Hello, hello, everybody. Welcome back to another episode of Fluently Forward. We are here with a royal correspondent, lovely guest for today. Amanda, also known as Madda of fact on TikTok, where I get all of the news that I didn't know about the royals. Welcome to the show. How are you doing? Thank you so much. I'm so excited to be here. I'm just, I'm in awe. I feel like we are in the same circles on social media, but we've never talked face to face. So it's one of those things. I feel like we're already besties. Well, I love following you because I have so many pop culture blind spots. I mean, there's so many different avenues of it. Like, I don't know much about K-pop. I don't know much about the royals. I don't know much about like Bravo. So being able to follow you on TikTok has been so fascinating because I feel

like most people, when they get information on the royals, it's from like the New York Post headlines.

Right. And you always kind of talk about things from the other side. So before we get into

our episode, which is going to be mostly about

Megan Sussex and a little bit about Kate Middleton, tell me a little bit about how you got

interested in the Royals, especially because you're, you live in the States, right? Yeah, I live in

Pennsylvania. My intro to the Royals, I got to go back to being a kid and my mom was

obsessed with Princess Diana, as I think a lot of moms were. She gave me a book of Diana

paper dolls, actually, and I cut them all up. Paper dolls, that takes me back, yeah. Right? I've cut

them up and then we watched like Will and Kate's wedding together and then later on a couple years later, I think we watched Terry and Megan's together. She definitely DVRed it for me because I was off. I don't know what I was doing in 2018. But yeah, so that's kind of where I got my interest from my mom in the Royals. And then from there, I went to university college and I studied art history.

And so often the things I was interested in with doing my degree came back to the Royals. So it was

just like this thing that I already had a base knowledge of. And I circled back to them in like a

very academic way. And then we hit

2018, Harry and Megan are going on Oprah a couple years later, and everything just like falls to

shit. So me being a very like academically minded person, like I went to grad school for museum studies

as well, I was like, okay, I need to get to the bottom of this. So I just started

consuming a lot of interviews and digging deeper. And that's how the TikTok was born. I don't know.

I just had a lot of thoughts and not a great outlet for them in my daily life in 2021.

Same. As I think was the same. Yeah, I think that's the case for a lot of us. It was COVID. I had a

boyfriend at the time who did not care about anything royal related. So I posted a TikTok talking

about, I came out the gate. It was zero to 100 real fast. I was like, okay, here's who I think

was racist about Harry and Megan's baby. Like full, just full speed ahead. The passion of the content i remember that was me on tic

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