Speaker 1: Vincys whose wife report.
Speaker 2: Good evening. Welcome to the Royal Report. I'm Caroline de Russo.
Speaker 2: Coming up on the show tonight. Harry and Meghan are
Speaker 2: about to release their first sit down interview since twenty
Speaker 2: twenty one.
Speaker 3: We'll give you a sneak peek. The Royals have just headed.
Speaker 2: To Bowmoral Castle for their summer holiday. But were Harry
Speaker 2: and Meghan invited or have they received yet another Royal snub?
Speaker 2: And the Sussexes have revealed the next stop on their
Speaker 2: non royal tour. Brussell Myers joins us from London with
Speaker 2: all the details. But first, in a few hours, CBS
Speaker 2: will be releasing an exclusive interview with Harry and Meghan.
Speaker 3: It's their first.
Speaker 2: Interview together since they sat down with Oprah in twenty
Speaker 2: twenty one. Now the purpose of the interview is to
Speaker 2: talk about the dangers of social media for children and
Speaker 2: how they want to help families impacted by that pervading
Speaker 2: social harm.
Speaker 3: Here is a recently released teaser markidre Young.
Speaker 4: They're three and five.
Speaker 3: They're amazing, but all you want.
Speaker 4: To do is parents, is protect them and so as
Speaker 4: we can see what's happening in the online space, We
Speaker 4: know that there's a lot of work to be done there,
Speaker 4: and we're just happy to be able to be a
Speaker 4: part of Well you've changed for good.
Speaker 5: When your children ask for help, someone you know is
Speaker 5: there to give it.
Speaker 6: You know if you're not, if you know how to help,
Speaker 6: thank you.
Speaker 7: At this point, we've got to the stage where almost
Speaker 7: every parent needs to be a first responder.
Speaker 4: Now.
Speaker 2: I don't doubt their genuine desire to advocate on this issue.
Speaker 2: It's an issue impacting children and families across the globe now.
Speaker 2: Harry only recently spoke about his battle with the press
Speaker 2: and concerns for his privacy.
Speaker 7: Anything I say about my family results in a torrent
Speaker 7: of abuse from the press. I've made it very clear
Speaker 7: that this is something that needs to be done. It
Speaker 7: would be nice if we did it as a family.
Speaker 7: I believe that, again from a service standpoint, and when
Speaker 7: you're in a public role, that these are the things
Speaker 7: that we should be doing for the greater good.
Speaker 3: But I do have one very serious gripe.
Speaker 2: If you think people, including children, deserve privacy and protection,
Speaker 2: then you also have to afford other people that same respect.
Speaker 2: You cannot be an advocate for privacy for some on
Speaker 2: one hand, and commercialize other people's privacy.
Speaker 3: On the other.
Speaker 2: Now, Harry made millions on his memoir Spare, including a
Speaker 2: twenty million dollar advance. Now that book included information about
Speaker 2: his brother William from William's childhood. So is William not
Speaker 2: also deserving of having his childhood home life kept private.
Speaker 2: And let's not even get into the raft of other
Speaker 2: avenues he has publicized and commercialized the private lives of others. Now,
Speaker 2: the important part of advocacy is authenticity, and Harry can
Speaker 2: be a brilliant advocate, but he needs to not be
Speaker 2: a hypocrite. Let's to give rise to more well targeted
Speaker 2: satires such as.
Speaker 3: This The Prince and his Wife.
Speaker 2: We we.
Speaker 7: Thanks for having as on this show.
Speaker 6: It's Us and the Beads Cray.
Speaker 1: So let me start with you, Sam.
Speaker 5: You've lived a life with the royal family. You've had
Speaker 5: everything handed to you, but you say your life has
Speaker 5: been hard, and now you've written all about it in
Speaker 5: your new book.
Speaker 2: Where so as I said, advocacy can be such a
Speaker 2: win for Harry if he can avoid the own goals.
