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Pod Save The King

Kensington Palace life inside the gates

Pod Save The King

Reach Podcasts

News Commentary, News, Society & Culture

3.71K Ratings

🗓️ 18 March 2021

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Summary

What is it really like to live and work at Kensington Palace?Tom Quinn, author of Kensington Palace: An Intimate Memoir from Queen Mary to Meghan Markle, joins Pod Save the Queen host Ann Gripper to discuss the royal residence and its famous residents. In an interview recorded before Prince Harry and Meghan Markle’s permanent departure from their senior royal roles was confirmed, they discuss what life is like for the royals who live there now, during Princess Diana’s time and earlier. Tom also shares the recollections of staff who worked there. Kensington Palace: An Intimate Memoir from Queen Mary to Meghan Markle is out now. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Prince Philip is home. The fallout from the Megan and Harry interview rumbles on.

0:05.6

Kate paid moving respect on Clapham Common with some daffodils for murdered Sarah Everard and the Cambridge children shared their Mother's Day

0:16.0

cards for Granny Diana which was very cute but we're going to save all of that for next week and who knows what other Royal News

0:25.0

there may be in between times as well because we've let Russell have a well-deserved

0:30.2

week off and that is also a great excuse to finally bring you one of the

0:36.6

much promised much trailed special guest interviews so we are keeping the focus

0:42.1

on Kensington Palace and taking a peak behind Palace

0:45.9

rules. I hope you enjoy it.

0:47.9

Pods Save the Queen!

0:50.9

Hello and welcome back to Pods So the Queen. I am your host Anne Gripper and we have a special

0:57.0

guest today. It is Tom Quinn, author of Kensington Palace and intimate memoir from Queen Mary to Megan

1:03.4

Markle. You may have spotted it when it was out last year in hardback and

1:07.0

it's now out in paperback and I'm delighted to have Tom join us on the show today.

1:11.1

Hi Tom.

1:12.1

Hi, thank you. How are you doing? I would imagine you've had an

1:15.4

interesting year since the book first came out. Yes I have I mean actually I think I've

1:19.6

benefited because with people not being able to go on holiday and do all the things that they

1:24.8

might normally do, there's been a lot more interesting books. More books have been sold

1:30.4

amazingly and I think there's always been a lot of interest in the

1:34.0

royal family and amazing no one's ever written a book until this one as far as I know

1:38.6

about Kensington Palace. They've been kind of books about the architecture and so on, very serious

1:44.5

books, but not so much about the people, the eccentric, the oddballs who actually live there,

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