Sounds like KP as a whole was a nightmare. That doesn't make anyone look good.
(...)Several people maintained they had been “humiliated” by the duchess, and that criticism extended to Harry as well.
“I overheard a conversation between Harry and one of his top aides,” recalled one Kensington Palace courtier. “Harry was screaming and screaming down the phone. Team Sussex was a really toxic environment. People shouting and screaming in each other’s faces.”
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William personally knew and liked all the individuals whom Knauf had named in his dossier. The prince regarded them as assets to his household — colleagues to be cherished and for whom he was responsible. Human beings. Like Knauf, the prince was appalled that his respected staff may have been put in this position.
For William, Knauf’s allegations also clarified something that the prince had long believed — that Meghan was fundamentally hostile towards the royal system, which she failed to understand as an outsider. William wondered if she had not wanted to leave from the very start — even dreaming, perhaps, that she could whisk Harry back with her to North America.
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I have never met Jason Knauf. What you have just read is based upon the published accusations that Knauf set down on paper — refuted as “defamatory”, it must be stressed again, and “based on misleading and harmful information” in the view of the Duchess of Sussex’s lawyers. It also relies upon William’s personal account of these events to one of his friends who then spoke to this author.
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William believed Meghan was following a plan — “agenda” was the word he used to his friend — and the accusations he had just heard were alarming. Kate, he said, had been wary of her from the start.
Meghan was undermining some precious principles of the monarchy, if she really was treating her staff in this way, and William was upset that she seemed to be stealing his beloved brother away from him. Later courtiers would coin a hashtag — #freeHarry. It was only half a joke.
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When accounts of the rift started seeping out through the winter months that followed, it was generally assumed that the volatile Harry must have set the pace in the splitting up of the joint Kensington Palace household. He was the brother who visibly departed, stalking off to set up a new home in Windsor, with offices for himself and Meghan in Buckingham Palace.
But the reverse was the case. It was William who made the decisive move. Following his furious confrontation with his younger brother in the autumn of 2018, the prince instructed Simon Case to start the process of dividing their two households immediately. William wished to be separated from Meghan on a day-to-day basis — and that meant being separated from his brother as well.
“William,” says a friend, “threw Harry out.”
A culture clash seems a good way to describe the different approaches of team Sussex vs team Cambridge.
Self-interest vs Duty
Being served by staff vs Taking care of staff
A culture clash seems a good way to describe the different approaches of team Sussex vs team Cambridge.
Self-interest vs Duty
Being served by staff vs Taking care of staff
I didn't realize it was something that Lacey said and when I saw his name, I couldn't quite believe it. Is it me, or does this sound markedly different from what he wrote last year? A year ago, he was all but singing Meghan's praises, claiming that her stardom should have elevated her above opening bridges with The Queen and other mundane tasks. And that, basically, the RF was at fault for not reforming itself around her shine.
I wonder what happened to cause such a change.
I do not believe Meghan "mistreated" her staff. One "allegation" was emails at 5 AM> This happens at work but it does not mean the employee has to answer the emails at 5 AM.
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It's possible that Meghan, coming into an establishment totally different from what she's been used to, her view of staff was more that they're gophers, maids and jack of all trades for whatever she deemed she needed and was to be obeyed without questions asked. If Harry could have the attitude that "whatever Meghan wants, Meghan gets", its not surprising that that should have been the attitude of those that worked for Meghan. Her "orders" were to be followed without complaint. I can see where her staff would have a revolving door if this was the case.
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Oh come, do medium range actresses on small scale shows filmed in Canada get gofers and maids and people to do their bidding?
Oh come, do medium range actresses on small scale shows filmed in Canada get gofers and maids and people to do their bidding?
Yes, they do. Look at the credits following any show on TV. All kinds of people doing different jobs to support the actors and actresses from hair styling to wardrobe and script consultants etc. Maybe not as private secretaries but they're there to make the production run smoothly. ?
She may have thought that the top-range actresses would and she was now to become a royal highness (so top of the top-range), so her expectations might have been along those lines.
Yes, they do. Look at the credits following any show on TV. All kinds of people doing different jobs to support the actors and actresses from hair styling to wardrobe and script consultants etc. Maybe not as private secretaries but they're there to make the production run smoothly. ?
If there is sufficient evidence them it will be provided. It really is that simple.
Tan over worked production assistant on a TV show then there was no hope for her.
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