Speaker 2: Joining me now is Gematoniini from GT Communications and commentator
Speaker 2: Samara gil Samara. In this CBS interview, the Sussexes are
Speaker 2: talking about children and social media and online bullying. What
Speaker 2: were the main takeaways on the teaser for you and
Speaker 2: do you think it struck the right note?
Speaker 8: I mean, it was very hard to decipher Harry's psychobabble.
Speaker 6: I think he's been in one to Sito a little
Speaker 6: bit too long.
Speaker 8: It was actually really difficult to figure out what he
Speaker 8: was trying to say. Calling parents first responders or say
Speaker 8: that they should be first responders was really tone deaf.
Speaker 8: I mean, most parents are just trying to put food
Speaker 8: on the table and keep the lights on instead of
Speaker 8: being also a full time therapist.
Speaker 6: On top of it.
Speaker 8: But I'm not going to take sorry bullying advice and
Speaker 8: cyber bullying advice from someone like Megan Markle and Harry
Speaker 8: who have an absolutely shambolic record. I mean, we're talking
Speaker 8: about someone who made Kate Middleton cry very famously by
Speaker 8: talking about someone who after her Bridezilla moment at the
Speaker 8: Palace when she was getting married, they had to do
Speaker 8: a formal investigation into some of the behavior that she
Speaker 8: had exhibited while she was preparing to get married, because
Speaker 8: she had literally made staff who had worked with the
Speaker 8: Queen for thirty years.
Speaker 6: She had brought them to tears. I mean, not to.
Speaker 8: Mention Harry's book that he published, which basically aired out
Speaker 8: every piece of.
Speaker 6: Dirty laundry that the royal family.
Speaker 8: Has ever had, dragged them through the mud for things
Speaker 8: that happened behind closed doors. I mean, it's just ridiculous
Speaker 8: that they're now coming and saying that there's some sort
Speaker 8: of bastion of anti bullying when their record shows that
Speaker 8: they are completely, completely not the people to be lecturing
Speaker 8: us on.
Speaker 2: This, Jemma privacy, cyber bullying huge worldwide issue. And while
Speaker 2: I agree with you know also many of the points
Speaker 2: made by Samara, but I understand the point that Harry.
Speaker 3: And Meghan are trying to make.
Speaker 2: I still can't but help think they're doing themselves a
Speaker 2: bit of a disservice in the credibility stakes on this
Speaker 2: particular issue.
Speaker 3: What's interesting that.
Speaker 9: You bring up the word credibility, because these sorts of conversations,
Speaker 9: the bedrock of these conversations is credibility and the credibility
Speaker 9: of the people trying to drive these conversations and influence
Speaker 9: the outcomes. I am on a ticket of furious agreement
Speaker 9: with Samora in the sense that this is the couple
Speaker 9: that you know pimped out their children on Instagram regularly,
Speaker 9: like I have friends and I'm sure you do, to
Speaker 9: carry with kids who you know, they will share pictures
Speaker 9: of their children on Instagram with their faces hidden by
Speaker 9: a little emoji or a little photo or something like that,
Speaker 9: so that their children who aren't in a position to
Speaker 9: make decisions for themselves about who gets to see them
Speaker 9: and what their digital footprint looks like. And these aren't
Speaker 9: people who the entire you know, Western world and digital
Speaker 9: world knows.
Speaker 3: The existence about.
Speaker 9: These are just people like you and me. So Harry
Speaker 9: and Meghan, whilst in their own minds no doubt, are
Speaker 9: the hero of their own stories and are very well intentioned,
Speaker 9: have zero credibility in this space to talk about cyberbullying
Speaker 9: and to talk about these things because they are still
Speaker 9: engaging in this stuff. They're still engaging in life by
Speaker 9: you know, media, social media, all of that sort of thing.
Speaker 9: And I do go back to that book, I mean,
Speaker 9: even talking about the woman who he lost his virginity
Speaker 9: to and the way he described it, and this woman
Speaker 9: had been getting on with her life, had had by
Speaker 9: all reports kept his secret for the last however many years,
Speaker 9: and he just described her as I recall, like a
Speaker 9: horse in the back of paddit behind a pub.
