Former royal aide Jason Knauf has damaged his silence after accusing Meghan Markle of ‘bullying’ junior members of workers.
Mr Knauf, who beforehand labored for William and Kate between 2015 and 2021 and was previously Prince Harry and Meghan Markle’s press secretary, has appeared in a brand new documentary for 60 Minutes Australia, The place There’s A Will.
In 2018, he had despatched an inside e mail elevating issues about Meghan’s alleged remedy of workers within the royal household, which was later leaked to the media.
The Duchess of Sussex, 43, has all the time denied the allegations of bullying, which she described an orchestrated smear marketing campaign in opposition to her.
Talking publicly for the primary time in regards to the controversy, Jason stated he ‘would not change something’ and has ‘no regrets’.
When requested if it was powerful to have the highlight on him following the e-mail leak and allegations, he stated: ‘I believe it is powerful, nevertheless it’s most likely fairly good.
‘You recognize somebody who has been serving to different individuals via the way to take care of the general public eye. You most likely needed to take your personal medication typically.
‘You possibly can’t select simply to take the enjoyable stuff in any job, and that applies to the prince and princess too. So, I would not change something’.
Previous to their disagreement, Jason stated he’d had ‘nice instances’ working with the Sussexes, and stated their 2018 Windsor wedding ceremony was a ‘magical expertise’.
Former royal aide Jason Knauf has damaged his silence after accusing Meghan Markle of ‘bullying’ junior members of workers
Jason Knauf (left) is pictured with Harry and Meghan attending the Invictus Video games in Toronto
Elsewhere, Jason opened up about his time working for Harry and Meghan and stated he needs them ‘the very best’.
He stated: ‘We had numerous nice instances, engaged on their wedding ceremony was a tremendous magical expertise and I want them completely all one of the best with their beautiful household.’
Buckingham Palace launched an inside evaluation into the bullying claims, however the findings had been by no means made public.
Meghan in the meantime stated they had been a ‘calculated smear marketing campaign primarily based on deceptive and dangerous misinformation’.
The royal aide grew to become a particular adviser to William and Kate after which chief govt of the Royal Basis, the charitable arm of their official operations.
Throughout his time working for the couple, Mr Knauf helped begin William’s high-profile Earthshot environmental awards and the couple’s Heads Collectively psychological well being initiative, in addition to enterprise 36 overseas journeys with them.
He left the inspiration in 2021 to maneuver overseas.
Mr Knauf stated on the time: ‘Working for the Prince and Princess of Wales was the honour of a lifetime.
Jason was made a Lieutenant of the Royal Victorian Order by the Prince of Wales at Windsor Citadel in 2023
Jason stated on the time: ‘Working for the Prince and Princess of Wales was the honour of a lifetime’
‘Receiving this recognition means extra to me than I can say. I’m extremely grateful.’
The guide Courtiers: The Hidden Energy Behind the Crown by Valentine Low explored the emails additional.
One extract instructed how palace press chief Jason Knauf wrote an e mail in 2018 to Prince William’s personal secretary Simon Case about ‘very critical issues’ with Meghan’s behaviour.
It learn: ‘I’m very involved that the duchess was in a position to bully two PAs out of the family prior to now yr… The duchess appears intent on all the time having somebody in her sights.’
In 2024, each Kate and Charles had been recognized with undisclosed types of most cancers – with Prince William later reflecting on how the yr was ‘brutal’ for the household.
On the identical time, wild conspiracy theories took over social media about Kate’s whereabouts as she took day out from the general public eye.
Talking within the documentary, Jason instructed how William was the ‘lowest’ he’d ever seen him, as he was knowledgeable about Kate’s sickness throughout a private telephone name with the prince.
He stated: ‘Inside a few weeks in case you’re Prince William, you discover out that each your spouse and your father have most cancers. I could not consider it. It was terrible, completely terrible. It is the lowest I’ve ever seen him.
Mr Knauf is pictured with the Princess of Wales throughout a go to to Scotland in 2021
‘However the issue was that each one this loopy conspiracy principle stuff kicked off within the background on-line.
‘Was she actually sick? However they did not wish to say but that she had most cancers as a result of they hadn’t instructed the youngsters and so they had been nonetheless working via the way to inform the youngsters.’
Elsewhere within the documentary, which was launched on Sunday, the royal aide revealed how there was almost a mishap with the announcement of the start of Princess Charlotte in 2015.
He stated that Kate and William knowledgeable him of their daughter’s arrival very early on – even earlier than some family members had been made conscious.
However information of her start nearly leaked two hours earlier than the palace had been able to announce it, after Jason realised he will need to have ‘dropped’ the press launch someplace on the road.
The discharge had contained precious particulars together with the time of start and the way a lot Charlotte weighed.
However miraculously, not one of the media managed to pay money for it and the announcement went forward as deliberate.
Jason recalled: ‘We weren’t going to announce it for an additional couple hours and I had this piece of paper to go write this press launch
‘I am nonetheless on the market with tons of of journalists making an attempt to have a sport face, after which I could not discover the piece of paper, and I believe I had dropped it someplace on the road.’
He added: ‘We managed to get via, however not announce it. However someplace on that road the complete time was a bit of paper that stated there had been a bit of princess born, what time and the way a lot she weighed.
‘It was a type of issues, like, coronary heart in mouth till we acquired to the announcement and I acquired via it. I by no means discovered it and neither did any of the media although. In order that’s all that basically mattered.’
The 60 Minutes Documentary, The place There’s A Will, speaks to journalists and royal aides in regards to the future King of England, and explores what kind of chief he’ll seemingly be.
