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Speaker 1: Devin Gray UK corresponds with us right now, Hey, Gevin,

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Speaker 1: hi there So Brigitte Macron's daughter has given evidence.

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Speaker 2: Yes, yes. In this bizarre case in Paris taking part

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Speaker 2: where ten people are accused of sexist cyber bullying of

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Speaker 2: the French president's wife, Brigitte Macron. The defendants are accused

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Speaker 2: of effectively rumor milling, spreading unsubstantiated claims all about her

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Speaker 2: gender and sexuality, and making what are called malicious remarks

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Speaker 2: about the twenty four year age gap between Brigitte and

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Speaker 2: her husband Emmanuel Macron. The ten people appearing in the

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Speaker 2: dark art, an elected official, a gallery owner, and a

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Speaker 2: teacher are among them, and two of them, self styled

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Speaker 2: independent journalist called Natasha Ray and internet fortune teller a

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Speaker 2: man Deen Roy were found guilty of slander last year

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Speaker 2: for claiming that France's first lady had never existed. So

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Speaker 2: it's quite a group of people. They say, look, it's

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Speaker 2: for freedom of speech. We've done nothing wrong. The Macrons

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Speaker 2: saying it's really affected their mental health, and Bridget Macron's

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Speaker 2: daughter saying it really has taken its toll on her

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Speaker 2: mother's ill health. Being in the spotlight and having these

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Speaker 2: accusations thrust at her, and of course separately, they are

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Speaker 2: also taking a very high profile right wing influencer, Candice

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Speaker 2: Owens to court over unsubstantiated claims from her about Missus

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Speaker 2: Macron's gender.

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Speaker 1: Now isn't the case that William was the one who

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Speaker 1: was able to basically get Andrew to agree to move

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Speaker 1: out of Royal Lodge?

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Speaker 2: Well, I think there's now what's being called by my sources,

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Speaker 2: the longest running bitter sore, bitterest row in the royal

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Speaker 2: family for many, many years, with both sides now briefing

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Speaker 2: against one another. The King still wants his brother Prince

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Speaker 2: Andrew to get out of the thirty one room Windsor

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Speaker 2: mansion called Royal Lodge in Windsor. And it's this rouse

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Speaker 2: dragged on for three years now, and apparently things have

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Speaker 2: got increasingly strained, particularly after of course all the recent revelations,

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Speaker 2: including just in the last couple of days, a picture

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Speaker 2: of Gilaine Maxwell, Jeffrey Epstein and Harvey Weinstein. All of

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Speaker 2: those people, of course, now in one way, shape or

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Speaker 2: form accused of being sort of involved in child abuse

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Speaker 2: or sexual abuse. Gilaine Maxwell is still in prison, and

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Speaker 2: those three pictured in Prince Andrew's garden. He had said

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Speaker 2: it was a garden that he had held a party,

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Speaker 2: but it was at Windsor Castle. But this shows that

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Speaker 2: he had hosted them two according to the most recent allegations.

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Speaker 2: And now we're getting news that Prince William has had

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Speaker 2: a meeting with Prince Andrew's two daughters, Princesses Eugenie and Beatrice.

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Speaker 2: They have been allowed to keep their titles, but I

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Speaker 2: think it's being made quite clear to the to them

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Speaker 2: that they need to put pressure on their father if

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Speaker 2: they want to remain as working roles and to keep

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Speaker 2: those titles. Those are the allegations. Nothing from Prince William.

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Speaker 2: But it does appear that this bad blood is getting really,

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Speaker 2: really nasty.

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Speaker 1: It does sound a little bit like that. Hey, Gevin,

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Speaker 1: thanks very much, really appreciated this. Devin Gray, our UK correspondent.

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