Consulting for royal families
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Consulting for royal families refers to work John Kiriakou has said he was engaged to do after his podcast appearances began circulating widely in 2026.

The engagement

Kiriakou has said that he has been hired by members of two different royal families to consult for them because of what he did, specifically, on ethics in their own intelligence operations. He offers the fact as an illustration of how far his position had changed, saying that things had seriously turned around. 

The context

He frames this within an account of an audience that turned out to be global rather than American. He has described being recognised constantly, and gives two instances in the same conversation: a Lebanese refugee who found him lost and disoriented in the railway station at Hanover and helped him find his platform, and a man in Kuwait who stopped him outside a podcast studio, introduced himself as Ali Reza from North Macedonia, and said he had listened to him daily, including earlier in Albania.  

Kiriakou has said he embraces the recognition, and identifies one theme running through it, not the remixed clips or the visual jokes made at his expense, but that people respect him for telling the truth. That, he says, is what he has clung to. 

He dates his realisation of the scale to about three weeks before the conversation. 

See also

- Signing with CAA
- Kiriakou's 2026 viral wave
- Cameo
- John Kiriakou
