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PREVIEW: #KINGCHARLES: #NORMANDY: Conversation with colleague Gregory Copley re the Price of Wales commenting that the King is a "caged lion" eager to get back to duty -- and the first event of profound weight looks to be the 80th Anniversary of the Norma

The John Batchelor Show

John Batchelor

Society & Culture, Arts, News, Books

4.52.8K Ratings

🗓️ 7 May 2024

⏱️ 3 minutes

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PREVIEW: #KINGCHARLES: #NORMANDY: Conversation with colleague Gregory Copley re the Price of Wales commenting that the King is a "caged lion" eager to get back to duty -- and the first event of profound weight looks to be the 80th Anniversary of the Normandy Landings on June 6. More later.

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0:00.0

Have you ever felt like escaping to your own desert island?

0:04.0

Jane Gaskin did exactly that, trading in the family home to begin a new life in the

0:09.1

tropics.

0:10.1

But she soon discovers that Paradise has its secrets.

0:13.4

I'm Alice Levine, and this is the price of Paradise,

0:18.0

the island dream that ends in kidnap, corruption, and murder. Wish you were here. Follow the price of Paradise Now wherever

0:26.7

you listen to podcasts. This is John Bachelor talking to Gregory Coppley about the King of the United Kingdom,

0:36.7

King of Australia, King of New England, King Charles III, eager to get back to work, and we're told now he will

0:46.6

appear with his son, William, the Prince of Wales, the heir apparent, at Normandy festivities, the 80th anniversary of the D-Day

0:56.8

landings.

0:57.8

Gregory comments on that.

0:59.4

He also says that the King is eager to work and has always been working despite the chemical treatment

1:07.0

that he's receiving, the chemotherapy he's receiving, saps your energy.

1:11.0

However, the king did take the moment to meet with the Prime Minister of Fiji and Gregory

1:18.0

fills us in on the details of that. Fiji is looking to get back in the Commonwealth,

1:25.0

making the King of Fiji as well.

1:27.0

King Charles III, by Gregory Coppley,

1:30.0

a subject of the King of Australia, Charles III. More of this tonight. Now what does it mean for

1:36.2

him to be in Normandy? Well it shows that Britain fought for the defeat of Nazi Germany and for the deliverance of Europe.

1:49.0

So it's a strong statement for Europe.

1:51.5

One of the things about President Chirac, sorry, Macron, showing my age,

1:57.6

President Macron in France is that he has appreciated both King Charles and his mother, the Queen Elizabeth.

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