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

Meeting the King for bubbly at Buckingham Palace

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

Reach Podcasts

News, Society & Culture, News Commentary

3.81K Ratings

🗓️ 3 April 2025

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Summary

Buckingham Palace is one of the most famous buildings in the world - but what is it like to be invited in for an evening reception with the King? Zena Hawley, agenda editor at the Derby Telegraph, joins Pod Save the King host Ann Gripper to take listeners inside the palace gates and last week’s reception for regional media, where she reminisced with Charles about covering his visit to the city in 1981.  Ann also caught up with Mirror deputy royal editor Jennifer Newton on the latest in the Sentebale row, the king’s health, Mothering Sunday celebrations, an exciting Homewards visit to Aberdeen and just how much you pay for jam. Pod Save the King is a Reach Studio production, edited by Daniel J. McLaughlin. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

POD Save the King. Hello and welcome back to Pod Save the King. I'm your host,

0:08.8

I'm delighted to be joined once again by Mirror Deputy Royal Editor Jennifer Newton. Hi, Jen. Nice to see you.

0:14.6

Hi, nice to see you too. And a bit later on in the show, we also have an interview with

0:19.9

Zina Hawley, who is a colleague

0:21.8

at a sister paper, who was lucky enough. She got the invitation. We didn't get her. She got

0:25.8

invited into Buckian Palace. And I planned to just chat with her for like 15 minutes,

0:30.7

have a little catch up, but we got chatting and it was brilliant. It felt like I was there

0:34.9

in the palace, eating the canapes, drinking the bubbly, chatting with the king.

0:39.9

So she got, she had some great tales. So I hope you'll enjoy listening to that later on listeners.

0:46.3

But first of all, we're going to do our usual rant-through of the week's news. We'll start with the breaking news.

0:51.6

We've had a bit of a flurry this afternoon, so a bit, all a bit delays and in a whirl,

0:55.6

but the latest in the two and fro on the Centre Bali row.

1:01.1

So where are we, Jen?

1:03.2

What's going on?

1:04.1

Well, I think since we talked last week, the war of words between chair of

1:10.0

Centre Balie, Dr. Sophie Chandalka and the Sussex

1:12.8

camp essentially has just kind of exploded, there's been accusation, counter-accusation,

1:19.1

that sort of thing. And then it's all kind of come to a head just literally, as we're

1:24.6

just coming into record, that the charity commission, that is the

1:29.2

charity watchdog essentially in England and Wittles, has confirmed that they are starting an

1:34.0

investigation into what has happened at Centre Bali after concerns were raised. So Prince Harry

1:40.4

has put out a statement off the back of the news from the charity commission,

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