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LIVE: Lying Then, or Lying Now? Meghan’s Father Scandal Just Blew Up Her Oprah Story

October 28, 2026 · 49 min

Either Meghan believed in 2019 that her father was a pedophile, in which case she lied to Oprah about what was really tormenting her, or she didn’t, in which case last week’s statement was pure opportunism. There is no third option. In…
The Thomas Markle Bombshell Meghan Can’t Escape

October 28, 2026 · 57 min

The latest allegations surrounding Thomas Markle, Meghan Markle’s estranged father, are raising new questions about one of the royal family’s most publicized family feuds. On this episode of The Royalist, Tom Sykes examines the disputed…
LIVE: Bungling British Police LOST Letter Warning Them About Meghan’s Dad

October 27, 2026 · 37 min

The Metropolitan Police, the force charged with protecting the royal family, has had to go cap in hand to Meghan Markle and ask whether she still had a copy of a letter it was sent in 2019, because it had lost its own. That letter…
LIVE: The Markle Story Just Got Far Darker: What Meghan’s Statement Really Means

October 23, 2026 · 38 min

The Thomas Markle story has taken its darkest turn yet. The Sun reports that Meghan’s estranged father is under investigation over claims he kept child sexual abuse images at his former home in the Philippines, allegations he flatly denies…
LIVE: BREAKING- Thomas Markle Under Child Abuse Investigation After His SON Turns Him In

October 22, 2026 · 28 min

Emergency live. The Sun reports tonight that Thomas Markle Sr., the Duchess of Sussex’s estranged father, is under investigation by police in the Philippines over an alleged hoard of child sex abuse images, and that the person who reported…

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LIVE: Now Harry’s Phone Hacking Solicitors Go Bust!

October 22, 2026 · 51 min

The law firm at the heart of Prince Harry’s war on the British tabloids has gone bust. Thomson Heath Jenkins & Associates (the boutique London practice that acted for Harry, Sir Elton John, David Furnish, Elizabeth Hurley, Sadie Frost…
LIVE: Aberfan: The Day I Shook Hands With the King, the Queen and Prince William (In the Cheap Seats)

October 21, 2026 · 49 min

I have just spent the entire day in Aberfan. I stood in the crowd, as a member of the public, in the freezing cold, for hours. I shook hands with the King, the Queen and Prince William, one after the other. And I talked to the people who…
Harry is Meghan's Brainwashed Puppet: Tom Bower

October 21, 2026 · 1 hr 4 min

#ad Make laundry day the best day of the week! Get 20% off your entire order @LaundrySauce with code ROYALIST at https://laundrysauce.com/ROYALIST #laundrysaucepod On this episode of The Royalist, Tom Sykes is joined by Paula Froelich…
LIVE: "OUTRAGEOUS!" Harry BLAMES WILLIAM For Estrangement in Self-Serving New Interview

October 20, 2026 · 47 min

Tom was joined by writer and podcaster Molly Mulshine to discuss Harry's astonishing interview with GQ. Prince Harry has said he wants to reconcile with his brother, but suggested WILLIAM is to blame for their ongoing estrangement! That's…
LIVE: Nottingham Crowds Were Coached to Cheer Meghan

October 18, 2026 · 53 min

The cheering crowds in Nottingham were not what they seemed. I was on the ground for Harry and Meghan's charity visit on Thursday, and I can tell you the crowds were coached to cheer for Meghan. The walkabout at the first engagement, at…
LIVE: Exclusive: Meghan Raced Through Charity Events To Make Pick Up

October 17, 2026 · 50 min

Duncan joins me to discuss Meghan's latest headache, which has her fans and her critics reading the same story two very different ways. Supporters see a working mom juggling job and family. Critics see fresh proof that the half-in…
LIVE: EXCLUSIVE ‘It’s Unforgivable’: Royal Insiders React as Harry and Meghan Tear Up Queen’s Megxit Deal

October 16, 2026 · 48 min

"It's unforgivable." A friend of the Sussexes has told Hello! magazine that Harry and Meghan never agreed to the Sandringham settlement the late Queen hammered out in January 2020, and do not consider themselves bound by it. "They never…

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About the show

They have glittering palaces, unreal fortunes, medieval crowns, and weird traditions. But what really makes the British royal family tick? Hidden secrets, unreal scandals, bitter feuds, wild rivalries, fantastic fashion… and, of course, corgis. Now Tom Sykes, the royal correspondent whose fearless reporting has delivered scoop after scoop on the Windsors is cracking open all the family’s secrets in an unmissable podcast: The Royalist. Nothing is off limits as Tom and his best-connected experts spill every drop of royal tea. From paranoid princes and disgraced dukes to haunted palaces and diva designers, this is insight into the royals people used to lose their heads to get. Make a royal appointment to join Tom in the throne room for The Royalist, every Wednesday.