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Welcome to this week's edition of the Untold Story podcast, and I'm thrilled to have with me today, Valentine Lowe, who is a royal correspondent for the Times in London, and has a new book out called Cordiers, Intrigue, Ambition, and the Power Players behind the House of Windsor. So Valentine, great timing. Good to have you here today.

Thank you so much for joining us. And congratulations on this book, which is really getting a lot of

positive review and reaction.

So, you know, I always like to sort of start these podcasts because we call it the untold story.

How did you turn out to be a royal correspondent?

You know, when you were a little boy growing up in the UK, is this what you wanted to be?

Absolutely not.

And in fact, I remember when Diana married Charles, I wasn't exactly a Republican, but I was not interested at all.

We were all given the day off work.

And I worked at an office that overlooked the mall.

That's where the possession was.

And I could have gone in for work and watched that possession.

But I said, no, when it had

had a picnic in the countryside with my friends instead.

I fell into it like all royal correspondents, we all fall into it because no one ever sets

out with an ambition to be a royal correspondent because it was slightly weird.

What did you want to be when you were starting out in the business? I think I wanted to, I had vague thoughts about being political journalist, but also I like writing.

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