Royal news with newsroom edge.
Pod Save The King follows the British monarchy through fast-moving headlines, official appearances, and the arguments behind them. Its style is conversational and lightly opinionated, with royal statements, royal tours, scandals, and ceremonial detail turned into plain-English analysis.
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Pod Save The King covers the royal family as a running news story, not a sealed-off tradition. The pace is brisk. Episodes tend to begin with the headline of the week, then work through what it means for the King, the Waleses, Harry and Meghan, Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor, and the wider institution. A state visit is not just a state visit here. It becomes a way to talk about diplomacy, royal choreography, Ramadan adjustments, red carpets, renovation at Buckingham Palace, and how carefully royal symbolism has to be managed. The show also has room for lighter moments. Prince William taking a pasty order in Cornwall, Catherine visiting Leicester, or jokes about scones sit beside more serious discussions of public trust and constitutional status. That mix gives the programme its texture. It can be warm and conversational one minute, then sober when legal allegations, police investigations, or Jeffrey Epstein connections enter the frame. Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor is treated as a major institutional problem, with attention to entitlement, the line of succession, councillor of state status, and whether the royal family waited too long to act. King Charles is often framed through duty. His tours, speeches, and diplomatic encounters are read as work carried out under pressure, especially when U.S. politics or Donald Trump complicate the setting. Harry and Meghan are covered through the tension between royal-style appearances and commercial independence. The show is interested in that half-in, half-out question and how audiences read it. Religion, too, becomes part of the monarchy story, from Prince William’s public positioning to the induction of Dame Sarah Mulally. Russell Myers and Jennifer Newton give the format its regular push and pull, while other Mirror royal voices appear when needed. The result is neither royal bulletin nor pure gossip. It is newsroom conversation for people who want the Windsors explained while the story is still moving.
Made for: For listeners who follow the British monarchy as news, politics, celebrity, and constitutional theatre all at once. It especially suits people who want fast context on royal appearances, public backlash, and the stories behind royal optics.
What sets it apart: The show pairs informal co-host chemistry with tabloid-news immediacy, making official royal moments feel connected to public mood and institutional pressure. It is especially sharp on how scandals and ceremonies land outside the royal gates.
New era, new name: Welcome to Pod Save The King, the award-winning Royal podcast from the Daily Mirror. The Royal family is finding its way in a new era. Following the death of Queen Elizabeth II, King Charles III began his reign alongside Camilla, The Queen Consort. William and Kate became Prince and Princess of Wales. As the family changes, rifts remain with Harry and Meghan across the Atlantic and Prince Andrew is still in the aftermath of the Newsnight interview. There is joy too, as Prince George, Princess Charlotte and Prince Louis grow up both in and out of the public eye, and the Tindalls, Beatrice and Eugenie find their own ways. Expect behind the scenes details, fashion, travel, ca…
Based on 6 episodes we listened to · September 2026
Royal developments become questions of diplomacy, privilege, and public responsibility through informed, accessible conversation.
Pod Save The King follows royal news through informed studio conversation, with Anne Gripper, Daily Mirror Royal Editor Russell Myers, and Deputy Royal Editor Jennifer Newton sharing hosting duties.
The line of succession gets less ceremonial when you're asking what Andrew's status says about privilege.
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A royal tour is weighed as diplomacy under pressure.
Pod Save the King frames the King and Queen's visit to the United States as a test of royal diplomacy at a strained point in UK-US relations. The episode works through President Trump's criticism of the UK and other partners before looking at the planned shape of the trip, with…
A brisk royal-news episode on ceremony, family visibility, and the diplomatic pressure around a packed international programme.
The episode tracks a royal week defined by ceremony, public visibility, and diplomatic strain, moving from the King's address marking the late Queen Elizabeth II's 100th birthday to the royals' first public gathering since the former Prince Andrew's arrest, then on to an…
A rain-soaked Welsh royal visit opens into a sharper look at Andrew's place in the succession.
Pod Save the King moves through a crowded royal week, beginning with William and Catherine's rain-soaked visit to Wales and the unscheduled stops discussed under the "Walesmania" label, then shifting toward the more pointed question of Andrew's place in the line of succession.
A royal arrest sharpens questions of privilege, family discipline, and old warnings catching up.
Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor's 11 hours in a police station gives Pod Save the King a tight path into a royal crisis: unmarked cars at the King's Sandringham estate, searches of Andrew's properties, repeated statements from the King, and Phil Noble's striking Reuters photograph.
A conversational review of the royal family's difficult 2024, from cancer treatment to carefully chosen public appearances.
A year of royal upheaval gives this final 2024 conversation a clear frame, with Anne Gripper and Russell Myers looking back at Kate and the King's cancer treatment, Southport, Remembrance events, state visits, and carefully chosen public appearances.
A conversational read on Camilla's more visible royal role while Charles and Kate recover at home.
With Charles and Kate back at home, Pod Save the King shifts its focus to Camilla's more visible place in the royal public role. Anne Gripper and Daily Mirror Royal Editor Russell Myers weigh the seriousness implied by Kate's nearly two-week hospital stay and the recovery ahead,…
Palace news with newsroom instincts.
Moral questions with consequences for minds, machines, and power.
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Dan Carlin's solo essays connecting executive power, historical collapse, and American democracy.
Jennifer Newton and Charlotte Foster discuss the royal family's Christmas traditions, focusing on Kate's annual carol concert and other festive engagements.
Host Anne Gripper and Daily Mirror Royal Editor Russell Myers review the royal family's tumultuous 2024.
Pod Save the King focuses on Camilla taking a more visible role while Charles and Kate recover at home in Windsor.
Russell Myers and Jennifer Newton examine Earl Spencer’s Diana book and its claims about the royal family.
Pod Save The King focuses on the King and Queen’s U.S.
Pod Save The King centers on King Charles's televised April 21 address for Queen Elizabeth II's 100th birthday, a Buckingham Palace reception for just under 100 guests, and the return of the Prince and Princess of Wales, the Princess Royal, and the Duke and Duchess of Edinburgh.
Russell Myers and Jennifer Newton discuss the week's royal news, including Prince William and Kate's attendance at the induction of the first female Archbishop of Canterbury.
This episode of Pod Save the King discusses the Nigerian state visit to Windsor Castle and other royal news.
Russell Myers and Jennifer Newton discuss a newly unearthed photo of Prince Andrew, Peter Mandelson, and Jeffrey Epstein in bathrobes, adding to the Epstein scandal.
Russell Myers and Jennifer Newton discuss Prince William's solo visit to Cornwall for St Piran's Day and Princess Catherine's cultural engagements in Leicester.
Pod Save The King, with Russell Myers and Jennifer Newton, focuses on William and Catherine’s Wales trip, the BAFTAs, and the fallout around Andrew’s arrest and line of succession.
Russell Myers and Jennifer Newton focus on the arrest of Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor, the Thames Valley Police statement, and the searches at Wood Farm and Royal Lodge.
Royal editors discuss Kate's annual Christmas carol concert and other royal Christmas traditions.
Anne Grepper and Russell Myers discuss Prince William's emotional moments with Kate and Rhian, and recent royal events.
Anne Gripper and Jen Phaneas discuss Prince William's appearance on The Reluctant Traveller and other royal news.