Just days before the Duke and Duchess of Sussex’s Oprah interview aired, Valentine Low at the Times of London published his piece on the “bullying accusations” lodged against Meghan. This was always a desperate smear organized by Kensington Palace, specifically by Jason Knauf and Prince William. Knauf wrote a memo about his “concerns” about Meghan bullying staffers in the fall of 2018, then Knauf leaked the memo to the Times in March 2021. Buried within Low’s own report was the fact that two of the alleged “bullying victims” had withdrawn their complaints and they didn’t want any of this to go on the record. My point? The only person (arguably) Low ever spoke to was Knauf. Knauf was the source. Well, Valentine Low spoke to Page Six – because the Times and the NY Post are both part of Rupert Murdoch’s empire – about how he’s spoken to “the people” bullied by Meghan.
Those bullying charges against Meghan Markle aren’t going anywhere. Valentine Low, author of “Courtiers: Intrigue, Ambition, and the Power Players Behind the House of Windsor,” tells Page Six exclusively that the palace aides who quit, claiming they were bullied by the “Suits” alum, are sticking to their guns.
“The people I spoke to are absolutely still sticking to their story, claiming that Meghan bullied them,” he says. “I can’t speak to the truth of that, of course, because I wasn’t in the room and I haven’t heard Meghan’s side. But my sources still very much stick to their story.”
In fact, Prince Harry revealed in his newly released memoir, “Spare” that Markle was an exemplary boss who “checked on staff who were ill, sent baskets of food or flowers or goodies to anyone struggling, depressed, off sick.” She also “bought pizza and biscuits, hosted tea parties and ice-cream socials” for staff members.
Surprisingly, Low doesn’t think it’s “terrible” that the couple is no longer working royals.
“This was like a divorce,” he explains. “There are acrimonious divorces and there are amicable divorces. This was horribly acrimonious, but it didn’t have to be like that. Part of the fault is Harry and Meghan. I think they behave like teenagers, I think they’re blinkered, they’re stubborn. They didn’t engage well with the royal family. Also, I think, the royal household, in general, is an institution that didn’t handle it well, because they didn’t see it coming.”
“It could have been done so much more amicably. It didn’t have to be like this,” he added.
I imagine Knauf is sticking to his story, after all that was the whole point. To launch a desperate smear, to encourage the royal rota to endlessly parrot the talking point. It was always a clownshow, especially given the layers of abuse William and Kate laid on Harry and Meghan. Who can talk about William violently assaulting his brother when Meghan made white women cry? Who can even pay attention to Charles’s financial abuse of his younger son when Jason Knauf is still leaking sh-t about Meghan? Anyway, Queen Elizabeth buried the whole bullying investigation, which should tell you a lot about how damaging it was to Kensington Palace and the Keens. Harry also said that they sent a 25-page rebuttal – which I hope will eventually see the light of day.
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Is not low going in for bullying . What a hypocrite. More people are reading Harry s book
It’s just amazing to me that even though Harry is exposing all this BS, the royal rota are still sticking to their stories and you still have sycophants falling for it.
Something is really wrong with our society…
They are doing exactely what we xpected, and what Harry said. Bring up something shitty about Meghan to distract from Willnot’s attac on Harry, KC3 being a horrible father and Camilla’s back stabbing.
I expected nothing less from Valentine Low. Of Course, he would say this. His sources are Jason Knauf/Will and the palace/s. Valentine Low has also stated that William had learned to have an agreeable relationship with the press. I’m banging my head on the wall, genuine question, has anyone here seen the actual email that Low claimed to see at one point. You know the one from Knauf to Simon Case accusing Meghan being a bully right before the O interview. I ask because I haven’t seen it yet over the last 3/4 last years. Both Knauf & Case could approve of their email exchange being printed as authors of an email. H3ll, it could mildly be redacted to support a point…maybe. To date, I have not seen the actual email exchange Knauf supposedly sent. If, I’ve not seen something, please share. Not Valentine Low’s sharing of a planted story. The actual email that was allegedly put out. Maybe I’m watching too much of Poirot. Sometimes it’s more what they’re not saying than what they’re saying. There is little evidence being shared that Meghan was a bully. A lot of evidence being shared that, in fact, Meghan was bullied. Dear Valentine Low, what exactly is your evidence that Meghan, Duchess of Sussex was a bully? In American terms. If you can speak that. Mention that because you blocked someone who questioned you on your position, you claimed they were humourless. Deflection in operation. Thank you for proving the Sussexes point.
