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Hello and welcome to the edition podcast from The Spectator.

Every week we take a look at some of the most important and intriguing stories from the issue

with the writers behind them. I'm Cindy Yu.

This week, the royal psychodrama continues, but is it fair to blame

Megan for all of this? We'll also talk about China's unpredictable book cleansing policy. What's it

like to be on the receiving end? And finally, Matthew Paris has just applied to fly around the moon.

Will he be selected for that first commercial flight?

First up, as the impact of Harry and Megan's interview continues to unfold, our deputy editor, Freddie Gray, looks at how the Hollywood Royals have switched from privacy to showbiz in this week's coverpiece.

He joins the podcast now, together with Tanya Gold, the spectator's restaurant critic, who writes about her sympathy for the couple in the issue two.

Freddie, you talk about this rival royal house that Megan and Harry have set up and this

woke philosophy that underlines it. Can you elaborate on that?

I think that the younger royals sort of set off on a path a few years ago when they launched this

Heads Together campaign, which there was a lot of hype over and it seemed to cause some

tensions between the kind of older generation, the younger generation of royals,

and that the younger royals were encouraged by a lot of people because they were

expressing themselves, they were talking about their feeling, they were talking about their mental health. And then at some point,

Prince William and Kate seemed to change tack and decided that they didn't want to be doing

so much public emoting. And Megan and Harry obviously were rather keen on public emoting.

And Megan in particular, and that caused some tension. There was a struggle, and then they left in a huff.

I think it's inevitable now that Megan and Harry are in Hollywood.

And what's funny is everybody knew this was going to happen at some point,

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