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Hello and welcome to The Edition, the Spectator's weekly podcast discussing some of the most important and intriguing issues within our pages each week with the writers behind them.

I'm Isabel Hardman. This week, Megxit has divided the nation, but could slimming down the monarchy actually be a good idea?

Plus, Ireland goes to the polls next month,

how could the next T-shock impact Brexit talks? And last, what if charity work isn't quite the

rewarding experience you expect? So first, is slimming down the only way to future-proof the monarchy?

Megxit seems symptomatic of a royal

family getting bigger and bigger, which doesn't know what to do with the more minor members of

its family. Penny Juner takes a look at the ups and downs of reorganising the firm in this

week's cover piece, and joining me to discuss now are Tim Stanley, historian and telegraph columnist,

and Katie Nicol, Royal Correspondent and

author of numerous books on William, Harry and Megan. So Tim, in our cover piece this week,

the argument is that the crisis over the Sussex is less about the couple and more about the

future of the monarchy. Do you agree with that? I agree and disagree. On one level, this is really just a celebrity

story and it's also a human family story. What's happened here has happened to loads of people

where the golden boy has married someone who a lot of people in the family don't approve of,

there's tension, she moves away, she wants him to come with her. This is a very old story. And many

ways this is simply about

personality. Where the constitutional issue comes in, where the question comes in about the future

of the monarchy, is this issue of how do you balance the demands of the institution with the very

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