Video taking off 25x its usual first day

Harry and Meghan's school scare outdraws a whole Royal Exclusive day in eleven hours

The Sun's royal editor Matt Wilkinson opens the episode with the alert, then works through Earl Spencer, a Canadian skydive and the King's Caribbean tour.

Why this story? The video opened at a pace of 246,549 views a day, 25 times a normal first day on this channel (9,774).

‘WASTE OF POLICE TIME’ Prince Harry's 'PARANOID' Security Scare At Archie & Lilibet's School EXPOSED‘WASTE OF POLICE TIME’ Prince Harry's 'PARANOID' Security Scare At Archie & Lilibet's School EXPOSED

A security alert at the school attended by Prince Harry and Meghan Markle's children is the first thing on the table in the latest full episode of Royal Exclusive, The Sun's weekly royal show. Posted half a day ago, it has passed 160,000 views. That is more than the channel usually gathers across all its videos in a full day, and many times what a new upload here normally reaches in its first 24 hours.

The title leans hard into the story, quoting the phrases 'WASTE OF POLICE TIME' and 'PARANOID'. Behind it is a report, laid out in a shorter clip the channel posted the same day, that private security and school staff saw men understood to be photographers walking the edge of the school grounds. That clip says the couple compared the intrusion to the Fairford 'bomb plot'. It has drawn only a small share of the full episode's audience.

The school takes up the first eight minutes. Wilkinson and his guests, the royal biographer Ingrid Seward and Cameron Walker, then move through Earl Spencer's claims about King Charles, Harry's charity skydive in Canada, and the reparations demands awaiting the King's Caribbean tour. Later segments compare Princess Catherine with Princess Diana and look ahead to documentaries for the 30th anniversary of Diana's death.

In the comments, the conversation is mostly about who should pay for the couple's protection. Several commenters also bring up a camera crew Harry once took into a school in Birmingham.

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The facts
Subscribers
241,000
Channel views, pace per day
126,193 (on a normal day: 104,221)
Video published
September 30, 2026
Video views so far
162,514 (less than a day online)
Video views, pace per day
246,549

The numbers

One long episode is carrying the channel, well ahead of everything else it posted the same day.

the video's first day
usual first day here
9,774
this video
246,549
subscribers
241,000
total views
252,326,018
views per day
126,193
typical day: 104,221
the video
views
162,514
likes
3,143
comments
1,116
days online
1
compared with similar channels (subscribers)
RTÉ News
252,000
RNZ
250,000
The Root
250,000
EU Insider
243,000
Royal Exclusive
241,000
Washington Week PBS
241,000
As of October 1, 2026 · Data source: Trari Social News, Trari Traffic Trends and Ranking Platform, Google YouTube
Subscriber, view, like and comment counts are YouTube's. Rates, usual days, rankings, comparisons and categories are Trari's own calculations.
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