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🗓️ 31 May 2022
⏱️ 37 minutes
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When it comes to the Windsors and the press, who really holds the power? From Edward VIII and Wallis Simpson’s earth-shattering scandal to revealing TV confessions from Diana and, later, Prince Andrew, why has the royal family always been so afraid of, and prone to, scandal? We’ll investigate the ongoing tug-of-war between Fleet Street and its fetishized family, and how that has played out for the royals who dare try to reset the balance.
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0:26.7 | The Royals were so different when I was a kid. |
0:29.2 | You know, I found them absolutely fascinating. |
0:32.2 | I mean, I was a gay kid growing up in the middle of Texas so of |
0:35.6 | course I was drawn to the glamour and I was just caught up in the wow they live in those big houses and it seemed fascinating to me. |
0:44.0 | That is Jess Kegel, former editor-in-chief of People magazine. |
0:48.0 | Growing up in a small town in Texas, the Royal Seemed larger than life. |
0:52.0 | The fashion, the palaces, the glitz and glamour. |
0:57.1 | It seemed way more like a fairy tale than reality. |
1:01.0 | But over the years, just began to notice a shift in how the Royals are being |
1:04.8 | portrayed. Less of that pomp and pageantry and a lot more raunch and |
1:09.1 | scandal. There's something satisfying to people when they see that these impossibly |
1:17.2 | glamorous people have the same problems that we do that their lives are |
1:20.8 | really no better than ours. There's a lot of Schoddenfroid involved. But I think that over the past couple of decades the media has changed, so the media serves us more and more and more. |
1:32.1 | The Royal's relationship with the media has a long and complicated history. |
1:36.0 | While the saying goes, all press is good press, |
1:39.0 | the Winsors know all too well that isn't necessarily the case. is no |
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