I really hope they keep talking about this so Meghan and Harry can drop receipts on this, too.
Not right now, though. Down the line. After things have quieted down and Meghan and Harry have been thriving and continuing to create inspiring and well received content, building their brand and business, and then the royals’ all consuming need to self destruct rears its ugly head yet again.
Then, Harry and Meghan don’t even say anything – just BAM! Receipts.
I think this is their goal. As soon as H mentioned the rebuttal the wanted to see it.
And yet, still no specifics.
Exactly. If she’s such a bully then what did she do that was so terrible? And no. 5 AM email doesn’t count
Honestly, I love that this is all they “have” on Meghan.
– She bullied people
– OMG how?! What happened?
– well I don’t really know because I heard 3rd hand (right, isn’t that what Low is saying?)
– okay…. well what were these people saying she did to be a bully
– she sent an email/text at 5AM.
– wow! She demanded something be done at 5am?! Was it crucial that the task be done right then?!
-no, no. She just sent the email/text super early.
-*backing away slowly* okay well good luck with all that……
I am not a Meghan Stan, I am a Meghan fan but the more that comes out about her, I just love her and want to be her best friend. Do you think she needs another Meghan in her life?! (I have like breaks throughout all my nonsense but they aren’t showing up. Just know they are there in spirit!)
This! Even if Low can’t name names due to employee NDAs, he should be able to give examples of ‘how’ Meghan made people cry or quit. All we’ve got is Meghan sent texts at 5am or had high standards, like show up for work and complete assignments. That’s not bullying, that’s a job.
My theory people who worked in KP took the job as lark because of Mummy or Daddy’s connections, expected short days, a lot of breaks and supplying half-assed work. The grown-ups worked at BP and CH. Also the hierarchy isn’t a normal workplace. The KP staff are used to telling W&K where to go and what to say and are the managers. Meghan had a culture clash thinking that the royals were the managers because they had the titles. Harry didn’t explain it because he grew up in it and was used to being managed.
There was a Guardian editorial after the Netflix documentary came out where the reporter vaguely referenced some rumors of verbal clashes between Meghan and staff at KP, but implied they were the result of culture clashes, frustration, and misunderstanding of expectations of each sides of roles, that at a real company would have been handled by cooler heads with some training and a handbook.
That last paragraph. In reading the book and realizing how prickly, insular and determined to be offended Kate and William were and how seemingly ignorant of cultural differences, I began to believe that every complaint about Meghan was down to cultural misunderstandings.
Yep, or how about the more probable explanation that Harry and Megan were WORKING ROYALS at the time, and I mean working, unlike prince pillock and his wife princess pander. Emails can be sent 24 /7 doesn’t mean the recipients read them then. If and I repeat if meghan sent emails at 5 am, it was probably because she and Harry were going to be out and about meeting people, like they are supposed to do. I think it’s ridiculous that some people are still peddling this myth when 2 people withdrew complaints after knaph left. Yes, the same knaph who broke his NDA to try and bring meghan down, and has just received an award from the King 😂😂, if people can’t see through all of that then they should NEVER leave the house unaccompanied
Nope.
My guess is that Meghan is very calm and very straightforward in professional settings. (in any setting, really.) Thinking here of how she told William calmly to get his finger out of her face, of how she reacted in that horrible fight with Harry, where she just went to the bedroom and then asked him “who made you think you can talk to a woman like that?” very calmly. So I’m imagining that play out in a professional setting – asking employees to do something, in a very straightforward, non-passive-aggressive way and expects the employee to do what was asked in a timely manner. Sometimes saying to someone in a very calm and reasonable tone “can you tell me why this was not done” can really set them off bc they feel so on the spot if no one has ever called them out before for their incompetence.
I think so much boils down to what we have said on here for years – Meghan thought she was going to a professional environment. She didn’t realize what a clownshow KP was.
