Well well well, add this piece of news to the larger mystery involving Natasha Archer. Natasha Archer abruptly left her Kensington Palace job back in early July. That alone is still a mystery – Archer was the Princess of Wales’s executive assistant and stylist, largely in charge of all of Kate’s wardrobe. One could argue that Kate is very close to being queen consort, and given her affection for Archer, it seems bizarre that Archer would quit working for the Wig Who Will Be Queen. Adding to the mystery, when Archer left her royal job, she made her Instagram public, and people soon discovered that she was stalking the IG accounts of ALL of Meghan’s friends, associates and designers working with Meghan. Archer was even following style accounts devoted to Meghan’s fashion. Well, I don’t know where this piece of news fits in, but Archer left her husband, photographer Chris Jackson.
When it was disclosed in July that Natasha Archer was leaving Kensington Palace after a decade and a half, royal watchers noted that the Princess of Wales would deeply miss her ‘invaluable’ aide and confidante. Now, I hear that Catherine is not the only one whom Natasha is leaving. Friends say she has separated from her husband, the royal photographer Chris Jackson.
‘They haven’t been together for some time,’ claims one pal. ‘Chris has attended a string of social events on his own.’
Neither Chris, 45, nor Natasha, 37, wish to comment, but she was conspicuous by her absence from holiday snaps that the photographer shared on social media from a trip to Greece with his mother and two sons this summer. Also missing was the wedding ring that Chris previously wore. He was last pictured with Natasha at Easter.
The couple, who married in France in 2017 and have two young sons, are hugely popular in royal circles. Queen Camilla is particularly fond of Chris, whom she and King Charles chose to take their portrait on their 20th wedding anniversary in Italy this year. He was also granted behind-the-scenes access on the day of the Coronation in 2023.
Natasha, or Tash as she’s known to chums, has left the palace to set up a private consultancy firm. She was credited with overhauling the princess’s image by encouraging her to show more leg, ditch wedges for heels and wear more High Street outfits. She has been seen by the princess’s side on social occasions and has accompanied her on official overseas trips, including to Canada, Pakistan, Norway and Bhutan, often pictured stepping off aeroplanes laden with luggage and shopping bags full of clothes.
She started working as a personal assistant, or ‘Girl Friday’, for Catherine and Prince William in 2010, the year of their engagement. She soon took on the role of unofficial stylist to the princess. Awarded the Royal Victorian Order for services to the Royal Family in 2019, Natasha was seen as Catherine’s right-hand woman and was promoted to senior private executive assistant three years later. Last year, she was seen visiting the princess at The London Clinic during her 14-day stay following her planned abdominal surgery – a reflection of the closeness of their relationship.
Hm. Perhaps even “huh.” Perhaps even “lmao.” Seriously, though, Chris Jackson has become deeply embedded within Windsor World – he’s always being called upon to take portraits for Charles and Camilla these days. Meanwhile, Kate has been inviting different photographers to photograph her and her children in the past year. Now, can I sit here and spin a good theory about whether everything is all connected? Perhaps. Perhaps it even started with the Kate Missington fiasco last year, and Archer being called upon to “visit the hospital.” All I’m saying is that Natasha and Chris have both had a lot of access to a lot of royal secrets in recent years. They both need to watch their backs too – I still find it wild that Natasha outed her former employer as a Meghan-stalker the second Natasha left royal service.
Hey, do you think this is the shade of blonde which Kate was aiming for? Just wondering!
Photos courtesy of Getty.
I guess they were already separated when she left her job. Maybe, she wanted to change her working life since her personal life was also changing. That still doesn’t explain why she disclosed their stalking of everything about Meghan, which would anger KP. I thought since her husband is still getting royal jobs, she left with Kate’s blessings and that social media move was the consequence of her incompetency. I guess not?
I still think that was a sign of her incompetency; from what I just read, this seems to have been her first job out of college. Working for Kate & William is no way to learn how to really work at a job.
Well i do think their divorce is connected to her leaving her function. Which is a bit strange no? As a PA and personal stylist she is firmly part of the royal household. Chris is not, even if he is a favorite photographer. So would it not be easier to just not ask him for his services anymore?
