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The HeirPod - Royal News & Interviews

Royals respond to Covid-19

The HeirPod - Royal News & Interviews

ABC News

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4.01.1K Ratings

🗓️ 20 March 2020

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Summary

As the Queen retreats to Windsor Castle after cancelling all public engagements, The HeirPod takes a look at how the Royal Family are changing the way they work during the coronavirus pandemic. Plus, ABC News foreign correspondent Maggie Rulli joins host and ABC News royal contributor Omid Scobie to reveal the positive efforts being made by the Sussexes and Cambridges. And royal commentator Victoria Arbiter breaks down the Queens message of solidarity to the UK. Follow Omid: https://twitter.com/scobie Talk about the show using #TheHeirPod Discover more ABC News podcasts: http://www.abcnewspodcasts.com The HeirPod is produced by ABC Audio. For more information: http://www.abcnewspodcasts.com

Transcript

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0:00.0

Hello everyone and welcome back to the airport to a socially isolated special of the

0:10.5

episode. I'm in Oxford at the moment tucked away in my parents home and I'm joined by

0:17.8

Maggie Rooley who is... I miss you Omen you're not here with me. I know I feel like we're too far apart this is all very

0:26.2

strange I also feel like I've definitely messed something up because I have all the

0:31.0

equipment here and it's bound to go wrong in some way.

0:35.2

We're all trying our best, right?

0:37.2

This, well yeah, this is very much the new normal for everyone.

0:40.6

Now, certainly for the foreseeable future at least in spring you

0:46.4

know everyone's working remotely things have changed drastically since we last

0:50.8

spoke I think last time we did the show we were sort of prepping for a maybe

0:55.5

maybe not situation it obviously was following a certain course but here we are and it

1:02.4

looks like it's going to be like this for a while.

1:04.0

I think the one interesting thing also with this is just how much it's affecting every single person and so there is this new mutual

1:10.3

understanding right it's people are on conference calls with babies crying

1:13.8

and dogs barking in the background,

1:15.2

and everyone's just kind of trying to make it work.

1:17.8

Yeah, exactly.

1:18.7

I think my favorite part is seeing news anchors, news correspondence trying to make it work from like spare rooms

1:26.4

in houses with children and at pets around and it's certainly a lot I had to definitely announce to the entire home that I'm doing this because

1:35.8

Mom and dad don't get on the line. Exactly. And of course I am based in London but I've come out here for a little bit of time.

1:43.5

You know, I think for everyone we're not just thinking of ourselves, we're also thinking of the people around us,

1:48.5

whether we have parents of a certain age or whatnot.

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