@Becks1- I don’t know Meghan personally (sob) and I’ve said it before but she just seems like a genuinely good person. It seems like once Harry FINALLY said “oh BTW the staffers don’t start until 9” or whatever, then she changed her ways and even then it still wasn’t good enough.
My last boss lovvvvvved sending emails at 4 and 5am bc she was awake, her kids were asleep and she was getting things done. I wasn’t required to respond to said email or even really read them until my work day actually started. It’s just what some people do, their brains start early and they wanna get their day all planned. And that ain’t bullying.
Or if people just weren’t doing what they were asked to do, or not doing it properly or in a timely manner, I can imagine Meghan asking, “Why weren’t you able to get it done?” in an attempt to identify the issue and take care of it.
Exactly. “They’re sticking to their story.” WHAT STORY???
Harry is laying out there, stories of physical abuse by No. 2 himself. Former KP staff, you’re allowed to talk about whatever story you’re selling, okay? Promise we won’t laugh—just tell us what she did to you.
I think we all know who the real bullies at KP were and thats why the HR report was buried – Harry has already outed both of the Wails as bullies.
Harry has given us excellent visuals of what a real bully is–grabbing collars, ripping off necklaces, twisting arms, fingers in the face. Harry also gave us a beautiful paragraph about Meghan, saying that while all of this smearing was going on, she never said a nasty word about anyone, and continued to show up and care for people in so many ways.
Meghan called this shit “whack-a-mole” and it is. Spare has set the whole institution on fire with a global audience and what do the palaces do? They pull out little smears and repeat them, doubling, tripling down. Valentine Low is poking the bear on this one, though. There’s a 25-page CVS receipt out there.
But notice that his tone is now a bit more scared? He’s simply saying: ‘hey, this is what i’ve been told and that doesn’t change. But *I* don’t know if it’s true or not’
Last year his tone was a bit different
Yep! Calling Meghan a bully is defamatory, and the Sussexes have a good legal team and track record. Low may have been counseled on how to walk that fine line.
Right, now he’s saying “well I wasn’t there and Meghan hasn’t given her side” as opposed to “she’s a horrible horrible bully!!!!!!”
LMAO at the CVS receipt! It’s so true!
LOL @C-Shell. I hope so. Meghan is quietly going about her business. Hasn’t been seen for weeks. Yet….blanketyd,, blank on black
Hello Sheri!
If Meghan was actually guilty of bullying Low knows it would have been leaked to the press. The Palace freaked out when they got that 25 page rebuttal and Meghan’s lawyers were asking them to release the results. The Palace report was buried because they didn’t find anything on Meghan and probably found that the staff and William and Kate were the ones guilty of bullying.
Why doesnt Harry release the 25 page rebuttal? I don’t think there are any issues for them to do that since KP didn’t even include Meghan in their investigation.
My guess is that the Sussex rebuttal references their employee Melissa, who was terminated for misconduct. If they were to splash the details of her bad performance out there for the world, my guess is that she’d have a good legal case against them. It’s the reason why employers will fire someone for misconduct and then refuse to make a comment about performance on the record when the new employee does a background check
Harry did mention in his book that their assistant was let go by HR for misconduct as they were using Meghan’s name to get free stuff for themselves. I suppose that would be this Melissa? We may get more as him giving that specific info may poke the stupid bears into escalating and then maybe they can release the info. Even if it was redacted, I’d love to see it. This narrative is bs and needs to be shut down.
@Beana I think this is spot-on.
If they released the report Melissa would almost certainly sue.
As the palace has not gone on record to accuse them of bullying, they don’t need to do all that.
Why didn’t the palace release the results of their “investigation” to the public?
Why aren’t there actual incidents that they can pinpoint when she bullied certain individuals?
Just allegations and vibes over there.
I clearly remember Valentine Low saying on his Twitter that the ONLY person who made these allegations was Jason Knauf. Low is a slimy disingenuous mendacious pos, and he relies on people not remembering things. But I do remember.
Your point is so spot on. The royals and the rota don’t seem to understand the concept of “paper trail” and “internet”. They are still using tactics that worked back in the early 20th century (before the breathtaking advance of mass communication) and expecting them to work now.
