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Did Buckingham Palace cover up for Andrew? · The Front

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  Speaker 1: From the Australian. Here's what's on the front. I'm Claire Harvey.
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  Speaker 1: It's Wednesday, June three, twenty twenty six. Where to now
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  Speaker 1: building approvals slumped three point four percent in April. Did
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  Speaker 1: Buckingham Palace cover up for Andrew mount Batton Windsor? A
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  Speaker 1: victim of the convicted pedophile Jeffrey Epstein has accused senior
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  Speaker 1: figures in the Royal Household of failing to act on
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  Speaker 1: emails she says contained evidence of the former Duke of
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  Speaker 1: York's alleged misconduct in public office, all as mount Baton
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  Speaker 1: Windsor denies any wrongdoing. Associate editor Jenna Clarke is here
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  Speaker 1: in just a moment.
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  Speaker 2: July eighth, nineteen eighty one. I am twenty two years old,
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  Speaker 2: and I'm sitting on the floor of my Brooklyn Brownstone apartment,
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  Speaker 2: just beaming because I am in it and I am
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  Speaker 2: I'm a working professional dancer in New York City.
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  Speaker 1: This is a ted X talk given by American woman
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  Speaker 1: Jess Michaels, and.
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  Speaker 2: The very next day, July ninth, nineteen ninety one, I
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  Speaker 2: was raped by Jeffrey Epstein.
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  Speaker 1: Michaels says she was introduced to the disgraced financier by
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  Speaker 1: a roommate whom she says groomed her for two months
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  Speaker 1: before bringing her into Epstein's orbit. She calls it sex trafficking.
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  Speaker 1: One oh one. Epstein died by suicide while awaiting trial
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  Speaker 1: on sex trafficking charges in a Manhattan jail in twenty nineteen.
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  Speaker 1: A trove of documents known as the Epstein Files, detailing
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  Speaker 1: an investigation by the United States Department of Justice into
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  Speaker 1: Epstein's crimes was released in three tranches earlier this year.
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  Speaker 1: It included allegations of widespread criminal offending, but Jess Michael's story,
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  Speaker 1: her statement and an interview given to the FBI wasn't
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  Speaker 1: among them. She considers that a cover up and a
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  Speaker 1: betrayal of survivors, and now she's also accusing Buckingham Palace
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  Speaker 1: of hiding the truth about Andrew Mountbatten Windsor.
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  Speaker 3: She claims Buckingham Palace protected the King's brother when it
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  Speaker 3: failed to act on evidence former Prince Andrew leaked confidential
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  Speaker 3: government information while working as the UK Trade Envoy.
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  Speaker 1: Court documents revealed the Palace was handed a trove of
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  Speaker 1: thirty thousand emails containing allegations of misconduct by Andrew in
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  Speaker 1: public office. The former Prince is the subject of a
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  Speaker 1: police investigation into the misconduct allegations, and he's denied any wrongdoing.
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  Speaker 1: Andrew and his former wife Sarah Ferguson were friends with Epstein.
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  Speaker 1: Like most of Epstein's associates, Andrew says he had no
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  Speaker 1: knowledge of Epstein's offending, and he's always denied sexual offending
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  Speaker 1: against women he met through Epstein, such as the late
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  Speaker 1: Virginia Deufray. Andrew hasn't been charged with anything.
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  Speaker 4: This claimant has said that there's about thirty thousand emails
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  Speaker 4: that are flying around that the Palace knew about all
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  Speaker 4: of these claims that he was being dodgy with Epstein.
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  Speaker 4: There was questions raised around his trade envoy role. Jenna
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  Speaker 4: Clarke is an associate editor with The Australian, So it
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  Speaker 4: really once again puts the spotlight on what people knew
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  Speaker 4: and when, So it's not just the former Prince. This
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  Speaker 4: has a mushroom like effect and it's tainting nearly everyone
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  Speaker 4: in its midst.
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  Speaker 1: Those emails allegedly contain allegations that Andrew was doing the
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  Speaker 1: activities that he's actually being investigated for by the police,
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  Speaker 1: and that is Malfeasan's in public office sharing information from
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  Speaker 1: his time as a trade envoy with other people, including
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  Speaker 1: allegedly a banker friend of his. What's happening with the
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  Speaker 1: charges though against Andrew, if there are going to be any.
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  Speaker 4: They seem to have really stalled at this point in
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  Speaker 4: time because I think the most easy reply is what
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  Speaker 4: the IFI can give when questions are asked by journalists
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  Speaker 4: around what's going on with Andrew and this seemingly bigger
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  Speaker 4: case that keeps mounting against him, is that well, it's
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  Speaker 4: before the courts, so we cannot comment any further, So
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  Speaker 4: no one really knows when this could ever potentially go
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  Speaker 4: to trial. And you have to really ask the question
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  Speaker 4: not what are the lawyers even working on now? Because
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  Speaker 4: the mountain of evidence continues to go bigger than Everest.
