PJ Vogt

Is it just like... I mean, I assume you're not going on LinkedIn.

I was following along on my side on the computer, and it was amazing to see.

Royal household, enter, and then this wall of humans.

It wasn't that we hadn't been trying to reach former employees, but our methods had been relatively haphazard.

Now, we had this well-organized database, this surveillance system that people had volunteered for.

Heidi filtered her search to just show ex-employees, the people most likely to talk.

Wait, so I'm looking... Oh my God.

We're bleeping out the names here just to respect the privacy of these people.

We went through the details of these former palace employees.

And then Heidi told me she had her own theory about the pool, a hypothesis as to why it might be hidden behind a veil of secrecy.

Oh, that's so funny.

Because my assumption would be they don't want you to see it because it's like... So in America, the wealthy are constantly trying to make you believe they're upper middle class.

And so I was picturing something like opulent and golden and maybe like...

maybe there was an elephant there somehow.

But you're like, oh, it might just be kind of a crappy pool.

Heidi sent me a link to the story.

And in the photos, I could see the weirdly dingy room.

There's a plastic princess phone and FM transistor radio on the table.

I have to admit, it gives me a feeling I've never felt towards the royals.

A warm feeling.