You remember. I remember. Pepperidge Farms remembers.
The funny thing to me is, this isn’t just not keeping up with the 21st century. This is keeping up with… I dunno, people having memories? I didn’t comb through Low’s Twitter for this — it was like a year ago iirc. I simply remember. Just like I remember how the press treated Diana. These jackasses want people to believe whatever they’re saying that particular day, no matter what they said yesterday. As if memory does not exist.
Yep, and they acted like Jason Knauf was a hero, taking a bullet for the traumatized staffers who were too terrified to let *MEGHAN* know their names.
Follow the logic, Sheeple. If Meghan had actually bullied anyone, she would already know their names.
This is the stick they keep using to beat her over the head with, whispers and innuendo, every time they pop their head above the parapet. But as the response to their projects proves no one believes the allegations.
Meghan is a succesful, talented high achiever. She always has been and the reason for that is hard work and expectations from those she works with to pull their own weight. The KP staff have never had to deal with an American who calls them higher. Period. They were/are used to lazy bums the likes of Katy and Billy.
The British royals nor do Jay Knauf care about the feelings of the staff. There are stories of Andrew screaming at staff for assisting so spare us the bullshit that you even care about the staff. They will stick to it because lies are they have.
At this point, I wish a mutha fucka would do they can embarrass themselves with their sad little 5 AM text stories.
“😭(sniffles) Meghan 😭 expected us 😭 to be (gasps and chokes back tears) 😭 to work a FULL DAY! 😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭! I had to skip my 2 PM Pilates class! I gained FIVE POUNDS because of her horrific demands!!😭😭😭. It’s like she expected us to be 😭😭😭 COMPETENT!!”
Low knows that he was played.
Val Low is such a super d*ck. “ “I can’t speak to the truth of that, of course, because I wasn’t in the room and I haven’t heard Meghan’s side. But my sources still very much stick to their story.” So why go on saying this when you have no proof, it’s been investigated with no proof of bullying revealed, and as you claim you haven’t heard from Meghan? Although I guess he needs to read Harry’s book. Even that harpie Tina Brown said there was no bullying, perhaps a culture clash. I don’t even think it’s Jason Knife who is keeping this up, I believe it’s Chuckmilla the instigator who is behind this.
The same Valentine Low who knew Meghan was suicidal and asking for help, but decided to continue writing negative stories about her? That Valentine Low. Yeah, he & Jason can fuck right on off. I don’t believe a word of it. Only reason they haven’t released her rebuttal and the report is the fact it incriminates the Wails and their staff as the true bullies.
Word.
So, this bullying supposedly happened in 2018, and we are supposed to believe that 5 years later no one will go on record? Not even using their actual names, but no one will speak to a clearly sympathetic national press as Employee A who was employed between 2012 and 2019 and provide specifics? That we should believe that all of this evidence exists in a bullying report that BP buried to protect Meghan (yeah right), and the hordes she apparently bullied can’t do an interview with Low, or Tominey, or Eden and provide five or six specific events that can be backed up? Their press is so awful they don’t realize that news organizations frequently get scoops like this and can protect their sources. The fact that no one who was supposedly bullied will go on record says plenty.
Right! This bothers me so much.
Also question for the lawyers, at what point can she sue for slander/defamation? I know the rules are different in the UK but I’m really curious.
Also could she sue Knauf in a US court since she lives here and his stories/lies have been printed and proliferated in US magazine/papers?
Exactly!! half a damn decade and NO ONE will go on record about any of the supposed bullying. How am I supposed to believe that? “Trust me bro” isn’t enough.
“I can’t speak to the truth of that…” sounds like a major climb-down to me. Before, he was saying it was the truth.
He knows he was fooled and used.
