The Royals

Liam and Noel were not the only brothers rumoured to be reuniting this week. Roya and Kate assess reports of a rumoured Royal comeback for Prince Harry. What really is the truth? Plus the latest on Prince William's beard and a look ahead to a packed Autumn calendar for the Royals! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Kate is faced with a familiar challenge: how to glean as much information from the Royal Household as possible? Ailsa Anderson, Queen Elizabeth II's former press secretary, joins Kate in the studio for a one-to-one chat about journalism, royalty and what really goes on when you work behind the scenes at the palace. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Roya Nikkhah looks ahead to the Duke of Sussex's big milestone in September with an in depth profile in the Sunday Times, and together with historian Hugo Vickers uses this as a starting point in considering whether the birthday might herald a reconsideration of the prince's “gilded exile”, and does his and Meghan's Colombia tour represents a moment of change? Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privac...

Roya and Kate continue their private tour of the King's Gallery, inside Buckingham Palace. In part two of their exploration of photographic portraits through the ages, they discuss Royal icons from 1980 to the modern day, where a contemporary approach dominates. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

This week, a special episode from an iconic royal landmark - Buckingham Palace. Roya and Kate are given their own private tour of the King's Gallery, currently home to more than 150 Royal photographic portraits, taken by the likes of Cecil Beaton, Dorothy Wilding, Annie Leibovitz and more. In the first of two parts, they look back at works from the 1920s to the 1980s and discuss the late Queen's c...

It has been called "a House of God, and a House of Kings" and Westminster Abbey has been at the very heart of Royal occasions playing host to coronations, weddings, and funerals. And now a podcast, this podcast. In this special episode, Roya and Kate have the Abbey to themselves as they discuss its history, reflect on recent events there and explore the Royal family’s relationship with religion. H...

A bumper week of royal news: The King met with Idris Elba, honoured goats in Guernsey then hotfooted it back to Westminster for the State Opening of Parliament. Harry caused controversy with an award in America. And there were welcome public returns for the Princess of Wales and Princess Anne. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Today, we're sharing an episode of a new podcast from The Times. It's called Your History, and each week it uses the obituary pages of The Times to tell the stories of important and fascinating lives. This week Anna Temkin, deputy obituaries editor at The Times, explores the lives of the sex therapist Dr Ruth Westheimer and Royal cake decorator Eddie Spence. You can hear future episodes by followi...

This week, Roya and Kate are both sports correspondents and property correspondents as England edge closer to Euros glory, Buckingham Palace gets a newly-spruced wing and and the Prince of Wales presses on with his homelessness campaign. The King has already sent his best wishes to the team, but will William be in Berlin for the final? And Roya explains what it's really like behind the most famous...

"I have just returned from Buckingham Palace, where I accepted an invitation from His Majesty the King to form the next government of this great nation" said Sir Keir Starmer, but what exactly is the relationship between monarch and Prime Minister? Plus, Roya returns from Scotland with revelations about royal life inside Balmoral Castle. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

A week of pomp, pageantry and pop as the Prince of Wales dances along to Taylor Swift as if no one was watching (but Roya and Kate were). Japan's Emperor Naruhito begins his state visit with King Charles rekindling an old friendship with some new jokes, and we look at the impact of the Princess Royal's incident involving a horse at her Gatcombe Park estate. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy f...

Royal Ascot plays host to the 'The Roya and Kate Show'. This week, the podcast comes to you live from the edge of the Parade Ring as the Royal Parade ends and the racing begins. Joining Roya and Kate is Donal McCabe, formerly the Communications Secretary for Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II and Jamie Osborne who was reportedly the late Queen Mother's favourite jockey and now trainer, with horses run...

The King and Queen are at Ascot, and so are Roya and Kate for this bonus edition of 'The Royals' where they talk through the warmth of the reaction to Kate's appearance at last weekend's Trooping the Colour - and just how did Roya know she might be there? Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Why being at Trooping of the Colour is so important to the Royal Family, and Kate and Roya discuss the possibilities of public appearances by the Princess of Wales. And why Kate was photographed with (football) royalty and Roya was suspiciously close to an attempt to deface a portrait of the King. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

The King honours the D-Day forces calling for goodness in every land, while the Prince of Wales joins world leaders. And Kate discusses her 'siege of Royal Lodge' scoop! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In April, the King's invitation to their Majesties The Emperor and Empress of Japan to pay a State Visit to the UK was accepted and scheduled for late June, with the King and Queen hosting at Buckingham Palace. But after the Prime Minister's surprise decision to call a snap election within weeks, what now happens to the soft power of a State Visit and why do they actually matter? And a look ahead...

The snap election caught many by surprise - even the Palace? The month ahead was supposed to be a hugely busy time for the Royals with both ceremonial and state occasions. So what happens now? In this bonus episode, Roya and Kate are joined by royal biographer Hugo Vickers to explore how politics will impact protocol at the Palace, as King Charles faces the first general election of his reign. Hos...

We have a new monarchy - the King of the Compost and the Queen of the Bees as Charles and Camilla were re-named by the child gardeners at the ‘No Adults Allowed Garden’ at the Chelsea Flower Show. The visit comes as King Charles became the patron of the Royal Horticultural Society as his mother was for some seventy years. In a show recorded before the UK election announcement, Roya and Kate discus...

Roya Nikkhah and Kate Mansey are drawn to the new and very red painting of King Charles and they use this first official portrait to also look back at images of old to predict the future direction of the monarchy. They analyse Roya's exclusive earlier in the week on reports that the King had agreed to a request from the Duke of Sussex to stay in a royal residence ahead of the Duke's trip to London...

The hugely experienced royal editors of The Sunday Times and the Times, Roya Nikkhah and Kate Mansey, explore the ever-evolving world of the British monarchy. In their first episode they discuss the week when Prince William visited a homelessness project in Cornwall, and King Charles and the Duke of Sussex were both in London but no meeting took place - why?  Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/pr...

Two of the biggest names in reporting the royals introduce their new podcast combining humour, insight, debate and the occasional scoop. Episode one will be available on Friday 10th of May, wherever you find your podcasts. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.