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Morning, everybody.

Welcome along to your free podcast for today.

It's nice to have your company.

It's Monday, December the 19th.

Time marches on, as they say. And I've

suddenly realized, I've suddenly realized, and it's taken me, God knows how many years to work this out.

And it was only because I was watching YouTube earlier on. And I was watching the funeral of Her Majesty,

the Queen. And I was thinking to myself then, I thought, do you know, there was something magical about her. I don't care what it was. I know that Harry said this and that. And, you know, she sat there and didn't say a word during this meeting, which they had at Sandringham or wherever it was. And I remember thinking, this is a business. This isn't anything else but a business. This is a working

family. They are working royals. Years ago, they weren't working royals as such, you know, when I'm,

when I'm going back. But nowadays, they're a working family. They are a complete unit. And if

somebody doesn't fit in, like Harry and like Megan, in fact, actually one of the papers, God, I've read some stuff. Did you read the, uh, the, uh, Jeremy Clarkson column in the sun? Dear Lord above, I couldn't believe that somebody not only would write that, but it would be published by a newspaper.

That's what shocked me more.

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