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\nA new The Hollywood Reporter article is questioning “why Hollywood keeps quitting on” Meghan Markle and Prince Harry. pic.twitter.com\/XBulHT3GgL<\/a><\/p>\n
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The Hollywood Reporter’s editor-in-chief Maer Roshan spoke to Access Hollywood and stands by the recent story<\/a> about why Harry and Meghan, Duke and Duchess of Sussex, cannot keep employees. The story comes after their new chief of staff Josh Kettler left after three months.<\/p>\n
\u2022 There’s a dozen sources, both former and current<\/b> employees (the article also said some of these are US office hires). <\/p>\n
\u2022 He admitted a notion to assume the stories were British tabloids, however THR story now has him inclined to believe there’s truth to it.<\/p>\n
\u2022 The employee who said staff is terrified of Meghan is a current<\/b>, high-ranking employee. <\/p>\n
\u2022 The Sussexes didn’t respond to requests for comment from Access Hollywood. <\/p>\n
The Daily Beast has also begun sniffing around the accusations. <\/p>\n
\u2022 Reports this week, in the wake of Kettler\u2019s departure, have claimed that eighteen people have resigned or left Harry and Meghan Markle\u2019s employ since she married Harry, with nine leaving since they moved to the USA.<\/p>\n
\u2022 The Daily Beast, doing their own sniffing, confirm Kettler’s issue had to do with Harry<\/b>, not Meghan. The decision to resign was taken mutually following a three month trial period.<\/p>\n
\u2022 The complaints that The Daily Beast has heard, more specifically against Meghan than Harry, go back as far as the planning of Harry and Meghan\u2019s wedding.<\/p>\n
\u2022 One photographer who was requested to pitch to work for their wedding told The Daily Beast: \u201cIt was incredibly exciting to be asked to present for the wedding. I had to go to Kensington Palace where I laid out several mood boards in what was then their office. Eventually, Meghan walked in, took one look at what I had prepared and said, in the meanest way possible, \u2018No.\u2019 Then she spun on her heel and walked out. I was left in tears. It was horrible.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u2022 Another contractor, a florist, told the Daily Beast she would never work with Meghan again. <\/p>\n
\u2022 The Daily Beast knows of one former military man who worked happily in a close and personal capacity for Harry for several years, but left when his role changed and he also had to serve Meghan, telling close friends that Meghan was the reason for his departure.<\/p>\n
\u2022 In 2018, Meghan and Harry\u2019s then-communications secretary, Jason Knauf wrote a complaint to Simon Case, then Prince William\u2019s private secretary. He said in part: \u201cI 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 having someone in her sights…We have had report after report from people who have witnessed unacceptable behaviour towards Y.\u201d<\/p>\n
Meghan denied the bullying claims and accused the Times- who wrote of the complaint- of perpetrating a smear on her because the story was published just days before Meghan\u2019s interview with Oprah Winfrey.<\/p>\n
\u2022 Buckingham Palace subsequently ordered a report on bullying in the palace but the findings remain unknown as it was never published.<\/p>\n
\u2022 Harry and Meghan\u2019s office has said they were not going to comment on the manner.<\/p>\n