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DYNASTY: The Royal Family’s Most Challenging Year

The Firm’s Footsoldiers: Who Really Controls the Crown?

DYNASTY: The Royal Family’s Most Challenging Year

Vanity Fair

Society & Culture

3.6860 Ratings

🗓️ 7 June 2022

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Summary

The British royal family is sometimes referred to as “The Firm” – the time-honored, drama-tested machinery that refines, defines and helps control the family’s public image. The inner forces are shadowy—perhaps that’s what led King George VI to coin the phrase in the first place even to the family’s highest-profile members. So how exactly does The Firm work, and who is in it?


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0:00.0

Hi, this is Chloe Mal. We interrupt our fashion month coverage to bring you some big news.

0:05.0

We are winding the clock back to 1990 and recounting the most jaw-dropping moments from this transformative

0:11.0

decade in fashion in the all-new doc series In Vogue, the 90s.

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.

0:42.4

When Megan and Harry spoke with Oprah Winfrey about streaming on Disney Plus.

0:42.7

When Megan and Harry spoke with Oprah Winfrey back in March 2021, Megan did something

0:47.5

that needed a bit of explanation to many Americans.

0:51.1

She called the Royal Family the Firm.

0:54.0

I don't know how they could expect that after all of this time we would still just be silent if there is an active role that the firm is playing in perpetuating

1:06.6

falsehoods about us.

1:11.5

Prince Philip used to refer to the Royals as the firm, which makes it sound very business-like, and it kind of is.

1:19.0

Up until this point in the series, we've explored the dynamics at play among the

1:24.0

Windsor's and their relationships but the monarchy isn't just a family it's an

1:29.3

institution monarchy Inc if you like it requires teams of courties and staff working alongside the

1:35.4

principals to keep the palace machines smoothly running behind the scenes.

1:40.3

And it's not a thing the family normally talks about in public.

1:43.3

In fact, the term can be traced back to King George the 6th, Queen Elizabeth's father.

1:48.8

He supposedly told a person at Cambridge back in 1920 that the Royals are not a family we're a firm.

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