Real question: do you think the Duke and Duchess of Sussex care one bit about Natasha Archer leaving her job as the Princess of Wales’s stylist/assistant? I do not. Now, I’m sure that Harry and Meghan might enjoy a wry smile every now and then when Kensington Palace f–ks up or William and Kate lose yet another staffer, but overall, in the year of our lord Beyonce 2025, I do not believe that Harry and Meghan give a sh-t about Natasha Archer. The only reason Archer was even on their radar in the past week is probably because Archer was so thoroughly exposed for being one of Meghan’s biggest stalkers. Well, according to Rob Shuter’s Substack, the Sussexes privately cheered when Archer left royal employment.
It’s the royal exit heard round the world — and no one is cheering louder (in private) than Prince Harry and Meghan Markle.
Insiders confirm to #ShuterScoop that the Sussexes are quietly ecstatic over the sudden resignation of Natasha Archer, Kate Middleton’s longtime confidante and inner-circle aide.
“They blamed her for everything,” a source explains. “She was the buffer. The blocker. The person who kept Meghan at arm’s length and fed William doubts about Harry.”
Archer’s surprise departure after 15 years sent shockwaves through royal corridors. Kate is reportedly devastated. William, rattled. But in Montecito? Celebration.
“They see this as karma,” the insider adds. “They waited years for cracks in the palace walls — and this is the first one.”
One royal out. One royal couple smiling. The tides, it seems, are finally turning.
But… Archer is NOT the first one. The Waleses have lost prominent staffers before. William lost Christian Jones, who loved to leak sh-t to Dan Wootton, in 2021. Simon Case left William’s employment to be a Tory a–hole in the Johnson government. William’s long-time private secretary (his de facto chief of staff) resigned in protest of William’s dipsh-t “Kensington Palace CEO” scheme in October 2023. The huge PR catastrophe around William and Kate in the first three months of 2024 happened largely because they were without several key senior staffers and their remaining staffers were lazy, inept clowns. No, the Sussexes never blamed Natasha Archer for “everything,” although I have no doubt that Archer was awful to Meghan, just as I have no doubt that Archer was stalking Meghan on Kate’s orders. But it’s certainly interesting that someone is shifting so much blame onto Archer right now, right? I wish the British tabloids were interested in getting to the bottom of what sounds like a pretty scandalous split in the royal court.
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Again the Sussexes have moved on and don’t give two shits about what staff leaves and what new staff is hired. They have lives to lead and children to love and business to run.
The centrality these people claim in the lives of a couple who moved to California years ago is really something. Click baiting the Sussexes with errant nonsense really is just that lucrative.
Seriously, the desperation for Harry and Meghan to be paying attention to them is pathetic.
I’m wondering whether N was ever interested in H. This might partly explain her willingness to stalk M and her inner circle on instagram.
What about Archers photographer husband? Isn’t Kate thick with him, the Photoshop genius?
This guy has no access to H&M, so it is all bullsh*t he is writing. They also wrote similar things after Jason left and how they can make peace now that the person who caused all the bad blood got fired. It is groundhog day again.
The Sussexes ain’t paying Archer no mind! It’s a BM wet dream that the Sussexes even think twice about KKKhate’s court. They WISH Harry & Meghan felt some type of way about Salty Isle and the dreary band of left-behinds.
Meanwhile, the Sussexes are enjoying a vibrant summer of family fun, Harry’s philanthropy, and growing Meg’s brand.
Look, in all of the years and years and years of coverage of Archer, her role at the Palace, her relationship with Kate, this has never been so much as hinted at. It has not been veiled, it has not been whispered. The Cambridges’ and then Wales’ office has always struck me, just like the rest of the Palaces (other than Charles, ironically) as extremely male driven and misogynistic. I simply don’t think Archer wielded this kind of authority nor would Jason and the others have allowed her to do much of anything.
This, also how convenient to have a new scapegoat to blame for everything gone wrong in WanKs orbit?
I don’t think this woman is a saint or even a good person, but it’s just so predictable to see the machine at play here.
Man they really want to make Natasha the villain for everything don’t they. Next they will claim that she is the “royal racist” instead of Kate.
Sounds like archer is being spoken about as a proxy for Kate. If Natasha was all those things it was at the behest of her boss Kate. Kate kept Meghan at arm’s length and fed William negativity. Not that William wasn’t capable of doing all that on his own.
Wouldn’t that be an interesting turn of events 😹 I almost hope they try that.
Next thing it’ll be Natasha made Kate cry???
This – apparently Archer was the secret mastermind feeding William negative information about his own brother? I guess next we’ll hear that she forced him to throw his brother to the ground in a rage! Who knew that Kate’s longtime PA had so much power over the future king?
