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Post by Admin on Mar 2, 2021 3:37:50 GMT
Harry will discuss how he and Meghan struggled with media interest in their lives during their time as working members of the Royal Family in an upcoming interview with Oprah Winfrey. The Duke and Duchess of Sussex have recorded a two-hour special with CBS which will be aired in the US on Sunday, March 7. In a clip released yesterday, Harry said he feared “history repeating itself”, in reference to his mother Princess Diana. Prince Charles hammers final nail in Megxit coffin However, Harry is not the only royal husband who has been concerned for his partner’s welfare regarding privacy. During the earlier days of their relationship, Kate was incessantly badgered by paparazzi as she went about her life, which made William “very angry”. Royal author Marcia Moody, in her book ‘Kate: A Biography’, described an incident in 2005 that prompted William to fire off a legal letter against paparazzi harassment. The couple had recently graduated from the University of St Andrews, where they had enjoyed a moratorium on stories about William while he was still in education. Now, they were fully exposed and Kate was getting used to life in London, where she was living in a Chelsea flat just off the King’s Road. Ms Moody wrote: “In October, [Kate] was photographed on a bus while going for a job interview. “It was argued that there was no difference being photographed on a bus, than from being photographed walking down the street or shopping with her mother, but the big difference this time was that Kate had been followed by the photographer all day. “On instructions from William, who had discussed the matter with Kate and her father, a legal letter to newspaper editors was issued requesting that details of Kate’s private life remain private.” The letter itself remained confidential, however friends of the couple told the Daily Telegraph in 2007 that the prince was “very angry” and “enormously frustrated”. Ms Moody added: “William had a life-long mistrust of the paparazzi and even began to do his own research into complex privacy laws to work out how best to protect his girlfriend.”
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Post by Admin on Mar 2, 2021 20:08:52 GMT
Meghan Markle wore a special piece of jewelry for her upcoming sit-down with Oprah Winfrey. During a preview for Meghan and Prince Harry's interview with Winfrey, airing March 7 on CBS, the Duchess of Sussex is seen wearing a bracelet that belonged to Harry's mother, Princess Diana — the same bracelet that was used to help craft Meghan's engagement ring. When designing her ring, Harry took two stones from his late mother's bracelet to include in Meghan's three-stone ring. The couple wanted Meghan, who is expecting her second child, to wear the bracelet during the interview so Diana could be with them, PEOPLE has learned.
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Post by Admin on Mar 4, 2021 20:30:24 GMT
Meghan Markle has been accused of bullying staff and “destroying” one individual, ahead of her “tell-all” television interview with Oprah Winfrey. The Times newspaper alleges that during her time as a working royal, Meghan drove out two personal assistants and staff were “humiliated” on several occasions. There has long been speculation about the atmosphere in the Sussex household after a number of staff left, and the newspaper chronicles what it describes as “turmoil” within palace walls. But Meghan’s spokesman said: “The duchess is saddened by this latest attack on her character, particularly as someone who has been the target of bullying herself and is deeply committed to supporting those who have experienced pain and trauma. “She is determined to continue her work building compassion around the world and will keep striving to set an example for doing what is right and doing what is good.” Jason Knauf, the Sussexes’ then communications secretary, made a bullying complaint in October 2018 in an apparent attempt to force Buckingham Palace to protect staff. A source told the newspaper Harry begged his senior aide not to take the matter further, but it also reported lawyers for the duke and duchess deny the meeting took place and that Harry would not have interfered with staff matters. Questions will be asked about the timing of the allegations, made a few days before Meghan and Harry’s interview with Winfrey is aired on Sunday in America. Royal aides will be bracing themselves for revelations from the couple after the chat show host said in a clip from the interview that nothing was “off-limits”. But the allegations of bullying will point the spotlight at the duchess and away from the institution of the monarchy they left. The paper reported Mr Knauf sent an email outlining the duchess’s alleged actions to Simon Case, Prince William’s then private secretary and now the cabinet secretary, after conversations with Samantha Carruthers, the head of human resources. Mr Knauf left soon after making his allegations and is now a close aide to Harry’s brother, working as the chief executive of William and Kate’s Royal Foundation. The Times reported Mr Knauf wrote in his email: “I am very concerned that the duchess was able to bully two PAs out of the household in the past year. The treatment of X was totally unacceptable. “The duchess seems intent on always having someone in her sights. She is bullying Y and seeking to undermine her confidence. We have had report after report from people who have witnessed unacceptable behaviour towards Y.” Buckingham Palace declined to comment. Kensington Palace has been contacted for a comment.
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Post by Admin on Mar 4, 2021 22:45:33 GMT
In a new preview for the upcoming interview between Oprah Winfrey and Meghan and Prince Harry, the former actress said that she doesn't see how the royal family could expect her and her husband to stay "silent."
"How do you feel about the palace hearing you speak your truth today?" Winfrey, 67, asked Meghan in the sneak peek shared by CBS Wednesday.
"I don't know how they could expect that after all of this time, we would still just be silent if there is an active role that the Firm is playing in perpetuating falsehoods about us," Meghan said — "the Firm" referring to the institution of the royal family. "And if that comes with risk of losing things, I mean I — there's a lot that's been lost already."
In a clip of the anticipated interview released over the weekend, Winfrey told Meghan and Harry, "You've said some pretty shocking things here."
On Wednesday, Buckingham Palace announced that it will be launching a probe into bullying allegations against Meghan that were first reported by The Times in the U.K. Tuesday.
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"We are clearly very concerned about allegations in The Times following claims made by former staff of The Duke and Duchess of Sussex," the palace said in a statement. "Accordingly, our HR team will look into the circumstances outlined in the article. Members of staff involved at the time, including those who have left the Household, will be invited to participate to see if lessons can be learned."
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Post by Admin on Mar 5, 2021 0:36:03 GMT
Jason Knauf 36-year-old Knauf was the communications secretary to both the Sussexes and the Cambridges at the time the allegations were made, thus he is at the very heart of the story. He is said to be the person who submitted the bullying allegations to the HR department in October 2018. It is claimed that Knauf emailed Prince William’s private secretary Simon Case (more below) after raising bullying concerns with Samantha Carruthers, the head of HR. Knauf took on the role of communications secretary to the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge in 2015 before taking on the same role for the Duke and Duchess of Sussex after they married in 2018. One month after reporting the allegation, Mr Knauf handed in his notice, the Times reports. Mr Knauf, who is today chief executive of the Royal Foundation, also verbally advised Meghan on the letter she wrote to her father that was at the centre of her privacy action against Associated Newspapers, publisher of the Mail on Sunday. Mr Knauf previously worked at HM Treasury as a senior press officer and at the government of New Zealand, where he worked as press secretary and speechwriter, according to his LinkedIn. Simon Case Mr Case was briefly director of strategy at GCHQ before going on to work for the Duke of Cambridge as his private secretary. He was the claimed recipient of the alleged email from Jason Knauf, outlining bullying concerns at the top of the palace chain. Case, now 42, has more recently returned to government, first as permanent secretary in Downing Street to the PM and more recently as Cabinet Secretary, running Whitehall (the youngest ever person to take on the job). He’s been dubbed ‘the most important man in politics you’ve probably never heard of’. Samantha Carruthers The HR director based at Clarence House who the email was allegedly brought to. Carruthers is an experienced human resources guru; she worked for De Beers and investment bank Lazard before joining the royals as Head of HR (where she worked between 2013 and 2019, according to her LinkedIn). She is now deputy chair of the board of trustees at Winston’s Wish, a childhood bereavement charity, where she has worked for nearly five years.
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