Pod Save The Queen

After William and Kate’s royal train tour, the whole Cambridge family headed to the West End for a special pantomime performance. George, Charlotte and Louis walked the red carpet with their mum and dad then Santa and his elves worked some magic for the children of key workers. Pod Save The Queen host Ann Gripper is joined by Daily Mirror royal editor Russell Myers as they get in festive spirit. Ann is also joined by some of the children in Year 1 at Lowther School in Barnes, South West London who were very excited to get a letter from the Queen.Ann and Russell also discuss Meghan and Harry’s new Archewell Audio project, royal Christmas cards, the delay to the Queen’s Christmas message and the latest on Prince Andrew. Pod Save The Queen continues over the holiday season with two special interviews next week, and a review of the year the week after. Merry Christmas! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge toured Scotland, Wales and England on the royal train to lift spirits and thank people making a difference. And they returned to Windsor Castle for a special reunion with the Queen, Prince Charles and Camilla, Princess Anne, and Edward and Sophie Wessex, captured in a striking photo which sets out the New Firm. Pod Save The Queen host Ann Gripper is joined by Daily Mirror royal editor Russell Myers, who joined the Cardiff leg of the royal train tour, to discuss William and Kate’s adventure and the Queen’s Magnificent Seven. They also get excited about another royal baby, Camilla’s dog and the Queen’s Zoom diplomacy. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Queen Elizabeth II is one of three great Queens of England with a reign covering key moments of modern history.But it has not always been smooth sailing, with crises often of her own family's making - most recently with the departure of Meghan and Harry from their roles as senior working royals for a new life in America.Pod Save The Queen host Ann Gripper is joined by Clive Irving, author of The Last Queen: How Queen Elizabeth II Saved the Monarchy to discuss the Queen's remarkable reign and the future of the monarchy. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Queen will spend her first Christmas at Windsor Castle for 33 years after abandoning plans to go to Sandringham. Pod Save The Queen host Ann Gripper is joined by Daily Mirror royal editor to discuss this year’s very different celebrations and all the latest royal news. They catch up on the rows about The Crown’s version of history and the new Panorama inquiry, the results from Kate’s early years survey, Prince Harry’s environmental plea and Meghan’s essay about her miscarriage. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The highly anticipated fourth series of The Crown has dropped on Netflix, and it certainly doesn’t disappoint. The 10 episodes are packed with royal drama, heartbreak and tragedy - so we sat down to discuss the award-winning show. Lifestyle Editor Zoe Forsey is joined by Film Writer Lewis Knight and the Daily Express’s Lauren O’Callaghan to talk about the storylines, characters and the fashion. Royal expert Ingrid Seward also offers her insight on how accurate the series is, and why it’s going to be extremely sad for Princes William and Harry. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

When you are a member of the royal family, you know what you wear is going to be noticed - so what you wear matters.The Queen, Princess Diana, Kate Middleton and Meghan Markle have all used their clothing choices to make their presence felt.Pod Save The Queen host Ann Gripper is joined by Elizabeth Holmes to discuss her first book HRH: So Many Thoughts on Royal Style. They chat the royals’ changing fashions, tiaras, the people who style the royals, when it pays not to be fashionable - and the messages the royals are really sending with what they wear. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Remembrance commemorations have been very different this year - but they have been as special as ever.The Queen was at the Cenotaph on Remembrance Sunday and paid her respects at the Tomb of the Unknown Warrior wearing a mask in public for the first time.Camilla, the Duchess of Cornwall, stepped up into a bigger role while Harry and Meghan marked Remembrance Sunday in their own way in America.Pod Save The Queen host Ann Gripper is joined by Daily Mirror royal editor Russell Myers, who was in Westminster Abbey for the special Armistice Day service 100 years on from the burial of the Unknown Warrior.They also look ahead to the Queen's Diamond Jubilee celebrations and share listeners' comments on the pictures of the Sussexes' "private" cemetery visit.And ahead of Prince Charles' birthday, Mirror Online lifestyle editor catches up with Age UK's Laurie Bolt about what he is like as a patron. