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I’m so delighted to have the immense pleasure of welcoming a brilliant writer and cultural commentator I’ve known for more than a decade to the show tonight: Tim Teeman.
We first worked together back in our Daily Beast days: Tim was my editor, and he played a pivotal role in getting The Royalist newsletter off the ground in the first place. So having him here this evening feels not just professionally rewarding, but genuinely emotional — a bit of a full-circle moment, really.
Tim’s résumé speaks for itself: award-winning journalist, multiple honours from the New York Press Club, the Los Angeles Press Club, and the NLGJA, and author of In Bed with Gore Vidal, a razor-sharp, intimate portrait of one of America’s most complicated literary figures. He’s one of the most perceptive observers of modern celebrity and monarchy around — and I can’t think of anyone better to dissect tonight’s big royal story.
Because, as always, there’s plenty of royal drama — but the one story towering over everything else right now is the apparent collapse of the fragile reconciliation between King Charles and Prince Harry.
After months of careful bridge-building, it’s all gone up in smoke again thanks to Harry’s latest intervention — a direct letter to the British Home Secretary, asking for taxpayer-funded security to be reinstated for his visits to the U.K. This comes just weeks after his first proper meeting with his father in nearly two years — a meeting that was meant to mark a new start.
Instead, Palace aides are saying, “We’re back to where we were.” And that bleak phrase really sums it up — all that work, undone in a single move.
So that’s where we’re going to start tonight — with the big question: *why does Harry keep doing this?* Is it stubbornness, naivety, ego — or is there something deeper going on here?
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