Latest / I Do, Part 2 / King Charles Reunites With Harry, Meghan And Grandkids After More Than 4 Years!
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- 0:02Speaker 1: Hey, the folks, it is Friday, July tenth.
- 0:04Speaker 2: Then, look, we can all go a little while without
- 0:08Speaker 2: seeing family. But when you're the King of England and
- 0:12Speaker 2: you ain't seen your grandbabies in four years, well that
- 0:17Speaker 2: is why today is such a big deal. And with that,
- 0:21Speaker 2: welcome to this episode of Amy and TJ Rogues. I'm
- 0:24Speaker 2: not a royal watcher. I'm not engaged. I don't read
- 0:27Speaker 2: tabloid headlines. But for whatever reason I care.
- 0:32Speaker 1: I know about this one.
- 0:33Speaker 3: No, this does matter. This is a big deal.
- 0:36Speaker 4: This is a royal reunion that happened just a short
- 0:39Speaker 4: while ago, four years in the making. The last time
- 0:44Speaker 4: Archie and Lilla Beet saw their grandfather, the King, was
- 0:48Speaker 4: the last time you and I, well, no, I guess
- 0:50Speaker 4: it was the second to last time you and.
- 0:52Speaker 3: I were in England for the Queen's Jubilee in June
- 0:55Speaker 3: of twenty twenty two.
- 0:56Speaker 4: And that's crazy to think, right, And that's the last
- 1:00Speaker 4: time they saw their grandfather. And Lila Beet actually was
- 1:03Speaker 4: celebrating her one year birthday, so she doesn't remember Grandpa.
- 1:09Speaker 4: Doubtful that Archie does either. He was what three at
- 1:13Speaker 4: the time. There was no there's seven and five, So, yeah,
- 1:17Speaker 4: this is a big deal. So King Charles and Queen
- 1:21Speaker 4: Camilla officially received Harry, Megan and the kids today.
- 1:26Speaker 1: That is that's cool.
- 1:29Speaker 2: And you say officially received, it's you should be able
- 1:32Speaker 2: to swing by your dad's house, I guess, But that's
- 1:34Speaker 2: not how it works in the royal world. But we
- 1:38Speaker 2: weren't sure if this was going to happen. We weren't
- 1:40Speaker 2: sure if Megan was going to join it all. We
- 1:42Speaker 2: weren't sure if the kids were going to join it
- 1:43Speaker 2: all as a part of this trip.
- 1:45Speaker 1: And this trip has been.
- 1:46Speaker 2: Talked about for quite a while, Rose, I guess, initially
- 1:50Speaker 2: talked about with great hope, and then it went back
- 1:55Speaker 2: into the same old nasty royal back and forth and
- 2:00Speaker 2: with some embarrassing headlines. And then it's wrapped up with this.
- 2:03Speaker 2: So I guess if this was the outcome, that's great.
- 2:07Speaker 2: But this has been this is a hell of a
- 2:09Speaker 2: culmination to this trip.
- 2:10Speaker 4: Yeah, it's been a hell of a few years, first
- 2:13Speaker 4: of all, and it all began. The riff started when
- 2:16Speaker 4: Harry and Meghan sat down with Oprah. That kind of
- 2:19Speaker 4: blew up several relationships.
- 2:21Speaker 1: Man, I swear to god, I do not exactly what's
- 2:24Speaker 1: the problem. What started all this?
- 2:27Speaker 3: There were accusations of racism.
- 2:29Speaker 1: That the family, it's the British ru The family.
- 2:32Speaker 3: Was asking how dark Archie skin was going to be?
- 2:35Speaker 2: Wow, somebody accused the British royal family of being racist.
- 2:42Speaker 3: That began some of the riffs.
- 2:43Speaker 4: And then look on top of that, obviously Harry releasing.
- 2:49Speaker 3: His book, his autobiosphery when was there I believe that
- 2:52Speaker 3: was last year.
- 2:53Speaker 4: He detailed moments where William had physical altercations.
- 2:59Speaker 3: With him for his wife later apologized for it.
- 3:03Speaker 4: But look, this has been ugly, this has been messy,
- 3:08Speaker 4: and all has not been forgiven.
- 3:10Speaker 1: Man, why did they do? Were they promoting something.
- 3:13Speaker 4: Or I think they were trying to speak out because
- 3:16Speaker 4: they felt like they were being attacked. They talked about William,
- 3:20Speaker 4: They talked about Camilla releasing basic like their hounds on
- 3:26Speaker 4: like pr hounds on the press to release negative headlines
- 3:30Speaker 4: about Meghan. So they were trying to defend themselves. And
- 3:34Speaker 4: the point the Finger.
- 3:36Speaker 2: Interview, it was bad. My jaw was dropped listening to
- 3:39Speaker 2: some of the things that.
- 3:40Speaker 4: Were correct and some things have never been okay since
- 3:43Speaker 4: Obviously they brought the kids when the Queen's platinum jubilee happened.
- 3:48Speaker 4: That's a big deal. And then when the Queen died
- 3:51Speaker 4: just a few months later, we were there for that
- 3:53Speaker 4: as well. They left the kids behind and just Meghan
- 3:56Speaker 4: and Harry came quickly came and went for the King's corn.
- 4:01Speaker 4: Harry quickly came and when did not speak with his brother.
- 4:04Speaker 4: And it should be noted we'll get into what we know,
- 4:07Speaker 4: very little, by the way, about what happened at this
- 4:09Speaker 4: reunion today, But what we do know, Prince William zero
- 4:14Speaker 4: plans on spending any time with his brother.
- 4:18Speaker 3: Yes, sad to me.
- 4:20Speaker 2: What is their problem? No, no, no, no, I'm not criticized.
- 4:23Speaker 2: I'm saying what is the actual problem.
- 4:25Speaker 4: Because I would say, almost certainly Harry and Meghan have
- 4:29Speaker 4: spoken out and directly accused both of them of bad behavior.
- 4:34Speaker 1: Why would they do that?
- 4:37Speaker 3: I don't know, because.
- 4:38Speaker 4: If you ever had hopes of reconciliation. Obviously, Harry grew
- 4:42Speaker 4: up in the royal family. He understands how precious the
- 4:47Speaker 4: public relations campaign is around them, how closely guarded all
- 4:51Speaker 4: of that is, and to go against it is a
- 4:54Speaker 4: cardinal sin of source. And maybe even one would say
- 4:56Speaker 4: an unforgivable one. So I think he knew more than
- 4:59Speaker 4: anyone when he decided to speak out and get detailed
- 5:04Speaker 4: about certain grievances he felt he had against his brother,
- 5:07Speaker 4: that that might indeed be irreparable.
- 5:10Speaker 2: Well, that's where we are. That's I knew what you're saying. Yeah,
- 5:15Speaker 2: I yes, it's a shame we keep saying.
- 5:18Speaker 1: I just that's tough.
- 5:20Speaker 2: I mean, I don't know people on a side team
- 5:22Speaker 2: Harrie or team William. I just the stuff I remember
- 5:26Speaker 2: you're saying, Maybe just why put that stuff out in
- 5:29Speaker 2: the public and you feel like you want to, you
- 5:31Speaker 2: need to, you have to, it's good for you.
- 5:32Speaker 4: Fine, But man, I think Harry is defending his wife.
- 5:35Speaker 4: I think that is at the cruxt of a lot
- 5:37Speaker 4: of this. He is defending his woman, He is defending
- 5:41Speaker 4: the mother of his children. He is defending the woman
- 5:43Speaker 4: he loves, and he felt like his family, the royal family,
- 5:48Speaker 4: was using their power and their stealth like ability to
- 5:55Speaker 4: malign the woman he loved, and he wanted to speak
- 5:58Speaker 4: out and wanted to protect into That to me is
- 6:01Speaker 4: what it seems like, which I think in a lot
- 6:03Speaker 4: of people's eyes, especially in this country, makes him noble.
- 6:07Speaker 3: I think a lot of people look up.
- 6:09Speaker 4: To him as a as somebody who is a good guy,
- 6:13Speaker 4: who is defending his wife, who loves his wife and children,
- 6:16Speaker 4: and has defied his own family in doing so.
