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Speaker 1: From the team at News dot com dot Au. This

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Speaker 1: is the latest from the Newsroom. In today's episode, we're

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Speaker 1: taking a dive into all the biggest stories from behind

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Speaker 1: palace walls over the past week, including the very long

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Speaker 1: awaited return of Princess Kate and what a comeback it

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Speaker 1: was the bold Harry and Meghan suggestion that was reportedly

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Speaker 1: shot down by the King and the Royal who's just

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Speaker 1: announced a visit to Australia. Plus I'll tell you all

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Speaker 1: about the Late Queen's hilarious prank on two unsuspecting American tourists.

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Speaker 1: It's another big episode of from the Newsroom. We'll get

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Speaker 1: under way in just a moment. After six long months

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Speaker 1: on break from public duties amid her cancer treatment, Kate

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Speaker 1: has stepped back into the spotlight. I albeit cautiously. I

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Speaker 1: was actually at the trooping the color Parado over the

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Speaker 1: weekend and let me tell you, the crowd went absolutely

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Speaker 1: wild when Kate rolled out of the Buckingham Palace gates

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Speaker 1: in her carriage. She had a huge smile on a face.

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Speaker 1: She was waiting back at everyone and seeing her back

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Speaker 1: and looking so happy really did just seem to lift

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Speaker 1: everyone's spirits. There now That appearance came just hours after

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Speaker 1: she released her first personal statement since revealing her cancer

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Speaker 1: diagnosis in March, and in it she confirmed she'd joined

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Speaker 1: her family for trooping and also said she was hoping

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Speaker 1: to attend other royal events over the next couple of months. However,

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Speaker 1: she stressed it was going to be decided on a

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Speaker 1: case by case basis, depending how she was feeling, as

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Speaker 1: she has good days and bad days during her chemo treatment.

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Speaker 1: Still some very welcome news for royal watches. Hopefully she's

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Speaker 1: out in about a end soon. Still on the trooping.

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Speaker 1: The color and That was obviously all about Kate's big

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Speaker 1: royal comeback, but there was reportedly a brief moment where

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Speaker 1: it may have also featured Harry and Meghan's. It's no

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Speaker 1: secret working royals have been a little thin on the

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Speaker 1: ground this year, and royal author Tom Quinn has claimed

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Speaker 1: that the idea of inviting the Duke and Duchess of

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Speaker 1: Sussex to appear at this year's event was actually discussed

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Speaker 1: behind palace doores. However, as he told The Mirror, it

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Speaker 1: was quickly dismissed by senior royals, which would likely include

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Speaker 1: the King and Queen and Prince William because there was

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Speaker 1: a feeling that the couple quote cast a dark shadow

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Speaker 1: over everything. Bearing in mind Harry's only seen his dad

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Speaker 1: once this year and Meghan hasn't even been back to

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Speaker 1: the UK since twenty twenty two. Plus they're not really

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Speaker 1: on speaking terms with Kate and Williams, so it would

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Speaker 1: have been pretty awkward. Now the last bit of Royal

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Speaker 1: news for this week, and Australia is set for another

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Speaker 1: royal visit later this year. Sarah Ferguson aka Fergie is

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Speaker 1: heading to wa to headline a literary festival, the Festival

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Speaker 1: of Fiction. In October. The Duchess of York will appear

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Speaker 1: as a special guest, after having written more than fifty

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Speaker 1: books herself. Next up, I'll tell you all about the

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Speaker 1: prank the Late Queen pulled on two unsuspecting American tourists.

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Speaker 1: The late Queen Elizabeth easily had one of the most

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Speaker 1: recognizable faces in the world, so it's kind of whild

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Speaker 1: that this next thing happened. So following her death in

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Speaker 1: twenty twenty two, her former Royal Protection officer told this

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Speaker 1: incredible story about how they've been out walking around her

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Speaker 1: holiday home slash castle in Balmoral in Scotland some years

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Speaker 1: ago when they'd run into two tourists from the US.

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Speaker 1: They didn't recognize her and they started asking questions and

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Speaker 1: the Queen mentioned that she'd been visiting the area since

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Speaker 1: she was a little girl. He's Richard Griffin explaining what

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Speaker 1: happened next on Sky News and.

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Speaker 2: You can see the clogs thinking. He said, well, if

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Speaker 2: you'd be coming up you for eighty years, you must

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Speaker 2: have met the queen, and as quick as a flash, says, well,

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Speaker 2: I haven't, but Dick here meets her regularly. So the

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Speaker 2: guy second, he's met the queen, what you like? And

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Speaker 2: because I was with her a long time when I

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Speaker 2: knew I could pull a leg, I said, Oh, she

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Speaker 2: could be very cantangrous at times, but she's got a

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Speaker 2: lovely sense of humor.

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Speaker 1: So they then apparently took a picture together just for fun.

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Speaker 1: And here's what the queen said once they walked away.

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Speaker 2: She said to me, I'd love to be a fly

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Speaker 2: in the war when he shows us photographs to the

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Speaker 2: friends in America.

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Speaker 1: Amazing. And that's it for this Royal edition from the newsroom.

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Speaker 1: Thanks for listening. We'll be back with another update on Monday. Morning,