The Sussexes’ fifteen fired staffers won’t find work in other royal offices, eyeroll

Meghan Markle, Duchess of Sussex, and Prince Harry, Duke of Sussex, attend a roundtable discussion on gender equality!

Once again, I’m at a loss for why the British papers are making such a big deal about the “fifteen staffers” who have been “fired” from the Duke and Duchess of Sussex’s office. As I said when the story broke last week, we already knew that the Sussexes’ Buckingham Palace was going to be phased out, and clearly that meant that their staffers would be leaving. The British papers are going the extra mile to make it sound like Harry and Meghan personally screamed “YOU’RE FIRED” at every employee, one by one. And now the papers are making it sound like these staffers have been so tainted by Harry and Meghan’s employment that no one in the other royal offices wants to work with them.

Prince Harry and Meghan Markle’s aides are unlikely to be given new royal jobs after they were dramatically sacked, it was claimed today. The Duke and Duchess of Sussex fired all 15 members of their “very loyal” team in a sign they plan never to return to Britain after quitting as royals. It is believed that while a couple of their team may find work in the royal household, the bulk will now be negotiating their redundancy packages in a “clean break”.

A source today told The Sun Online today: “Those who worked for Harry and Meghan were very much in their style, many of them were headhunted from highly successful jobs in the private sector. The idea that they could simply be moved into a Palace role isn’t going to work. Many of them were attracted by the fact they were working for Harry and Meghan who liked to do things differently. There are a lot of cliques that exist within the teams who work as advisers for the Royals. You are either in or you are out and Harry and Meghan’s team were never really part of that circle.”

Those being laid off are in the process of sorting out exit-packages. It is believed Prince Harry has asked to be kept informed of the process and hopes to speak personally to many of those affected before the end of the month.

The source said: “Harry was very proud of the team he had put together and everyone loved working for him and Meghan. Despite all the negative stories about the way Meghan can operate they were a really exciting and engaging couple to be around and everyone was excited about the jobs they were doing. Nobody particularly wants to leave – but life has to go on.”

[From The Sun]

This is all so ridiculous and petty. First of all, royal office work pays very poorly, so most royal-office people come into their jobs knowing that if they put in a few years of poorly-paid (but prestigious) royal work, they’re be able to find great-paying work in the private sector, especially now that they have “Director of Communications for Prince/Duke Whatever” on their CV.

Second of all, this is absolutely idiotic: “There are a lot of cliques that exist within the teams who work as advisers for the Royals. You are either in or you are out and Harry and Meghan’s team were never really part of that circle.” There’s the evidence you need that the old-guard courtiers so loathed Harry and Meghan that those courtiers were Mean-Girling the Sussexes’ staffers too. And it’s also evidence that those courtiers are exactly the people behind the worst of the Sussex smears. Even though the other royal offices won’t hire the Sussex staffers, those offices will totally steal all of their ideas though. They’ve already started.

Meghan Markle, Duchess of Sussex, and Prince Harry, Duke of Sussex, attend a roundtable discussion on gender equality!

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  1. Becks1 says:

    Yeah, I think one part of this is right, which is that if they went out of their way to find a specific kind of employee/staff member, that person is probably not going to meld with the Cambridges or whoever. I think that says way more about the other royals than it does about H&M.

    • pivotta says:

      Exactly, the framing on this site sometimes throws valid points to the wayside and it’s unfortunate.

      • Becks1 says:

        Well, the mail article is pretty shady, which is what Kaiser was responding to with many of her comments.

    • Courtney B says:

      The article seemed shadier towards the courtiers. Super qualified people wanted to work with the Sussexes and now they’ll be pushed out by the clique. Meghan wasn’t what the media made her out to be but rather lovely and engaged. The couple was lovely. Harry is personally involved and saddened. Seemed positive to me.

  2. Sunshine says:

    What a bunch of horrible people who spread this gossip and write this crap. How does this wind up in a newspaper?

