Most “royal experts” rely on racist dog-whistles, projection and classist subtext to fuel their coverage and commentary about the Duke and Duchess of Sussex. Tom Bower is built different. While I loathe the man, he actually says the thing outright: that he’s out to destroy Meghan and that the fate of the monarchy depends on “obliterating the Sussexes.” That’s how many royal experts feel, but no one but Bower is saying it. So it’s been interesting to watch Bower this week, as he tries to revive the “Meghan and the bullying investigation” story. The bullying investigation was conducted by an outside law firm at the behest of QEII. The investigation was concluded at some point in the spring of 2022, and the findings were buried. Now Bower says that King Charles should release the findings. I agree, but for a different reason. Bower thinks the findings will finally be the thing that hurts Meghan’s image. If that were true, the palace would have released the findings two years ago.
Buckingham Palace must release its ruling over allegations that the Duchess of Sussex bullied staff after a key witness broke her silence, a prominent Royal historian demanded tonight. Tom Bower told ‘The Reaction’ the decision by Meghan’s former senior adviser, Samantha Cohen, to admit she gave evidence into the investigation could burst the ‘dam’. Appearing as a guest for hosts Sarah Vine and Andrew Pierce, Mr Bower argued: ‘At some stage, King Charles has got to decide, and I hope it is sooner rather than later, that the Sussexes must be exposed.’
Ms Cohen this week told Australian newspaper The Herald Sun she was one of ten staff who gave evidence to the internal probe. Mr Bower believes Ms Cohen’s decision to go on the record will bring fresh scrutiny onto the Sussexes, who have always denied any bullying allegations, and the secretive findings.
He said: ‘What is very interesting are two things in the run up after that. Firstly, the palace said they would investigate it and that investigation has been buried. More interestingly really is that the turnover of staff in the Sussex household in Montecito in California has been phenomenal. They have gone through dozens of people. Probably the Palace thinks this not the moment to reveal or release this information. I disagree.’
‘The key thing is until the Sussexes are ‘socially destroyed’ their credibility undermined; the Royal Family in Britain is going to be constantly their target,’ the best selling author believes. The author of ‘Revenge: Meghan, Harry, and the War Between the Windsors’ added the complainants face a problem coming forward with future employers.
‘The question now is whether the other women involved decide to put their name and step up above the parapet and say they too have been interviewed and what their complaints are,’ he continued. ‘The problem for these women is if they come out and say that Meghan Markle treated them badly, however fair, employers of theirs will fear that they cannot be trusted over their secrets. They have a major problem of trust and that has always been Meghan’s strongest card.’
Again, Tom Bower said the thing explicitly, that his goal (and the goal of the British media and royal institution) is to socially destroy the Sussexes and undermine their credibility on a national and global scale. The fact that the Sussexes are thriving, well-liked, socially accepted and successful has ruined the whole royal institution and everyone around it. Anyway, it’s weird to agree with Tom Bower about anything but I would love nothing more than to see the full findings of the bullying investigation. I want reams of documents with interviews where KP staffers are shaking and sobbing over Meghan choosing her wedding flowers or organizing a photographer for the cookbook. The whole reason why the findings have never been made public is because William, Kate and their staff are the ones who look like incompetent a–holes.
In the Mail, Tom Bower says that in my book Courtiers I say Sam Cohen complained behind the scenes that she had been "treated harshly" while working for Harry and Meghan. This is not true. I wrote: "More than once, staff felt they were treated harshly." No mention of Sam there.
— Valentine Low (@valentinelow) April 24, 2024
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We all know if that investigation revealed anything damaging towards Meghan it would have been beamed on the parliament buildings.
Yeah, they would have managed a “leak” at least. Look how specific some of the employees were about things that Andrew did.
If they had anything, it would have been leaked somehow. The palace has never protected Meghan. They had nothing.
Oh dear that old diarrhea mouth again about the make believe bullying claims. If the King can manage to reveal Meghan’s letter after the Oprah interview a few weeks before his coronation he would have found a way to leak the findings of the bullying reports if Meghan was in the wrong. Maybe Tom needs to take a minute and think whether Mr. & Mrs. Lazy reputations can survive a bullying claim if they were to release the findings of that report. All the mental vampire rats Ken & Karen knew Meghan was the victim and Mrs. & Mrs. Lazy along with their staffs and salt island BM were the headmaster of that bullying report. They are so angry that Meghan survived their cruel treatments and in returns they lost their only star of the firm which was Harry. They are all going to reap what they sow for their inhuman treatment of a pregnant woman. They are trying so hard to rewrite their treatment of Meghan while she was pregnant but their racism, sexism, intolerance and anti American towards her are blinding them and they are failing and will continue to fail because they exposed themselves and it’s too late to hide.
