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The HeirPod - Royal News & Interviews

The Sussexes reveal details on their new chapter

The HeirPod - Royal News & Interviews

ABC News

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4.01.1K Ratings

🗓️ 21 February 2020

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

As Buckingham Palace confirm that Prince Harry and Duchess Meghan will no longer be working royals after March 31, The HeirPod takes a deep dive into their final days of work in the UK and reveal what’s next for the couple. Host and ABC News Contributor is joined by royal commentator Victoria Arbiter to separate fact from fiction on the Sussexes’ new chapter as a financially independent couple. Plus, Duchess Kate gets candid about motherhood as her landmark early years survey is completed and Prince Charles speaks about his 50 years of conservation work. Follow Omid: https://twitter.com/scobie Talk about the show using #TheHeirPod Discover more ABC News podcasts: http://www.abcnewspodcasts.com The HeirPod is produced by ABC Audio. For more information: http://www.abcnewspodcasts.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Hello everyone and welcome back to another episode of the airport.

0:06.4

Seven days have flown by and we've got a whole load of news to discuss this week.

0:10.9

It's been incredibly busy, particularly for the Sussex's who

0:14.1

have finally tied a bow on all of the speculation and talk around their departure as

0:19.4

working members of the Royal Family. We've got brand new information from Buckingham Palace

0:24.8

to digest and talk through and I'll be joined by Royal Commentator Victoria Arbiter

0:29.7

to go through all of that later in the show. But this week we also saw the Queen

0:35.0

return to work and engagements after returning from Sandringham last month. She

0:41.9

officially opened a major new medical facility in London that housed two specialist hospitals under one roof, and she was a visitor at the Royal EMT Hospital and Eastman Dental Hospital.

0:54.7

That was where she saw firsthand, the work being carried out across the facility

0:58.9

visiting the adult dental and pediatric treatment floors. And speaking to a number of. and at a time for her, busy time for her behind the scenes, but we haven't seen as many engagements

1:15.1

from her recently, so it's great to see her back in the swing of things.

1:18.8

And we also saw Prince Giles celebrating a landmark moment this week.

1:23.8

It was 50 years officially since he first spoke about the environment.

1:30.4

And he shared a special interview through Clarence House talking about when he first kind of became to care

1:39.2

talking about when he first came to care about the environment over 50 years ago reflecting on a speech that he made in 1970

1:47.5

where he spoke about many of the issues that we're now talking about today that are very much

1:51.5

trending topics he spoke about the growing

1:54.6

menace of oil pollution at sea and the growing pollution from gases pumped out

1:58.8

by endless cars and airplanes and it was really interesting to hear just how informed he was at a time when very few others

2:06.8

were thinking about this subject.

2:09.0

He himself said that people thought he was potty.

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