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Following their decision to step down from their posts in the royal family, Meghan Markle and Prince Harry closed their Buckingham Palace office and let go of their staff. In February 2020, a palace source told Harper’s Bazaar, “Given their decision to step back, an office at Buckingham Palace is no longer needed. While the details are still being finalized and efforts are being made to redeploy people within the royal household, unfortunately there will be some redundancies.”
However, not all of Meghan and Harry’s staff left the royal realm altogether, as the couple’s former head of communications, Sara Latham, was subsequently hired by the queen. The Daily Mail reported that approximately 15 staff members were due to be made redundant once the Duke and Duchess of Sussex stepped down, but Latham was “snapped up by the queen’s private office to advise it on special projects,” and “will be reporting to the monarch’s right-hand man, Private Secretary Edward Young.”
Was Latham’s hire a dig at Meghan and Harry, or simply a case of hiring good people who are comfortable working with the royal family? We’re guessing the latter. Palace life may be rolling on without the Sussexes, and it seems that no one is waiting around for Prince Harry and Markle’s return any longer … but if they do decide to head back to England, it appears as though the queen would welcome them with open arms.
Written by: Nicki