He knows the results of that investigation don’t paint Meghan as the bully, and he knows it will never be released, so he’s hoping if he harps on it and bluffs about it enough, it will automatically equal Meghan being the “guilty” one. Oh, how I would love, love, looooove for those details to be released one day.
One of the biggest things these fools still don’t seem to understand is that the more they try to will something awful about H or M into existence, the more it will inevitably circle back around and whack them in the face.
So the self-proclaimed avenger for a tired institution of a politically weak nation state is attacking a U.S. national for being mean to his countrymen?
I don’t think many outside that country would be troubled by any findings. She doesn’t live there and she is not a citizen.
I will say, that using UK titles runs contrary to her country’s constitution, and I look forward to the day when the U.S. Mountbatten clan drops those entirely.
Exactly! If they had found anything negative, they 1000% would have made that public. In addition, weren’t some other royals accused of bullying and then they went quiet on this investigation, or am I misremembering that part?
How much more damaging could it be than what’s already been said about Meghan? The BM have already “released the findings,” at least their version of what they think are the findings. She’s already been accused of making everyone cry and making their lives a misery, and she’s bossy and rude and doesn’t know her place – that’s baked in the narrative at this point.
ML, I think at the beginning there was something about talking with former staff–just the way it was stated, I was all for it. I figured it would open up all of the royal family members. It probably did.
Harry stated in Spare that their attorney sent a 25(?) statement when this allegation came out and it was to be investigated. IMO, the brf is NEVER going to release the bullying investigation because it’s going to be pretty clear that Meghan didn’t bully anyone. I wouldn’t, however, be at all surprised if there were some conclusions about staff, etc., bullying Meghan.
That’s why I think they switched this and said when the report came out it was to show what procedures needed to be changed in future. The palace does NOT want the world to know what info the attorneys gathered.
Eurydice, my comment above was to ML. Not sure how it got here.
Isn’t it interesting that there has not been one thing said about Meghan and bullying from ANYONE who has worked for her in the US–before and after her stint in the UK.
Bowers obsessive behavior about Meghan and trashing her is disturbing. Nobody talks about andrew and charles behavior to their employees. Charles was caught on camera being nasty to staff
@Agreed Tessa Bowers sounds like an unhinged and dangerous individual who is obsessed with Meghan.Also Palace would be skating on thin ice releasing these findings. Given state of anxiety most staff who deal with FK BTS are probably going through coaxing through his “work ” schedule do they want to green light authentic complaints being made about him? Does anyone seriously imagine that Will is easy going, undemanding and pleasant to work for? They are trying to keep a lid on what’s been going on and I bet they don’t want whistle blowers feeling they should have the right to speak up? Bowers is clearly delulu if he believes that Meghan bullied staff and that the Firm is in anyway protecting her by not releasing the findings. Staff probably are currently under great stress dealing with the omnishambles but know it would be career ending to complain about a birth royal.
That’s because they’ve assigned Meghan the role of royal scapegoat for the rest of the royal family. Having a royal scapegoat means they can carry on being their sh*tty selves as they feed her to the wolves – the ideal distraction to keep the heat off themselves. She’s American! She’s an actress! She’s Black! She’s married to the the spare, already a bit of a scapegoat himself! She crosses her legs! She wears the wrong color nail polish! She had Harry’s brain removed and installed an operating button on his back! Choose your build.
If Meghan’s bullying report had had anything conclusive in it, it would be mentioned every. single. day along with her 1000 bathrooms.
They know that Meghan keeps receipts so they can’t put out their vague BS. They counted on her not being able to prove JK wrong when he helped out the papers in court. They likely don’t want their new employers to know that they whined about being expected to work.
Exactly this. These are people who regularly lie about the Sussexes. The fact that the best they can come up with is a 5 am email says it all. They know Meghan has receipts, the best thing they can do for her is release the report. This is the only time I will ever agree with Bower, release the report!
She should sue the staff that accused her of bullying. It is the only way she can clear her name. Either that or sue Buckingham palace for releasing the accusations when they hadn’t been tested in a court of law with an independent judge and jury. This story and the public accusations are despicable. She has been condemned without a trial.
Anyone who believes that that report has anything damaging about Meghan in it and it hasn’t been leaked all over the rags in Britain needs check what they are smoking. Hasn’t the statute of limitations run out on all of this by now anyways, it’s been close to five years since she worked for them.
