Pod Save the King!

Hello and welcome to Pod Save the King.

I'm Jennifer Newton, the Mirror's Deputy Royal Editor and we're here for another episode this

week.

Unfortunately, Russell can't be with us this week.

So I am with Charlotte Foster, who is the Mirror's Royal Reporter.

Hi, Charlotte.

Hello, how are you?

Yes, very good, Thanks. How are you?

I'm good. Yeah, we're very happy today because the sun is shining. We'll give you a little weather update. Yes. We haven't done that for a while, but yeah, the sun is shining. It feels like springs really sprung in the UK. It really does. I'm here for it. I've, the sun's been out for two days and I've already got hay fever, but I'm powering through because the sun's out,

nothing else matters.

Well, yeah,, the sun's been out for two days and I've already got hay fever, but I'm powering through because the sun's out, nothing else matters.

Well, yeah, and the sun has been out in Windsor this week because we've had the Nigeria estate visit.

Also had Royals surprising a lot of people this week, which we'll be talking about later and some other big landmarks and holidays that were marked this week

as well by various members of the royal family. But I think we've got to start with the state

visit. Yes, first one of 2026. First one of 2026. So yeah, we had the King and Queen,

the Nigerian president and the first lady to Windsor Castle. So it had

all the hallmarks of a normal state visit. They had the carriage ride through Windsor, well,

I say normal state visit, the Windsor state visits that we've become accustomed to. Now they've

moved to Buckingham Palace. Now Buckingham Palace is their undergoing renovation works.

And they viewed items from the Royal Collection, had the state

banquet last night. There was some slight tweaks to the programme this time in that because

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