Fleet Street

But at the same time, many, many lessons have been learned since then.

And Nick Parker, the Sun's chief international correspondent and the journalist who reported this, is one of Fleet Street's legendary big beasts, as we call them.

Now, I know, as much as Nick Parker will know, as much as anyone will know, that Thomas Markle Jr. has proved himself a deeply unreliable and unsavoury character.

There's been the arrests, the allegations of pulling guns on people, rumours of alcohol problems.

Causes she knew about.

Causes she chose, albeit on police advice, not to mention while she and Harry built a global brand that made them tens of millions of dollars, a hundred million dollars by some estimations, if you count the book, the Netflix, the Spotify, and all the other deals.

They built this ginormous global brand on the proposition that the people who had really hurt her were in Buckingham Palace, Kensington Palace, and Fleet Street.

And they did.

I've been there a few times, and it looks terrifying.

You know, Fleet Street back in the day was a tough job because the hours were really long.

It was a club called Vagabonds, full of hookers and police and journalists.

And it was great.

a long time.

I mean, I've had some jobs which have been harder than others.

You know, Fleet Street back in the day was a tough job because the hours were really long and you'd sort of go into work at kind of 10 in the morning and you wouldn't really normally get home until about 10 at night.

And there was a lot of drinking and a lot of meeting people and a lot of phone calls, constant phone calls.

And then there's Arthur Edwards.

This man, the king will say, pointing to Fleet Street's longest serving royal photographer, has been following me around for 50 years, which is true.

When they met in 1976, as the king himself puts it, Edwards was, quote, crawling about in the undergrowth all over the world in hot pursuit of members of the royal family to find them, photograph them, and leap on a yacht or a Learjet to the next assignment.

Back then, he was a familiar face and something of a thorn in their sides.

Yeah.

And Chris, when we were in Fleet Street, used to go down the City Golf Club all afternoon and then come back for four o'clock, which was like conference time, and then present a load of pictures he hadn't seen all day because he'd been in the boozer and tell everybody how great they were.

But Chris's favourite trick was sometimes he didn't get back until six o'clock.

Was his

they had to spend an absolute fortune.

This so-called new technology was supposed to save them a load of money, but instead of which they spent literally millions of pounds a year printing it all out.

But the favourite image I've got of Chris, he was a great guy, and the reason we're talking about him is because he actually emigrated to Australia with his Australian wife after Fleet Street sort of closed down.

He used to come back at six o'clock, you know, by this time I've seen double, you know what I mean? And he would do exactly what you just said.

Alright, let's have a look at what's in the news cycle this morning.

What's the legacy corporate lamestream media banging on about this morning? What are they lying to us about by omission? What's that cabal of evil, quite frankly evil, Fleet Street editors droning on about this morning? Is there going to be a story about the connection between Les Wexner, Jeffrey Epstein and Ehud Barak and the Israeli intelligence services? No.

No.

Hey, guys, remember, like every day, yeah, don't talk about what Epstein really was.

And she's actually an American, right? And a couple of other friends from the newspaper business.

But the problem was, was that my American wife, who was busy at home, you know, cooking away this, you know, this massive kind of spread, ended up, you know, ringing me every five minutes going, where the hell are you? Because we were in a bar somewhere in Fleet Street and saying, well, we must get home.

We must get home because we were working.

And so by the time we got home, At about 9 o'clock at night.

Oh, yeah.

So I actually slept on Fleet Street.

Oh, wow.

The whole night.

When I was 10 or 11 years of age.

Wow.

And watched the royal family and Diana and Charles come down Fleet Street.

Wow.