Queen Camilla’s new podcast has been dominating the Spotify and Apple charts ever since the release of its first episode earlier this week.
The Queen’s Reading Room podcast has managed to snatch either the top spot or be in the top five across the globe as it dominates the Arts and Books categories.
Camilla officially launched her first podcast – a much-anticipated companion to her book club – on Monday, January 8.
While the Queen doesn’t host the show herself, she does join in during some episodes, which capture discussions between herself and a collection of high-profile guests.
On Apple’s top podcasts for Great Britain, the podcast is ranked number one in the Arts and Books categories.
In Australia, it topped the Arts as well as the Books sections. In Canada, the Queen’s Reading Room came first in the Books section and fifth in the overall arts category.
In the US, the podcast current ranks fifth in Books and 12th in Arts.
Meanwhile, on Spotify, the Queen’s Reading Room snatched the fourth place in the Arts section, the same as in Australia.
It comes as many have labelled the Queen’s success a “swipe” to Meghan Markle’s Archetypes podcast which flopped back in 2022 and resulted in Spotify axing their deal with the Duchess.
A PR expert suggested Camilla’s podcast will give her a chance to “get her own back” on Prince Harry and Meghan Markle.
Their lucrative Spotify deal, estimated to cost roughly £16m, ended two years ago as the couple were “unproductive” releasing only 12 episodes in two years, sources claimed.
At the time, a Spotify executive hit out at the couple on his own podcast, calling them “f****** grifters”.
Bill Simmons – head of podcast innovation and monetisation, said: “The f****** grifters. That’s the podcast we should have launched with them. I have got to get drunk one night and tell the story of the Zoom I had with Harry to try and help him with a podcast idea. It’s one of my best stories… F*** them. The grifters.”