Low, of course will not say that his source, Jason Knauf lied to him about everything. One of the people he claimed Meghan bullied was a PA who had been fired for using her position to get freebies (per Harry’s book). Instead, Low claimed that it was Meghan who was hogging freebies and it was Melissa Toubati who tried to tell her it was against protocols. That was all a lie! Coincidentally, Melissa was also the person on the phone “crying” (probably to protect her reputation) to Rebecca English about being “bullied” when she was actually fired. What’s even more telling is that the Sussexes went directly to HR, with evidence, that that staffer had violated staff conduct. They didn’t need to conjure up emails and forward it to random people, then sit on it for 3 years to “prove their side”. All of Low’s claims in his book are falling apart one by one. He claimed that Meghan threatened to dump Harry if he didn’t put out a statement confirming their relationship and defending her from press abuse but Harry said in his book, it was actually an article titled “Meghan Markle Should Dump Prince Harry” that made him put out that statement. Then Low lied some more and said that Harry proposed to Meghan 4 months before their engagement interview and kept it a secret when Harry proposed to Meghan on November 4, a few weeks before the engagement interview that took place on the 27th of Nov. Also why does the number of people “bullied” keep changing? First it was 2 now it’s a whole survivor club? Also I think the staffer who Harry talked about in his book that was trying to sabotage Meghan is Jason Knauf, it’s so clear.
All these newspapers and journalists have no integrity, They published based on their palace sources without care because they know that the palace is not on the side of Meghan and Harry.
Same as The Sun and Clarkson’s horrifying article on Meghan. No consequences. The Culture Secretary even said it is free speech.
If not bowing down to royals and refusing to put up with racism is “being a teenager” then bring on the teenagers. They need to take over the world.
If they truly believe Meghan bullied them, have the courage of their convictions and sue.
Yes. Or they’d go on record with their name and go into specific details as to how they were bullied. They won’t do that because I think they know they weren’t bullied or at least what they consider bullying would be laughed at, like expecting them to work full days and to do their work. But I also think they know if they go public MM could put out how she was treated to. I think that’s the main reason why we don’t get specifics because they don’t want MM to talk about how she was treated. I mean if they called her names and gleefully told the press about it, no doubt they were doing the same to her face.
You’re talking about a little girl who wrote a letter and changed an advertising campaign. Bully isn’t the word.
The “bullying” stories are reminding me of that Simpsons episode, where Bart accidentally destroys their Christmas tree and presents and blames it on a burglar, and when they find out the truth the news asks them to give a statement to the burglar out there: “Uh, hello, jerk. We may never find you and we should probably all stop looking. But one thing is for sure – you DO exist.”
LOL nice to meet a fellow person who can relate everything in life to an episode of The Simpsons!
Absolutely. I’m only sad we can’t share the memes, LOL.
I always remember that Simpsons cartoon, from back before the TV show, where it’s a grid of Bart saying, “I didn’t do it,” in every panel, except the center one, where he says “Confidentially, I’m guilty as hell, but you can’t prove a thing.”
I still believe Knauf heard some grousing about the new expectations for actually having to the job as described (which I can understand, people are human). When that turned into accusations of bullying, the people involved quieted up fast, because they were just venting and knew the real story would make them look bad.
Hmm, doesn’t Low appear a little less confident in these allegations? Now it’s “my sources” are still saying it, but Low doesn’t know, it’s all hearsay…
I wonder if the rota are starting to feel let down by their palace sources. It seems like story after story is disproven, and it certainly won’t be the royals who have to apologize.
Hmm…you’ve got me wondering. I don’t know if these royal reporters 100% believed what they are told, but they clearly love to stake their reputations on it. Now their reputations are being shredded and people like Low and Tominey are tripling down swearing they are only reporting what they’ve been TOLD. I have no sympathy for them, because basic journalistic standards should have prevented them from publishing 90% of their stories.
It is interesting @Jay. I haven’t heard Low address Tiara-gate either. He had said he confirmed the story from a very close staff member of the Queen (Kelly). I wonder if he is walking away from his version of that story as well.
Many things can be true at once. I am European, and I have heard of people quitting because an american manager was brought in and treated people cruelly. Its a culture clash. Managers cant just get away with speaking down to employees and jerking people around where I’m from, but I understand its pretty common in the US. I dunno what Megan supposedly did, but I think its possible that they felt bullied. It doesnt mean she deserved any of the treatment she got from the Royal Family.