They have nothing on Meg. If they did there would have been seventy eleven articles about it years ago. They need to cover whatever is going on behind the scenes with this made up bull crap.
I wonder if he’s beating this horse cause he knows the findings will never be released. It’s this obscure thing that never really had a conclusion thus he can continue to associate M with it cause it was never really “concluded” that she wasn’t (or was) a bully.
Yup! I just said the same thing above. He knows it will never see the light of day, so he’s just running with it any way he sees fit.
I can’t wait for Huevo to be king. It’s going to be hilarious to read the excuses why Mr. Incandescent With Rage won’t release a report that lays out the many crimes of the Duchess of Sussex.
This is just the last desperate hope that people like him, Dan Wooten, and Angela Levin are clinging to to justify their racism. She must have done something!! This report has never been released because 1. I’m positive that it would implicate Kate and William in a lot of things. 2. the things that they complained about probably would be so comically ridiculous and reasonable expectations from your boss that there would be no way to spin it that it’s not just whining. And yes he wants the Sussexes destroyed because every day they exist they remove a brick from the wall of the world-view he ascribes to. The pinnacle of success is proximity and inclusion in the BRF.
The British Royal family watches everything the Sussexes do and then copies it, Chucky’s clowns copying Chrissy’s jam video and Sophie coping Harry who copied the Beatles on the Zebra crossing.
I’ll give Sophie a pass on the Apple Studios thing. Everybody does that.
I agree, I have done it as well.
It’s called how to stir up hate without any evidence. When they held this enquiry did Meghan have any chance to clear her name? After all the allegations were made public. The racists of course have jumped on the allegations as proving something. Wonder if they would like to have been treated like that in a court of law.
rosa mwemaid, Harry said in Spare that their attorney sent a 25(?) page statement regarding the bullying allegations. That and the staff interviews is why this report suddenly became a report about the changes in procedures that need to happen. The brf did not want this all aired in court, but they couldn’t write a report on the bullying because it wasn’t Meghan who was doing the bullying. That’s my opinion.
DO IT! I dare the Palace to “Just Do It!” I promise you after people read the independent outside investigation report, most will not feel sorry for KKKate again, cancer or not.
Oh and Bower, Karma is coming for you.
KP staff: “Being treated harshly”
= “Being told to Do Your Job.” (And get your a-s-s off the fainting couch.)
The report can never be released, the judge and jury are all Palace staff. No one for the defence.
Wasn’t the investigation and report done by an independent third party?
Yep please do release the Sussexes were never able to defend themselves because there were no allegations apart from the 5AM emails which is ridiculous to everyone who has ever worked in a professional setting.
Also that on PA, Jason Knauf’s friend, lied on her resume so if she was found incompetent that’s not bullying.
And we’d finally get to hear what the night nanny did to be fired on the spot.
Tom Bower suffers from verbal diarrhea. The sh*t he comes out with. Samantha Cohen saying that she was interviewed is not proof of anything. I agree with everybody who says if there was anything damaging about Meghan you can bet that somebody, an insider, friend, royal source would have leaked it by now. What does the RF has to hide by not publishing the report? Bring it on. Let see what is in the report.
Exactly, Monika! He can’t possibly believe that the report has been buried to protect Meghan. He knows they’re protecting real bullies in the family, but none of them are named Meghan.
Yep, Samantha ‘giving evidence’ could well have been along the lines of, ‘Ms. Cohen, did you see or experience any signs of bullying from the Duchess?’ ‘No, your honour, I did not’. ‘Thank you, no further questions.’
I’d say be careful what you wish for but I think they’re all so desperate for content they’re fine if the investigation throws someone else under the bus
Their fixation on “destroying” Meghan is so disturbing. Especially given everything happening with the remaining members of the BRF right now. Kate is too sick to work–surely her toadies should understand that that means she is too sick to throw out this kind of garbage nonsense. What a terrible group of people. And it’s one thing to be terrible, it’s quite another thing to let other people see how terrible you truly are.
He’s trying to destroy the Sussexes and Meghan in particular. Now it’s the Invictus Games. Some people on the hellsite formerly known as Twitter want Mike Tindall to take over the Invictus Games, despite the fact that he’s not royal and Harry was the catalyst for the Invictus Games.
Oh yes well known army veteran erm….. no
Mike Tindall? Haven’t the IG athletes been through enough? Next they’ll be promoting Uncle Gary.
Mike Tindall is not even a veteran.
