Strolling along the white sandy beaches of Australia’s Gold Coast during lockdown, comedian Russell Howard should have been laughing.
But instead of basking in a mid-pandemic burst of freedom, he was dodging locals and speaking only in his best Aussie accent.
Because the West Country comic had arrived just as Prince Harry and Meghan Markle sent shockwaves around the world with their bombshell Oprah Winfrey interview. “When anyone found out I was English they were on me like zombies,” he laughs. “It was huge over there, everyone wanted to know what was going on.
They were like, ‘Mate, what’s happening with the Royal Family? What’s the Queen thinking?’. “I’m like, ‘I don’t know, she’s not in my circle of friends… No, I didn’t watch it, I
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