Speaker 3: I mean, it was just.
Speaker 6: Absolutely vile behavior.
Speaker 3: So I don't, you know, bless them.
Speaker 9: I feel a little bit sorry for them, because this
Speaker 9: couple continually going through this circular door of we're so great,
Speaker 9: We're going to save the world in this issue that issue,
Speaker 9: But they have absolutely no credibility from which to launch
Speaker 9: this conversation.
Speaker 2: And circular is a good way to put it. Samara
Speaker 2: report this week that Megan wants Harry to give up
Speaker 2: the lawsuits and she wants him to be free. Fair enough,
Speaker 2: legal proceedings are very stressful, but this comment seems a
Speaker 2: little bit disingenuous when all else is considered.
Speaker 8: Yeah, I mean, I think it was completely kind of weirdly,
Speaker 8: I think that Megan is backtracking. She's basically fettered Harry's
Speaker 8: fire for a long time. She's turned him against his family.
Speaker 8: He was obviously already vengeful towards the media after what
Speaker 8: had happened to his mother.
Speaker 6: But she has really I think backtrack.
Speaker 8: Pick he she didn't probably realize how traumatized and jaded
Speaker 8: he actually was, and he has obviously become very nefarious
Speaker 8: about these court cases. He continuously flies to London. He's
Speaker 8: obviously this last week on ITV said that London is
Speaker 8: not safe or the UK is not safe for his children,
Speaker 8: but then this week also confirmed that he's happy to
Speaker 8: go to Columbia, which is one of the most unsafe
Speaker 8: countries on.
Speaker 6: The face of the earth.
Speaker 8: So it's very confusing behavior and I do think that
Speaker 8: he's kind of gotten.
Speaker 6: Very obsessed with getting revenge on what he feels is right.
Speaker 8: It's bigger than just his children now, it's bigger than Megan.
Speaker 8: It's also about his mother, and I think that Megan's
Speaker 8: probably sick of it.
Speaker 6: She probably wants him to just move on a little bit.
Speaker 8: And focus on the future of arch well of what
Speaker 8: they're trying to do. But I can't really say that
Speaker 8: she's an innocent bystander and all this. I think that
Speaker 8: she is very much the reason that he has gone
Speaker 8: and sort of had this very insane precision with how
Speaker 8: he wants to.
Speaker 6: Actually get back at the media and the royal family.
Speaker 2: And still on the Sassaxcess Gemma, we understand that they
Speaker 2: haven't been invited to balmorl. Both you and I have
Speaker 2: had some pretty eventful family occasions, but everyone still gets invited.
Speaker 3: Is this a surprise.
Speaker 9: Nobody does conflict like ethnic families, Caro.
Speaker 3: We seem to manage our way through it. Look, I
Speaker 3: think it's sad.
Speaker 9: I think any kind of family fracturing is sad. It
Speaker 9: doesn't fill me with any kind of delight to read
Speaker 9: that sort of thing, because you know, all we have
Speaker 9: at the end.
Speaker 3: Of the day's family.
Speaker 9: But I also understand the need for healthy boundaries when
Speaker 9: somebody has betrayed the trust of their family, like Harry
Speaker 9: certainly has with the book and with other things. It's
Speaker 9: not like, you know, you can love someone, you can
Speaker 9: love someone from a distance if that's the healthiest way
Speaker 9: to do it. And why would you bring or allow
Speaker 9: that friction and that discord and that pres into a
Speaker 9: family gathering when there's still things unresolved. If it were
Speaker 9: me and it was I mean, my brother wouldn't be
Speaker 9: that stupid. He's a pretty good blow to be honest
Speaker 9: with you. But if you know, lessen until somebody's willing
Speaker 9: to say, Look, I'm sorry that I hurt you or
Speaker 9: I'm sorry that I did that, and at least represent
Speaker 9: with some degree of genuine behavior that they are genuinely sorry,
Speaker 9: not just sorry for the consequences, and not just sorry
Speaker 9: for getting caught. I think it's okay to leave some
Speaker 9: healthy boundaries in place. Otherwise, what are you doing. You're
Speaker 9: just rewarding and enabling that bratty behavior. I think it's
Speaker 9: really sad.
