New Pictures of King Charles Say What the British Media Can’t Say
First of all, thanks a lot to everybody who tuned in to my new Daily Beast / The Royalist podcast final night time.
I used to be so nervous beforehand! I knew the group I had labored so laborious to construct was there, and I knew individuals would present up for me, so I do not likely know why I used to be nervous, however I could not assist it.
I suppose that’s simply the way you all the time really feel with any large new challenge you’ve poured so much of time and power into.
Anyway, it went completely brilliantly.
We had an incredible roster of company: Andrew Lownie, Paula Froelich, Plum Sykes, and Shauna Kay, and it exceeded my wildest desires by one million.
I’m extremely grateful to these of you who gave me an hour of your useful time and selected to spend it with me. I actually hope it was price it.
The humorous factor is that I solely ever began the YouTube channel as a result of I wished to create a store window that will ship individuals to my Substack, and it definitely has executed that. So many of my new subscribers have come from YouTube, and it has been a superb solution to get on the market.
But you guys on Subsatck come first.
I do know that in addition to giving me your useful time, you additionally give me your useful {dollars}, and that creates a really totally different relationship.
So many individuals have reached into their pockets and paid for a subscription, and I’m grateful to you all, as a result of I’ve a couple of Substack subscriptions myself, and I understand how they will begin to add up on high of all the things else: Netflix, Spotify, Amazon, Audible. Before you understand it, you might be carrying so much of subscriptions.
So I actually don’t take it flippantly.
You guys on Substack are the absolute core of my work life nowadays. You are my “thousand true fans.”
You are the cause I’ve been capable of construct this unimaginable new profession as a multi-platform storyteller overlaying the most extraordinary story in the world: the story of the British royal household.
I launched on August 2 final yr, and, nicely, as Napoleon mentioned, the first requirement for a soldier is that he be fortunate. The Prince Andrew-Jeffrey Epstein story has been a compelling one certainly, with a big supporting function performed by the ongoing Harry and Meghan drama.
There is so much to atone for, so with out additional ado, listed below are some of the tales which were occupying us over the previous few days that I perhaps ought to have despatched out sooner, had I not been so busy doing the podcast.
My common readers will probably be conscious that there was a bit of controversy round a put up by one of my readers, @kingwilliamv, who’s carefully concerned with the veterans group, about the Invictus Games.
The remark was mysteriously deleted. Substack says I could have by chance deleted it myself whereas replying, and I’m selecting to simply accept that clarification as a result of I nonetheless wish to imagine Substack is made up of good individuals.
In any case, I bought again in contact with the reader and requested them to inform me the full story of their expertise. Here is an edited model of what they despatched me, reproduced with permission.