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Duchess of Sussex has voted in the hotly contested Presidential election and the Archewell website is live - two big milestones in Meghan’s new life with Harry. In England, the royal family are back in lockdown with a return to Zoom events on the cards - aside from a key date in the royal diary: Remembrance Sunday. Pod Save The Queen host Ann Gripper is joined by Daily Mirror royal editor to discuss that latest royal news, plus Camilla taking over from Harry visiting the Westminster Abbey Garden of Remembrance and whether Prince William should have shared his coronavirus diagnosis earlier.They also look back at Pride of Britain, talk Prince Charles’ Vogue interview, what next in Meghan’s court case and the big row over the famous Princess Diana interview on Panorama. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Ingrid Seward first met Prince Philip in the 70s, describing him as a charming man. Their second meeting didn’t go to plan, when he was unimpressed to learn she wasn’t German and simply walked away from her.Having spent decades covering the royal family as a journalist, editor, author and TV commentator, Ingrid has been there for all the biggest moments - both good and bad.She joins the Mirror’s Lifestyle Editor Zoe Forsey to talk about her new book, Prince Philip Revealed: A Man of his Century.She gives an insight into what the Queen’s husband is like behind the jokes and gaffes, as well as sharing her insights on how he’s taken to the role of great-grandad to George, Charlotte, Louis, Archie and the rest of the younger royals.Ingrid also speaks about her views on the fallout between Prince William and his younger brother Harry, the Prince Andrew ‘situation’ and how the Duchess of Cambridge is thriving. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Queen got out and about for the first time in months as she completed her first public visit since the coronavirus pandemic took hold. But her decision not to wear a mask on the visit to the science centre at Porton Down proved something of a talking point. Prince William and Kate have remained busy, and Stateside, Prince Harry and Meghan have made a series of appearances at virtual events - and posed for a new portrait. Pod Save The Queen host Ann Gripper is joined by Daily Mirror royal editor Russell Myers and Mirror Online fashionista Sarah Bradbury to catch up on what the royals have been up to - and wearing. They also talk the latest in court (legal, not royal) and Russell’s day out with Camilla. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Best men at each others' weddings, Princes William and Harry seemed to be brothers united - now they are divided by thousands of miles and on different paths.Robert Lacey, author of Battle of Brothers: William, Harry and the Inside Story of a Family in Tumult, joins host Ann Gripper to discuss how it came to this.How did their parents' divorce shape them? How were Kate and Meghan welcomed into the royal family? How have the Queen and the Palace handled things? And what impact did the structure of The Firm have on their relationship?Reflecting on the competing tensions of love and duty, they also look ahead to potential for reconciliation. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Duke of Cambridge launches the Earthshot Prize today, putting the environment right at the top of his agenda for the next decade.William has assembled a team of global stars to judge the £50million prize aiming to accelerate initiatives which can give a greener future.Pod Save The Queen host Ann Gripper is joined by Daily Mirror royal editor Russell Myers to discuss the project, as well as William's ITV documentary A Planet For Us All.They also catch up on the Sussexes' Netflix deal and Frogmore Cottage payment, as well as the royal family's expenses revealed in the Sovereign Grant Report. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Duchess of Cambridge got her woggle on this week as she became joint President of the scouts. Kate headed for a day of activities with kids in west London to mark the occasion - and this week we're putting her work in the spotlight.Host Ann Gripper catches up with Rachel Drew, group scout leader of the 12th Northolt scouts, to see how the day had gone. Daily Mirror royal photographer Ian Vogler gives his verdict on the Hold Still exhibition the Duchess curated with the National Portrait Gallery, and Mirror Online lifestyle editor Zoe Forsey interviews Tracy Rennie, director of care at East Anglia Children’s Hospices, about what Kate brings to her work as patron, and catches up with Ann about the Cambridges’ latest adventures with Sir David Attenborough, in the East End and wearing face masks. Join the conversation on Instagram and Twitter @podsave. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Prince Harry and Meghan Markle are back in action. With Finding Freedom now out there, and their new home chosen, they are making an increased number of appearances. Voting looks set to be a key, very unroyal theme for the Duchess in the lead up to the US election - but the Sussexes' time helping out at baby2baby was reminiscent of a royal engagement. Pod Save the Queen host Ann Gripper is joined by Daily Mirror royal editor Russell Myers to discuss the new setup, while Sarah Bradbury chips in with a style update. Ann and Russell also discuss a protest outside Buckingham Palace that went viral and the latest on Prince Andrew. Plus they chat about the impact of royal baby names and a very unexpected musical in the last show of the very extended series. Pod Save The Queen will definitely return in the final week of September (but we might come back before then so make sure you're subscribed