- 6:20Speaker 2: You can find ways, can't you to defend your wife
- 6:22Speaker 2: without disparaging your family? I do think because you're because
- 6:27Speaker 2: he essentially call these folks bad folks, call these bad people,
- 6:30Speaker 2: and he knows them better than anybody. Yes, but but
- 6:33Speaker 2: ros I don't know. That's a tough one. I mean,
- 6:36Speaker 2: it's just family is just family, and it's difficult and
- 6:39Speaker 2: it's awful, and I can't imagine it's awful sometimes, I'm saying,
- 6:43Speaker 2: but I can imagine being in that behemoth of a organization.
- 6:49Speaker 1: Your family is an organization.
- 6:52Speaker 4: That goes back centuries. So yes, we know that William
- 6:57Speaker 4: was playing in a charity polo match and wins are
- 7:00Speaker 4: not too far away outside of London there while he
- 7:06Speaker 4: while Prince Harry and Meghan and the kids were meeting
- 7:08Speaker 4: with Charles and Camilla.
- 7:10Speaker 1: So say that whole thing again.
- 7:11Speaker 3: So William was.
- 7:12Speaker 4: Playing in a charity polo match, and I believe Princess
- 7:16Speaker 4: Kate was watching him while Harry was meeting with the King,
- 7:21Speaker 4: so he had somewhere where he had to be.
- 7:24Speaker 2: It's just a funny thing to say, why didn't you
- 7:27Speaker 2: meet with your brother because he was at a polo.
- 7:29Speaker 3: Match, Yes, a charity charity polo match.
- 7:33Speaker 1: It's the princess.
- 7:34Speaker 4: So he has an official reason why if anyone were
- 7:37Speaker 4: to ask, I don't know, but he has something to
- 7:40Speaker 4: fall back on. No, but that was noted by folks.
- 7:44Speaker 4: That was what was going on at the same time.
- 7:47Speaker 4: So yes, we know that the So we know that
- 7:52Speaker 4: Buckingham Palace actually officially acknowledged that the meeting took place.
- 7:56Speaker 3: That is a big deal.
- 7:57Speaker 4: They don't always make statements, they don't eat even respond
- 8:02Speaker 4: to a lot of press inquiries. But Buckingham Palace confirmed
- 8:05Speaker 4: today Friday evening in London afternoon here that the King
- 8:09Speaker 4: and Queen hosted the family.
- 8:12Speaker 3: At High Grove House.
- 8:13Speaker 4: Earlier in the afternoon, the Palace described the meeting at
- 8:16Speaker 4: the King's private home in Gloucester. Sure she wait, Gloucester,
- 8:21Speaker 4: I cannot say it, Gloucester Share, Gloucestershare. Thank you. I
- 8:25Speaker 4: said it well before, but now I couldnt. As a
- 8:28Speaker 4: private family occasion and therefore no details and no photos
- 8:34Speaker 4: would be shared.
- 8:35Speaker 3: I was a little disappointed by that.
- 8:37Speaker 4: I would have thought it would have been so cool
- 8:40Speaker 4: to see them all together. That would have been a
- 8:42Speaker 4: powerful message, that would have sent a powerful image of
- 8:47Speaker 4: reconciliation and just maybe given hope to folks who might
- 8:51Speaker 4: be in a similar circumstance have a strange family members.
- 8:54Speaker 4: There's always hope, there's always a possibility of reconciliation. With
- 8:57Speaker 4: enough time, people can come back together. Anyway, maybe we'll
- 9:01Speaker 4: get a photo one day somehow.
- 9:05Speaker 1: I get that, but that would be for us.
- 9:07Speaker 2: And if this was what they needed for them, and
- 9:10Speaker 2: to be private and keep it private, and we don't
- 9:12Speaker 2: even know how well it went right.
- 9:15Speaker 3: We probably won't find out.
- 9:17Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, and hopefully it went really, really well.
- 9:19Speaker 2: I love to hear that this did take place. I
- 9:22Speaker 2: was you remember when King Charles was at the White
- 9:25Speaker 2: House when he came to DC.
- 9:26Speaker 3: We were hoping he might swing over to LA.
- 9:29Speaker 2: You're this close to your son and maybe the sun
- 9:31Speaker 2: could dip over with the kids.
- 9:32Speaker 1: I think the grandkids part of it.