And Kate didn’t need a person to “block” Meghan’s friendly advances – her jealousy and racism did that without any assistance. But I find it hilarious that this source (Carole, I assume) is trying to lay the whole thing at Natasha’s feet. I guess that this blame game just comes with the territory when you leave a public office, but it’s hardly the start her new consultancy business would have hoped for. Oh well – if the remaining KP employees didn’t know it before, they know it now. Mama Carole WILL throw you under the bus.
Why would they give a crap? They left five years ago, and are doing their own thing with their own staff on another continent. This is just fanfic. These people never know when Harry or Meghan are doing something like speaking at a conference, traveling as invited guests to another country, signing mega deals, but they know that they are privately chuckling over mint tea and apricot spread that someone doesn’t work for William and Kate anymore?
It’s starting to look more and more though like Natasha Archer leaving was acrimonious as I said it could be late last week. And that her oopsie was intentional, and not just more evidence of the general incompetence of KP staff. I think her husband will be fine as long as he can continue to take photos of Charles and Camilla and everyone else. Plus, he’s always willing to Photoshop Kate, so I don’t think the Wales’ have the leverage in that relationship.
Is it just me, or does blaming everything on the person who just left seem to be a pattern? The person who undoubtedly signed an NDA so they can’t defend themselves … although to have stuck with this clown show for 15 years indicates to me that she may not feel (or have the wits to understand) she has anything to defend.
ETA: I also question whether her SM reveal was intentional or not, because again, spending 15 years with this circus doesn’t scream intellectual prowess to me.
Who’s Rob Shuter? And Harry and Meghan are not paying attention to Natasha Archer.
Are they really trying to turn Natasha into Jason Knauf?
Because the Sussexes likely loathe JK, and for good reason. But why would they care about Natasha?
The only thing that might concern them is the fact that of her stalking of everyone in Meghan’s circle. How would this guy have any insight into what they may think? This is such ridiculous speculation. The responsibility lies directly with the principles at KP, not some staffer who quit. The Sussexes have blanked these people for years.
Meghan and her friends would have known Archer was following their IG accounts when it happened years ago. None of this was a surprise.
Besides Chris Jackson has still tended Invictus events so if Harry and Meghan really cared, he would have been excluded from going.
I notice that Natasha is written about in a different way than Case and Knauf. Is it because she’s female? They point out that she was anti-Meghan but not the men? Although I’ve read that the palaces are teeming with gay me, especially the late Queen Mother’s, it seems to me that William seems to favour gay male staff members. This was not the case in the early days when the foundation was William and Harry’s and their private secretaries no doubt chosen by Clarence House.
Yeah, for whatever reason, the palaces and tabloids treat women like dogsh!t. Especially women who leave, like Diana, Sara Ferguson (who did bring some of it on herself), and now Natasha. These women become the stalking horse for every terrible thing that happened over the previous years. Or, in Natasha’s case, a deflection from Jason’s many ugly misdeeds. I mean, it’s definitely possible Natasha was horrible to Meghan and Harry, but trying to shove ALL the blame onto her is obviously a deflection from Bulliam and Khate’s own terrible behavior.
We don’t see this phenomenon when men like Christian Jones or Simon Case leave.
Kate must know this is what will happen to her if she leaves. Not that she wants to leave, she and Carole are clutching onto that crown with a death grip.
“Kate must know this is what will happen to her if she leaves.” All the more reason, if divorce really is in the cards, for them to be blaming Natasha. Get in there first with what you hope people will think is the true story.
My totally made up theory is that something went wrong with Kate’s clothes in that June run of events, which is why she rewore the Self Portrait outfit with almost identical styling (including jewelry) to Order of the Garter (only 5 weeks after she wore it the first time) and why she pulled out of Royal Ascot the next day at the last minute with no explanation/warning. We know this is an area where Kate goes full rage (Megan made me cry (i.e., I made Megan cry) because I wouldn’t get Charlotte’s dress fitted or whatever it was). She iced out Tash and this is why she is now leaving pretty suddenly and why there is such weird briefing around it. It has has that weird energy where the reporters know something they can’t say or at least have been given the okay to keep it in the news.
I agree. Kate’s outfits have been repeats for most of this season. That’s a problem.
The royals will just hire another person and train them to do similar things.
The Sussexes are too happy and fufilled in their own lives and careers to waste energy over this.
Lol, I think the Sussexes are too busy being quietly ecstatic at the success of As Ever.
Whoever this idiot is that wrote this is stupid as heck. Natasha is not Royal so to say one Royal our is just horse s. And yes I agree with Kaiser , whatever went down between the lazy two people on planet Earth and Natasha was not pretty, this is why when she made her Instagram public she left her stalking trail ao it would lead all the way back to Katie mcbuttom and yes , but they are trying to throw her under the bus but they can’t try to hard because she knows everything.