Speaker 3: Absolutely, I couldn't agree with you more.
Speaker 2: Jemmy and a Trainer has just been released for The
Speaker 2: Cowboy and the Queen, a film which tells a story
Speaker 2: about the Queen and her friendship with an American horse trainer.
Speaker 3: Here's a look at that.
Speaker 10: Few have asked me, do you think this world could
Speaker 10: really change in your lifetime? I would have said absolutely not,
Speaker 10: But when the Queen of England coughed, she completely changed
Speaker 10: my life.
Speaker 3: Smara. How did this film come about?
Speaker 8: I think it well, basically it came about because Monty
Speaker 8: Roberts was endorsed by the Queen. He had a very
Speaker 8: unorthodox style to training horses, something that really wasn't popular
Speaker 8: at the time. But the Queen came along as she
Speaker 8: always was a pioneer of horse racing and anything to
Speaker 8: do with horses.
Speaker 6: I think she'd actually be I'm kind of upset that
Speaker 6: this thing didn't come out.
Speaker 8: When she was alive, because I think that she'd be
Speaker 8: really happy to watch it and be a part of
Speaker 8: the actual documentary. It's kind of you know, this is
Speaker 8: happening after the fact, but you know, he used to
Speaker 8: be the common thing to break a horse's spirit, and
Speaker 8: this obviously Monty Roberts championed a much more you know,
Speaker 8: nicer environment for training horses and really a new technique,
Speaker 8: and the Queen came along early on endorsed that, and
Speaker 8: they you know, they had a wonderful friendship. He's obviously
Speaker 8: said that she was the wind beneath my wings. It's
Speaker 8: just an absolutely glowing report of the stoicism that the
Speaker 8: Queen had when it came to horse racing, horse riding.
Speaker 8: I mean, that was her true passion. Anyone who truly
Speaker 8: knows her is the only thing you should talk to
Speaker 8: her about is horses if you want to get on
Speaker 8: in her good books. And I think it's just a
Speaker 8: beautiful sort of homage to that passion that she had,
Speaker 8: and it's great to see that being focused on amidst
Speaker 8: all the craziness of the last couple of years with
Speaker 8: how the royal family has been brandished.
Speaker 3: Yeah, very very fair.
Speaker 2: And Jamber the Queen was such a well rounded person.
Speaker 2: She had a real talent for being able to engage
Speaker 2: with anyone. How important are stories like this.
Speaker 9: I mean, there's just so important for so many reasons.
Speaker 9: But I just want to point out to those of
Speaker 9: us who are not equestrian literate, Monte Roberts is the
Speaker 9: pioneer of liberty, the liberty approach to horsemanship. It is revolutionary.
Speaker 9: It is about partnership within horse and rider. It is
Speaker 9: absolutely the benchmark for how horsemanship should be conducted. It
Speaker 9: is revolutionary, and this relationship between the two of them
Speaker 9: cannot be overplayed. But it tells the story of a
Speaker 9: woman who was more than just a monarch, who was
Speaker 9: inquisitive and curious and wanting to learn, and to the
Speaker 9: end of her life, as we all know, committed to service.
