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Spotify takes Sussexes' podcasts 'into its own hands': Streaming giant is hiring producers to manage 'every step' of Harry and Meghan's pet project
dm ^ | 1/24/2022 | REBECCA ENGLISH ROYAL EDITOR FOR THE DAILY MAIL and KATIE WESTON FOR MAILONLINE

Posted on 01/24/2022 6:21:30 PM PST by RummyChick

They launched their £18million podcast deal a year ago with a pledge to promote ‘shared values’.

But Harry and Meghan’s pet project appears to have suffered a blow, with audio giant Spotify reportedly taking production into its own hands.

After the deal resulted in only one show being streamed, it is advertising for in-house staff to cover ‘every step’ of the process.

Spotify announced the partnership with the Duke and Duchess of Sussex’s Archewell Audio in December 2020 as they were ‘citizens of the world’ who wanted to ‘elevate underrepresented voices’.

But aside from a 33-minute ‘holiday special’ that month featuring friends such as Sir Elton John and James Corden – and the intensely private couple’s son, Archie, speaking his first public words – there has been a deafening silence.

The latest move follows Harry and Meghan adding two more 'entertainment' companies to their growing business empire in Delaware.

The pair, who stepped back from royal duty last year, are setting up a complex network of companies all based in the opaque tax haven state.

(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...


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KEYWORDS: royalgrifters; spotify; sussex
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To: Celtic Conservative

Just seems like charles sister would be better suited.


21 posted on 01/24/2022 7:23:30 PM PST by RummyChick
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To: bimboeruption

Meghan realized that “being a royal” included a lot of boring duty (also known as “work”); now she’s finding out that doing a podcast is also “work”, and she doesn’t want to do that either.


22 posted on 01/24/2022 7:25:12 PM PST by LizzieD
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To: BenLurkin

Colonel Catherine Cambridge!


23 posted on 01/24/2022 7:26:54 PM PST by Cecily
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To: RummyChick

Neither did Anne, but she has honorary military ranks.

https://royalcentral.co.uk/uk/anne-at-70-her-military-appointments-147042/


24 posted on 01/24/2022 7:28:45 PM PST by Cecily
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To: RummyChick

Perhaps. But it’s up to Liz.

CC


25 posted on 01/24/2022 7:30:25 PM PST by Celtic Conservative (My cats are more amusing than 200 channels worth of TV.)
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To: RummyChick

They just need to go away. Please!


26 posted on 01/24/2022 7:30:38 PM PST by Joann37
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To: RummyChick

I thought the poster was a friend of Charles.


27 posted on 01/24/2022 7:31:50 PM PST by kalee
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To: RummyChick

Anne can’t do it all. William and Catherine will be taking on more of these roles.


28 posted on 01/24/2022 7:32:47 PM PST by Cecily
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To: kalee

There is a poster here who has been friends with Andy for a long time. Since i have never seen the poster make that public i shall refrain from saying anything else.


29 posted on 01/24/2022 7:33:58 PM PST by RummyChick
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To: Cecily

Ahh..i thought she had served. She does take her military roles seriously.


30 posted on 01/24/2022 7:35:27 PM PST by RummyChick
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To: RummyChick

Why would Charles’s sister be better suited? They didn’t name her. They said they preferred Cathering.


31 posted on 01/24/2022 7:37:01 PM PST by ladyjane
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To: Levy78

As much as we have heard her blather about “women’s voices” and “her voice,” she gets a podcast deal to run her mouth to her heart’s content, and what does Ms. Trifling Feckless do? Nothing, so far.

These two are nothing but hot air. Someone else always has to do the heavy lifting and real work.


32 posted on 01/24/2022 7:38:16 PM PST by Cecily
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To: Arcadian Empire

“The fame of the two talentless hacks is fading fast.”

indeed, and fame is all they have, so in a couple of years no one will give a shite about them and that’ll be that ... thankfully ...


33 posted on 01/24/2022 8:59:23 PM PST by catnipman (Cat Nipman: In a post-covid world, ALL "science" is now political science ...)
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To: CaliGirlGodHelpMe

Thanks it was Tiberius had to tune in Caligula BBC series Derek Jacoby.


34 posted on 01/24/2022 9:14:11 PM PST by John S Mosby ( Sic Semper Tyrannis)
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To: RummyChick

My last cat’s name was Andy. He was “fixed.”

Just saying.


35 posted on 01/24/2022 9:37:04 PM PST by Veto! (Political Correctness offends me)
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To: BenLurkin

She’s much classier, kinder, and more humble by a mile than the Markle woman.


36 posted on 01/24/2022 9:38:57 PM PST by kelly4c
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To: CaliGirlGodHelpMe

Dang it— wrong name for the BBC Show— it was “I Claudius” Derek Jacoby as Claudius Caesar (excellent stutter and slobber) and Sian Phillips as Livia


37 posted on 01/24/2022 9:42:45 PM PST by John S Mosby ( Sic Semper Tyrannis)
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To: John S Mosby

Excellent series. Now that you mention it, Livia has quite a bit in common with a certain conniving narcissist, the one we’re discussing.


38 posted on 01/24/2022 10:21:51 PM PST by CaliGirlGodHelpMe (God bless President Trump and his Family)
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To: Levy78

“self-important clowns”
So perfectly stated! LOL


39 posted on 01/24/2022 11:05:03 PM PST by WWG1WWA (Beware the fury of a patient man. - John Dryden )
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To: RummyChick

The present Royal Family has never been noted for its intellect. It appears the trend is still downhill.


40 posted on 01/25/2022 6:11:31 AM PST by norwaypinesavage (Capitalism is what happens when you leave people alone.)
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