Calorogus Shark Media. Hello and welcome to Palace Intrigue, am your host Mark Francis. It turns out Megan Michael might just be tuning in to what the Internet has to say about her and sending jam or at least something
that is legally fruit spread. In response, podcaster Amanda Hirsch, host of the popular Not Skinny But Not Fat Show, revealed that she received a handwritten letter from the Duchess of Sussex herself after expressing concern about Meghan's Netflix series With Love Meghan back in January, Hirsch had said she was scared for Meghan of the show's potential reception. Nothing nasty,
just a mix of cringe and compassion. I was making cringing faces at the trailer, she admitted, but I'm genuinely scared she'll be ripped to shreds and to Meghan stage left with a monogramm M and a pen March, Amanda received a note written in Meghan's famously legant calligraphy that read, Dear Amanda, I heard you, but feeling scared, don't be This is the fun part. Let's enjoy it. Hersh said she had to read it twice first thought, oh my god,
her second weight. Did I just get a handwritten life advice from Meghan Mankle And that wasn't all After signing with WMME, the same powerhouse agency that reps Meghan, Amana says she got another surprise just two days later, a care package of jam and t straight from the Duchess. Amanda tells page six she believes Meghan's gesture was sincere. I think it was genuine from her. I think she
was like, don't be scared, Amanda. She explained friends that Meghan reportedly confirmed the note was the Duchess's idea and that Meghan had told her team we should start sending notes. She's got good press out of it. Hirsh said. People thought it was snarky, funny, that she has a sense of humor. She gets it. She's tuned in her advice
to Meghan keep it casual. Meghan recently spoke candidly about her marriage to Prince Harry, describing the couple of being in their honeymoon period just weeks before their seventh wedding anniversary. On May nineteenth, on the Jamie Kern Lema Show, Meghan revealed h which is secret cove Harry. That man loves me so much, and you know what we've built. We have built a beautiful life and we have two healthy,
beautiful children. I always think about it when you get to the end of Super Mario Brothers, the final final level, and what's the goal. It's to slay the dragons, to save the princess. It's my husband. He is just out there and constantly doing whatever we can to make sure our family is safe, protected, that we are uplifted, and still make time for date nights. However, a source told
Okay magazine that some of Megan's remarks surprised listeners. Megan wants everyone to move on from the talk of divorce, but some of what she said wasn't particularly relatable, and that's probably why a lot of people were shocked. She and Harry love each other and would love to put an end to the speculation once and for all, because
it's hurtful and they've been through so much together. Meghan wants to tell everyone how close they are, and she speaks passionately because because that's her personality, but it doesn't always land the way she wants it to. Harry is dealing with quite a few difficult things, so hearing her say they're in a honeymoon period was quite surprising. Megan's words could well have the opposite effect of what she wanted.
Some of it seemed pretty over the top, but other parts came across as quite flippant, especially her comparisons with a Super Mario game. But she's a very positive person and understandably doesn't like the negative rumors. In the same interview, Meghan spoke about her own sense of self and personal growth over the past year. I know that I'm a great friend, and I know that the kind of mum I am, and I know the kind of human being
I am, and I know how I show up. And I love being able to be that person with the people that I love. There have been so many major storylines lately that we didn't get to share this gem about Meghan from Claire Cohen in Vogue. It's like something out of one of my nightmares. An inbox over which you have no control and to which you have no access, steadily filling up with emails that you can't read, file
or delete screen for eternity. So Sparrah thought for Prince Archie aged five and Princess Little three in a podcast interview with her friend, beauty entrepreneur Jamie Kerne Lima, Meghan explained that she is putting together a time capsule for her children with Prince Harry, sending photographs and anecdotes daily to email addresses that she's created on their behalf so
that they may enjoy them later on. They won't be able to open the inboxes until they're sixteen or even eighteen, hopefully along with the trust fund, or, as Meghan put it, here's everything, every moment that I wanted to tell you how much I love you and like how proud I am of you. She emails them most nights before bed, because it doesn't have to be a heavy lift, which former members of her staff, who claimed in The Hollywood Reporter that Megan would fire off regular five am emails
