Prince Harry has been accused of desperately trying to be “treated like a senior Royal” as he restructures his team in Royal style.
As per reports, the Duke of Sussex has hired 11 senior staff members, including a top communications strategist Meredith Kendall Maines.
It comes amid reports that Harry and Meghan Markle are professionally splitting by setting up separate teams and working independently.
They said Harry has spent the past nine months planning the move, and both he and Meghan will now have their own chiefs of staff.
Speaking on the matter, Royal expert Tom Bower bashed Harry and Meghan’s new team as a “final, desperate bid to save their brand.”
He said it’s not a royal court but an expensive group of staff trying to hold their image together, reported Radar Online.
The expert further stated that Harry and Meghan dream of running their own royal setup from Montecito, with people treating them like senior royals.
“Undoubtedly, the Sussexes would like to rule over a ‘royal court’ from their Montecito mansion,” he said.
“Nothing would give them greater pleasure than courtiers pulling their forelocks as they bow and scrape to please the Duke and Duchess.”
He continued, “Competing with Buckingham Palace and Kensington Palace would delight Meghan. But what the Sussexes have assembled is not a ”royal court.’”
“Rather, it’s a hugely expensive group of bureaucrats signaling the Sussexes’ final, desperate bid to save their brand.”
Meanwhile, royal expert Richard Fitzwilliams raised concerns about the couple’s history of high staff turnover and past allegations of a toxic work environment.
“We are promised new projects and initiatives in the months to come, and obviously can then judge the success of this revamp,” he said.
“However, there are question marks which have haunted the Sussexes’ entire operation.
“The first issue is whether the high staff turnover, which has characterized their ventures, continues, with some 20 having left.
“In the run-up to the interview on Oprah (Winfrey), Meghan was accused of bullying, which she strongly denied. However, this has been extremely damaging to her image…”