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Pod Save The King - Royal family news, interviews and fashion

Twerking, Disneyland and the big guns

Pod Save The King - Royal family news, interviews and fashion

Reach Podcasts

News, Society & Culture, News Commentary

3.81K Ratings

🗓️ 12 June 2025

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Summary

This week, Russell Myers, Royal Editor at the Daily Mirror, leads the discussion on the latest royal news, including Prince William's trip to Monaco, Harry and Meghan's balance between privacy and public life, and the King's "faultless" firing technique during a visit to the home of the Royal Artillery. He is joined by the Mirror's Jennifer Newton, as they ask: are we suffering from royal fatigue? Russell and Jen preview the Trooping of the Colour, discuss the Prince of Wales' environmental advocacy, and twerking royals. Yes, twerking. Pod Save the King is a Reach Studio production for the Daily Mirror, edited by Daniel J. McLaughlin. (Photo: Richard Pohle - WPA Pool/Getty Images) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Hello and welcome to this week's Pod Save the King. I am your host for this week, Russell Myers, the Royal Editor of the Daily Mirror. And hopefully you have caught up with our special episode last week with Anne Gripper, our normal host and our head of social creative gully burrows. They were taking a look at how the

0:23.0

royal family uses the internet and social media to build its brand over the years. A great

0:28.6

episode sort of talking about the changing landscape for the royal family using social media

0:34.0

through sort of Kate and William using social video, the king and queen getting into the spirits

0:40.3

of it as well. But this week I'm joined by the Deputy Royal Editor for the Daily Mirror, Jennifer

0:45.4

Newton. Hello, Jennifer. Hello. And there's been quite a lot going on. I was on holiday last

0:50.3

week, so it's been a bit of a baptism of fire getting to grips with what's been going on.

0:55.2

But we've seen Prince William in Monaco and interviewing Sir David Attenborough, two national treasures.

1:01.9

I'm sure you'll agree. We've got the King's role in Chuping the Color, which is coming up on Saturday.

1:07.1

Of course, the official birthday celebrations for the monarch. Harry and Megan have been pretty busy.

1:12.0

They've been out in Disneyland.

1:13.9

They've been twerking in videos in hospital rooms to much hilarity and congratulations

1:21.1

to from certain members of the public.

1:23.9

And we've got Kate's been out and about at the new Victorian Albert Museum in East London.

1:28.5

And William is at a place called Tor Royal Bog today, which we'll tell you a little bit of later.

1:35.6

But first of all, I suppose we'll go right into William having a bit of a bit of time in the sun in glorious Monaco last week.

1:43.7

This was following on from his interview with Sir David Attenborough,

1:48.3

obviously the legendary environmentalist and presenter.

1:52.2

And he was at an event called the Blue Economy and Fireance Forum.

1:59.1

The rather sexually titled engagement there for him.

2:02.4

But it was all about ocean preservation and William talking.

2:06.4

He was giving one of the keynote speeches, talking to world leaders, including French President Emmanuel Macron, basically telling them to, would I think big to save the ocean.

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