Welcome back to the home of the oxymoron. Evil genius. He asked the newspaper to print his obituary early so he'd enjoy it. That's like hiding at your own funeral. Yeah, a big, great gig. I'm Russell Kane. Join me to weigh in on whether the biggest players in history are more evil or genius. Becoming that rich, I'd say that is some level of genius. It also helps that it's a long time ago, right?

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This is the BBC. Twenty-one years ago, the mall in London was drowned in flowers,

and it did seem as if the credibility of the royal family might have been shredded by its apparent indifference to the death of Princess Diana.

Momentarily, republicanism had more than a few friends in Britain.

But now that moment can seem very far away.

Royalty seems to dominate entertainment, whether the Netflix series The Crown or those

Judy Dench Queen Victoria films, the Victoria TV series or King Charles III or even at Covent

Garden, where the Royal Ballet will stage the ballet Elizabeth.

And these are just a few of the more high-profile items that are a sign of renewed royal times.

And this isn't to mention the domestic media events of this year,

which are without exception orchestrated around a royal birth and royal marriages,

with the scheduling intelligence for keeping the audience watching

that a television professional can only envy.

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