Their post has royal watchers suspecting an attack<\/p>[\/et_pb_text][et_pb_text module_class=”credit-name” _builder_version=”4.20.4″ _module_preset=”default” text_font=”Black Han Sans|||on|||||” text_text_color=”#000000″ header_4_font=”|||on|||||” header_4_text_align=”center” text_orientation=”center” custom_margin=”||0px||false|false” global_colors_info=”{}”]
Words by Sarah O’Byrne<\/strong><\/p>[\/et_pb_text][et_pb_image src=”https:\/\/flatplan-plus-content.s3.eu-west-1.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2025\/03\/Meghan-and-Harry-1.jpg” alt=”Meghan and Harry” title_text=”Meghan and Harry (1)” force_fullwidth=”on” _builder_version=”4.20.4″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”][\/et_pb_image][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.20.4″ _module_preset=”default” hover_enabled=”0″ global_colors_info=”{}” sticky_enabled=”0″] On Thursday, 6th March, the official royal family Instagram account which showcases the day-to-day engagements of King Charles and Queen Camilla posted a cryptic Instagram stories that has fans everywhere scratching their heads. The story in question was a video of an \u2018on air\u2019 sign being switched on, implying the royals are gearing up to announce some kind of audio project. What could that look like? Perhaps a podcast, At Home with Charles and Camilla? Or a radio show, playing tracks spun from Buckinham Palace?<\/p>\n Well given the timing of the post, many royal watchers are speculating that it actually has something to do with the Duchess of Sussex. Could they be about to issue a competing product that lets us into the realities of the royal family? Or, are they gearing up for a public announcement via the radio\u00a0 or docu-series just as the King’s grandfather, King George VI, did in 1845 when Germany surrendered World War II, on the anniversary of VE Day on May 8.<\/p>\n Either way, the timing of a crypitic royal post is interesting particularly as all anyone’s talking about is Meghan Markle\u2019s latest venture\u2014 an eight-episode Netflix docuseries entitled With Love, Meghan<\/em>\u2014 which has garnered plenty of criticism and praise alike.<\/p>\n BBC’s Sean Coughlan writes that With Love, Meghan<\/em> is about ‘escapism and aspiration’ adding ‘it’s a glass of something sparkling on a grey day.’\u00a0Melanie McDonagh from The Evening Standard gave the show four stars and called it ‘ridiculous’ but a ‘hoot’ to watch. Alternatively, The Guardian’s Stuart Heritage wrote that ‘With Love, Meghan<\/em> doesn\u2019t just represent the hard launch of Duchess of Sussex\u2019s new career as a Martha Stewart-style lifestyle inspo guru; it might also be the final thing she makes for Netflix.’<\/p>\n The show, despite the mixed reviews, may have ended up garnering the Duchess even more fans. One tweeted, \u2018With Love, Meghan is actually what people needed, and numbers are proving it. Watching Meghan just being herself, so positive and joyful, cooking with her friends is the best thing.\u2019 Regardless of whether the critics loved it or loathed it, the show has earned the Duchess plenty of views.<\/p>\n Unlike their 2022 docuseries Harry & Meghan<\/em>, there was little to no reference to the royal family in With Love, Meghan<\/em>. However, that didn\u2019t stop fans wondering how the royals felt about it online – especially the Prince and Princess of Wales. \u2018I don’t think they\u2019ll pay [the series] an awful lot of attention,\u2019 royal author Katie Nicholl told Grazia. \u2018We\u2019ve got the Princess of Wales in remission, back at work, travelling around the country, doing brilliant things with William. I think they’ve got more Markle’s reveal that she is now using the surname Sussex\u2014as are Prince Harry, 40, and Prince Archie, five, and Princess Lilibet, three\u2014 has caused outrage among fans. Many are criticising Meghan for choosing that as their combined name despite leaving the royal family in January 2020\u2014 ignoring the sentimentality behind choosing to pay homage to Harry\u2019s family and upbringing, like so many royals before them have done.<\/p>\n All this and more has led royal watchers to read into Charles and Camilla\u2019s \u2018on air\u2019 sign.\u00a0<\/p>[\/et_pb_text][et_pb_image src=”https:\/\/flatplan-plus-content.s3.eu-west-1.