Anita Arnott

Well, hello and welcome to Empire, a special emergency empire from me, Anita Arnott.

comes a knocking at our door.

It certainly does.

And boy, does it.

I mean, it's in the headlines.

Let me tell you why we've suddenly pressed the plunger and exploded this particular emergency podcast.

Headlines like this, Mamdani gives King Charles a royal brushback over a crown jewel swiped from India.

There's another headline over here.

Mamdani's advice to royals.

Give the prices diamond back to India.

New York Times.

We've got another one here.

New York City Mayor Zoran Mamdani says he will ask King Charles to return Kona diamond to India.

The Independent and The Telegraph and the BBC.

Look, it's back.

The bloody diamond is black.

This is an opportunity for us to give you a little bit of the background of this diamond and why I think it's fair to say, Willie, that the king and queen would really rather

this hadn't come up again because they have done their best to pour sand water and foam over the inferno this this diamond and we have been led to believe that they may have or someone close to them may have read this book

Sources close to the palace might have suggested that the work that you have done has meant that nobody wanted to wear it during the coronation.

Well, I mean, sources close to the palace would suggest that is the case.