The Special Relationship: how are the Royals viewed in the US?

Pod Save The King

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🗓️ 11 September 2025

⏱️ 33 minutes

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This week, Daily Mirror deputy royal editor Jennifer Newton is joined by her colleague from across the Atlantic, Brigid Brown, royal reporter for Daily Express US. They discuss Donald Trump's upcoming state visit to the UK, how the Royals are viewed in the US, and potential family reconciliation after Harry visited King Charles at Clarence House - their first face-to-face meeting for 19 months. Pod Save the King is a Reach Studio production for the Daily Mirror. It is presented by Jennifer Newton, and produced by Daniel J. McLaughlin. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Pod Save the King!
0:05.4	Hello and welcome to Pod Save the King. I'm Jennifer Newton, the Mirror's Deputy Royal Editor.
0:11.0	So both Anne and Russell are away this week. So instead, I'm joined by the US mirrors, Bridger Brown,
0:16.7	who is going to help me run through the Royal Week this week and give her take on all things
0:20.9	royal stateside and the upcoming Donald Trump state visit to the UK. So hi Bridget. Thanks for joining us.
0:28.0	Hi Jennifer. Thank you so much for having me. It is such a pleasure to join you for Potsie the King.
0:34.4	I'm loving your background. I can see like New York skyscrapers in the background.
0:38.3	Is that, is that what I'm seeing? Exactly. Let me scoot over so you can see over my shoulder.
0:42.0	Yes, you can actually see the Statue of Liberty if you walk around the corner a little bit.
0:47.4	It's a nice view. Oh, amazing. So obviously Trump will be in town over this side of the Atlantic next week. But in town this
0:55.9	week in London, we've had Prince Harry. He's been doing numerous engagements. He was at the
1:01.0	Wellchild Awards on Monday. He's been in Nottingham yesterday. And then today he's been at the
1:05.9	Imperial College London's Centre for Blast Injury Studies. So this visit back to the UK has been one of his
1:12.5	longest, the longest amount of time he's spent in the UK for quite a while, actually. He came
1:17.4	over on Monday, it's now Wednesday afternoon. And it's the first time that he's came here in a long
1:21.8	time where he's just totally concentrating on his own engagements, his own charities, no trips to the Royal Courts of
1:28.7	Justice or anything like that. Obviously, it's been dominating the newspapers and the news
1:32.8	coverage over here in the UK, but I wonder, Bridget, how much coverage has there been in the
1:37.3	US of Harry been in the UK? Are people interested? Yes, there has, people are definitely
1:42.3	interested. There has been tons of coverage. And it's actually,
1:47.3	you know, I was really surprised and really interested to see how much coverage there was,
1:52.4	just kind of tipping and tapping at my desk. And then all of a sudden I see that the Associated
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