Prince Harry and Meghan Markle are gearing up to return to social media after sacking their PR agency, says one royal commentator.
25.09.2022 - 13:13 / ok.co.uk
Prince Harry and Meghan Markle's team reportedly called themselves the Sussex Survivors' Club after their relationship with the couple rapidly deteriorated. The revelation has been made by The Times' royal correspondent Valentine Low in her new book, Courtiers: the Hidden Power Behind the Crown.
The book claims to lift the lid on what happened behind palace doors in the run-up to the Duke and Duchess of Sussex's departure from the Royal Family. It's said that before the couple left for the United States, The Queen had personally asked her private secretary Sam Cohen to work for Harry, 37, and Meghan, 41.
Sara Latham, former Freuds PR managing partner, was hired in 2019 to be in charge of communications and assistant press secretary Marnie Gaffney also worked with Cohen in the months before Meghan and Harry's departure.The book claims tension soon increased between the royal couple and their team when Harry told members of the press, who had been invited to cover the royal tour of the South Pacific, that they weren't "invited". He reportedly said: “Thanks for coming, even though you weren’t invited.” The book goes onto claim: "This was spectacularly rude — and incorrect.The media had been invited to cover the tour.
"Later, Harry’s staff told him how badly his remarks had gone down. He replied: 'Well, you shouldn’t have made me do it.' "Harry’s petulant behaviour revealed much about the couple’s deteriorating relationship with their own staff." The book added: "So bad did things eventually become that Harry and Meghan’s team would later refer to themselves as the Sussex Survivors’ Club." Staff also reportedly said: “We were played.” Another revelation made in the book claims that Harry turned down a meeting with Prince
.Prince Harry and Meghan Markle are gearing up to return to social media after sacking their PR agency, says one royal commentator.
Prince Harry and Meghan Markle allegedly declined an invitation to see Queen Elizabeth II twice before the monarch passed away in September. The claim was made by Vanity Fair’s royal correspondent Katie Nicholl, who has written a new book titled, "The New Royals: Queen Elizabeth’s Legacy and the Future of the Crown." In it, she details the Duke and Duchess of Sussex’s exit from the British royal family and its lasting impact on all sides. Nicholl alleged that the couple was first invited in summer 2019 to spend a long weekend at the queen’s beloved Balmoral estate in Scotland.
Prince Harry and Meghan Markle have been unveiled in a newly released photo taken of the couple behind the scenes of their UK visit last month — just two days after King Charles's new portrait with Prince William was released. Harry, 38, and Meghan, 41, are seen in a candid moment holding hands as they were captured before they took the stage together at the One Young World Summit in Manchester on September 5.The striking photos was shot and shared on Instagram by the pair’s favoured photographer Missan Harriman, who previously photographed Meghan pregnant with daughter Lilibet and on her first birthday.The images project a powerful union between the couple.
Prince Harry and Meghan Markle are reportedly looking for a new home in a private Californian community, just a couple of years after their move to the US.The Duke and Duchess of Sussex are keen to move to the Hope Ranch community, a coastal suburb of Santa Barbara, California, because their $14 million mansion in Montecito "does not properly accommodate them," according to reports. When Meghan gave an interview with The Cut earlier this year, the reporter described their Montecito mansion as "startlingly big" but it seems the couple apparently aren't totally content in the property.
It’s been a tough few weeks for the royal family, since losing their much-loved Queen and matriarch. And it’s clear Harry has felt the loss keenly, with the prince looking extremely emotional as he attended the funeral with wife Meghan Markle last week, amid a still-troubling feud with his father and brother.
King Charles is said to be optimistic that the relationship between the Royals and the Duke and Duchess of Sussex is repairable. After stepping down from royal duties two years ago and relocating to the US, Prince Harry, 38, and Meghan Markle, 41, have had a some-what estranged relationship with the royals – in particular between Harry and his brother Prince William. However, following the pair’s trip to the UK and them coming together as one with the rest of the family in the wake of Her Majesty the Queen’s death, it’s said there were “flickers of hope” that their relationship is salvageable.
Prince Harry and Meghan Markle’s staff were reportedly left in tears upon discovering that the couple were planning their break from the royal spotlight. Harry and Meghan stepped away from the royal family in 2020, sparking a series of events that would ultimately sour relationships and lead to one very infamous Oprah Winfrey interview. Offering fresh insight in her latest book, The Times’ royal correspondent Valentine Low writes on what happened behind the palace’s closed doors.
Prince Harry and Meghan Markle wanted to move to Windsor Castle but were given Frogmore Cottage instead, a new book has claimed.
Prince William is said to have felt “relief” when Prince Harry moved to California back in 2020 alongside his wife Meghan Markle, a new book has claimed. Since the Duke and Duchess of Sussex started their new life together in Los Angeles, the pair have only returned to the UK a number of times, most recently for the 10 days of mourning following the death of Queen Elizabeth II.
The late Queen's reaction to Harry and Meghan stepping down as senior royals has been revealed in a brand new book. The Sussexes announced they would be leaving their roles as working royals in early 2020 and later moved to the US.
“peace deal” with the royal family.“CBS Mornings” co-host Gayle King, who is Meghan’s friend, said the relationship with the Sussexes and the royal family is still tenuous — largely due to the couple’s bombshell interview with Oprah in 2021 after they made the decision to step down from their royal duties.King — who became friends with Meghan after being introduced by Oprah — was in London reporting on Queen Elizabeth’s historic funeral, revealing to “Extra” that there have been efforts on “both sides to, sort of, make this right. We shall see.”“Big families always go through drama, always go through turmoil,” she said in the “Extra” interview.
Prince Harry and Meghan Markle are set to return to Los Angeles, without any peace deal being struck between them and King Charles or Prince William, according to Gayle King. The CBS Mornings host, and friend of the Duchess of Sussex, has been in the UK to cover the Queen’s funeral.