Natasha knows way more than Chris about what really happened last year. She was the one driving back the plants from the hospital. So it is very odd that she’s the one who has to leave the royal circle.
There are many photographers available to photoshop Kate. But Natasha was inner circle.
I suspect Natasha chose to leave and she’s not being trashed for it because she knows everything.
You make good points. It does seem that she chose to leave. And if they were smart, they’d be privately helping her set up her consultancy so that she doesn’t leak anything. I can only imagine she signed some extensive NDAs though. It’s also odd though that Chris Jackson who used to photograph Kate so much is now one of Camilla’s favorites. Does Camilla press CJ on insider info about the Wales, lol? I honestly don’t know what to make of it all.
This is total speculation: I wonder if Kate & Chris got close in some way? And it blew up in their faces? Hmm… use your imagination!
Or maybe Natasha and William 🤷♀️
Or Chris and William! 😂
Unless the photographer who so heavily photoshops Kate’s images is also Kate’s sidepiece… then of course the wife would need to go.
Perhaps Kate found out that much like another staffer who she fired a few years ago, the unofficial stylist was also booking trips for William and his own sidepiece(s)?
Either way, it does appear that she fell out with Kate.
Oh, the intrigue.
Oops Becks1, just saw your comment. Yes, that did cross my mind as well: perhaps Kate felt that her stylist was getting too close to William. 😀
Working for a royal, first job out of college, marriage breaks up – she probably needs to make enough money to support herself, and we know that job probably paid squat.
Wow she’s really unencumbered herself from that group this year hasn’t she? I wonder if that’s why Kate and William continue to look so bedraggled and stressed out after a combined 5 months of vacation this year. Worried about what she may say or divulge? Or him, since he seems to be working with Charles and Camilla more.
They better hope that NDA is airtight, because 15 years with them? And if it was acrimonious at the split? Good luck! She’s going to be on every Royal reporter, commentator, historians DM list in 5 seconds. KP hasn’t exactly endeared themselves to the BM in the past few years with their secrecy, they have to be chomping at the bit for a new source for stories. Even they realize their reheated what happened at Wimbledon in 2019 between Kate and Meghan stories aren’t hitting.
It strikes me that Natasha is just William’s type.
I was wondering this! Is that the shade of blonde Kate was aiming for? The plot thickens!
So N outed K with her instagram reveal and now K is outing N/W by wearing a blonde wig?
It’s flattering on Tash, though! 🤣😂🤣
or is Chris having tea with Kate?
My thoughts exactly
She doesn’t have a beard.
That was my thought. I don’t think there was actually an affair but I can imagine the gossip if this was another couple.
Oh! That’s another interesting speculation! I thought Kate & Chris, but maybe William & Natasha???
Why not Kate and Natasha? Can you imagine the scandal? They’d want to cover that up at any cost probably.
It’s funny that she’s wearing wedges in one of the photos.
That whole bit about the wedges was funny bc if Natasha started working for KP in 2010 – presumably around the time of the engagement I guess – those were prime wedge wearing years for Kate.
This is all very interesting.
So Natasha is leaving her husband and now needs a job that actually pays. And she can’t have been doing much for Kate since Kate was barely seen in public. So Kate was not going to offer any payoff in the way of future employment.
Further complexity with her soon to be ex working closely with Charles and Camilla.
I still can’t make up my mind about the Meghan cyber stalking reveal. I mean the henchmen for the Wales are not overly competent but if the leak was purposeful by Natasha then bravo. A very stealthy way to throw Kate under the bus if it was a planned disclosure. Plausible deniability but a brutal takedown.
I have the feeling that this is a story that will keep giving. I’m looking forward to future developments.
My guess is she wasn’t the only KP staff member who had the task of following Meghan and Harry.
I went the other direction – interesting that Chris was in Greece. Maybe she does have a side piece? Yeah, the other is more obvious. Willy much more likely.
I don’t understand your reference to Greece. Was Chris on yacht with Kate for the cruise?
Chris posted photos in Greece with his kids and parents. But it was a week or so after the super yacht story came out.
It was in the piece. Who knows if there was a rendezvous?
It could be part of Kate’s new deal?
WILLY was in Greece, too. Perhaps Chris and Willie?? Natasha burning Kate could be payback in the only way she has access to?
