Palace Confidential

What DID the Queen say to Boris? And who is ‘trying to create a bit of mischief’ around moneybags Charles? Watch our royal talkshow for the latest


Listen Later

AS he fought in vain to hold together his Cabinet, Boris Johnson managed to find time for his weekly audience with HM the Queen – we asked our panel of royal experts how that conversation would have gone down.
The Daily Mail’s Diary Editor Richard Eden says that if the Queen had an opinion, she would have got it across.
‘We certainly know that they do listen to her. Prime Ministers including Tony Blair have said that she has a very persistent way with them, and she asks probing questions, difficult questions. And he felt that he was often being jogged to maybe think again about something.’
Some have drawn parallels between the departure of Margaret Thatcher and this week’s events. But Dickie Arbiter, the Queen’s former press secretary, says the Queen will feel far different about the departure of Johnson to that of Thatcher.
‘I don’t think there would be parallels with them, because with Mrs Thatcher there would have been an element of sympathy in the way that it happened,’ he tells the programme. ‘This is something that’s completely different from what’s happening now and the Queen has never experienced that… the Queen admired Mrs Thatcher for having been so long the first female Prime Minister.’
The Daily Mail’s Royal Editor Rebecca English discusses a new set of unwanted headlines around the charities run by the Prince of Wales and the access given to wealthy philanthropists.
While there is no accusation of wrongdoing by the prince, she points out that ‘it does shine yet another unwelcome spotlight on the way that some of Prince Charles’s charities have been run in the past’.
Any criticism being levelled towards Charles is unfair, argues Dickie Arbiter, who questions why these stories are emerging now: ‘It seems that someone with an axe to grind is trying to create a bit of mischief.’
PLUS on the 40th anniversary of the day an intruder broke in to Buckingham Palace and made it into the Queen’s bedroom, the Daily Mail’s Editor at Large Richard Kay takes us on a fascinating trip down memory lane to the extraordinary summer of 1982.

See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

...more
View all episodesView all episodes
Download on the App Store

Palace ConfidentialBy Palace Confidential

  • 3.9
  • 3.9
  • 3.9
  • 3.9
  • 3.9

3.9

80 ratings


More shows like Palace Confidential

View all
Pivot by New York Magazine

Pivot

9,272 Listeners

Pod Save The King - Royal family news, interviews and fashion by Reach Podcasts

Pod Save The King - Royal family news, interviews and fashion

980 Listeners

Palace Intrigue : Kate Middleton - Meghan & Harry -  King Charles - Royal Family gossip by Caloroga Shark Media / The Daily Royal Family Podcast

Palace Intrigue : Kate Middleton - Meghan & Harry - King Charles - Royal Family gossip

458 Listeners

The Royal Report by Newsweek

The Royal Report

423 Listeners

The Rest Is Politics by Goalhanger

The Rest Is Politics

3,289 Listeners

Dish by Cold Glass Productions

Dish

637 Listeners

The Rest Is Politics: US by Goalhanger

The Rest Is Politics: US

2,310 Listeners

The Royals with Roya and Kate by The Times

The Royals with Roya and Kate

55 Listeners

The Rosary in a Year (with Fr. Mark-Mary Ames) by Ascension

The Rosary in a Year (with Fr. Mark-Mary Ames)

5,390 Listeners

Acting President by Pantheon Plus and Caloroga Shark Media

Acting President

7 Listeners