Endgame, p.40
Endgame, page 40
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“A bit of grouchiness” from a September 14, 2022, tweet by The Times’ history correspondent Jack Blackburn. The term “Pengate” was used by the Telegraph, Daily Express, The Sun, and other outlets between September and October 2022. Prime Minister Rishi Sunak leaving Liz Truss’s “request in place” was from an official comment made by a 10 Downing Street spokesperson on October 28, 2022. King Charles being “keenly aware” and wanting “good value” come from an article by Hayley Dixon and Gurpreet Narwan, “Coronation for the cost of living crisis as King expresses wish for ‘good value,’” The Telegraph, September 13, 2022. “The King and Queen Consort and their advisers are keenly following the debate . . .” from an article by Rebecca English, “King Charles’s first 100 days—and what 2023 will bring,” Daily Mail, December 30, 2022. “Obviously, there will be a great deal of attention on the United Kingdom at that time . . .” is from a 10 Downing Street spokesman on December 19, 2022. “Declaration of war” is from an article by Rebecca English, “Releasing trailer for Harry and Meghan’s Netflix show during William and Kate’s US tour is little less than ‘a declaration of war’ say insiders,” Daily Mail, December 2, 2022. “Deliberately torpedoed” is from an article by Valentine Low, Tom Ball, and Jack Blackburn, “Sussexes accused of sabotaging Prince and Princess of Wales’ US visit,” The Times, December 2, 2022. “Harry, Do You Really Hate Your Family So Much?” front-page story by Richard Palmer, Daily Express, December 2, 2022. Additional details on Ryan Reynolds and Rob McElhenney’s Wrexham Football Club takeover via profile piece by Andrew Barker, “A Win for Wrexham: How Ryan Reynolds and Rob McElhenney Helped Bring a City Back to Life,” Variety, June 19, 2023. “Institutional gaslighting” quoted from Prince Harry in Harry & Meghan (episode 4), Netflix, 2022. “I reminded him to keep his rifle pointed at the target” quote is from an article by Roya Nikkhah, “What the Palace made of Harry and Meghan’s ‘truth,’” The Sunday Times, December 11, 2022. The burgundy coats “dig” was from a front-page story by Amanda Platell, “Was the great royal burgundy parade a cheeky swipe at Meghan?,” Daily Mail, December 21, 2022. “Instead of building bridges, the head of state is torching them . . .” is a quote from a Twitter/X post by Peter Hunt on March 1, 2023. Norman Baker spoke of Andrew “dressing up as a royal” in a story by Matt Wilkinson, “BACK FOR BASH: Disgraced Prince Andrew ‘to dress-up as royal for a day’ as he’s invited to party alongside King Charles,” The Sun, March 20, 2023. Jens Zimmermann’s quotes were filed to newswires by the Associated Press on March 31, 2023. The headline “For Hamburg, Devastated by Allied Bombing, King Charles’s Visit Is So Much More Than a Photo-op” is from an opinion piece by Helene von Bismarck, Guardian, March 30, 2023. “Your father always does what he wants to do” is quoted from Prince Harry, Spare, 2023.
Though this chapter does not quote or use its material, I found Robert Jobson, Our King: Charles III: The Man and the Monarch Revealed, 2023, useful in my research.
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“The only two people who talked more about strategy and planning than [the aide] were Hitler and Stalin,” from Alastair Campbell, Winners: And How They Succeed, 2015. Ailsa Anderson quotes from Celebrating Queen Elizabeth, ABC News, September 19, 2022. The term “Englishness” was first used by Tom Nairn in a series of essays on the British state published in the New Left Review and later collected in the book The Break-Up of Britain, 1977. “British-Englishness” was inspired by Nairn’s term as well, and there have also been uses of the phrase in at least three PhD theses by various authors, including Siyu Cao, “Performing Post-Britishness: A Quest for Independence in the Contemporary Literature of England,” University of Warwick, Department of English and Comparative Literary Studies, April 2020. “Glamour of backwardness,” “contrived timelessness,” “great nation-family,” and “a willful failure to quit a darkening stage” are from Tom Nairn, The Enchanted Glass: Britain and Its Monarchy, 2011. The Treaty of Waitangi (Te Tiriti o Waitangi) was an agreement between the British Crown and more than five hundred Māori chiefs in 1840; however, although it was intended to create unity, different understandings of the treaty—and breaches of it—have caused conflict. “New Zealand has long been renowned for its dairy produce . . .” quote from the Queen in report by Associated Press, “All in All, Queen May Want to Forget About New Zealand,” February 27, 1986. Positive opinion of the royal family dropping within four months of the Queen’s death is from a YouGov survey of 1,710 adults in Britain between September 13 and September 14, 2022. Story about Kylie Minogue turning down coronation performance first reported by Katie Hind, “EXCLUSIVE: Kylie Minogue REFUSES offer to star at King Charles’ Coronation concert because of growing Republican sentiment in Australia,” Daily Mail, March 4, 2023, and since confirmed by my own additional reporting. Zillenials are a microgeneration of people born on the cusp of the Millennial and Gen Z demographic cohorts, usually between 1993 and 1998. Statistics of YouTube channel “The Prince and Princess of Wales” accurate as of July 31, 2023.
