The Spectator Podcast: can the royal family survive its makeover?
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The Spectator
4.4 • 785 Ratings
🗓️ 22 August 2019
⏱️ 40 minutes
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With Jan Moir, Angela Levin, Stewart Jackson, Poppy Trowbridge, Ian Wright, Colin Freeman, and Leah McLaren.
Presented by Katy Balls.
Produced by Cindy Yu and Timmy Fisher.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to The Spectator podcast. I'm Katie Balls. This week, as the royal scandal |
| 0:11.1 | starts stacking up, we ask that the younger winters are letting the Queen down. Plus, what sort of |
| 0:17.4 | message should the government send to the public about a no-deal Brexit? |
| 0:28.0 | And last, we talk Parma Ham and Saudeau, and the dangers that come of introducing your children to bourgeois diets. |
| 0:37.6 | This week, Prince Andrew has been embroiled in the Geoffrey Epstein scandal, after footage was released of him waving goodbye to a young woman from the convicted sex offender's door. |
| 0:44.1 | The news comes alongside the continued row of the Duke and Duchess of Sussex's private jet-setting lifestyle. |
| 0:49.4 | In our cover piece this week, Jan Ra writes that the younger royals are letting the Queen down. |
| 0:52.0 | Why haven't they adhered to her gold standard? |
| 0:57.4 | I spoke to Jan and royal biographer Angela Levin earlier in the Daily Mail officers. |
| 1:02.5 | Jan, in this week's spectator, you paint a picture of a disappointed Queen Elizabeth. |
| 1:05.1 | What's going wrong with the royal family? |
| 1:08.7 | Well, I think if you look at the poor old queen, I mean, there she is. |
| 1:11.4 | She's been 67 years on the throne, I think. She's never put a foot wrong in one of her neat little buckled shoes. And now she's surrounded by |
| 1:17.1 | children and grandchildren who are just not behaving. I mean, if you take these things individually, |
| 1:23.9 | they're bad enough. But together, it's a real storm front of bad royal behaviour. |
| 1:29.4 | You've got Prince Andrew, who's being engulfed in the Geoffrey Epstein scandal. |
| 1:34.6 | You've got Harry and Megan preaching to the world about global warming and being eco-warriers |
| 1:40.8 | and then taking four private jets in 11 days. And you've got Zara Tyndall taking six |
| 1:47.4 | figure sums from random businessmen to advise them on horse racing. And all these things together, |
| 1:52.5 | they just don't look good for their whole family. Angela, if we look closely at what's happening |
| 1:57.0 | with Prince Andrew, the Jan has just mentioned, and the Epstein scandal. We've heard |
| 2:01.8 | Buckingham and Palace this week say that he is appalled by reports of these crimes. Do you think |
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