PJ Vogt

Because what people will do is they will say, a royal spokesperson said this.

Oh, so if you, 19 years old, working a job that you found off Google, if you were being indiscreet and I were buying a Royalty set and I asked you and you were like, I don't know, it sounds pretty messed up though.

Then if I worked for a British tabloid, the next day I would say, Royal spokesperson says, scandal, pretty messed up.

Yeah, that's the risk that you're playing with.

It made sense that even an employee as junior as Hrithik had been media trained, because after all, there was treasure hidden in the palace.

Information, valuable information that could be pillaged by traitorous butlers, raiders who left the palace with novel facts about the royals' private lives.

an easy way to make a living.

Hence these rules.

But Hrithik was willing to talk to us, not for money, not for gossip, but because, frankly, he'd sussed us out.

And he could tell we legitimately had zero interest in the royals or in their private lives, that we had only ever really wanted to know about one thing.

What can you tell me about the swimming pool at Buckingham Palace?

The actual question?

Yes.

And so...

Yeah, it's weird.

There is one.

I think that's the main thing.

You wouldn't have thought about it.

Oh, I've thought about it.

Have you seen it?