Speaker 9: And I think, you know, making a nod to our
Speaker 9: previous conversation about Harry and Meghan. They seem so desperate
Speaker 9: to create this concept of a legacy or something that
Speaker 9: they're known for. And there in the family there is
Speaker 9: the late you know, her Majesty is who wrote the
Speaker 9: book on it, who wrote the book on service and
Speaker 9: gratitude and grace, and this is one face that. I mean,
Speaker 9: we all knew that she loved horses. We all knew that,
Speaker 9: but for her to endorse and partner with someone who
Speaker 9: at the time was seen as a little bit of
Speaker 9: a renegade For those of us who have been raised
Speaker 9: with horses as I have, it's actually extraordinary to say
Speaker 9: she wasn't afraid to take risks, because that would have
Speaker 9: been quite a risky position for someone to take in
Speaker 9: that sector at the time. So I can't wait to
Speaker 9: watch this. I feel like I should be reporting on
Speaker 9: it at.
Speaker 3: Some point somehow. Yeah, I feel like you should.
Speaker 2: I feel like you should, and wonderfully put gematon Uini
Speaker 2: and Samara gil thank you so much for joining us.
Speaker 2: Coming up after the break, Russell Myers joins us from
Speaker 2: London to reveal the details about Harry and Meghan's non.
Speaker 3: Royal royal tour. Welcome back.
Speaker 2: Joining me now is Royal editor for The Daily Mirror,
Speaker 2: Russell Myers. Russell, we have spoken so many times on
Speaker 2: this show about the Sussexes not wanting to visit the
Speaker 2: UK for apparent's safety concerns. Their decision to visit Columbia
Speaker 2: has raised some erows.
Speaker 1: Well, it has Caro certainly. I mean, you know the
Speaker 1: fact that they're.
Speaker 5: Doing this quasi royal tour once again, that we saw
Speaker 5: them in Nigeria just a few months ago, and now
Speaker 5: Colombia will be hosting the Duke and Duchess of Sussex.
Speaker 5: And this follows hot on the heels of Prince Harry
Speaker 5: saying that he didn't feel comfortable bringing his wife and
Speaker 5: children once again back to the UK for fearing attack,
Speaker 5: and so you know, it does beg the question as to,
Speaker 5: you know, where are they going in their lives? And
Speaker 5: I think that's how you know, we're going to see
Speaker 5: this interview on CBS in just a few hours and
Speaker 5: no doubt be some nuggets of their their future, their
Speaker 5: relationship with the royal family once more. And it just
Speaker 5: seems that it's all a bit of a muddle for
Speaker 5: Prince Harry and Megan because you know, on one hand
Speaker 5: they're saying that they don't feel comfortable coming to the
Speaker 5: UK and that they're more than happy to go to
Speaker 5: Nigeria and Colombian. I'm sure they will be afforded lots
Speaker 5: of security there, but quite an odd decision.
Speaker 1: I think.
Speaker 3: I think so.
Speaker 2: And earlier in the show we did touch on that
Speaker 2: soon to be released a CBS interview with the Sussexes.
Speaker 2: As you will know, it's all about protecting children from
Speaker 2: social media and its consequences that no doubt impacts their
Speaker 2: reluctance to have their own children in the media spotlight, right, well,
Speaker 2: very much so.
Speaker 5: I mean, you know, they absolutely fiercely guarded their own
Speaker 5: children's privacy and that's absolutely laudable. Of course, Harry has
Speaker 5: spoken on countless occasions about the upbringing he had within
Speaker 5: the royal family, the fact that he has a very
Speaker 5: fractured relationship with the press, and he wants to protect
Speaker 5: his children from that. But you know, it does this
Speaker 5: should this be afforded to members of his family. You know,
Speaker 5: their privacy is absolutely paramount. We've seen him talking in interviews,
Speaker 5: We've seen him discuss his relationship with his family. Indeed,
Speaker 5: is his brother's children as well being discussed in his book.
Speaker 1: So it doesn't really add up the fact.
Speaker 5: That he's trying to pret his own children's privacy and
Speaker 5: yet is more than willing to discuss the private lives
Speaker 5: of his family members.
Speaker 2: Now an interesting story in your mass head the Mirror
Speaker 2: this week that Meghan thought she had more social clout
Speaker 2: than the Beckhams.
Speaker 3: It's a bit optimistic, isn't it.