Willy has many side pieces. He’s hardly always with Kate, let’s face it.
Very, very interesting. Having the kids along makes a nice cover.
I’m just surprised that her stalking Meghan and her friends wasn’t a bigger story.
That would mean criticising Kate, the BM’s angel on earth.
Oh goody another episode of “As the Ex-Staff Turns”. What shall be revealed next and how shall it be revealed? Fun times at the separate homes.
This might make the bones of a juicy royal novel!
Maybe she was done dirty in some way, either over the long-term or through a sudden event, didn’t get any support from family and decided to extricate herself from the situation. The IG leak was a subtle notice that she knows things and she should be left alone unless those things also start to be leaked.
Maybe after 15 years she was still making the same money, even with the jump in title. Or found that after 15 years she had nothing to show for it other than some nice memories of the places she got to go. I hope she had some time off to enjoy & explore those countries she traveled to. I guess it’s also possible her memories are of being stuck crappy hotel rooms with Kate’s luggage all around her trying to wrangle the various hairpieces into some kind of order.
Speaking of memories of places she got to visit… This woman was outed several years ago (I think it was for the Cambridges’ trip to Pakistan which was brutally – yet accurately – descriped by several of today’s sycophantic royal rota stenographers) as one of Kate’s staff who had made advance trips to the country to scope out the places which the couple would visit, but get this: NOT to plan for any diplomatic overtures, or to spot security issues, but to take photographs of locations *to ensure that Kate’s selected outfits would be seen/positioned in the best light or background in official photographs when Kate eventually arrived* and/or some such nonsense. It was so unbelievably vacuous that I could not believe it, but the reporters printed this as part of their criticism of William and Kate. And this was apparently not the first time that Natasha had made such trips for similarly idiotic reasons. On the taxpayer’s dime, no less.
So yep, I’d say she has a LOT of memories.
I still wonder if it had something to do with the criticism that Kate got last year when it was said she didn’t want to be known for her clothes and give the press info about her clothes. An anonymous staffer was thrown under the bus for that. Was it Archer? Did Archer say, you know what, I’m done with this clown show. And then you’ve got a divorce added in. I’m sure there’s so much story bts but I don’t know what exactly it is.
That was made earlier this year and I suspect it was said because Archer was leaving and she gave notice. I also suspect there is way more to the story especially with a divorce going on.
Hmmm. so you think KP said they wouldn’t talk about Kate’s fashion anymore bc Archer was leaving and wouldn’t be able to do so? That’s just weird bc technically they could hire someone new to do so. I don’t know what to make of it all but it’s always weird how they want to keep staff as far removed from this as possible. They can argue that it’s bc they’re just such regular people but ehhh, I don’t think that’s it.
My money is on Kate as the side piece to Jackson. Natasha finds out, outs Kate’s stalking of Meghan, leaves the husband. William maybe found out, he and Kate had a row. She ends up injured badly, hence the disappearing act. Now she has leverage to negotiate a better deal for her separation, which was going to happen anyway. William doesn’t want her, but he doesn’t want anyone else to want her either (Just like daddy). But they can’t afford the public to see just how dysfunctional they really are. Chuck and Cams love having the leverage over Will & and Kate. Jackson has probably moved on from Kate and her bad wig was an attempt to cosplay Natasha.
This is total speculation, but it fits the ongoing scenario.
I don’t think that Kate would ever have a sidepiece. Not decades into the Middleton Grift, with the ultimate prize with reach. Carole would never allow it and we know Kate doesn’t make a move without Mummy’s okay! And besides, who’d be interested in boring Kate at this point?
Jackson wouldn’t risk his career for Kate. If that came out he would lose a lot of his access, especially with Charles and Camilla.
Besides Kate is not healthy enough mentally to attract someone whose wife is actually very good looking and active.
Also I don’t think she would risk it with a peasant.
Now whether or not William is involved in this… he’s got a more likely track record to go after Natasha.
It doesn’t matter how great someone’s spouse is…. a cheater will cheat. Not that I think that’s what happened here but I’m just saying. Women have it tough enough without the idea that if their husbands are unfaithful, it’s because they weren’t attractive enough or good enough or any other nonsense.