The following books provided helpful background and research: Kevin Sharpe, Selling the Tudor Monarchy: Authority and Image in Sixteenth-Century England, 2017; Kevin Sharpe, Image Wars: Promoting Kings and Commonwealths in England, 1603–1660, 2018.
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An investiture is the day when someone who has been awarded an honor receives their insignia in person from a member of the royal family (and there are around thirty held every year). The term “annus horribilis,” meaning “horrible year” in Latin, was brought to prominence by the Queen in a speech at Guildhall, London, on November 24, 1992, for her Ruby Jubilee on the throne and the end of a year marked by scandal and disaster for the royal family. “Queen’s speech without the Queen” was used in coverage by news outlets including the London Evening Standard, BBC News, Daily Mail, and The Sydney Morning Herald on May 10 and May 11, 2022. The “bags of cash” scandal was first reported by Gabriel Pogrund, Charles Keidan, and Katherine Faulkner, “Prince Charles accepted €1m cash in suitcase from sheikh,” The Sunday Times, June 25, 2022. Charles “will not accept bags of cash again” statement given by a Clarence House “source” to the Press Association, Reuters, and journalists—including myself—on June 29, 2022. Details on Charles accepting donation from the Bin Laden family by Gabriel Pogrund, “Prince Charles accepted £1m from family of Osama bin Laden,” The Sunday Times, July 30, 2022. The “sins of the father” quote is from a source at the Prince of Wales’s Charitable Fund to BBC News on July 31, 2022. The Mahfouz cash-for-honors scandal was first reported by Gabriel Pogrund and Dipesh Gadher, “Prince Charles aides fixed CBE for Saudi tycoon who gave £1.5m,” The Sunday Times, September 5, 2021. Pogrund’s follow-up articles are not quoted but provided additional information. Subsequent cash-of-honors details, including Michael Fawcett’s resignation, were reported by Kate Mansey and Jonathan Bucks, “Charles Aide Told Saudi Donor: We’ll Help You Get Knighthood,” Mail on Sunday, September 5, 2021. “Fawcett has been there for so many years . . .” quote from Dickie Arbiter in book by Stephen Bates, Royalty Inc: Britain’s Best-Known Brand, 2015. The existence of the “Fawcett the Fence” nickname first came to light in an article by Jamie Wilson, “Aide who ‘sold gifts’ adds to royal woes,” Guardian, November 11, 2002. “We have all agreed to end this arrangement” statement from Clarence House given to Press Association and journalists, including myself, on November 11, 2021. “Ersatz Georgian and mock Scottish vernacular creations . . .” quote by Alan Dunlop from article by Laura Webster, “Prince Charles’s Knockroon ‘eco-village’ has just 30 homes,” The National, February 3, 2019. “He needs to rethink what he spends his money on” quote by Gabriel Pogrund from interview on Red Box Politics Podcast (episode title: “Prince Charles and Money”), July 4, 2022. Charles “was more than disappointed at the policy” is from an article by Matt Dathan and Valentine Low, “Prince Charles: Flying migrants to Rwanda is ‘appalling,’” The Times, June 10, 2022. “But Americans can do anything!” is allegedly a comment made by Prince Charles, reported in a book by Sally Bedell Smith, Charles: The Misunderstood Prince, 2017. “Royal body . . . carriers of a blood line” comes from an essay by Hilary Mantel, “Royal Bodies,” London Review of Books, February 21, 2013. The nickname “queen of people’s hearts” first entered the lexicon after Princess Diana was asked if she thought she would ever become Queen (alongside Charles) during her Panorama interview (episode title: “An Interview with HRH The Princess of Wales”), BBC1, November 20, 1995. “Prince of Wails” was first used in an article by William D. Montalbano, “Prince’s Marital Woes Become Britain’s Problem,” Los Angeles Times, December 30, 1995, and in dozens of articles in the years that followed. The nickname “Pampered Prince” was first used in an article (which also cites the “crested silver dispenser”) by Stuart Millar and Jamie Wilson, “Pampered prince puts sun king in shade,” Guardian, November 15, 2002.