I’m sure the rota and KP staffers were convinced it was bullying. But then the lawyers laughed when they read the findings because they are people with actual jobs. The law firm did KP a huge favor by not releasing it. Haha, maybe this is something Cams can add to her To Do list to humiliate W&K? Piers and Jeremy don’t seem too busy these days.
Release the findings is not the responsibility of the law firm unless their clients ask them to. The 3rd party firm were hired by QE2/BP to investigate the allegation & sent the final results to QE2/BP. It’s the BRF that refused to release the report.
Jesus…‘she admits she was interviewed!!!!’
Well of course she was! No competent investigation could have avoided interviewing her. That is not news.
What is news is that the Palace buried the report once done and has scrupulously avoided leaking it. And they are not scrupulous about about avoiding leaks when they think it will make them look *good*.
Are these people genuinely stupid, or do they just think everyone else is?
Both, it’s both.
I hope they do release this nonsense along with the 25 page response Meghan and Harry sent to the palace as Harry mentioned having done in his book Spare.
Maxine Branch, I’ve wondered if their attorney can release any of that statement because wouldn’t he own the copyright?
This 25 page response was sent to the palace per Harry in Spare.
Harry said, either in the documentary, or in Spare, that he and Meghan submitted a 25-page response to the claims. If the palace is going to release the so-called report, ethics require them to release the response as well. I can’t wait.
Proud Mary, as I mentioned above, their attorney owns the copyright. Couldn’t s/he disclose their statement?
I be careful what people wish for because there’s no way that anything being released is going to paint Meghan favorably. These people lied about how much stuff? And they won’t allow her a chance to review and rebut things beforehand. It won’t be included. And then the news cycle turns into an Angry Black woman who didn’t know her place and it takes away from what she and Harry are moving towards.
I would ignore it.
Charles at least has enough sense to.
They lie when they are quoted on tabloid stories without names. They wouldn’t lie to a law firm especially after Meghan said she has receipts. There is no way there is anything negative about Meghan there because it would be leaked long ago. It was conducted by a law firm, not the firm itself. They would know what is ordinary boss-employee relationship. The staff didn’t.
Of course they would lie. Just because a law firm investigated doesn’t mean the employees did not lie about Meghan.
Why do you think she had a 25 page response to the investigation?
Jason the Knife lied repeatedly and got a new job out of it. They don’t care.
The point is that once they release the report, Meghan can refute it with the proof we all know she has. She has not because she would be accused of being an angry black woman on a vendetta. These people already blame her for QEII and Prince Philip’s deaths and Charles and Kate’s cancer.
They haven’t released a report of blatant lies because they know she has proof, and isn’t afraid to file a lawsuit.
My sentiments precisely, Christine. What have they to say about Meghan that we haven’t already heard? I don’t think there’s any need for pearl clutching here, because as much as that family hates her, if they had anything on Meghan, they would have released it my now.
…aaaand he’ll probably dress up as a bowl of lemons with a jar of strawberry jam for Halloween for more attention.
We all have been saying that if there was any evidence of bullying the Palace would have leaked the report already. The fact that they haven’t means there’s no evidence and that the people who look bad in this report are the KP staff and I suspect William and Kate too.
They should, but they won’t, because it’s a sham. Duh.
Whoopsie! Set out to destroy the Sussexes but accidentally asked the Windsors to destroy themselves.
This idiot is going to look real smart when the “report” is leaked (and not released, come on, they don’t want it to be made public) and they all look like incompetent buffoons.
Worse, malicious liars.
Tom Bower shoots his mouth off constantly, unchallenged. Of particular interest is his quote “the turnover of staff at Montecito has been phenomenal”, how would he know? It is interesting that in the time H&M have resided in Montecito the tabloids have not identified one person who may have worked for them, if the turnover had been that great the tabloid bloodhounds would have found someone to spill the beans. Bower and his ilk do not know how many staff H&M have at Montecito, any numbers have been pure speculation. So Bower should be more accurate with his statements or shut up.
Oh, I think the other 400 pages of Harry’s book Spare need to be published. I can’t take much more of BP having free reign to hack away at this woman. This is insane. Please, please H&M, fight back. Let’s see what your new press person can do. I do wish they had an unnamed, vitriolic, venomous street fighter in the press that would start hacking away at Angela Latrine and Tom Bowel. {Weve seen how think skinned Latrine is.}
And others. On the other hand, I do think that the numbers are growing that see how stupid the royal family are. I’m not on social media, but I hope this is how it is.
Everything these rats say makes more sense if you sub “William and Kate” for “Harry and Meghan.”
