Queen's Sandringham summit statement sets the tone of Sussexit

Pod Save The King

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🗓️ 14 January 2020

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Prince Harry and Meghan surprised the royal family by announcing their plans to step back from senior royal roles and be financially independent - but those plans are still not fully formed.With tensions running high and the Duchess of Sussex having already flown back to Canada to rejoin baby Archie, the Queen summoned her grandson to a summit at Sandringham with his brother Prince William and dad Prince Charles.After a day of talks, the Queen released a very personal statement to update on the progress and what lies ahead.Pod Save The Queen host Ann Gripper (@anngripper) is joined by Daily Mirror royal editor Russell Myers (@rjmyers) to reflect on the progress since the first announcement and where the royal family go from here. 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	POD Save the Queen!
0:05.0	Hello and welcome back to POD Save the Queen.
0:09.0	I am your host Anne Gripper here again with our Royal Editor Russell Miles who's taking a break from all of
0:14.1	his other media commitments to come and see his bestest friends and talk to our lovely
0:20.0	Pod Save the Queen listeners after the Sandringham Summit of yesterday.
0:24.9	I mean it's been a rapid fire few days.
0:29.2	I mean you got off the airplane I think your you've touched the floor since really.
0:32.8	Hello.
0:33.8	Hello.
0:34.8	What since last, not even a week coming,
0:37.3	it's been six days of absolute madness.
0:40.1	We've been, you know, it's been long, long hours. I think everyone's been involved, you know,
0:45.4	all hands on debt with it. And it's been an absolutely astonishing part of history to
0:50.2	witness, I think. You know, don't underestimate how important this is it's a changing of the monarchy that we've seen at its very heart the fact that they've
0:58.8	Harry Megan decided to walk away from their current royal roles.
1:03.3	Who knows what will happen in the future?
1:04.8	We'll talk about the statement and talk about what they've said,
1:08.0	what they've been asked to come up with.
1:09.8	But I suppose starting with their statement that came out on last Wednesday
1:15.0	was absolutely breathtaking that the fact that they'd gone ahead and done it
1:20.7	there had obviously been some initial discussions over the past few weeks
1:25.4	with the Queen and Prince Charles discussing the you know the elements that they
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