- 9:34Speaker 2: I mean, just to think these kids are the grandchildren
- 9:38Speaker 2: of the King of England and they have no relationship
- 9:43Speaker 2: with him. They should be spending summers at Buckingham Palace.
- 9:47Speaker 2: They should you just you have an opportunity. There's just
- 9:51Speaker 2: there's something special Robes. It's just it just is. And
- 9:55Speaker 2: to think they're missing out on something that so many
- 9:57Speaker 2: other people would just die to be a part of,
- 10:00Speaker 2: and they were just lucky enough to be born into
- 10:02Speaker 2: it and they're not getting a chance to experience it.
- 10:05Speaker 2: That's a shame on the parents. I mean, And they
- 10:07Speaker 2: don't know their cousins. How many cousins they got.
- 10:09Speaker 4: Yeah, they've got well the three of them.
- 10:13Speaker 1: Come on, man, I hate it. Obviously we hate.
- 10:16Speaker 3: Cousin is tough too, it really is.
- 10:19Speaker 4: And to think how clothes Harry and William were, or
- 10:21Speaker 4: at least it appeared they were growing up when they
- 10:24Speaker 4: lost their mother. They shared that trauma, they shared that bond,
- 10:28Speaker 4: and it's just sad to think that they don't even
- 10:30Speaker 4: speak now.
- 10:31Speaker 2: I think the kids in La look and sound like Americans,
- 10:35Speaker 2: probably right, And the kids over there have little British accents, right,
- 10:39Speaker 2: they have the means that those kids in London should
- 10:43Speaker 2: be flying over to LA and hanging with their cool
- 10:45Speaker 2: southern California cousins, and then they should be going over
- 10:48Speaker 2: and spending time right, they have the mean that's just
- 10:51Speaker 2: what should be happening, is that I hate this man.
- 10:55Speaker 2: They don't know their granddad who wears a crown.
- 10:59Speaker 4: Well, this was a baby step forward in that direction.
- 11:03Speaker 3: And when we come back, look, well, this was a
- 11:05Speaker 3: rough week.
- 11:06Speaker 4: So I would actually say today was almost a happy
- 11:10Speaker 4: surprise ending because the week started off incredibly rough. And
- 11:14Speaker 4: we'll tell you what we know about the rest of
- 11:17Speaker 4: the stay for Harry, Megan and company. Welcome back everyone
- 11:30Speaker 4: to this episode of Amy and TJ. We are talking
- 11:33Speaker 4: about a royal reunion that wasn't necessarily expected. We were
- 11:38Speaker 4: hoping for it because the beginning of the week was really,
- 11:41Speaker 4: really tough. We had Prince Harry telling to the world, Hey,
- 11:46Speaker 4: my dad, Buckingham Palace invited me to stay while I'm
- 11:49Speaker 4: in London. I've accepted the invitation, only to hear hours
- 11:53Speaker 4: later the bucking and Palace said, oh, that was not
- 11:56Speaker 4: available anymore. The Prince responded too late, we didn't have
- 12:00Speaker 4: time to accommodate staffing. He will, in fact not be
- 12:04Speaker 4: staying at Buckingham Palace. That's rough when you can't even
- 12:07Speaker 4: come home and spend a night at your family palace.
- 12:11Speaker 2: That was we knew better. I mean, I'll crash on
- 12:18Speaker 2: the couch. I mean he's coming home.
- 12:21Speaker 3: I think there's a spare bedrooms.
- 12:23Speaker 2: It's coming home. I know you can't just unlock a door.
- 12:27Speaker 2: I know what they talk about staffing. I don't know
- 12:29Speaker 2: what security had and all these things. And I know
- 12:31Speaker 2: these things are planned days and whatever in advance, but
- 12:34Speaker 2: that was a bizarre thing. I just can't imagine that.