Wasn’t there gossip a while back about William and a staffer and Kate getting upset that that staffer was traveling with him? I don’t necessarily think anything happened with Archer and William but for some reason I feel like I’m remembering some past gossip or something. Wait, no, sorry! The gossip that there was a staffer who was helping William go on vacays or work trips with his side piece.
@Jais, yes you’re right. I think it was around the time of the Caribbean flop tour? That there was a staffer either going on trips (and was the side piece) or organizing trips for Willy and side piece. I can’t remember the timing. Might have been around the time when Willy was making trips without K, like for earth shot without her. I don’t know if the timing fits, because I would think if it was archer participating, she would’ve been iced out then, not leaving on her own a year ++ later. I would give $100 to hear what she knows about the past 2 years
There is nothing out there about Jackson being a cheater, but there is a ton about William being a cheater. If Jackson did cheat I seriously doubt it was Kate. Last year she was basically out of commission and this year she’s been in holidays with the kids.
Cain maybe cheating on Jason with Chris, you never know.
Jenny Packham eyes look like she gets surprise often.
Since this is a gossip site, I’ll offer a theory. Natasha abruptly quit around Ascot and now she is divorcing Chris. When she quit, she (I think purposefully) revealed K’s stalker fetish. Meanwhile, Chris stayed on, which I thought was strange when his wife left in the manner that she did. Fast forward to the divorce news. This all leads me to believe that Natasha is pissed(!) at K specifically.
My guess is that Chris got a little too close to K. As a photographer, he has to get the best angles, smiles and to put K at ease. I could see K flirting with him b/c lord knows W doesn’t pay her any attention. We all remember that photo of K making eyes at the camera at Philip’s funeral, a shot that Chris snapped). So maybe the blonde was another wink at Chris. W doesn’t notice or care. He and Jason are busy elsewhere.
When the departure of archer was made public, someone here said this was known months ago. Not sure if that brings us to Ascot, or even before that. But I could see Kate dropping out last minute because of something like this.
I don’t think Jackson would cross lines with Kate. I also don’t think she mentally well to flirt with anyone. She’s been mostly drugged up every time we have seen her in the last six months and she’s mostly been hidden away when not doing videos. Recall the nature things and the cancer free video did not involve Jackson.
Also Natasha is just hotter than Kate by a long shot.
Murkier and murkier.
I do wonder if there is some entanglement there, of two of the parties. Or has been. It could be of several options. Interesting.
‘…show more leg…? Whoa, Katiekins misunderstood that one. And this is the first I’m hearing that she visited Kate in the London Clinic. They are seriously rewriting history here. NOBODY visited Kate, not her husband, not her mother, no one.
OK, just read through the comments. Forgot that she had to pick up the willow bundle at the end of Kate’s stay in the hospital. Also, Chris took his mom & the boys to vacation in Greece, did he? Hmmm. 🤔
This has more and more of a feel like someone who has received a juicy packet of money to stay quiet and go away. Maybe being newly financially secure has allowed her the freedom to get a divorce and get the heck out of the royal circle? If that’s the case, good for her.
After all, we never did hear about this new “consultancy” business Archer started having any notable clients, did we? Maybe it just has the one. . .?
After all, she started working for Kate straight out of school (I believe), and in all of these years she barely rose above a PA. And it’s not like the royals are known for compensating their people well! I also doubt that being known as the architect of Kate’s “style” would excite that many customers. Especially once it was revealed that she was just outright stalking Meghan’s style. Who would want to hire her after that? It’s sloppy, certainly not what you would want for your hired consultant.
However, having a consulting business seems like it would be ideal for funnelling money. Much easier once she’s off the official payroll, right?
Maybe Kate had an affair w Archer’s photographer husband so she quit and when she left she decided to burn the palace down!! 🤷🏻♀️🤷🏻♀️ just making it up folks no basis in facts 🤭
I can’t imagine what hell it must be like working for Kate — she’s shown her bad side again and again. It would be like walking on eggshells. I’m sure Chris’s job was no piece of cake either. Maybe the contant stress caused fractures in their marriage. I doubt it was any canoodling with either Kate or William. But those two must be hell on wheels as bosses. I’d be day-drinking.