Speaker 5: Well, you know it's not too long ago, Caro, that
Speaker 5: you know, we were writing stories from pr gurus saying
Speaker 5: that the Duke and Dutchess Sussex had a billion dollar brand,
Speaker 5: that they were going to launch themselves into the stratosphere.
Speaker 5: What were you know, the sky was the limit for them.
Speaker 5: And you know that brand Beckham has been very very
Speaker 5: well documented. You know, they've gone on to due success,
Speaker 5: whether it's fashion or sport, owning football clubs, and the
Speaker 5: Sussexes did have it all in their hands.
Speaker 1: And where has it gone wrong for them?
Speaker 5: You know, Meghan has had a disastrous deal with Spotify,
Speaker 5: the Netflix dealers. In the balance, I'm sure there will
Speaker 5: be few sort of bumps in the road for them,
Speaker 5: but it is the brand tainted and that Meghan's going
Speaker 5: to launch this new lifestyle brand.
Speaker 1: In due course.
Speaker 5: But it has had a bit of a fractious stars
Speaker 5: and I think that when they left the royal family
Speaker 5: they did absolutely have different expectations to the reality that
Speaker 5: has transpired.
Speaker 3: And just on Meghan's lifestyle brand.
Speaker 2: Obviously there was a sort of launch what feels like
Speaker 2: months ago. We really haven't seen anything, you know, really
Speaker 2: substantive on that since.
Speaker 5: We know I PR experts and they're saying, you know,
Speaker 5: it has been very very sort of watered down. You
Speaker 5: would expect a big, big launch and to launch her
Speaker 5: new brand, what is it going to be?
Speaker 1: We still don't know what.
Speaker 5: American Riviera Orchard is and the name is very sort
Speaker 5: of messy. Nobody really understands what the brand is all about.
Speaker 5: And they did need to capitalize I think when they
Speaker 5: left the royal family to hit the ground running, to
Speaker 5: launch themselves into the sort of the public consciousness.
Speaker 1: It hasn't really gone to plan, has it.
Speaker 5: Like I said that the Spotify deals sort of went
Speaker 5: by the buy and the Netflix deal is in the
Speaker 5: balance as well. So you know, maybe the second half
Speaker 5: of this year is going to be a turning point
Speaker 5: for them and.
Speaker 3: We will be watching.
Speaker 2: Now also in the Mirror a report about the Sussexes
Speaker 2: having a relationship change. Now they've had some turnover of
Speaker 2: staff and we understand they probably regret some of their
Speaker 2: previous the publicity related decisions. What's the change and how
Speaker 2: are they looking to improve on that personal brand.
Speaker 5: Well, listen, we've foken countless time someway about the new
Speaker 5: refrunding of the Sussex is what are they going to
Speaker 5: do with their staff. There's been a huge huse turnover
Speaker 5: whether they're going to base themselves in the US or
Speaker 5: are going to come back to the UK. Yeah, we're
Speaker 5: talking about tools to Nigeria, come Columbia. It all seems
Speaker 5: a bit haphazard and I think that, you know, do
Speaker 5: they want a different relationship with the rural family that
Speaker 5: is diferently key. It would be very interesting to see
Speaker 5: this new interview Harry has been speaking about not only
Speaker 5: his relationship with his family, but the relationship with the
Speaker 5: media and his High Court battles with the British government.
Speaker 5: It's all going on.
Speaker 1: At the moment, and I think that's certainly they did
Speaker 1: want to have a new relationship with the raw family.
Speaker 5: They're going to need to sort of take the sting
Speaker 5: out of the tail and maybe not start speaking about
Speaker 5: the sort of private lives of those individuals for a start.
Speaker 3: That would be an excellent start.
Speaker 2: Now, another interesting allegation to make the news this week
Speaker 2: apparently Prince William ben Megan from wearing Princess Diana's jewelry.
Speaker 3: Now is there anything to this.
Speaker 5: Climb Well, it's an interesting part in Robert Jobson, the
Speaker 5: raw biographer's new book about Katherine, the Princess of Wales.
