Kate’s happy St Patrick’s Day return and William’s Estonia visit

Pod Save The King - Royal family news, interviews and fashion

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🗓️ 20 March 2025

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Summary

The Princess of Wales was reunited with the Irish Guards for the St Patrick’s Day parade - and a cheeky half pint of Guinness. Pod Save the King host Ann Gripper is joined by Mirror deputy royal editor Jennifer Newton to discuss the fashion, formalities and fun of a favourite Kate event - and Mirror royal editor Russell Myers gives his update from Estonia as Prince William visits. Ann and Jen also reflect on the Wales’ rugby outing, William talking about his love of football and some upbeat engagements for the royal family in the spring sunshine. They also discuss the latest on the Sussexes, with the ongoing battle over Harry’s visa and the announcement of Meghan’s new podcast. Image: Eddie Mulholland/Daily Telegraph/PA Wire Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome back to Pod Save the King. I'm your host, Anne Gripper, and I'm joined once again by Mirror Deputy Royal Editor, Jennifer Newton. Jen, lovely to see you again. We're making a bit of a habit of this.
0:14.0	I know, we are. Yeah, nice to be back again. Very nice habit to have. But by the wonders of the spacetime continuum, hopefully a bit later on, we will have an update from Mirror Royal Editor Russell Myers, who is out in Estonia with Prince William.
0:27.1	That visit is sort of just getting underway as we are recording this, so look forward to hearing Russell's bulletin later on, but we'll just imagine we know what that is.
0:37.4	Anyway, we'll leave Estonia to Russell
0:38.9	and come back to that but
0:41.1	there's been lots of lovely
0:43.3	things going on I think everything feels a bit
0:44.9	happier and sunnier and the sunshine
0:47.4	is out spring is here
0:48.9	we've had the St Patrick's Day
0:51.3	we had William and Kate at the rugby
0:53.2	rather more smiling for Kate than for William,
0:56.1	based on the result.
0:58.5	Kate's celebrating Jack Draper winning in the tennis as well.
1:01.5	She did a tweet with a sign-off of a C.
1:03.6	Congratulations, Jack, a fantastic performance.
1:05.7	Well done.
1:06.3	See, applause emoji, trophy emoji,
1:09.2	because that was his biggest win of his career so far and some other
1:12.3	lovely things he was also quite good in winning it very quickly so she didn't have to stay up
1:16.9	too late watching it before the i can imagine the time difference isn't great for california
1:20.6	st patrick's day celebrations but let's go back to the rugby first of all um yeah it was something I was very excited about. How did you,
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