Never Complain, Never Explain: Queen Elizabeth, Prince Philip & the Birth of a Tabloid Dynasty

DYNASTY: The Royal Family’s Most Challenging Year

Vanity Fair

Society & Culture

3.6 • 860 Ratings

🗓️ 19 April 2022

⏱️ 40 minutes

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The current royal family, divided in so many ways, begins with a firmly unified front: Philip and Elizabeth. The couple’s steadfastness is as trademark as the royal corgis—but look a little closer and you see piles of dirt pathologically brushed under the rug. Who they were as spouses and parents, rather than public figures, not only shaped the family brand, but how the world got to know Charles, Diana, and everything after.

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0:00.0	Hi, this is Chloe Mal. We interrupt our fashion month coverage to bring you some big news.
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0:15.6	Told through the eyes of Vogue editors Hamish Bowls, Edward Ennefull, Tawny Goodman, and Anna Wintour,
0:21.1	the series is a thrilling journey through 10 years that changed fashion forever.
0:25.7	Hollywood, Grunge, the Met Gala, the globalization of American fashion, hip-hop, each episode
0:32.2	in this six-part series centers on a defining 90s moment.
0:35.4	Part 1 premieres September 13th and part 2 on September 20th streaming on Disney Plus. After spending the holidays in Canada, Megan Markle and Prince Harry are back home in England and today they shock the world with a bombshell announcement.
0:52.0	Harry and Megan are stepping back. with a bombshell announcement.
0:53.0	Harry and Megan are stepping back from Royal Life and setting up a new home in North America.
0:59.0	Once Megan and I were married, we were excited.
1:02.0	We were hopeful and we were here to serve.
1:06.0	For those reasons it brings me great sadness that it has come to this.
1:11.0	The decision that I have made for my wife and I to step back is not one I made lightly.
1:17.0	It was so many months of talks after so many years of challenges.
1:22.0	It was an email that just made you just stop everything you were doing.
1:29.0	There were whispers that perhaps they were thinking about leaving Britain, but the palace just gave that
1:37.2	absolutely no credence at all every time we ask and I remember very clearly asking their head of coms we were sort of told no no
1:44.7	absolutely not and then the son published an exclusive Dan Wooten, who has brilliant sources, suggested very strongly that they were not going to be around for very long, but I don't think anyone expected that within hours of that sun splash, Buckingham Palace would be announcing that
2:05.8	Harry and Megan were standing down as working Royals.
2:09.4	That was January 2020 and it was one of those days where I come in the British
2:16.0	news cycle has already been running for a morning by the time I sit down at my
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