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When will the next employee bite the dust?
A new report said the adviser is just another staffer who couldn’t handle the Duke and Duchess of Sussex.
Well, more specifically, they couldn’t handle what a royal pain Meghan Markle is.
Survivors — nine of them, the publication noted. That’s not good.
What’s even worse is how Meghan is said to treat the underlings.
“Everyone’s terrified of Meghan,” a source close to the couple said.
“She belittles people, she doesn’t take advice. They’re both poor decision-makers, they change their minds frequently,” the insider detailed.
“Harry is a very, very charming person — no airs at all — but he’s very much an enabler. And she’s just terrible.”
Jason Knauf, Kensington Palace’s press secretary at the time, wrote in an internal email in 2018: “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 (name removed) was totally unacceptable.”
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However, new accusations from current staffers have “glaring and fascinating echoes” of her time at the palace.
“She’s absolutely relentless,” a source told THR. “She marches around like a dictator in high heels, fuming and barking orders. I’ve watched her reduce grown men to tears.”
In an episode of her now-cancelled Archetypes podcast, Meghan spoke about the challenges she has faced asserting herself and overcoming that instinct to avoid confrontation.
“I find myself cowering and tiptoeing into a room and — the thing I find most embarrassing — when you’re saying a sentence and the intonation goes up like it’s a question.
“You’re like, ‘Oh my God, stop whispering and tiptoeing around it. Just say what it is that you need. You’re allowed to set a boundary. You’re allowed to be clear, it doesn’t make you demanding. It doesn’t make you difficult, it makes you clear.’”