Buckingham Palace’s decision to try and bury the report into claims that Meghan ‘bullied staff’ perhaps shows us that the ‘institution’ is running scared of the Sussexes.
For more than a year, an investigation ordered by the Queen has been looking into the handling of claims that at least two members of staff were ‘bullied out of their jobs’ in Meghan’s first year as a royal. Meghan has strongly denied the allegations.
An email from a senior aide, Jason Knauf, came to light and showed he raised specific concerns about the way the Duchess of Sussex had behaved behind closed doors.
When these allegations first emerged last year, Meghan and Harry released a statement dismissing the complaints as ‘the latest attack on her character’.
But the Palace was forced into investigating the claims just days before the duke and duchess accused an unnamed member of the Royal Family of being racist, during their Oprah Winfrey interview.
Now we know that they want to keep the results of this 15-month inquiry out of the public domain.
But what were the allegations and what did the inquiry find? Were the findings so detrimental that the Palace felt compelled to bury them? Or, with Harry’s book so close to release, is it a good bargaining tool should the Sussexes decide on more truth bombs?
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