Sure, that is possible. But I don’t think MM was ever mean. We’ve had detailed leaks on how they made fun of her, called her names and let the press know it. I don’t think she bullied them but sure, maybe they felt that way. Maybe she was insisted they work more than they were used to or maybe that one quote from VL’s book where she said something to that effect she’d love to ask just about anyone else to do an assignment but she only had the person she was requesting. Maybe they felt that was bullying but to me that is not.
I don’t know how common it is in the US (I’ve never had a boss treat me like that and I’ve been working in some capacity or another for 25 years) but I can believe it was a culture clash. But a culture clash =/= bullying.
Nope, not in this case. I’m being particularly abrupt because I’m incredibly tired of this talking point. Meghan was never accused of bullying before OR SINCE. The English people who worked for her after she left KP loved her. And *Jason Knauf was the only accuser.*
It’s a lie, it was always a lie, and trying to figure out any other story is just serving Willy’s agenda.
And Jason is also American. Plus we are to believe that they see being a demanding boss as bullying but don’t see Will as bullying because he would apologize after yelling at them?
Being cruel to employees is not common or expected in US workplaces. My dad spent his whole career at European company. The bullies were few, but they were equally represented in the US & European offices.
….as opposed to Charles, who ripped out a sink and choked his butler?
Sure maybe why not but in this case Jason was a known liar to smear Meghan via Wills office, all the complaints were withdrawn, no names attached, one 5am email when she was on the Australian tour, and other sentences that she have expected ppl to do their job not treat it as a 1 hour workday. It’s weak sauce at best, defamatory and malicious lies in truth. So I don’t think cultural differences cut it on this example
This talking point doesn’t hold water. At no time other than when Jason Knauf was briefing against her on KP’s orders (read William) has Meghan ever been accused of bullying behaviour on the job. And bullying managers aren’t just Americans, it is a worldwide problem. I’m Canadian and have worked for bullies as well as wonderful people. Unfortunately Meghan walked into a hornets nest of a situation where the staff were simply lazy and didn’t like to be managed or tasked with anything by an American, biracial *actress*. They felt it was beneath them. Jason jumped on that bandwagon and started the ball rolling. Interesting that the 2 staffers who accused her of bullying rescinded their complaints. Their names have never been made public, and I think Valentine Low is simply beating a dead horse with this nonsense.
Asking someone to do their job is not bullying. Holding people to deadlines is not bullying.
Also Harry as others have pointed out talked about one staffer who lied and used Meghan’s name to get freebies.
Onnie, what are the labor laws where you are? That American manager wouldn’t have lasted long in the US if he treated people the way you are describing. Talk about hostile work environment.
When are people going to learn? Meghan saves the receipts, y’all. ALL the receipts.
Former staffers are sticking to their vague and anonymous guns, yeah okay.
This f*cking p.o.s.
Harry has literally refuted this: Meghan was never mean to anyone, she sent hampers if staff were sick or depressed. Meghan’s friends and people who have worked with her have also refuted this out. Shut your mouth Low(life)
Harry said Meghan used her own credit card to pay for space heaters and lamps because the palace office was so cold and gloomy and she was concerned for the employees. She also paid for pizza and held ice cream socials and shared freebies with her staff.
What a bitch! (snark)
(I’m pretty sure Meghan could produce the credit card records to prove this.)
Serena Williams has said Meghan is too nice. Using her own credit card for these things is an example of being too nice. Being too nice can be very very detrimental to a person as well. I feel that if Meghan was more into self preservation, there are some situations she would not have accepted. She would not have worked for the royal family for free, she would not have paid for her own clothing, she would not have been buying sofas for their cottage, she would have run away from the UK earlier, she would not go to any UK family functions where the rest of the family is always freezing her out.
But she’s a gold digger (eye roll).
Seriously though. I want people’s heads. Meghan is the only one honestly who I am like got done so wrong and continues to get done wrong by these jackasses.
Well, she wasn’t there for them. She was there for him. That was her choice and the sacrifice it meant for her garners a lot of respect from me.
And, in spite of doing all that, I distinctly remember the early days after she got married into the family, around the time of that snarky article about the 5 am e-mails, that was using the fact that she’d purchased an espresso machine for the KP staff to use as they liked as some sort of point against her. Knowing that she likely purchased it using her own money, or shared her gift with her staff rather than keep it for herself, really shows how ungrateful each and everyone of those privately educated trust fund brats really are.
