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The HeirPod - Royal News & Interviews

Messages of praise and gratitude from the Royal Family

The HeirPod - Royal News & Interviews

ABC News

News

4.01.1K Ratings

🗓️ 16 May 2020

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Summary

In the eighth week of lockdown, the Queen and members of the Royal Family turn their attention to thanking those on the frontline during the coronavirus pandemic. ABC News foreign correspondent Maggie Rulli returns from Paris, where the nationwide lockdown has been eased, to join host ABC News royal contributor Omid Scobie and discuss the latest news from the House of Windsor. Plus, Harry and Meghan surprise charity workers during a staff meeting and details from baby Archie's first birthday party. Follow Omid: https://twitter.com/scobie Talk about the show using #TheHeirPod Discover more ABC News podcasts: http://www.abcnewspodcasts.com The HeirPod is produced by ABC Audio. For more information: http://www.abcnewspodcasts.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Hello everyone and welcome back to the Air Pod your one-stop shop for all the latest

0:08.9

goings on in the Royal Family and the House of Windsor. I am of course your host omid

0:13.9

scoby alone by myself in isolation trying to make things work on the technology

0:19.5

front this time around because we did have some issues last time but I do have some moral

0:25.2

support and my sidekick Maggie really ABC News foreign correspondent

0:29.8

welcome back.

0:30.8

Okay oh man I always love being your side kick.

0:34.0

I'm obviously at home as well, isolated, but it's kind of fun.

0:36.5

We all are isolated, so it's sort of like we're all together, maybe, kind of.

0:41.2

It is, you know, I think the sense of solidarity is strong at this point but you did

0:47.2

have a little break away from the madness of the four walls of your home.

0:53.0

You're back from Paris.

0:55.0

And it felt bizarre.

0:56.0

Yeah, we went to Paris.

0:57.0

Paris had one of the strictest quarantine isolation lockdowns, whatever you want to call it in all of Europe, and they finally, after 55 days,

1:05.4

started to ease their lockdown.

1:06.8

And so that easing started on Monday.

1:08.7

We were in Paris when it happened.

1:11.0

And you know, it was just weird, Omit. I mean, on one hand, it was just weird omen. I mean on one hand it was fantastic because all of a sudden all of Paris came out for you know again those 55 days if you were living in Paris or anywhere in France you had to have a written

1:23.7

permission slip to leave your house so that's how strict it was people really were

1:27.6

not leaving so for them all of a sudden they could leave their house and frolic

1:32.2

about without a reason not having to justify themselves and people were out I mean I went for a nice run along the sun one night and there were just hundreds hundreds of people out in small groups, even drinking a little bit,

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