  3. S808 says:

    “Even though the other royal offices won’t hire the Sussex staffers, those offices will totally steal all of their ideas though. They’ve already started.“

    Yup. The Exhibit A is the way their Instagram is run. A LOT of idea have been lifted from their captions to IG stories.

    Anyways, if I were their ex staff I wouldn’t want to work in the palace anyway afterwards. If there’s anyone who knows what Harry and Meghan have gone through, it’s their staff. They were apart of some great projects and I have no doubt they’ll find employment elsewhere.

    • notasugarhere says:

      The original article had several staffers offered positions with other palaces – which they refused. Guess those other palaces had to shoot back with some lies because their feelings were hurt. William, we see you.

      • Chica says:

        NOTA, has it EXACTLY right. This article was shading them for turning down offers to work for that hideous place. H&M were the only ppl worth their time of day. Their staff more than anyone else, would know that. The Temerity!

        They are a bunch of some bitter, jealous, petty and vindictive toads, the lot of them. H&M didn’t higher ppl who did not have self-worth or self-respect, and ethics. WTF would they ever associate themselves with that place outside of H&M?
        That’s why KP and the other royal offices are MADT!. Ha!

      • mac says:

        How many palaces are there? Isn’t everyone’s office, except for Charles and William, run out of BP? I don’t buy that they were offered jobs in other palaces. That was just CYA for the BRF.

      • notasugarhere says:

        Each working royal has their own office or Household. They may be based in BP, but they are all separate ‘palaces’ when it comes to hiring, scheduling, leaking.

  4. Nev says:

    The staff of the patronage that Kate inadvertently let lose money and close are losing all their jobs as well. Huge eye-roll indeed.

  5. LahdidahBaby says:

    Additionally, the royals (I won’t capitalize that “r”) WANT these staffers to remain unemployed because then they can blame Harry and Meg for callously causing unemployment while they themselves are living high.

  6. Sofia says:

    I’m assuming these people have impressive CVs if they were hired by H&M so they should be able to find a comfortable job soon.

    Yes letting go sucks but if this happened a month ago, some of these people have already polished their CVs and have interviews lined up

  7. Erinn says:

    It’s a sucky situation. I just hope that people aren’t going to go out of their way to rip on the staff in support of Meghan and Harry. I’m sure they’re having a rough time – and as far as we know their staff wasn’t disloyal. I’m also not surprised that the other palaces won’t be absorbing them, though you would think at least one or two of their team would be a high-value get.

    It DOES look great on a resume though, so I hope they all manage to land a great job after this is all said and done. I just received my first offer since finding out that our office is being shut down, and even then it’s still difficult. Trying to decide whether or not to take a job that has less hours and less pay makes it tricky, and in my own case, there is a chance a new company is going to come in and take over our staff. So I’m just caught in the ‘what ifs’ stage of everything.

  8. Digital Unicorn says:

    The snark at Meghan is this article is nasty – the line about ‘Despite all the negative stories about the way Meghan can operate’ tells you who’s office this ‘source’ came from. It was nice about Harry but just had to get a dig at Meghan. We see you William.

    • What. . .now? says:

      I noticed that, too. *eye roll* What’s wrong precious? Jealous that Hand M’s staff had actual interesting projects to work on? Or was it that H and M wanted their staff to work and all you people want to sit on your butts faffing around just releasing the occasional press release about how keen kate is and how noble William is?

      We see you indeed!

  9. The royal spin on this shows they are not concerned about these 15 people. What they are interested in is using the closing of the Sussex BP office to smear Harry and Meghan. Anyone in the work world knows there’s a BIG difference between being fired and being laid off because you’re job is no longer there. Fired is punitive and that’s why the courtiers and press keep using that term in relation to this story. It’s funny that even this palace source has to admit the Sussex team were very professional and — I’m sensing — way above the petty politics that they themselves are participating in. All of these people had to see this coming as the Sussexes have been negotiating for months. Once the Queen told Harry In January that he had to be all out or all in, the staff were told the office would be closing. I have no doubt many of them already have jobs lined up and that none of them will have trouble finding work. If I was part of their team i would have been thrilled to work with them and sorry to leave but that’s the way it works in the real world.