Speaker 5: It's sort of a life and times bringing you right
Speaker 5: up to date. And this is from Harry's wedding that
Speaker 5: apparently Prince William did speak to the late Queen that
Speaker 5: he didn't want Mega Markle wearing any of Diana's jewelry.
Speaker 1: Now we have seen, of course.
Speaker 5: Meghan wearing parts of the late Princess of Wales's jewelry,
Speaker 5: the ear rings, whether she was gifted a cart here
Speaker 5: watch from from from Harry. Of course he does have
Speaker 5: access to a lot of Diana's jewelry. But I think
Speaker 5: this takes you back to sort of the testing times
Speaker 5: of the early days of Harry and Meghan's relationship. Was
Speaker 5: William a big fan of Meghan? It doesn't seem so.
Speaker 5: Was he telling his brother to sort of cool the
Speaker 5: relationship for the good of only his mental health, but
Speaker 5: for the good of the family, And listen the rest
Speaker 5: of his history, isn't it.
Speaker 3: Now?
Speaker 2: The Olympics are in full swing and the continental royal
Speaker 2: families are absolutely out in force.
Speaker 3: What's the update for this week.
Speaker 5: Well, there's got to be some perks to being a
Speaker 5: member of the Royal family. It seems to getting the
Speaker 5: best tickets in the house is one of them. And
Speaker 5: we've seen Princess Anne at the equestrian events. We saw
Speaker 5: him handing out medals to the swimmers the other night.
Speaker 5: The Queen Mary of Denmark has been cheering on the
Speaker 5: Danish contingent.
Speaker 1: The Netherlands royal family has.
Speaker 5: Been out in force as well, and I'm sure you
Speaker 5: know put Princess and it's going to be on hand
Speaker 5: to deliver some more medals hopefully be here for your
Speaker 5: guys and girls and hopefully for Team GP as well.
Speaker 5: But it's been a very very big royal affair as.
Speaker 1: We've been going through these Olympic Games.
Speaker 3: We have been doing very well.
Speaker 2: And lastly, and I've got a bit lesson a minute, Russell,
Speaker 2: the coronation was obviously a huge event in the royal
Speaker 2: calendar last year. We understand that the Royal Collection Trust
Speaker 2: has done quite well out of it.
Speaker 5: Well, it has, it's had a bumper, bumper year you know,
Speaker 5: the coffers have been filled up to the tune of
Speaker 5: about ten pounds. You know, because of the coronation. They're
Speaker 5: still sort of reaping the benefits of that.
Speaker 1: You know.
Speaker 5: There's a lot of people coming to the new Buckingham
Speaker 5: Palace East Wing that has been open for the very
Speaker 5: first time this year, and I think that's as we
Speaker 5: sort of come into the latter half of this year,
Speaker 5: it's going to be very very important to try and
Speaker 5: get the tourist in to bolster up the coffers. The
Speaker 5: Royal Collection Trusts are are feeling the pinch a little
Speaker 5: bit more in this.
Speaker 1: Year than they have in previous years.
Speaker 5: So hopefully the tour is going to be flocking to
Speaker 5: London and beyond.
Speaker 3: I trust they will be.
Speaker 2: Russell Meyers, thank you for joining us now before we go.
Speaker 2: And as we discussed earlier, the Queen really was loved
Speaker 2: by everyone.
Speaker 3: Although she was a monarch, she.
Speaker 2: Had a great tac for engaging with people regardless of
Speaker 2: their nationality, background or circumstances, including American rapper Snoop Dog.
Speaker 5: I've heard the future King Williams is a huge Snoop fan.
Speaker 1: Hopefully I can get in what a Queen was a
Speaker 1: fan too, were the peak of the Queen. That was
Speaker 1: my girl. You know what I'm saying, soul.
Speaker 2: And that's the show for tonight. Thank you so much
Speaker 2: for joining us. Up next is Newsnight.