Royal diaries rearranged again - by a general election

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🗓️ 23 May 2024

⏱️ 34 minutes

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The royal family were just getting back into the swing of visits with King Charles returning to public duty after cancer treatment and Prince William at work again as Kate continues her cancer treatment. Then Prime Minister Rishi Sunak visited Buckingham Palace and then told the country he was calling a general election. Pod Save the King host Ann Gripper is joined by Daily Mirror royal editor Russell Myers to discuss politics’ impact on royal diaries, and the plans, including D-Day commemorations, which will be going ahead. They also catch up on Russell’s soggy visit to a Buckingham Palace garden party, where the Tindalls and Yorks kept Prince William company, the latest from the Princess of Wales’s Early Childhood Foundation and an imminent society wedding. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	POD Save the King!
0:02.0	Hello and welcome back to POD Save the King.
0:08.0	It's an exciting week in the UK.
0:10.0	I mean, there was a time when it felt like we're going through general elections every five minutes
0:15.1	and now we have a general election.
0:17.1	I'm your host Anne Gripper.
0:19.5	It's not a politics podcast, it's a royal podcast, but the Royals are quite involved in this so anyway my
0:24.2	colleague daily we're a royal editor Russell Myers is here he's dried out from his
0:28.4	trip to Buckingham Palace of which of which more later in the show obviously we love talking about a
0:33.8	garden party that we talked about them in the last few weeks and Russell got to go to
0:36.7	one this week but it is the big news this week really isn't it you know
0:41.0	Rishi Rishi soonak Prime Minister of not very long.
0:44.9	Yeah well talking about people being sodden as I was at Buckingham Palace.
0:48.6	He looks like a drowned rat the poor chap. He was left to fender himself in the elements outside number 10 as he was delivering
0:56.4	this momentous news to the country that he was calling a general election after being
1:01.5	to Buckingham Palace to ask the king to dissolve Parliament
1:06.1	and set the wheels in motion for this next general election. So we have a
1:10.4	date July the 4th. It obviously does impact the Royal Family somewhat
1:15.1	because they are having to reschedule their diaries all over the place.
1:18.8	There's been quite a lot of moving of chess pieces already this week at the very last moment.
1:24.4	So yes, a bit of a headache for the people at the palace, but I'm sure they will
1:28.4	set the train back on the tracks in due course.
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