    On another note, no one seems to have any concern about Andrew’s staff when he was FORCED to close down his office. What about them? Instead of at least the month to two month official notice the Sussex staff received, his office staff found themselves without jobs within 72 hours of his insane tv interview. Why aren’t the press and all the royal rable expressing any concern for even one of them? (I’ll bet there were a lot more than 15 and probably some of them had been there way more than 2 years!) Finally, where’s all the hand wringing and worry about members of the Cambridge team who have been ousted? I don’t recall seeing any worry over the woman Kate fired the moment she came back from maternity leave. What BS this all is.

    • notasugarhere says:

      He was forced to move his office out of BP. One person was publicly fired, the person who spearheaded the disaster interview. Have we had confirmation that other Andrew staff have been fired? From what I can tell, they’re planning on moving him back in as a working royals after a period.

  10. YT says:

    I seriously doubt if any of the Sussex staffers applied for other royal jobs but chose to seek positions in the private sector.

  11. Heather says:

    The Sun probably interviewed the long lost family member of one former staffer, heard something along the lines of
    “Well, yes, he/she is rather sad about the layoff. He/she hasn’t found a new job yet. No, the other Royal offices don’t have any openings”
    …which got blown totally out of proportion to “He/she is in the grips of severe depression…can’t find a job…the other Royal offices refuse to hire him/her…it’s all H&M’s fault!”
    I refuse to fall for/believe 90% of anything I hear from their tabloid media.

  12. Glorys says:

    Presumably the other royals’ offices are already staffed. I feel sorry for anyone liding their job particularly if they gave up another good job for it less than 2 years ago.

  13. aquarius64 says:

    These petty stories still show the media is afraid of the lawsuits and factions in the BRF are afraid Harry and Meghan will escliped them post Sussexit. The Sussexes wanted to work on behalf of the queen but she said no (with pushing from Charles and William). But karma has arrived – Andrew’s mess has put a diaper genie/porta potty/restaurant dumpster/street sewer/landfill level stench on the House of Windsor that no amount of caping, embiggening, or smearing is going to wash off .

  14. Emily says:

    Yeah, this makes the palace look bad. Not Meghan and Harry.

    1) their staff are overqualified to work for other royal offices and don’t want those jobs anyways. They already came with experience and “do things differently” (aka up to date on professional practices and aren’t lazy)

    2) the obvious mean girl-ing. It seems everyone, not just William and Kate, we’re afraid of being out done.

  15. MeghanNotMarkle says:

    I doubt that any of their hand-selected staff would *want* to work in other royal offices. This is much ado about nothing.

  16. Maria says:

    People get laid off, downsized, made redundant all the time. It’s a fact of life. If the Sussexes aren’t there, then they don’t need a staff. Makes perfect sense. Those people will find other jobs or go on unemployment.

  17. Bettyrose says:

    I HATE when fired and laid off are used interchangeably. They’re completely different things.

  18. Lizzie says:

    Those staffers started looking for a new position the minute PH and MM said they wanted to step back. I think most have something else waiting.

  19. Cate says:

    Given how the other branches of the family treated H&M, if I enjoyed working for H&M I think I’d find myself not super thrilled about working for W&K, C&C, or QEII. Especially as I’m sure that to get a job in H&M’s office (or any royal office) you have to have something on your resume that would also attract employers in the private sector? I doubt these people are unqualified for anything other than royal work…

  20. GuestOne says:

    I read that the Sussexes will have U.K. based team representing their foundation& for Travalyst. My guess is this may include some of the staff that were in their BP office.