Last summer, the Princess of Wales’s long-time stylist Natasha Archer suddenly departed from royal service. Archer had been working for Kate since her early days as the Duchess of Cambridge, and Archer absolutely knows many of Kate’s biggest secrets. Archer’s quick resignation felt really weird, and things got a lot weirder after Archer turned her Instagram account public soon after she left the palace. As it turns out, Archer was literally following everyone in the Duchess of Sussex’s life, from Meghan’s close friends to Meghan’s business partners to Meghan’s own account. The royalist press tried to cover it up and/or pretend that Natasha and Kate weren’t stalking Meghan for years, all while Archer furiously unfollowed as many Meghan-associates as possible.
Soon after all of that went down, Archer deleted everything off her Instagram and really culled down her following list. I just checked it now – she’s no longer following all of Meghan’s known associates, but she is following Emma Grede, Sophie Gregoire Trudeau and Clare Waight Keller, for what it’s worth. She’s following tons of British designers in general, as well as a few dozen celebrity accounts, including Ivanka Trump and Piers Morgan’s accounts. Well, Archer is ready to relaunch herself… somewhere.
Kate Middleton’s longtime personal assistant is alluding to her next act after leaving the royal household. On March 24, Natasha Archer shared a simple post to Instagram teasing her next chapter.
“Coming soon,” read the black text on a white slide, with the date “02.04.26,” using the European format for Thursday, April 2.
The post’s comments section was flooded with well-wishes, with several users writing “exciting” and Phillipa Lepley Couture, the brand behind Princess Kate’s dazzling golden outfit at the U.S. state visit last year, dropping applause emojis.
So… what has she been doing for the past nine months? Did she have to sign some kind of one-year gag order or non-compete contract or something? Did it take her nine months to figure out how to move on from exposing Kate as Meghan’s biggest stalker? Who knows. As for the “coming soon” – my guess is that she’s launching her own styling company. Which is also bizarre, because she could have been the right-hand gal to the queen consort if Archer just stuck around for a few more years. Incidentally, Kate still hasn’t replaced Archer. And we can tell.
Photos courtesy of Getty Images and Archer’s Instagram.
That’s NOT the “European format” for April 2, it’s the British format. The European format is 2026-04-02.
She’s following “Emma Grede, Sophie Gregoire Trudeau and Clare Waight Keller” because she knows that Meghan is super-tight with these three ladies – and Emma has obviously been pictured with Meghan on more than one occasion more recently. She’s STILL stalking Meghan’s friends to keep tabs on where Meghan might be going and what she might be doing. But why? Interesting.
And that “Coming soon” with the date on black and white is very… Meghan (yes I know other people do this as well, but it’s nothing anyone associated with KP would have thought of doing before seeing Meghan do it). It brought to mind Meghan writing 2025 in the sand last year, and the “Coming soon” tags before some As Ever product drops.
Like Kate, she is deep-down a secret Meghan fan. You don’t copy what you don’t admire.
2026-04-02 is the computer format, easier to search for specific dates. It is specified in DIN 5008 / ISO 8601 (standardized).
The standard worldwide with the exception of the USA is DMY. MDY is used only in the US, and some US territory islands.
She wasn’t following Emma agreed last year
Maybe it’s a pregnancy announcement? I’m probably wrong, but that was my first instinct lol
I believe she’s divorced her former husband who is a photographer accredited to the rota or just coverage of the royals. That ecosystem seems to breed a lot of incestuous relationships & partner swaps. And — inevitably — bust-ups in which people magnify the drama by taking sides. Didn’t Spare contain a tertiary plot line about a Sussex staffer who was seeing a Wales staffer, only to break up with them before coupling up with another Sussex hire? Or am I imagining that?
One of their press people, Nick Loughran, had been dating Kate’s private assistant Rebecca Deacon and dumped her for one of Harry’s press assistants, Clara Madden.
It does seem more and more like she was shunted out and there’s coldness from the palace. Her honors weren’t updated. The royals haven’t made a point of patronizing her services. She wasn’t handed a do nothing paid board option à la Jason and Rebecca Deacon. etc.