Alongside material from these referenced sources, I also found the following two books useful for additional insight: Catherine Mayer, Charles: The Heart of a King, 2022; Tom Bower, Rebel Prince: The Power, Passion and Defiance of Prince Charles, 2018.
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The 152 veterans of the Royal Navy, Royal Marines, and British Army who signed the letter to Queen Elizabeth II were convened by the Republic group; it was sent directly to the monarch on January 13, 2022. “Without Prince Philip the royal house of cards is falling” is from Tom Bower, The Times, December 12, 2021. “I cannot imagine anyone in their right mind leaving you for Camilla” is from a letter sent by Prince Philip to Princess Diana in the summer of 1992 and reprinted in a book by Paul Burrell, A Royal Duty, 2003. “If I walk, will you walk with me?” was first reported in a book by Gyles Brandreth, Breaking the Code: Westminster Diaries, 2014. “I don’t think any child should be asked to do that, under any circumstances,” from Prince Harry interview in a profile by Angela Levin, “Prince Harry on Chaos After Diana’s Death and Why the World Needs ‘the Magic’ of the Royal Family,” Newsweek, June 21, 2017. “[Andrew] is a kind, good man . . .” quote from Sarah, Duchess of York, interview on Good Morning Britain, ITV, June 14, 2022. “He was in an invidious situation of his own making . . .” quote from producer Sam McAlister interview by Andrew Kersley, “Ex-Newsnight producer Sam McAlister on booking Prince Andrew and BBC’s ‘fatal’ class problem,” Press Gazette, July 22, 2022. “Like a platter of fruit” quote is from Virginia Giuffre in an interview with Panorama, BBC, December 2, 2019. The articles featuring sources close to Prince Andrew denying the authenticity of the photo with Virginia Giuffre were by Bill Gardner, “Prince Andrew’s supporters say his ‘chubby’ fingers prove photo of him with Epstein victim is fake,” The Telegraph, August 29, 2019, and Robert Jobson, “Prince Andrew hits back over ‘witch hunt’: Duke of York insists claims by Epstein’s ‘sex slave’ are ‘categorically untrue,’” London Evening Standard, August 28, 2019. “Any suggestion of impropriety with underage minors is categorically untrue” is from a Buckingham Palace spokeswoman on January 2, 2015. “It is emphatically denied that the Duke of York had any form of sexual contact or relationship with Virginia [Giuffre]” is a statement from Buckingham Palace in response to Virginia Giuffre’s Panorama interview on December 2, 2019. “He denies that it ever happened . . .” quote from Virginia Giuffre interview with NBC News on September 20, 2019. “Tits and bums man” and “schoolboy humor” quotes from reporting in article by Valentine Low, “‘Andrew the great’ exasperated duchess with unsavoury friend,” The Times, January 6, 2015. The tabloid nickname “Randy Andy” was born after a 1986 Daily Mail article, titled “Randy Andy and His Web of Arm Candy” chronicled his long list of alleged romances. “He would just be putting himself back into the same dangerous position again, facing the same deposition . . .” quote from David Boies interview on Piers Morgan Uncensored, Talk TV, February 21, 2023.
During my reading and research for this chapter, I also found the following titles of use: Nigel Cawthorne, Prince Andrew: Epstein, Maxwell and the Palace, 2022; Robert Jobson, Prince Philip’s Century, 1921–2021: The Extraordinary Life of the Duke of Edinburgh, 2021; Sam McAlister, Scoops: Behind the Scenes of the BBC’s Most Shocking Interviews, 2022; Sarah Ferguson, Finding Sarah: A Duchess’s Journey to Find Herself, 2011.
