Prince Andrew and the Royals in a pandemic
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The Times
3.9 • 1.6K Ratings
🗓️ 11 June 2020
⏱️ 33 minutes
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Summary
The Royal Family have been in the headlines a lot during this pandemic - not always for the right reasons. But has the pandemic changed the Windsor's relationship to the public forever?
Guests:
Roya Nikkhah, The Sunday Times Royal Correspondent.
Host: Manveen Rana.
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| 0:00.0 | For the Royal Family, it's a story that just won't go away. |
| 0:06.5 | The US Department of Justice reportedly pressing a Prince Andrew to come clean about his connection with the late convicted sex offender |
| 0:16.1 | Jeffrey Epstein. |
| 0:17.1 | This week, the Queen's second son is back in the headlines as a transatlantic legal battle rages with US law officials. |
| 0:29.2 | The prince's lawyers say the US Justice Department is now seeking publicity rather than |
| 0:34.0 | accepting an offer of help. Will this latest reminder of the Prince's dubious |
| 0:38.3 | friendships throw the royal family back into crisis or has the firm distanced itself from the Duke of York. |
| 0:46.2 | You're listening to stories of our times from the Times and the Sunday Times. |
| 0:50.4 | I'm Manveen Rana. |
| 0:52.4 | Today, Prince Andrew and the Royals in a pandemic. I'm part of the Royal Rotor, which is a group of correspondence across Prince and |
| 1:18.4 | broadcast, who cover Royal Engagement. Roya Nika is the Sunday Times Royal Correspondent. |
| 1:26.0 | As part of the royal rotor, she's been embedded with the royal family |
| 1:30.0 | on state visits and official tools for the past 10 years. |
| 1:35.0 | It's given her the chance to observe them up close. |
| 1:41.0 | Last October we were in Pakistan with the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge. |
| 1:44.8 | The plane that we were traveling on with William and Kate, the Voyager, which is the plane |
| 1:49.2 | used by the Prime Minister and members of the Royal Family sometimes on tours. |
| 1:52.0 | We were flying back from Lahore back to Islamabad and we hit a very, very bad storm which the pilot tried to fly through several times. |
| 2:02.0 | Quite scary but quite amusing at the same time. |
| 2:05.1 | Without going to too much detail, |
| 2:06.3 | it was extremely hairy, and actually, |
| 2:07.8 | we were forced to turn back to Lahore and land. |
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