Robert Hardman

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TRIGGERnometry · The Truth About the Royal Family with Royal Reporter Robert Hardman · 8 Aug 2026 podcast

I wonder what the marmalade's seen.

Um and I just that sort of summed up that that that that level of uh of just sort of heft stability

Uh it it it it's a sort of bedrock.

And we don't think about it all the time, but it's there.

Mm.

And if it's ever challenged, boy, the the people suddenly go, Oh, hang on, no, we've got to defend this.

Mm-hmm.

Well, uh the history kind of feeds into all that.

Uh it's it's soft power.

Uh I I interviewed the the the man who codified, if you like, invented soft power, Professor Joe Nye of Harvard University, um, uh, who uh sort of defined this sort of concept of doing things through influence and charm and persuasion versus brute force and coercion.

He said, Well, Britain, you've got two.

Absolutely inalienable soft power assets.

One is the English language and all that goes with it, the literature, the culture, Chaucer, Shakespeare, Dickens, etc.

But he said the other is the monarchy, the royal family.

That's something that other people don't have.

That gives you an enormous advantage.

It says what puts you in the at the top of the or near the top of the sort of soft power index.

So I you know all these things feed in, yes, the history.

Is part of it.

It's also, you know, most of the world speaks English.

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