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In The Limelight by Vanity Fair

Some Like It Ascot

In The Limelight by Vanity Fair

Conde Nast & Vanity Fair

Society & Culture

3.9537 Ratings

🗓️ 28 June 2018

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Summary

Josh and Julie break down the busy week for the royals, including the Royal Ascot and a palace reception. Plus, Thomas Markle continues to vent!

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0:00.0

Hello and welcome to In the Limelight, Vanity Fair's Entertainment and Pop Culture

0:11.2

Podcast. I'm Josh Duboff, Vanity Fair's Senior Writer, and I'm here with Julie Miller, Vanity Fair's

0:15.8

Senior Hollywood writer. On In The Limelight, we analyze the ins and outs of pop culture, entertainment,

0:25.7

and celebrity from the past week, from the Kardashians to Kate Middleton, and everything in between.

0:40.4

On this week's episode, all kinds of royal related items to catch up on. Megan, our girl, had a very busy week. She was at the Royal Ascot, her first one last week. On Tuesday night, she went to Buckingham Palace for a reception, also attended by the Queen and David Beckham. But, and then

0:47.5

at the end, we will also discuss the most important honor I think she will ever receive. We'll just,

0:51.9

actually won't say what it is now. We'll make you guys wait to find out.

0:55.2

Oh my gosh.

0:55.8

Way to build that anticipation.

0:57.9

A little bit of foreshadowing.

0:59.9

Also, we're going to discuss Tom Markle, who unbelievably did not stop talking after speaking

1:06.1

to Pierce Morgan last week with that TMI interview.

1:09.1

I know you really would have thought last week would have been

1:11.7

the end of it for him, but somehow. Somehow. But let's start with last night's appearance. We will get to

1:22.1

Tom soon. Don't worry, Tom. I know you're listening. The queen hosted an evening reception for the Commonwealth of 53 nations that are linked to the UK.

1:34.1

And Harry was named the organization's youth ambassador just weeks before he and Megan were married. So this is one of his new responsibilities.

1:43.3

And Megan was wearing a sort of powder pink Prada dress with two columns of buttons,

1:52.3

kind of oversized buttons down in front.

1:56.6

And the seating went her, hairy, and then the queen.

2:01.6

So there was one gap between her and the queen, her new BFF.

2:05.5

Which was kind of surprising, but I imagine that's some sort of royal protocol.

2:10.6

Julie, what did you think of this dress, which I call the Jackie O style dress?

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