Meghan Markle and Prince Harry have reportedly said goodbye to four more staff members.
Newcomers Kyle Boulia, who served as the Duke and Duchess of Sussex‘s LA-based deputy press secretary, and their UK press officer Charlie Gipson, have left the pair’s private team after less than a year of employment, reported Hello! on Friday, June 13.
Sources also told the outlet that at least two others have departed Markle and Harry’s team in the past weeks.
The latest shakeup comes after the couple faced hypocrisy earlier this year for hiring new “royal” court of staffers to revamp their broken public image, including Meredith Kendall Maines, previously with Google, Hulu and “American Idol,” as their first chief communications officer to lead the team.
They also recently added Emily Robinson, who oversaw publicity for Netflix’s “The Crown,” on the roaster to serve as the new director of communications.
Maines brushed off the team shakeup as a “strategic decision.”
“As the Duke and Duchess’s business and philanthropic interests grow, I have made the strategic decision to move toward a more traditional communications structure of specialist agency support, as previously reported in Forbes and PR Week several weeks ago,” she shared in a statement.
“Transitioning from a team of two to an agency support staff of eight, operating across five different time zones, will give international media and stakeholders better access, and critically, faster response times to inquiries,” Maines added.
Markle and Harry’s team appears to be dropping like flies, with the royal renegades also losing two pivotal employees in 2024.
Their global press secretary and head of communications, Ashley Hansen, announced her departure in October 2024 to start her own communications business.
Their chief of staff, Josh Kettler, also left his role in 2024 after a trial period of three short months. However, The Post was told that Kettler was hired “on a trial basis” and his abrupt departure was “mutual” after all parties believed he was not suitable for the role.
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“Something tells me there will be another change in the future,” the insider told Hello!, noting that “Meghan and Harry have hired some of the most incredible people at the top of their fields, yet somehow none of them ever work out.”
The Post reached out to Maines for comment.
The latest staff news comes after endless criticism of the pair, including Prince Harry’s bombshell interview about his estranged family after losing his appeal for taxpayer-funded UK security to protect him, Markle and their children: Prince Archie, 6, and Princess Lilibet, 4.
During the BBC interview, Harry claimed he would “love a reconciliation” with his British loved ones, but his father, King Charles III, who is currently battling cancer, “won’t speak” to him.
“There have been so many disagreements between myself and some of my family,” he told the outlet in May.
“I would love reconciliation with my family. There’s no point continuing to fight anymore, life is precious,” he shared.
Markle has faced relentless backlash for her lifestyle brand, As Ever, which she first named “American Riviera Orchard.” The former “Suits” actress was forced to change the name due to trademark issues.
She’s now reportedly expanding the brand — currently featuring jams, teas, shortbread cookie mix, flower sprinkles, and more — into the hotel and restaurant spaces.
Markle further faced backlash for her delivery room dance video, taken in 2021 ahead of Lilibet’s birth, sharing the footage, which many labeled as “cringe,” in honor of her youngest child’s fourth birthday earlier this month.
However, Prince Harry’s wife is allegedly not sweating the labor dance criticism, with a source telling Daily Mail, “Meghan is very pleased with the video. In the UK everyone’s reaction has been a bit prudish but everywhere else, particularly in America and especially with young people, it has been a huge hit.”