might find all two familiar. Aside from how overwhelmed I now feel on behalf of two children under six, I think of the heavy lifting they're going to have to do reading all whose emails as teenagers when they'd rather be up with their friends. Meghan's Letters project says so much about millennial parenting. Turns out it's not all that
different whether you're in Montecito or Mile End. I thought it was such a great time capsule to create for them because I used to have scrap books and photo albums. That we're past that generation now, the Dutchess continued on the podcast. There's that nostalgia again, trapping us in a parenting cycle of trying to give out digital kids and
analog experience. Except there's a huge difference between sticking a few pictures into a notebook and waking up on your sixteenth birthday to your mum giving you somewhere north of four thousand emails to read. At least they won't have to reply to them all. I suppose more pounds in just a moment. A newly published study has cast fresh light on one of history's most infamous royal lineages, suggesting that the distinctive facial feature known as the Hasburg jaw
was in fact a product of extensive inbreeding. The Hasburgs, who once ruled over the vast stretches of Europe, including the Spanish and Austrian empires, have long been recognized for their unusual jaw lines, most notably seen in Huls, the second of Spain, whose protruding lower jaw became a symbol
of dynastic decline. Now, researchers have examined sixty six historical portraits of the Habsburgs, impaired their visual analysis with genealogical data to assess whether these facial anomalies were a direct result of close familial into marriage. The conclusion there is indeed a statistically significant link between the degree of inbreeding and the severity of mandibular prognathicism. The jutting lower jaw
that came to define the dynasty. Charles the Second, the last of the Spanish Hasburg monarchs, was the product of a union between his father and his father's niece. Geneticists say his genome likely resembled that of a child born to first order relatives, with medical consequences to match. His ill health and infertility ultimately brought the Habsburg dynasty in
Spain to an end. The study, led by Professor Roman Villis, analyzed eleven traits of the lower jaw and seven indicators of maximiary deficiency, such as an underdeveloped upper jaw that creates a pronounced overbite. Of particular interest were individuals such as Naximinion, the first Margaret of Austria, childs first, Phillip the Fourth and Charles Second, all of whom exhibited significant
craniofacial irregularities. Mary of Burgundy, who entered the family by marriage in fourteen seventy seven, displayed the fewest science of these deformities, providing a useful control for the research team. Meanwhile, Philip the Fourth, who ruled Spain and Portugal in the seventeenth century, was found to possess the most pronounced features. The researchers mapped a family tree spanning twenty generations and over six thousand individuals, highlighting the sheer extent of consanguinity
within the Habsburg bloodline. Across this sprawling genealogy, they found a clear positive relationship between the inbreeding and the appearance of the Habsburg jaw. Professor Villis explained, notably, the study was too explored the broader implications of inbreeding. While recessive genes often lied dormant in the general population, they can manifest in offspring when both parents carry matching copies, a
risk dramatically heightened when those parents are closely related. This genetic mirroring, known as homozygosity, increases the likelihood of inherited diseases and physical abnormalities. Such patterns are not limited to the Habsburgs. The British royal family, too, has experienced the perilous consequences of intermarriage, with hemophilia, often dubbed the Royal disease, traced back to Queen Victoria and spread throughout various European
royal houses. While the research has acknowledge that some degree of uncertainty remains, particularly regarding the possibility of random genetic drift, they maintain that the inbreeding hypothesis is by far the
most convincing explanation for the recurring facial structure. In an interview accompanying the findings, Professor Villa's remarks that the Habsburg dynasty offered a rare opportunity to study the long term genetic effects of intermarriage with a closed population, describing the family perhaps with more candor than they themselves would have liked,
as a human laboratory. Though they once ruled with authority over much of Europe, the enduring legacy of the Habsburgs may lie less in their imperial might than in their cautionary tale written into their very bones. And there you have it should like to email us addresses the Palace intriy apt gmail dot com. Please follow us Spotify, Apple or the app of your choice and leave us a nice review. If you're enjoying the show, I'm Mark Francis
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