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  Speaker 1: It's a difficult situation for the Royal family at the moment,
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  Speaker 1: isn't it. This is the normal progress of a criminal
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  Speaker 1: investigation where someone is brought in for questioning, as Andrew
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  Speaker 1: was earlier this year, and then there's generally a very
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  Speaker 1: long gap before anything actually happens, before charges are laid,
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  Speaker 1: or before there's any kind of announcement that an investigation
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  Speaker 1: has wrapped up. How does the Royal family navigate their
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  Speaker 1: way through these months when nothing really seems to be
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  Speaker 1: happening in public?
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  Speaker 4: I think the really interesting thing is we're going into summer, obviously,
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  Speaker 4: so this is where all of the garden parties take place.
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  Speaker 4: We're heading to Royal Ascot soon, so all eyes will
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  Speaker 4: be on what was the Princess of Wales will be
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  Speaker 4: wearing there, So there's nice little distractions, but also thankfully
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  Speaker 4: the government in the UK is an absolute shambles.
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  Speaker 5: Reform emerging on top with labour losing more than fourteen
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  Speaker 5: hundred counselors. These are really tough results.
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  Speaker 4: I'm not going to sugarcoat it.
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  Speaker 5: Klear Starmer fights his colleagues attempts to topple him. There
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  Speaker 5: have been caused from more than eighty labor MPs now
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  Speaker 5: for him to quit, but he is refusing to make
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  Speaker 5: it easy, daring his opponents to stand up and formally
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  Speaker 5: challenge him, something they've all avoided so far.
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  Speaker 4: So it probably helps the fact that the Royals may
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  Speaker 4: be brought in to help clean up their mess, whether
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  Speaker 4: it's like we saw with King Charles having to head
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  Speaker 4: over the pond to the White House to Donald Trump.
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  Speaker 6: Declaration of Independence, or.
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  Speaker 7: and economic security of the United Kingdom for the long term.
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  Speaker 1: As you say, those documents were allegedly forwarded to the
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  Speaker 1: Lord Chamberlain, who's a senior official in bucking Past, essentially
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  Speaker 1: the person who runs the household, a labor in peop
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  Speaker 1: called Rachel Maskel is saying that this shows that the
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  Speaker 1: system built around the Royal household has to be reviewed,
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  Speaker 1: that there's unaccountable power in this institution. This is not
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  Speaker 1: dissimilar from the allegations being raised by Prince Harry and
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  Speaker 1: Meghan Markel are they? I mean, not necessarily their colorful
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  Speaker 1: claims about people being racist and so on, and people
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  Speaker 1: being mean about flesh colored pante hoose, but more that
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  Speaker 1: there's a class of gray men who run the royal
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  Speaker 1: household who use and maybe ignore information at their will.
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  Speaker 1: It's pretty dark allegation, isn't it totally?
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  Speaker 4: And we have to think that given everything that we're
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  Speaker 4: learning that's coming out in the public eye now. Because
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  Speaker 4: they say light is the best type of disinfectant, it
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  Speaker 4: goes to show that there could be some credence to
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  Speaker 4: some of these claims for both the Labour MP and
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  Speaker 4: potentially Harry and Meghan, Because I feel it's really interesting
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  Speaker 4: now that the way that the public relations war is
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  Speaker 4: playing out is that they're sending out clean skins. Being
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  Speaker 4: the Princess of Wales, she's doing her own solo trips
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  Speaker 4: around the world at this point in time because weirdly
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  Speaker 4: she's married into the royal family, so she's not really
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  Speaker 4: one of them. She seems to be the most popular
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  Speaker 4: public face and the most acceptable at this point in time.
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  Speaker 3: A rock star welcome for Princess Keith that she makes
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  Speaker 3: her come back on the international stage, thousands turning up
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  Speaker 3: to see Chow.
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  Speaker 1: The institution seems to be stronger than effort, doesn't it,
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  Speaker 1: despite these horrendous scandals, two bouts of cancer, the departure
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  Speaker 1: of Harry and Meghan. This is not really where I
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  Speaker 1: thought King Charles the Third would be being his right.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, it's really interesting because I think what we're seeing
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  Speaker 4: is Kate and William Pty Limited really leaning in to
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  Speaker 4: really shape this public narrative of the new slim down Royals.
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  Speaker 4: We saw William at the football a couple of days ago,
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  Speaker 4: really celebrating Auston's win. Part of the people really blowkey
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  Speaker 4: blokey with everyone at the match there as we previously
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  Speaker 4: talked about the Princess of Wales went to Italy for
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  Speaker 4: a solo tour, the first that she's done since the
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  Speaker 4: cancer diagnosis, and then they're talking about the Duchy of Cornwall,
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  Speaker 4: which is this incredible thing that the then Prince Charles created,
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  Speaker 4: which is basically, if you look at it on paper,
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  Speaker 4: it's kind of like Andrew Twiggy Forests Cream Dream because
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  Speaker 4: it's all about sustainability and moving forward natural five and
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  Speaker 4: had it to plate Ethos and William and him are
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  Speaker 4: really focusing on channeling all of the money that is
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  Speaker 4: earned from the Duchy back into the communities of which
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  Speaker 4: the Duchy surrounds. The Duchy is a network of landholdings
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  Speaker 4: that has sort of moved through the House of Windsor
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  Speaker 4: for generations and it's gone from Prince Charles now to
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  Speaker 4: Prince William, and William, being the very savvy operator when
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  Speaker 4: it comes to public optics and things like that, has
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  Speaker 4: decided to really open it up to encourage more community
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  Speaker 4: involvement and see a more circular environment when it comes
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  Speaker 4: to the funds going back into the general public.