- 12:37Speaker 4: Yes, and so Harry's camp alluded to the fact that
- 12:40Speaker 4: there was a judgment expected, and it did come down
- 12:43Speaker 4: where Prince Harry, along with six other high profile folks,
- 12:47Speaker 4: were suing the parent company at the Daily Mail. The
- 12:51Speaker 4: verdict was set to come out the day he would
- 12:53Speaker 4: have been staying at Buckingham Palace, and there was this
- 12:56Speaker 4: notion that the King would not want to be associated
- 12:59Speaker 4: with any comments Prince Harry might make, and therefore rescinded
- 13:04Speaker 4: the offer to stay because he just wanted to distance
- 13:06Speaker 4: himself from that lawsuit. Harry had a tough week because yes,
- 13:10Speaker 4: he lost that lawsuit and was not able to get
- 13:14Speaker 4: any sort of vindication for his accusations against the tactics
- 13:18Speaker 4: paparazzi used against Meghan and his family.
- 13:20Speaker 3: So that had to be frustrating. So yes to have
- 13:23Speaker 3: his father say.
- 13:24Speaker 4: Never mind, have the British court say nope, uh, too
- 13:31Speaker 4: bad that you feel invaded by paparazzi. Oh and by
- 13:34Speaker 4: the way, taxpayers aren't going to help with your security
- 13:37Speaker 4: or your families, so talk about feeling unwelcome in your
- 13:40Speaker 4: home countries.
- 13:41Speaker 3: So it was a tough week.
- 13:42Speaker 2: I didn't see how it's being covered. His visit is
- 13:45Speaker 2: being covered there if it's positive or not.
- 13:48Speaker 1: But it's just robed. That's it.
- 13:51Speaker 2: Why come home? It's one of those things. But Babe,
- 13:54Speaker 2: this is where I can imagine going, leaving the United States,
- 13:58Speaker 2: and hell, even not being welcome back to Arkansas.
- 14:01Speaker 4: I can't imagine that it hurts more when it's your hometown. Now,
- 14:05Speaker 4: look by all the he has been on a tour
- 14:08Speaker 4: of sorts for some charitable organizations he represents, including announcing
- 14:13Speaker 4: the one year until the Invictus Games. But he's been
- 14:16Speaker 4: visiting children's hospitals and charitable organizations. He's been posing for
- 14:21Speaker 4: photos and he seems to be loved and well received.
- 14:23Speaker 3: People love Prince Harry.
- 14:25Speaker 4: Who doesn't love I don't think now Megan might be
- 14:29Speaker 4: a different story, but I think generally speaking, the folks
- 14:32Speaker 4: in the UK love Prince Harry.
- 14:35Speaker 1: Okay, well, yes to it.
- 14:39Speaker 2: Well, I'm just any list you look up of the
- 14:43Speaker 2: most favored royals, he and Megan are at the bottom.
- 14:48Speaker 2: Excuse me, Prince Andrews at the very bottom, I swear
- 14:52Speaker 2: to you, Sabine Ropes. Any list, Yes, if you look
- 14:57Speaker 2: at the favorability of the royals, those two are at
- 15:00Speaker 2: the bottom, along with Prince.
- 15:02Speaker 4: Because they walked away from their royal duties. It seemed
- 15:06Speaker 4: as though they gave up an honor and it felt
- 15:10Speaker 4: offensive to a lot of people.
- 15:12Speaker 1: To me too, You're like, why would you do that?
- 15:15Speaker 2: I mean, that's supposed to be We see this in movies.
- 15:18Speaker 2: I'm sure you could probably name a few rom coms
- 15:20Speaker 2: or this happened. Some guy gave up the crown, right,
- 15:25Speaker 2: And I guess it's supposed to be special, but it is.
- 15:27Speaker 2: It's some kind of way not seem to to honor
- 15:31Speaker 2: the family name. It's some case like this is a
- 15:34Speaker 2: responsibility you have that you were born into and even
- 15:37Speaker 2: if you don't want it at some point. And I
- 15:39Speaker 2: hate that sounds critical of him, but that was perplexing. Yes,
- 15:44Speaker 2: Robes and we can't work this out. There's too much
- 15:47Speaker 2: at stake, This is too big of a deal. The
- 15:48Speaker 2: Queen is too important over the It's just we can't
- 15:52Speaker 2: work this out.
- 15:53Speaker 1: I know, I hate Still we can't.
- 15:55Speaker 2: Or it should be a beautiful story, that wedding, the
- 15:58Speaker 2: Mama from Compton, the black Mamo riding, and the Queen's
- 16:03Speaker 2: royce over to the This is beautiful, the black preacher
- 16:07Speaker 2: from North Carolina, was it?
- 16:08Speaker 3: He loved?
- 16:09Speaker 4: Yes, But then Megan says, when she had suicidal thoughts
- 16:12Speaker 4: and was suffering from postpartum depression, the Palace would not
- 16:16Speaker 4: help her. They didn't give her what the mental health
- 16:20Speaker 4: tools that she needed, and she was close to death.
- 16:22Speaker 4: And so yes, she had a lot of animosity towards
- 16:25Speaker 4: she spoke as it spoke as if she were prisoner,
- 16:29Speaker 4: so to speak. It was very much kind of what
- 16:32Speaker 4: echoed from Princess Diana. And I wonder how much that
- 16:34Speaker 4: resonated with Harry, to hear his own wife echoing things
- 16:39Speaker 4: he had heard his own mother said.
- 16:40Speaker 2: Wondered with the public as well, if they saw some
- 16:42Speaker 2: of that and gave a little sympathy or a bit
- 16:46Speaker 2: of a past. And I'm sure it is difficult I'm
- 16:49Speaker 2: sure it's I mean, damn near impossible.
- 16:51Speaker 4: Yeah, So, I mean, look, this is a tough, tough
- 16:54Speaker 4: situation that I do think unfortunately a lot of people
- 16:58Speaker 4: might actually it might resonate with who have similar rifts
- 17:02Speaker 4: in their own families, whether it's because of a woman
- 17:04Speaker 4: or an in law or somebody somebody doesn't like in
- 17:06Speaker 4: the family. And look, this is tough stuff that even
- 17:10Speaker 4: Royal families are not immune from. So we know that
- 17:15Speaker 4: Harry has one more charity engagement scheduled for tomorrow on Saturday,
- 17:20Speaker 4: and that's it. So they don't know how much longer
- 17:25Speaker 4: Harry and Megan and the kids will be in the UK,
- 17:28Speaker 4: But there has been talked that they might visit the
- 17:30Speaker 4: grave of Princess Diana, which I think would be just
- 17:33Speaker 4: pretty damn cool for the kids to see it, for
- 17:36Speaker 4: Megan to see it, just to bring them back there.
- 17:38Speaker 1: They won't see the public won't see the kids, right
- 17:41Speaker 1: for sure.
- 17:41Speaker 3: You know what, I've never seen the kids.
- 17:43Speaker 4: They've been It's been pretty remarkable how well they have
- 17:46Speaker 4: been able to keep their faces under wraps. I have
- 17:48Speaker 4: never seen a photo of them, only the backs of
- 17:50Speaker 4: their heads, so that's been of obviously the utmost. I
- 17:54Speaker 4: can understand why they don't want their kids' faces floating
- 17:58Speaker 4: around the world. They don't trust the they don't certainly
- 18:01Speaker 4: don't trust the British press, and so yes, they have
- 18:04Speaker 4: taken extreme measures to make sure that does not happen.
- 18:07Speaker 4: But look, we hope they get to enjoy their dad's
- 18:12Speaker 4: home country that they really truly don't know. Archie was
- 18:15Speaker 4: born there but spent the first year of his life there.
- 18:19Speaker 4: But this is their first actual memorable trip back, and
- 18:22Speaker 4: hopefully they will be able to have many more.
- 18:24Speaker 1: They don't know this place. That's amazing. It's not home.
- 18:26Speaker 1: These are American.
- 18:27Speaker 3: Kids, right, isn't that wild?
- 18:29Speaker 1: American kids who are in line for the throne?
- 18:32Speaker 3: Isn't that wild?
- 18:35Speaker 4: They are, They're way down, yes, but they are officially
- 18:37Speaker 4: in line for the throne. So yes, look, this is
- 18:40Speaker 4: a baby step. We hope there are some bigger leaps later,
- 18:44Speaker 4: and we will of course be watching all the developments
- 18:47Speaker 4: from across the pond.
- 18:48Speaker 3: We always appreciate you listening to us. Everyone. I'm Amy
- 18:51Speaker 3: Roboch alongside TJ. Holmes. We'll talk to you soon.