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Meghan Markle Difficult To Work With, All Staff Almost Quit

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Updated on June 15, 2023

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A recent article reports that royal employees found dealing with Meghan Markle and Prince Harry difficult throughout their tenure at Kensington Palace, amid the duchess’s bullying allegations.

According to The Sun, royal staffers accused Markle of making bizarre demands and trying to defy royal etiquette and tradition through introducing different concepts. Although this does not seem to be a negative thing, Markle’s tenacity seems to have surprised the family and their staff, particularly as contrasted to Kate Middleton, who has already begun preparing to be England’s queen.

According to a royal source, Meghan Markle’s relatives and colleagues view her as “difficult and demanding”

The argument was made in a series of tweets about the Duchess of Sussex by Richard Palmer, royal reporter for the Daily Express, in reaction to reports that she and husband Prince Harry were moving out of Kensington Palace.

The Times of London published claims that the Duchess of Sussex drove out two personal assistants and left her staff feeling “humiliated” in the run-up to her and Prince Harry’s candid interview with Oprah Winfrey. Jason Knauf, then-communications secretary to Markle and Prince Harry, filed an official complaint, according to the article.

Meghan Markle lost four of her immediate team members in her first year as Duchess of Sussex, according to Yahoo Style U.K. This led fans to think she is impossible to deal with and may have made her aides’ lives so difficult that they left! In 2019, a source told People that there was no bad blood between the staff and their popular boss, but fans remain skeptical. To make it worse, according to Fox News, she started a spat with the Duchess of Cambridge, leading true royal supporters to shun her.

“The crazies on Twitter won’t like it,” Richard wrote on Twitter, “but it is clear that Meghan is regarded as difficult and demanding by some in the family and on the staff.”

Now, unnamed sources close to Markle and Prince Harry while they were both working royals have said that the couple’s “drama” nearly drove all of their staff to leave at one point, according to The Times royal correspondent Roya Nikkhah.

One anonymous source told the outlet that “The entire household was on the verge of quitting,” “It was drama, drama, drama with those two.”

When she was a working royal, Markle reportedly had very specific requests and would berate workers if they were not fulfilled, according to the article. Melissa Touabti, the duchess’ former personal assistant, is claimed to have been “traumatized” when she resigned from her role.

“Soon after the engagement, Meghan hosted a shooting party at Sandringham for Harry’s friends. She ordered personally embroidered blankets for each of the guests, in red. When they arrived, they weren’t the right shade of red for Meghan and she went mental at Melissa,” a senior royal official, who did not want to be identified, said.

Although Meghan Markle’s former Suits co-stars seem to be fine with her, most stars can’t bear her. According to Vanity Fair, Wendy Williams informed her show audience in December 2017 that Markle is “a bit of a wild card,” in her opinion because she went from being “the Deal of No Deal girl” to putting on the princess card with Prince Harry by her side.

Piers Morgan, a British TV host, has also criticized Markle on many occasions.

He said in an op-ed for the Daily Mail in 2018 that he and Markle were friends before she met Harry, however when he reached out to her afterward, she ghosted him! Markle never replied to any of his comments in public. According to the Mirror, British journalist Katie Hopkins has dubbed Markle “Instagram-addicted” and “a budget Princess Di with an Oscar winning innocent face” over the years.