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Speaker 1: You're listening to an Airwave media podcast. Hi everybody, and

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Speaker 1: welcome back to Hear It What Now, the history podcast

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Speaker 1: that is not your history class with me your host

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Speaker 1: Katie Charlewood, unicorn appreciator and reader of books. It has

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Speaker 1: been a busy week, a very busy week. You know

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Speaker 1: what it's like when you have so many things to

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Speaker 1: do and not enough time to do them. That's been

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Speaker 1: the case. And also, apparently I have an esophagio tear

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Speaker 1: that caused in combination of stress. Stress me would a

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Speaker 1: combination of stress and cheap painkillers apparently, so I'm no

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Speaker 1: longer alerted to use those, which is super fun for

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Speaker 1: everybody involved. This week we are talking about Princess and

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Speaker 1: oh yeah, I am really mad about this because of

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Speaker 1: all the stories of all the things they could have

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Speaker 1: shown in the Crown. This this is a great one.

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Speaker 1: It's fantastic and it just seems so far fetched. The

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Speaker 1: way this event turns out is it's kind of like

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Speaker 1: a yes and improv show. It's like yes, and this

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Speaker 1: person shows up and yes, and this happens. It is.

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Speaker 1: It's fantastic, actually, but let's get down to it. And

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Speaker 1: so today I am telling you of apologies. I'm a

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Speaker 1: little horse because of everything. So we are talking about

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Speaker 1: the failed, the attempted kidnap it of an princess royal.

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Speaker 1: Now I know what you're thinking, quit your glibber jabber.

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Speaker 1: In fact, my god, damn it, and I will. But

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Speaker 1: first we got to get a sour so on. So

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Speaker 1: this the information I have here is from the I've

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Speaker 1: got the Daily Express, I've got The Independent, the Smithsonian

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Speaker 1: mag and and a book by Hoy hue Huey can't

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Speaker 1: relate to his name, John Huey and Princess Royal. So

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Speaker 1: let's do this and let's get down to business to

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Speaker 1: explain the puns. Okay, So if you haven't heard this story,

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Speaker 1: sit down, my friends. It's a wild ride. Let's start

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Speaker 1: from the beginning, shall we. Who is Princess Ann. Princess

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Speaker 1: Ann is the only daughter of Queen Elizabeth second and

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Speaker 1: of course the second because Queen the first had no kids,

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Speaker 1: and Queen Elizabeth IOND and Prince Philip Princess Ann. I mean,

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Speaker 1: four of the queen's children, who's the best? Definitely Princess

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Speaker 1: Anne is my favorite because she's so dry and quick

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Speaker 1: also she finds things. She finds things funny, like my

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Speaker 1: mom had to do this table service thing when she

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Speaker 1: trying to cook this fish, she actually sets fire. She

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Speaker 1: Anne finds this fucking hilarious and my mom has to

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Speaker 1: for telling that story, but love you, ma'am. So when

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Speaker 1: married in four months into the marriage, on March twentieth,

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Speaker 1: nineteen seventy four, they were at this charity event and

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Speaker 1: So she goes to this charity film screening of some

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Speaker 1: Royce we have Princess Anne, her husband, Captain Mark Phillips,

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Speaker 1: her chauffeur Alex Callendar, and her bodyguard, Inspector James Wallace Beating.

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Speaker 1: and he had just shot the princess's bodyguard. So Beaten

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Speaker 1: So the gunman and her husband, they're playing a game

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Speaker 1: And so he goes up, touches Ball on the shoulder,

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