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Black women in the United Kingdom being four times more likely to die during childbirth is a statistic from a report published by MBRRACE-UK (Mothers and Babies: Reducing Risk through Audits and Confidential Enquiries across the United Kingdom), released on November 10, 2021. Young Black men in London being nineteen times more likely to be stopped and searched is from a November 2020 research study by University College London’s institute for global city policing. The death rate of non-white people in Britain who died from Covid being 50 percent more than their white counterparts comes from a May 2020 analysis by the Institute for Fiscal Studies. Minority ethnic job applicants sending 60 percent more applications to get a positive response from an employer is a statistic released in January 2019 by the Centre for Social Investigation at Nuffield College, University of Oxford. The case of “retain and explain” for statues linked to slavery in the City of London was a result of a decision made by the district’s Court of Common Council. Prince Charles’s speech on the “appalling atrocity of slavery” was delivered in Bridgetown, Barbados, on November 30, 2021. Barbados was dubbed “Little England” after the English settled on the island in 1627, wiping away all traces of its original inhabitants (the Arawaks), and it retained the nickname due to its strong British attitude and traditions (such as afternoon tea and cricket matches). “Shouldn’t be here at all” quote from David Denny in article by Victoria Murphy, “Prince Charles Calls Slavery an ‘Appalling Atrocity’ Which ‘Forever Stains Our History’ in Landmark Speech,” Town & Country, November 29, 2021. Prince Philip’s “slitty-eyed” remark was made to a group of students of Mandarin at Xian University on October 16, 1986. Prince Philip told then president of Nigeria Olusegun Obasanjo (wearing national dress), “You look like you’re ready for bed,” during a visit to Nigeria on December 3, 2003. Prince Philip’s “Do you still throw spears at each other?” remark was made on a visit to the Tjapukai Aboriginal Cultural Park in Australia on March 2, 2002. “The Africans just don’t know how to govern themselves . . .” was a quote from the Queen Mother (shared by one of her ladies-in-waiting) in an article by Tanya Gold, “The queen of unkindness,” Guardian, September 15, 2009. Charles calling a South Asian friend “Sooty” is from an article by Tim Walker, “Member of Princes’ polo club ‘affectionately’ known as Sooty,” The Telegraph, January 12, 2009. Princess Michael of Kent was quoted telling Black restaurant goers, “You need to go back to the colonies!” in an article by Jeane MacIntosh, “TELLS BLACK NYERS: ‘GO TO COLONIES,’” New York Post, May 26, 2004. “I even pretended years ago to be an African, a half caste” is from an interview with Princess Michael of Kent on My Favourite Hymns, ITV1, July 25, 2004. Prince Andrew’s alleged use of the n-word is from a comment piece by Rohan Silva, “Andrew’s use of language left me reeling—and I still regret not challenging his choice of words,” London Evening Standard, November 18, 2019. Prince Harry’s uses of the slurs “rag-head” and “Paki” were from a leaked video recording covered in the News of the World, January 11, 2009. The document revealing courtiers banned “coloured immigrants or foreigners” from serving in clerical roles in the royal household was first revealed in a report by David Pegg and Rob Evans, “Buckingham Palace banned ethnic minorities from office roles, papers reveal,” Guardian, June 2, 2021. “Paraded naked through the streets . . .” is from an opinion piece written by Jeremy Clarkson, “One day, Harold the glove puppet will tell the truth about A Woman Talking B*****ks,” The Sun, December 16, 2022. “You may not necessarily comment on this issue . . .” quote by Antigua prime minister Gaston Browne to Prince Edward was broadcast on ABSTV Antigua, April 27, 2022. “She was ahead of the curve” is a quote from historian and professor of imperial and military history at King’s College London Ashley Jackson in the article “The Queen and the Commonwealth: a force for international change?,” The Queen at 90, BBC History, March 2020. “I declare before you all that my whole life, whether it be long or short . . .” is from the Queen’s twenty-first-birthday speech on April 21, 1947. That an image “would particularly appeal to a History of Art graduate such as Kate” is a quote by Mail on Sunday art critic Philip Hensher in an article by Sarah Oliver and Katie Nicholl, “Incredible glimpse through the palace keyhole and fiercely guarded private life of William and Kate,” Mail on Sunday, April 24, 2016. “If the Koh-i-Noor is a symbol of East India Company . . .” quote from Danielle Kinsey in article by Brahmjot Kaur, “Camilla swaps the Kohinoor diamond for another controversial stone on her coronation crown,” NBC News, February 17, 2023. “With a world stage and powerful voice that was inherited by her very position . . .” quote from article by John V. Petrocelli, “Trouble in the Castle: Unnecessary to