Exactly. And ChillinginDC, I want their heads, too.
Meghan is the living embodiment of “no good deed goes unpunished.”
Heard so many thoughtful stories like this about Meg from her girlfriends.
Jason lied to Low. Low knows this. And everyone knows that Jason just received a reward from the RF. For lying. They don’t care about lying. They care about protecting the institution. So lying to protect it is a very good thing and will be rewarded accordingly.
Another thing that came to mind after reading Spare, apart from the bullying allegations and how it all came to nothing. I thought Harry would have mentioned the issue of the night nanny being immediately fired and marched out of Frogmore in the middle of the night. I’d love to read the 25 page rebuttal to the bullying nonsense, but I’d also like to hear about what went down that night. Was she photographing Archie? Was she caught drinking? Was she nosing through the Sussexes private papers? She was probably hired by KP and could have been some kind of plant that was tasked with finding dirt on them. Oh the secrets the Sussexes must still be holding close to their chests as ammo.
People have had some really scary theories, but I think she was photographing Archie. She would have made a mint.
I wish he had talked about the fire in Archie’s nursery that melted the heater! And that the press hid …
I don’t think we will ever hear the reason about the nanny being immediately fired, even though it was probably just cause. With no proof or witnesses, just the 3 of them present, it’s their word against hers and she could sue for wrongful termination and charges harmful to her character and affect her ability to find new employment. The book publishers attorneys could have said, don’t go there.
These rota rats have been spoon fed Palace talking points from courtiers and run with them without question. It’s the rota’s fault they didn’t bother to fact check and look for corroboration; and by doing so they damaged the professional reputations. They’re afraid they could be sued.
So his sources are sticking to their stories despite their NDA, but not coming forward, presumably because of their NDA, which applies to them but not Jason Knauf who is permitted hearsay when the other witnesses are not permitted firsthand accounts.
And they had a bullying investigation into the Sussexes and the Sussexes only, which has been private, despite the palace leaking like the Titanic.
The whole thing is madness, and quit clearly carefully cultivated bs, for anyone with even an average IQ.
Wow, bullying “journalist” says someone else was a bully, even though he wasn’t there. The irony, it burns.
Ok here’s the thing, no one is saying it’s a harmonious workplace culture since the leaks were constant and the households split. The Sussexes left. If it wasn’t a good work environment, them being gone was a solution in and of itself. Then the palace had an investigation to further address these grievances, although apparently they didn’t want to hear from Meghan on what happened.
Now what we haven’t heard is what other ways did the palace address this. Were the bullied staff offered compensation, given the option to sue/ mediation? What more can be done at this point? All the parties involved have moved on, the institution they worked for addressed it, the Sussexes rebutted the claims and the Sussexes left KP in 2019. At this point unless specific individuals want to take further action, it seems they’ll keep throwing this out just because they can, but not sure what else they want.
The bullying allegations that surfaced exactly two weeks after William’s assault on his brother.
Many of the people listed on the initial report asked that their name be removed from said report.
This reporter was among the few who verified Meghan’s mental struggles, of which should have caused her to leave.
He was quite cavalier about it, he was offered and wrote a book based on these untruths.
The reasons vary:-
to stop the lawsuit against his boss Murdoch,
to solidifying the relationship with KP and to demand a rapprochement between Harry and the incendiary tabloid press.
He wanted Harry to continued to accept their cruel abuse and sell newspapers.
Harry should morph into the asinine fictional depiction of himself by them.
So suprise, he is sticking to his story after conceding that Harry will never leave his children and Meghan will never return to the UK to live permanently.
You know who has gone on record? Meghan’s former costars who worked with her and saw how she interacted with the other cast and crew members. All glowing reports.
Bullshit from all the lying Brits.
Valentine’s last name serves him well. He’s gone so low at rock bottom. He’s a paid rota just like the rest of the rotas PMorgan, DWootton, CTominey, KNicholls, JClarkson, to name a few. Also paid American journalists like MKelly, COwens, etc. They all attack for cash.