Royal finances, missing findings and fortieth birthdays

Pod Save The King

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News Commentary, News, Society & Culture

3.7 • 1K Ratings

🗓️ 30 June 2022

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Summary

The Sovereign Grant Report was published this week and after hours and hours of trawling through the facts and figures, Zoe Forsey and Russell Myers sit down to discuss the headline findings - including the £17million, or 17%, rise in royal spending from last year. There is also a cost breakdown of The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge’s disastrous Caribbean tour and it’s revealed that Prince Charles’ helicopter trips cost a staggering £15,000 a time. We discuss the Palace’s decision not to publish any findings from the investigation into bullying claims against Meghan Markle, the Queen’s Holyrood Week outings and Prince Charles’s £2.6million of charity cash stuffed in carrier bags. Russell fills us in on his trip to Rwanda with Charles and Camilla and we discuss Meghan’s comments on the Roe V Wade ruling. 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 to POD Save the Queen.
0:05.0	I'm your host Zoe Forcy and I'm joined after what seems like an awfully long time actually
0:10.0	by our Royal editor at Russell Myers.
0:12.0	Hello, how are you?
0:13.6	I'm all right.
0:14.4	I was just thinking we are reunited for the first time in ages.
0:18.0	It does feel like a long time.
0:19.0	A while.
0:20.0	And there's obviously been a lot going on.
0:21.8	You've been on tour. We've had lots of
0:24.0	finances which have taken me an awfully long time to get my head round but you have a
0:28.9	much better knowledge of those than I do. But before we get into all of that we just wanted to start by paying tribute to
0:34.8	Daim Deborah James who passed away earlier this week on Tuesday. Obviously this is something
0:40.6	we've spoken about quite a lot on the podcast because her amazing
0:44.3	and inspiring work raising awareness of bowel cancer has been supported by the
0:49.6	Duke and Duchess of Cambridge they obviously met them there. So obviously it was really
0:53.2	sad news that she passed away on Tuesday and Prince William actually put out a
0:58.6	message didn't he? He did indeed and you know all our thoughts are with Deborah's friends and
1:04.7	family and she was a much much loved production member of the BBC the rain show
1:10.0	that I work on as well as an awful lot of people who are just sending all their
1:13.4	thoughts to her family but as you said that William did meet her in Maine he was
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