Consult Sussex,” Psychology Today, December 10, 2022. Prince Harry’s statement condemning “racial undertones” and “wave of abuse” was released by Kensington Palace with the title “A Statement by the Communications Secretary to Prince Harry” on November 8, 2016. “I do think the Duke of Sussex and his office will bear some responsibility if a journalist is harmed . . .” comment by Richard Palmer on Twitter/X, December 18, 2018. “If you’d seen the stuff that was written and you were receiving it . . .” quotes from Neil Basu to Channel 4 News, November 29, 2022. The “Meghan made Kate cry” story first ran in an article by Camilla Tominey, “Kate and Meghan: Is the royal sisterhood really at breaking point?,” The Telegraph, November 26, 2018. The “What Meghan wants, Meghan gets!” tiara story was first reported by Dan Wootton, “MAJ RAPPED MEG: The Queen warned Prince Harry over Meghan Markle’s ‘difficult’ behaviour after row over bride’s tiara for royal wedding,” The Sun, November 9, 2018. The story claiming Meghan, the Duchess of Sussex, “bollocked” Kate, the Duchess of Cambridge’s staff was reported by Dan Wootton, “ROYAL STRIFE: Meghan Markle and Kate Middleton locked in bitter fallout as Hollywood starlet takes on royal court,” The Sun, November 30, 2018. The claim that Meghan refused to wear M&S tights first appeared in a column by Sophia Money-Coutts, The Sunday Telegraph, November 18, 2018. The nickname “Duchess Difficult” was first used in a headline by Roya Nikkhah, “Meghan loses second close aide, Samantha Cohen, as rumours swirl of ‘Duchess Difficult,’” The Sunday Times, December 9, 2018. The nickname “Me-Gain” was reported in an article by David Jenkins, “Two years on from the Royal Wedding, the cult of ‘Meghanomania’ endures,” Tatler, May 18, 2020. The descriptor “narcissistic sociopath” being used by ex-staffers was reported by Valentine Low, Courtiers: The Hidden Power Behind the Crown, 2018. “Degree wife” first appeared in an article by Sophia Money-Coutts, “Cambridge v. Sussex: is there a rift between Prince William and Kate and Prince Harry and Meghan?,” The Sunday Times, June 16, 2019. “Calling someone the b-word, labeling them as difficult . . .” quote is from Meghan on the podcast Archetypes (episode: “To ‘B’ or not to ‘B’?”), Spotify, November 2022. “Melissa is a hugely talented person . . .” source quotes from article by Richard Eden, “Palace shock as Meghan Markle’s closest aide quits her job just six months after royal wedding,” Daily Mail, November 10, 2018. The Meghan “friend” the Buckingham Palace aide said had also made comments about Melissa Toubati was actress Janina Gavankar, who was interviewed on This Morning, March 10, 2021, where she said, “I also know why someone had to leave, and it was for gross misconduct. The truth will come out, there’s plenty of emails and texts about that.” “I just didn’t want to be alive anymore . . .” quotes from Meghan from Oprah with Meghan and Harry, CBS, March 7, 2021. “As far as the family was concerned . . .” quotes from Prince Harry from Harry & Meghan, Netflix, 2022. Only 8 percent of Britain’s journalism workforce being non-white is a statistic from an Office for National Statistics Labour Force Survey reported by Charlotte Tobitt, “Survey finds growing UK journalism workforce of nearly 100,000 still lacks ethnic diversity,” Press Gazette, May 13, 2021 (updated September 30, 2022). The first use of “British-Iranian” in an article about me was by Ian Gallagher, “The celebrity writers chosen by Meghan to tell her ‘real’ story,” Mail on Sunday, April 25, 2020. “What was able to just be manufactured and churned out, it’s almost unsurvivable . . .” quote from Meghan to Teenager Therapy podcast, October 10, 2020. The statement denying Kate’s “baby Botox” was issued by a Kensington Palace spokesperson on July 24, 2019. “For us, for this union and the specifics around her race . . .” quote from Prince Harry from Oprah with Meghan and Harry, CBS, March 7, 2021. The letter written by Holly Lynch was sent to the Duchess of Sussex on October 29, 2019. The nationwide poll about sympathy for the Sussexes or the royal family after the Oprah Winfrey interview aired was conducted by YouGov (who surveyed 2,111 adults living in the United Kingdom) on March 8, 2021. Kate’s “History will judge this statement” was reported by Valentine Low in the paperback release of Courtiers: The Hidden Power Behind the Crown, 2023. “We are very much not a racist family” was William’s comment to Sky News reporter Inzamam Rashid on March 11, 2021, who asked the question, “Have you spoken to your brother since the interview?” (the prince’s reply, “No, I haven’t spoken to him yet, but I will do”), followed by, “And can you just let me know, is the royal family a racist family, sir?” The Buckingham Palace employment diversity percentages were released in the Sovereign Grant Report for the financial year 2022–23, and additional information was gathered by my own reporting. “Everything they said was going to happen hasn’t happened . . .” quotes by Prince Harry from Harry: The Interview, ITV, January 8, 2023.
