the book on Charles (literally). Our guests today – Patrick Harverson and Catherine Mayer – are two insiders who take us beyond the media spectacle and into the inner workings of both the Crown and the British media. They consider whether the revelations inside Prince Harry’s best-selling book “Spare” will shake-up a stodgy palace. They discuss the unquenching hunger of the tabloid machine, debate the resilience of the monarchy – and examine whether the response to this royal controversy hints at a deeper culture war brewing in Britain. Finally, they unpack an emotion that permeates Harry’s pages: grief. Kara and Nayeema taped this episode in London where they were joined by Brooke Hammerling, a strategic communications expert and Kara’s go-to source for all things royal. Before and after the interview, the trio looks at how people on both sides of the pond are responding to the book’s many revelations. And Brooke shares why a tell-all … may not have been the best strategy for Harry and Meghan. You can find Kara and Nayeema on Twitter at @karaswisher and @nayeema. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:51.0	Can make weed jokes in Britain.
0:54.0	Anyway, we're actually in Britain. We'll talk about that in a second.
0:57.0	But just in case you don't know on Tuesday, Twitter kicked off an auction of its designer Furniture, its kitchen goods,
1:03.0	all kinds of electronic equipment, phone booths and things like that to make ends meet for Elon,
1:09.0	which I am going to participate in. I would really like to buy the giant Bluebird that they had out front in the lobby.
1:15.0	Not a womb chair, I would have thought you were going to get a womb chair too.
1:19.0	There's very expensive furniture that these companies put in and Twitter had very classy furniture.
1:25.0	Well, now they got to pay the rent.
1:26.0	Exactly. So I'm going to try to get, I'm sure people will be, there's a lot of people bidding, but I'm hoping to get just a little piece of Twitter history.
1:32.0	But anyways, we are not here to talk about womb chairs or standing desks. We're here to talk about thrones.
1:36.0	And specifically about the fate of the British royal family, which has never felt more fragile, I think, than this moment.
1:42.0	That's because the revelations in the fallout from Prince Harry's book Spare, which offers a rare glimpse into the machinations of the monarchy and the media machine that surrounds it
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