The firm

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Definitions

Proper Noun
  1. 1
    The British royal family.

    "Markle’s American friends spoke eagerly about how she will be “an agent of change” for the royals, perhaps because they were too young, or too far away, to recall how things worked out for the last woman who tried to change The Firm."

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"Markle’s American friends spoke eagerly about how she will be “an agent of change” for the royals, perhaps because they were too young, or too far away, to recall how things worked out for the last woman who tried to change The Firm."

Etymology

Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, is said to have popularised the expression.