Prince Harry's military matters - and what's in a name?

Pod Save The King

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News Commentary, News, Society & Culture

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🗓️ 4 February 2021

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Summary

Prince Harry’s military roles are the one part of royal life he appears desperate to hold onto - but does he really need to? His honorary positions are expected to be a key part of the review one year on from the Duke and Duchess of Sussex leaving their roles as senior royals, and he was this week awarded damages over "baseless, false and defamatory" claims he had turned his back on the Royal Marines. Those damages were donated to the Invictus Games. Pod Save The Queen host Ann Gripper and Daily Mirror royal editor discuss whether there is a way for Prince Harry’s honorary roles to be redefined - or whether he has already done that himself through Invictus. They also discuss the row over Meghan’s name on Archie’s birth certificate and discuss how the Sussexes’ new relationship with the media work. They also talk Joe Biden’s royal invitations, the Cambridges’ involvement in children’s mental health week and speaking out against racism in football, and they pay their respects to Captain Sir Tom Moore. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	POD Save the Queen!
0:03.0	Hello and welcome back to POD Save the Queen.
0:06.0	I'm your host Anne Griffith and there is lots to talk about today.
0:09.0	We've got some Sussex updates, some Cambridge updates, some general royal family updates and I'm joined as ever by my friend and
0:19.2	colleague Russell Myers Delhi Mirror Royal. Nice to see you Russell.
0:22.8	Very nice to see you, Anne. How are you?
0:24.8	I'm all right, thank you. How are you?
0:27.2	I'm all right. I'm good.
0:29.2	We're here. So, but I think it would be remiss not to start the episode by paying tribute to Captain Sir Tom Moore who died earlier this week and we were big fans of what he did last year.
0:42.0	He was coming up to his 100th birthday and he walked a
0:45.0	hundred laps of his garden and he wanted to raise the princely son of a
0:48.1	thousand pounds and then he raised millions and millions and millions for NHS charities
0:54.0	and got Spit Firefly Pass
0:56.0	and knighthood from the Queen
0:58.0	and those lovely pictures from the summer
1:00.0	when there was sunshine
1:02.0	and kind of hope that we were all coming through the
1:04.1	other side and celebration but sadly he he was being treated for pneumonia and
1:09.9	then he tested positive for COVID as well. So he sadly died this week, but the tributes and
1:16.7	memories that he created, I think I would think he would be astounded by if he was here to,
1:22.0	if he was here to hear them and I'm sure that his family
1:25.2	appreciate all of the kind of kind of kind messages that have been coming their way because you know
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