He’s keeping the connection of Meghan and bullying in the minds of those who swallow the bilge he disgorges. Evil work being done by this so-called scribe here.
Look the BRF’s propaganda machine works like Putin’s or any wannabe dictator propaganda. The content is not news, not new, and more rehash of the same BS.
The over saturation though is having a rebound effect whereby people are tuning this stuff out. The British media is made up of old and uncool people (I’m in that demographics) and even their SM lacks oomph and humour. It doesn’t matter if their readers believe the lies and BS or not, but for these poison pens, this is their only trade. They have no other skill set. They are hanging on hoping to avoid staff redundancy. It’s such a sewer. The sanitation workers who actually work to repair and clean out sewers have more work ethics and integrity and more importantly, relevancy than these poison pens or the entire British monarchy. Just think about that the next time your sewer gets blocked.
Very interesting to see that tweet from Valentine Low stating that something Bower has written ‘is not true’.
Putting that comment out there makes it look as though Low now wants to distance himself from this narrative – strange, as it was Low who originally wrote the story about the bullying allegations. I wonder if he now doubts what he was told?
In another tweet (to someone who has recently posted positively about Harry) Low wrote: “Jason certainly said that Sam was being treated badly.”
So Low now seems to be distancing himself from the story he broke, confirming his source for it was “Jason” but is not pushing for the report to be published, which you think he would be if it confirmed his story…
As always, cretinous reporters like Low only give soundbytes of a story, intending to craft a particular narrative.
E.g. “Jason certainly said that Sam was being treated badly.” – by whom? As you say, Brit, Low swallowed Knauf’s bullying allegations hook, line and sinker and printed the accusations in his broadsheet (this is the same Low who KNEW – because palace HR told him – that M was having having suicidal ideation and STILL printed these lies), why leave that bit dangling, why not complete the sentence.
But then I recall that when M still thought that she could trust Knauf she specifically asked him NOT to tell Samantha Cohen anything about what they had discussed (re her letter to her father). This came out in the court proceedings. I’ll bet he did anyway.
Low is a snake and it is quite possible that he’s seen the writing on the wall and is covering himself. He must have known that he was being lied to even way back then… and went along with it. He’s probably worried that the 25-page dossier which H mentioned in Spare will come back to bite him in the proverbial and leave him facing a lawsuit.
This is why the Oprah interview, Harry’s book (Spare) and Harry and Meghan’s Netflix show (among others) have been so important. They earned income through these and they needed to earn a living and pay for security to protect themselves. They also raise money for charitable causes.
By putting much of what they went through into the public record, the so-called British media may claim what they want, but smart thinking people know that the real story is very different. The harassment, lying, bullying among other atrocious behaviour of the British media and royal family would have broken many people. One year (I can’t remember which one), Christopher Bouzy of Bot Sentinel and Spoutible totaled all the stories about some of the members of the royal family. Negative Harry and Meghan stories were almost 250,000. I can’t even fathom how they have managed to live with such grace, given the horrendous treatment meted out to them.
I am very glad that they provided information on what they have dealt with. It makes the so-called media and so called royalty furious because they can’t control Harry and Meghan nor the narrative any more.
Why, because Meghan is in the middle of a wildly successful product launch? Shut up, you revolting, malignant eyesore.
From the beginning I’ve never believed a “bullying investigation” took place. I believe (and per Harry from SPARE) that a 25 pg. page report was sent to the Palace’s HR after Low’s/Knauf’s bullticky article. It wasn’t in response to an investigation, it was a response to allegations by KP, BRF, the Times.imo
The independent law firm has never been named. Why Not? The “independent” law firm isn’t independent if they were being paid by the BRF.imo Might be wrong, but an independent law firm, would need to be independent of both parties or agreed upon by both parties.? And, wouldn’t they(law firm) be willing to be named? Headlines/PR.
Occam’s Razor. There was never a bullying investigation because it was known Meghan wasn’t ever the/a bully. H&M and their lawyers did their due diligence-receipts. On the record. As quickly as possible. QE2 knew Meghan wasn’t a bully. Edward Young worked a different narrative that was more cohesive with Simon Case. That fit with KP/William and all of their best interests. Huge mistake. I don’t believe a “bullying investigation” report exists. Do believe H&M submitted a 25 page report negating BM/BRF headlines. That’s the more integral report.imo
Agreatreckoning, which explains why suddenly the ‘report’ they got was an investigation into the procedures for how bullying claims are to be handled. I just figured that they did that because they had (former) staff talking about other royals and bullying.