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  Speaker 1: He really wants to be a good landlord, doesn't he,
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  Speaker 1: as well as being a good king in the future.
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  Speaker 4: Absolutely, and I think it's going to be really interesting
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  Speaker 4: to see what those modern royals do with the monarchy
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  Speaker 4: moving forward. And I think you have to take your
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  Speaker 4: hat off to King Charles and also Camilla because they
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  Speaker 4: seem to also be following in that footprint.
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  Speaker 1: What do you think is the outcome that Charles and
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  Speaker 1: Camilla and the rest of the Royals would be hoping
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  Speaker 1: for now? Is it that he is charged, that he
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  Speaker 1: goes through a criminal process, or is it that the
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  Speaker 1: Crown Prosecution Service announces there's nothing to see here and
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  Speaker 1: they're not going to charge him with anything. I mean
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  Speaker 1: to me, that would seem like almost the worst outcome
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  Speaker 1: because it would feed this idea of a conspiracy.
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  Speaker 4: Definitely. I think they probably as a brother, you would
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  Speaker 4: probably want the latter, but for the future of the firm,
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  Speaker 4: they have to take the fest.
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  Speaker 1: In February, Andrew mount Baton Windsor was evicted from Royal
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  Speaker 1: Lodge on the Windsor estate by his brother, King Charles.
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  Speaker 1: He's since moved to another house on the royal family's
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  Speaker 1: Sandringham estate. Andrew had lived at Royal Lodge for more
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  Speaker 1: than two decades with his ex wife Sarah Ferguson, an
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  Speaker 1: arrangement they kept after their divorce in nineteen ninety six.
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  Speaker 1: Andrew of course denies any wrongdoing, so does Sarah Ferguson.
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  Speaker 1: What's she been up to since all this started happening.
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  Speaker 4: Oh, she's really gone to ground until the Sun newspaper
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  Speaker 4: did find her Claire a couple of weeks ago. I
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  Speaker 4: think she's been enjoying or been taking hostage in a
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  Speaker 4: spa in Spain. We have followed the story of Fergie
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  Speaker 4: so closely since the eighties. It completely checks out. Yeah, totally. Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: If I were her, I'd be off at the day
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  Speaker 1: spa as well, or maybe the night spar There are allegations, though,
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  Speaker 1: being raised about Sarah Ferguson's behavior herself.
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  Speaker 4: What do they Yeah, there's an interesting new book out
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  Speaker 4: called The House of York, which I devoured in probably
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  Speaker 4: about two hours because it's just delicious investigative work into
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  Speaker 4: the most colorful royals that we've seen in quite some time.
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  Speaker 4: And basically an unnamed former executive assistant to the former
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  Speaker 4: Duchess made claims that whereas she went, she failed to
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  Speaker 4: pick up the tab she asked her daughters to pay
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  Speaker 4: for things, and she then requested that her private staff
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  Speaker 4: pay for very expensive items on their personal credit card,
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  Speaker 4: which once again, it kind of checks out when you
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  Speaker 4: consider Fergie's track record.
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  Speaker 1: The long suffering daughterism, and your heart really goes out
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  Speaker 1: to those two. Princess Eugeney is pregnant again with her
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  Speaker 1: third child. They've been quite dignified, I think, haven't they,
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  Speaker 1: in the way they've just kind of tried to let
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  Speaker 1: their parents alleged bad behavior roll past them.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: I do really feel sorry for them because they have
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  Speaker 4: conducted themselves very well in public life because they were
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  Speaker 4: the two royals that were born without the royal title,
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  Speaker 4: so they kind of had to go out there and
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  Speaker 4: earn their own keep, as if that's a crass way
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  Speaker 4: of saying it. But they've gone out and they've carved
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  Speaker 4: their own path in the world. They've married lovely gentlemen
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  Speaker 4: and building their own families at the moment, and people
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  Speaker 4: that you speak to that work in that NGO and
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  Speaker 4: charity space that have dealings with them say that they
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  Speaker 4: are just incredibly polite, incredibly professional, cannot do enough for you,
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  Speaker 4: but definitely prefer the private spaces. Maybe that uber wealthy
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  Speaker 4: and those aristocrats do occupy these days.
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  Speaker 1: Jenna Clark, thank you very much, Thanks Clay. Jenna Clark
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  Speaker 1: is an associate editor with The Australian. You can read
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