Megxit bloodbath: Meghan Markle and Prince Harry AXE all 15 of their UK staff...

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2020-02-14 14:36:24 UTC

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....in surest sign yet they will never return to Britain to live

as shocke

Palace sources 'say it's a difficult time for very loyal team

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8001857/Shock-Harry-Meghan-axe-15-UK-staff.htm

Couple closing their office in Buckingham Palace with the loss o

all 15 job

Among royal aides leaving are Marnie Gaffney, David Watkins

Julie Burle

The royal household will reabsorb some of them but others will fac

severanc

Harry and Meghan are axing 15 staff and closing their Buckingha

Palace office

It is the surest sign yet that the couple and their son Archie ar

unlikely eve

to return to the UK to live
The Duke and Duchess of Sussex broke the news to their team i

person in Januar

following the announcement that they were stepping down as senio

workin

royals
While one or two may be absorbed back into the royal household

most are no

negotiating redundancy packages
They are the latest casualties of Harry and Meghan's bombshel

decision to mov

to North America and make their fortunes outside the Royal Family
Last night Buckingham Palace said it did not comment on staffin

matters but i

is understood senior royals, including the Queen, Prince Charle

and Princ

William are aware of the office closure and redundancies
A source told the Mail: 'Given their decision to step back, a

office a

Buckingham Palace is no longer needed. While the details are stil

bein

finalised and efforts are being made to redeploy people within th

roya

household, unfortunately there will be some redundancies.
Among those to lose their jobs are the couple's newly appointe

privat

secretary, Fiona Mcilwham although she is on secondment from th

Foreign an

Commonwealth Office and is likely to be found in a role i

Whitehall and thei

hugely experienced communications chief Sara Latham
Harry's long-standing programme co-ordinator Clara Loughran, wh

was so wel

regarded by the prince that she was asked to hand Meghan he

bouquet in churc

on her wedding day, will go
As well as Miss Latham who previously worked for the Obamas an

was Hillar

Clinton's senior campaign adviser her deputy, assistan

communication

secretary Marnie Gaffney, is understood to be leaving
A much-loved and long-serving member of Buckingham Palace pres

staff, sh

played a major role in supporting Harry on his military work an

organised hi

and Meghan's hugely successful official tours to Australia an

Africa

The Queen made her a member of the Royal Victorian Order because o

her devote

service
The other press officer to lose her job is Julie Burley, who worke

for Harry

William and Kate on their successful mental health campaign Head

Together

The assistant communications secretary was headed-hunted by Harr

and Meghan an

led the press team on his Invictus Games. She has also managed th

media side o

many of the couple's domestic engagements and patronages
David Watkins, poached from fashion house Burberry in August as th

couple'

social media expert, is also out
The source insisted that while 'Megxit' had come as a complet

shock to th

team, most accept their fate. 'The Duke and Duchess have a smal

team, less tha

15 people. The team are very loyal to the Sussexes and understan

and respec

the decision they have taken,' the source said
'They are all close and supporting each other. The team are bus

helping to se

their Royal Highnesses up for the future and working on a series o

fina

engagements.
It is understood that this includes the Mountbatten Festival o

Music at th

Royal Albert Hall on March 7, which will be Harry's last engagemen

Captain-General of the Royal Marines. He and Meghan are als

expected to atten

the Commonwealth Day service on March 9
--
Courtiers believe they do not just signal an ending of th

Sussexes' links to

Britain, but also a 'power shift' towards Meghan. In a little over

a month Harry

has lost a terrifying amount. He has broken with his family, his

friends and his

way of life. He will never again wear the military uniform he so

treasured. By

parting company with his dedicated London secretariat he is now

effectively

severing his royal connections, too.
There will also be speculation about what this means for the

couple's son,

Archie, and his education. Will he become the first of the Queen's
great-grandchildren to be schooled abroad?
Harry's wife, meanwhile, has secured her move back to her adopted

home of Canada

where she has in place a team of mainly US professionals who helped

her develop

her career as an actress.
It is they who will now be guiding the couple. They include a

sharp-elbowed US

public relations company, Sunshine Sachs, along with Meghan's

former agent,

lawyer and business manager.
Without the familiarity of his London advisors, Harry is likely to

become ever

more dependent on Meghan's team.
And with such figures at the helm there is every chance that the

couple will be

making more appearances of the kind they conducted last week when

they were

guests at a conference for the bank JP Morgan in Florida, where

they rubbed

shoulders with some of America's richest figures.
In her statement a month ago, Harry's grandmother spoke carefully

and precisely

about the discussion she'd had 'on the future of my grandson and

his family'.

By allowing a transition period for both sides to adjust and by

refusing to

strip the couple of their HRH titles though they will not use them

the Queen

was making clear, despite her sadness, that the door was still

open.

The inescapable conclusion is that, by issuing redundancy notices

to their

staff, Harry and Meghan have themselves slammed the door shut.
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Too bad these people are losing their jobs.

So much for loyalty to the crown.

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