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2025\/03\/Meghan-Netflix-Name.jpg” alt=”With Love, Meghan” title_text=”With Love, Meghan ” _builder_version=”4.20.4″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”][\/et_pb_image][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.20.4″ _module_preset=”default” custom_padding=”||0px|||” global_colors_info=”{}”] The last time the royals threw open the doors of Buckingham palace to the public was their disastrous documentary series over five decades ago. The documentary film, titled Royal Family,<\/em> originally aired in June 1969 and was jointly produced by BBC1 and ITV. The film attracted over 38 million viewers in the United Kingdom and was seen by an estimated 350 million people. However, the backlash was almost immediate. Although their intention had been to convey themselves as down-to-earth, hardworking people, the monarchy soon deemed it \u2018too intrusive,\u2019 and regretted allowing the nation in. The Queen later had the documentary banned and\u00a0it has not been aired on British TV since 1977. Now, only researchers with who pay a fee of 35 pounds and gain prior permission from Buckingham Palace are allowed to view the film at the BBC. If that isn\u2019t sign enough that they had made a grave error, David Attenborough, then Controller of BBC2, warned director Richard Cawson, ‘You’re killing the monarchy with this film you’re making.’<\/p>[\/et_pb_text][et_pb_text module_class=”custom-quote” _builder_version=”4.20.4″ _module_preset=”default” header_2_font=”Libre Bodoni|||on|||||” header_2_text_align=”center” header_2_text_color=”#333333″ header_2_font_size=”40px” header_2_line_height=”1.2em” global_colors_info=”{}”] However, their latest \u2018on air\u2019 story could mark another try. After all, times have changed since 1969. However, viewers are more vocal than ever, and to open themselves up to the public again could invite the same criticism Meghan Markle has had to face all these years.<\/p>\n This new venture could follow their new strategy to be more relatable to the public. While Kate Middleton spent 2024 largely out of the\u00a0public\u00a0eye due to her battle with cancer, the Princess of Wales has been venturing out more and more in recent weeks.\u00a0She has also become noticeably more tactile according to royal fans. \u00a0At the Royal Marsden Hospital, Kate was pictured embracing a cancer patient who went on to describe it as a moment of \u2018mutual connection\u2019 to\u00a0MailOnline. \u2018She was giving me the love and I was giving her the love. It felt so true,\u2019 Rebecca Mendelsohn told the paper. \u2018She was so genuine, you felt it.\u2019<\/p>\n So, will the royal family follow their traditional stiff upper lip attitude of keeping the public in the dark, or could they be hinting at a tell-all podcast? If so, we\u2019ll be tuning in.<\/p>[\/et_pb_text][et_pb_divider color=”#111111″ divider_position=”center” divider_weight=”2px” module_class=”custom-divider” _builder_version=”4.20.4″ _module_preset=”default” custom_margin=”0px||0px||false|false” custom_padding=”0px||0px||false|false” global_colors_info=”{}”][\/et_pb_divider][et_pb_text module_class=”credit-texts” _builder_version=”4.20.4″ _module_preset=”default” text_font=”|||on|||||” text_orientation=”center” global_colors_info=”{}”] Photo: <\/b>Imago, Netflix<\/p>[\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][\/et_pb_section]\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Their cryptic Instagram story has royal watchers scratching their heads<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":7703,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"on","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7697","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"modified_by":"guestgrazia","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flatplanplus.io\/grazia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7697","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/flatplanplus.io\/grazia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/flatplanplus.io\/grazia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flatplanplus.io\/grazia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flatplanplus.io\/grazia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7697"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/flatplanplus.io\/grazia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7697\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7711,"href":"https:\/\/flatplanplus.io\/grazia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7697\/revisions\/7711"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flatplanplus.io\/grazia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7703"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flatplanplus.io\/grazia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7697"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flatplanplus.io\/grazia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7697"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flatplanplus.io\/grazia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7697"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
important things to focus on.\u2019<\/p>\n‘You’re killing the monarchy with this film.’<\/h2>[\/et_pb_text][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.20.4″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”]