I was communication secretary to the then Prince Charles, Prince Awaaz and his sons William and Harry. It was a time before Prince Charles had married Camilla, who became the Dutch at Cornwall. For ten years, almost ten years I supported them dealing with all the major interest in them and globally. Do you know what? It was an extraordinary experience. It took me all over the world in all sorts of amazing places and I learned a lot. The Press Pack which is very different, which is more titillation, very different, factoids and things like that, which is a complex. it's a very lucrative complex for the tabloids patty.
He was King Charles’s Communications Chief for almost a decade. She wrote the book on Charles (literally). Our guests today – Patrick Harverson and Catherine Mayer – are two insiders who take us beyond the media spectacle and into the inner workings of both the Crown and the British media. They consider whether the revelations inside Prince Harry’s best-selling book “Spare” will shake-up a stodgy palace. They discuss the unquenching hunger of the tabloid machine, debate the resilience of the monarchy – and examine whether the response to this royal controversy hints at a deeper culture war brewing in Britain. Finally, they unpack an emotion that permeates Harry’s pages: grief.
Kara and Nayeema taped this episode in London where they were joined by Brooke Hammerling, a strategic communications expert and Kara’s go-to source for all things royal. Before and after the interview, the trio looks at how people on both sides of the pond are responding to the book’s many revelations. And Brooke shares why a tell-all … may not have been the best strategy for Harry and Meghan.
You can find Kara and Nayeema on Twitter at @karaswisher and @nayeema.
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