CHARLES THE BOOK & THE SUSSEXES .. TOLD YOU #meghan #meghanmarkle #princessdiana

0:00 Welcome back chums, and as ever, thank you so much for your time. You know, one of the things that you learn about royal reporting is that you know everything, and ultimately, you know nothing. And this is because the British monarchy are very clever at their manipulation, you might say, of the stories. This is nothing new, right? I mean, this is nothing new. If you go to the Tower of London and you read some of the stories in there, or you look in the files as I've been looking if to do, you can see exactly how the monarchy have always been very, shall we say, ambiguous about what they want to tell you, the subjects. Not just here in the United Kingdom, but across the Commonwealth, around the world. Many might say, "Why shouldn't they? You know, it's a private family, and there's the family and the firm." It was really only the Duke of Edinburgh and the late Queen, Queen

0:46 Elizabeth, that really changed the whole plot in the sense of trying to be a little bit more transparent while keeping the mystique, the mystery of the royal family. And to me, that's the element that I like. Sensational headlines and stuff like that is not really for me. You know, I'm really interested more in the story. The reason why I highlight this is when you cast your mind back to the infamous other American woman that rocked the British monarchy, Wallis Simpson. Well, nobody had any idea, you know, well, until the early 1970s when the Duke passed away, that in fact the royal family had been, you know, slowly uh and regularly [clears throat] subsidizing the Duke and Duchess's lifestyle. Not to the lifestyle that they led because, very

1:32 similar to Harry and Meghan, they were fated, invited in, you know, the parties, the premieres, and then things started to dry up because the novelty of being an ex-king, seemingly just talking about being a king, and people being instructed to call Wallis Simpson Mom when they just saw as another American woman, a divorcee, very quickly drained off. You know what I'm saying? And this is the thing that when that came out, everybody's like, "Oh, we had no idea." Because during the war, all through the '50s, we were told that, you know, the Duke and Duchess of Windsor were independent. They'd got their own funds, all of that. Exactly what I'm saying right now here with this developing story. There's all sorts of things about how the king has betrayed the United Kingdom, betrayed his subjects. You have

2:17 no idea, none of us truly do. What you rely on is information and sources. What I would say, and this is my take on this particular slant, is that if you're in the king's shoes and you know that you have a, you know, terrible illness as he has and battling it, right? You know, what you want to sort of do, like any human being, is put it all into blocks and make sure that you feel you've left it rightful, you know, in the way that you want to leave it. I'm not suggesting he's going anytime now, but you know what I mean. And ultimately, you know, you people want to battle it between William and Harry. William at this moment in time cannot abide his younger brother, and rightly so. Likewise, as I've told you many times in our show, can't stomach the wife. [laughter] I don't blame him, right? I really don't blame him.

3:02 But this particular story just tells you exactly how this evolves, and ultimately how it's a game that you and I are part of. But then, do you ever really see it? Let me explain. Morning, good to see you. Thank you so much for your time. Welcome one and all. Nice to have your company. It does maybe shock you, doesn't it, about the fact that, yes, certain royals suddenly, yeah, we didn't know we were paying for them. And this will all come out in the fullness of time. You know, many people had no idea, if you remember, when Harry and Meghan sat down with Oprah Winfrey, that in fact His Majesty the King had and was continuing to pay for a year out of his own personal funds while they messed around, you know, tried the waters. And the thank you that he got was a slap in

3:47 the teeth on international television, basically saying, "My father cut me off." Who forced Harry to say that? That is the question. Who forced him to say because clearly it wasn't true and it was shown in Crown records. However, what you have now for instance, are the opportunistic moments in Harry and Meghan's continuing story. We know they're coming back to the United Kingdom. We know they developed a very fast friendship with of course Countess Spencer, Meghan Markle at least did. And we also know thanks to the publicity this week that Earl Spencer is releasing his tell-all book if you want to call it that, "Swansong" all about his late sister Diana, the Princess of Wales. A lot of you have asked me in the comments, you know, what do I think to that? Well, it's his story, you know,

4:33 it's like your story is your story, my story is mine. You can't dictate whether somebody can tell it or not, you know, whether he likes what comes out of it or not is a totally different thing. What's interesting about this is already circulating are the likes of Netflix, I kid you not. And this is simply because they feel that they could do justice to the story. Now, I'm not suggesting at any point that Charles Spencer has an agreement. What happens when you put a book out is you get options, right? I have friends who've written novels and they get these options of Hollywood studio Some of them never come to anything. I would say 99% really never come to anything, but this is a story of our times and this will be from his perspective. Whether this is a documentary or indeed a full-blown film.

5:21 And what's interesting about that is that if it was a full-blown film, somebody like Netflix see themselves as the doyen of telling royal stories, albeit incorrectly, all thanks to their TV series The Crown. Many people 100% believe the facts that went through that particular film. None of them really were true, they're exaggerated. And what I find incredible is people who were people who were assisting on the show now write these tell-all royal books and we're supposed to believe their story. I mean, you know, this is the ridiculousness of the world that we live in. Now, what's happening is this, that Netflix, as I say, are very keen on Charles Spencer's book in any form and would like to offer an option, right?

6:06 >> [laughter] >> And [clears throat] the thing about this, and this is the thing where it gets developing is the idea really would be that obviously Charles Spencer would be offered the opportunity to be the executive producer. This is normally a nominal thing where you get the final say, what do you think? Yeah, okay. But what better, think about this, and this is what's whirling around the Netflix towers right now, what better if this documentary stroke film had in fact also executive producers, you've guessed it, the Duke and Duchess of Sussex. And this would then, of course, make sure that they're still firmly in the plot and then they're suddenly executive producers of a very successful idea because this story will be successful. And on top of all of that, think about it, their return back here, the story,

6:53 the narrative, whatever, is now going to be interesting to Netflix moving forward because it's a scandal. It's a thing of, you know, what's she going to do? What's he going to do? How they going to force their way in? What are they not going to do? Etc. This is truly, chums, a developing story. And as I said at the start of this video, whatever people think, it's only in the fullness of time, as our late and brilliant monarch Queen Elizabeth said, do we find out the truth? Part of the problem is people speculate. Do I think the King's betrayed the country? He's a father. He's trying to do the right thing. Father and a monarch very, very rarely work out very well. They can never really intertwine. Even the Queen, as we know, had some of her faults regarding her children. But what they tried to to

7:40 as a human being is connect back. What I would say is personally, this is never going to work out for Harry. That boat has sailed. The British public, the Commonwealth have really had enough. But in the fullness of time, King Charles is thinking, what did he do? And was it right for him? Now, before I get slaughtered, you understand what I'm saying. It's about what he personally wants, not what I'm thinking. And regards, of course, Charles Spencer and his book, well, this is going to be interesting, don't you think? Neil Sean in the very heart of Kensington.