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Hello and welcome to The Spectator podcast.

I'm Laura Prendergast and on this week's episode we'll be going head to head on some thorny issues.

First, whether the young royals are devaluing the monarchy by opening up too much to us. Then we'll be looking

at where the wind power can help us out of the fossil fuel fix. And finally, we'll be discussing

whether Arson Venger has a future in North London. On to our first item, the Royals. In this week's

issue, Freddie Gray says that the royal family has become Britain's biggest reality TV show. Freddie

joins me now, along with the

telegraph columnist Brian Yegordon, author of Mad Girl. So, Freddie, what's going on with the young

royals? I think there's always a danger for royals that they can sort of get sucked into

celebrity world because royals have to walk a very fine, delicate balance between being sort of

accessible and available and visible to the public

and being a bit embarrassing and I think there's a there's a grave danger at the moment with the younger

winters who are having sort of step up particularly with prince philip stepping down and the queen is

not going to carry on being quite so active for so long that they're becoming a little bit

embarrassing they're becoming a little bit too involved in celebrity world and they don't have a sense that they're becoming a little bit embarrassing. They're becoming a little bit too involved in celebrity world.

And they don't have a sense that they're positive PR, while it may feel very good,

actually a lot of people are a little bit put off by it.

Briani, what do you make of this foray into the celebrity world?

I just don't think they've made it for a into celebrity world.

I think Prince William did one like three minute video with Lady Gaga and and in your piece

you say that because Prince Harry is going out with a celebrity quote unquote she's an actress.

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