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#KingCharlesReport: Second sons and the Royals.

The John Batchelor Show

John Batchelor

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🗓️ 21 August 2024

⏱️ 5 minutes

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#KingCharlesReport: Second sons and the Royals.
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/royal-family/2024/08/13/prince-harry-miss-lord-fellowes-funeral-security-fears/

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0:00.0

This is a series,

0:02.0

a series of CVS Island the world. I'm John Bachelor visiting with my friend and mentor

0:09.0

Bergerie Coppley, Defense and Foreign Affairs, he's in Perth, Australia, with perspective on

0:15.7

the European Affairs, and Gregory, it's impossible to ignore that the London Papers, Tab Lloydy

0:22.2

like, spend a great deal of time reporting on Second Sons.

0:27.6

I'm looking at Andrew, the younger brother of the King, and Harry, the younger brother of the king and Harry the younger brother of the heir apparent

0:36.3

William. Is this traditional that second sons become dissenters in some fashion out of step with their brothers and fathers or is this some

0:48.8

modern twist of the of the Royals?

0:51.6

Well it's not a modern twist of the Royals.

0:56.5

It's an historic fact within the Royal Families, not just in the UK.

1:02.2

I'm a second son myself and I had absolutely no

1:04.6

resent but against my brother or my father. So it's clearly not a genetic or a

1:09.9

familial thing. It's clearly a royal thing, but Prince Andrew was the spare, if you like, in his

1:18.7

Harry, Prince Harry likes to call himself. So therefore he was, he had no job to do. He was like a vice president in the

1:27.9

United States but with even you know less role to play. He was indulged he was spoiled he was favored by Queen

1:36.2

Elizabeth and he became fairly

1:40.0

uh... shall we say insensitive to what he needed to do to grow up and like like Harry

1:47.2

he hasn't grown up he got into a lot of trouble by mixing with the wrong people

1:52.4

including lot of trouble by mixing with the wrong people including the links that he's had with a certain

2:01.1

sex offender in the United States, should we say, and that meant that he was cut out from all

2:05.8

royal duties by King Charles when he came to the throne.

2:10.8

And now, of course, you've got King Charles trying to get him out of the way of causing

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