Meghan Markle gets to work as patron

Pod Save The King

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🗓️ 10 January 2019

⏱️ 22 minutes

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Meghan Markle has officially taken up her first four patronages - and made her first visit as patron.The Duchess of Sussex had been tipped to take over from the Queen as patron of the National Theatre, and also added roles working with an animal welfare charity, a charity helping women back into work and the Association of Commonwealth Universities.She kicked off her time as patron with a visit to Smart Works in West London.Pod Save The Queen host Ann Gripper was joined by royal correspondent Russell Myers and style director Amber Graafland to discuss Meghan's new jobs.They also discussed Prince William's visit to the London Air Ambulance, upcoming engagements for the Sussexes and Cambridges - plus the final scores for royal engagements and fashion bills in 2018. For information regarding your data privacy, visit acast.com/privacy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome back to Pod Save the Queen, the Daily Mirror's Royal Podcast.
0:05.0	Happy New Year, it's 2019 and this is our first episode of the New Year.
0:10.7	I'm your host Anne Gripper and I am joined by Russell Myers, the
0:14.4	Daily Mirror's Royal Correspondent. Hello. And Amber Graffland are head of
0:18.9	style, director of style. Hello. So many different hats she wears. Such a good title. And probably the first
0:27.0	properly big royal news maybe of the year this year and that Megan has her
0:32.4	patronage has been announced.
0:34.0	I know a huge announcement today early in the morning we've had an announcement of four
0:39.6	royal patronagees for Megan one of them had leaked out last week and last night there was someone
0:46.5	getting a bit trigger happy from the social media aspect of the National Theatre and they'd put on their website that an announcement
0:56.0	was imminent today.
0:58.1	So we got that sort of news early and we've been some rumors about that she was going to become
1:01.8	the patron of the national theater which of course
1:03.7	she has been handed this role from the Queen.
1:06.1	But of course another three big patronises for Megan and one of them that she was at today.
1:13.6	So we've seen it, she likes the theatre,
1:16.2	we've seen her at Hamilton with Harry,
1:18.4	which has been on various occasions.
1:20.3	And obviously coming from an acting background but what are the other
1:24.0	what are the other roles so yes we've got national theater and then the next one
1:28.0	is she's become a patron of the Association of Commonwealth Universities this is
1:32.4	another huge charity that the Queen has been
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