Prince Harry and Meghan Markle have bought their first home - and with 16 bathrooms and nine bedrooms, it's not bad for a starter pad. They've chosen Montecito in Santa Barbara, California, as their base for their new lives away from the senior royal roles they left behind. Pod Save The Queen host Ann Gripper is joined by Daily Mirror royal editor Russell Myers to discuss the Sussexes' new place, and a listener gives some insight into the neighourhood. The team also catch up on the latest reactions to Finding Freedom and the wellmeaning phone call which hit a social media nerve. They also discuss VJ Day, Princess Anne's birthday and the new actors joining The Crown. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The story of Prince Harry and Meghan Markle's romance, marriage and falling out of love with life as senior royals is told in the new book Finding Freedom. Authors Omid Scobie and Carolyn Durand had access to Meghan and Harry's friends, and have confirmed they spoke to the couple themselves "when appropriate". Pod Save the Queen host Ann Gripper, Daily Mirror royal editor Russell Myers and Mirror Online lifestyle editor Zoe Forsey discuss the revelations and insight which emerge - and how the two sides of the royal rift emerge from it. They also catch up on recent royal events, including Kate's baby bank work, her visit to Barry Island and Cardiff with William, and his appearance on That Peter Crouch podcast. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Edward VIII's abdication so he could marry Wallis Simpson caused turmoil - and continues to fascinate more than 80 years on. Prince Harry marrying glamorous American divorcee Meghan Markle had already drawn comparisons, even before they stood back from their roles as senior royals. Historian Alexander Larman, author of a new book about the abdication, joins Pod Save The Queen host Ann Gripper to discuss how the abdication crisis unfolded and its longterm impact on the protagonists and the country. They also reflect on the echoes in the Duke and Duchess of Sussex's departure - and where there are some major differences. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

What do you do if you meet the Queen? When do you need to curtsy? How do titles work? And what should you do if you break the Queen's china?!Debrett's is the bible of etiquette, so Pod Save The Queen host Ann Gripper called in an expert to answer listeners' questions. In an interview recorded early in lockdown, Rupert Wesson tackles your questions and reflects on changing etiquette in modern society, greetings in a pandemic, how to behave on social media - and his own brushes with royalty during his time with the military. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Princess Beatrice's wedding to Edoardo Mapelli Mozzi was very different from any royal wedding that has gone before - but seemed to suit her down to the ground. From the dress previously worn by the Queen to the rapid replanning after the original date fell victim to lockdown and the socially distanced photo with her grandparents, it was certainly one to remember. Pod Save the Queen host Ann Gripper assembles the podcast team to talk about Beatrice's big day, with Russell Myers, Zoe Forsey and Sarah Bradbury joining the show. They also talk about Prince Philip's double public appearance, first in the wedding photos then handing a key appointment over to the Duchess of Cornwall, the knighting of Captain Tom and Prince George's birthday photos. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Duchess of Cambridge debuted her post lockdown hair do as she launched the BBC’s Tiny Happy People project.And the Duchess of Sussex showed off long, long locks speaking the the GirlUp summit.Pod Save The Queen host Ann Gripper is joined by newly shorn Daily Mirror royal editor Russell Myers to discuss Kate and Meghan’s latest appearances, while Sarah Bradbury chips in her verdict on the three new hairstyles.The team also catch up on the latest on Meghan’s court action and Ghislaine Maxwell’s court appearance, as well as the Queen’s video call with the military which included the Jamaican bobsleigh pilot.And send your questions about Edward and Wallis to podsavethequeen@trinitymirror.com for next week’s interview with the Crown In Crisis author Alexander Larmann. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices