Meghan Markle reportedly ‘belittles’ staff to quitting point

Article content

When will the next employee bite the dust?

Article content

Prince Harry’s chief of staff, Josh Kettler, quit last month and it was said that it was a mutual decision with both sides agreeing it wasn’t the right fit.

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.

According to The Hollywood Reporter, Kettler, who was only on the job for three months, was the latest to join the “Sussex Survivors Club,” which some of the couple’s former employees have taken to calling themselves.

Survivors — nine of them, the publication noted. That’s not good.

Article content

Article content

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.”

In 2021, Buckingham Palace launched an investigation into allegations that Meghan bullied royal aides.

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.”

Article content

RECOMMENDED VIDEO

We apologize, but this video has failed to load.

Play Video

The results of the inquiry were never released, but at the time Meghan vehemently denied the allegations in the expose published in the Times U.K. and accused the newspaper of being “used by Buckingham Palace to peddle a wholly false narrative” about her.

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.’”

Article content