{"id":337566,"date":"2025-08-12T04:50:10","date_gmt":"2025-08-12T04:50:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/337566\/"},"modified":"2025-08-12T04:50:10","modified_gmt":"2025-08-12T04:50:10","slug":"real-reason-meghan-markle-blindsided-royal-aide-and-made-secret-outing-royal-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/337566\/","title":{"rendered":"Real reason Meghan Markle &#8216;blindsided royal aide&#8217; and made secret outing | Royal | News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A royal book claims <a data-link-tracking=\"InArticle|Link\" title=\"Meghan Markle\" href=\"https:\/\/www.express.co.uk\/latest\/meghan-markle\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Meghan Markle<\/a> deliberately undermined a royal aide in a &#8220;very public way&#8221; during her time as a senior working royal. The book &#8216;Courtiers,&#8217; by royal author Valentine Low explores the relationship between modern courtiers and members of the <a data-link-tracking=\"InArticle|Link\" title=\"Royal Family\" href=\"https:\/\/www.express.co.uk\/latest\/royal-family\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Royal Family<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Writing in the biography, Valentine Low claims Meghan deliberately undermined senior royal aide, Jason Knauff, leading to some &#8220;awkward moments&#8221;. The most public snubbing of Jason came in December 2018 when Meghan made a surprise appearance at the<a data-link-tracking=\"InArticle|Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.express.co.uk\/news\/royal\/1057157\/meghan-markle-british-fashion-awards-black-nails-dress-royal-protocol-news\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> British Fashion Awards at the Royal Albert Hall<\/a> to present an award to the designer of her wedding dress.<\/p>\n<p>The author writes that the press was not aware of the royals&#8217; attendance, and Jason also did not know Meghan was attending the ceremony until she was on stage.<\/p>\n<p>The author wrote: &#8220;It was an astonishing example of how badly their relationship had deteriorated that Meghan did not even trust him to keep a simple confidence.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Furthermore, it is claimed Meghan also allegedly refused to let Sam Cohen or her assistant private secretary Amy Pickerill tell Jason about the event.<\/p>\n<p>Jason shortly left working for the Sussexes to take up a new role as a special adviser to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.express.co.uk\/latest\/prince-william\" data-link-tracking=\"InArticle|AutoLink\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Prince William<\/a> and Princess Kate. Later, the advisor sent an internal email raising concerns about <a data-link-tracking=\"InArticle|Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.express.co.uk\/news\/royal\/2018275\/meghan-markle-bullying-allegations-jason-knauf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Meghan&#8217;s alleged poor treatment of staff in the Royal Family<\/a>, which was leaked after <a href=\"https:\/\/www.express.co.uk\/latest\/prince-harry\" data-link-tracking=\"InArticle|AutoLink\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Prince Harry<\/a> and Meghan stepped down as working royals in 2020.<\/p>\n<p>The leaked letter stated: &#8220;I am very concerned that the Duchess was able to bully two PAs out of the household in the past year. The treatment of X was totally unacceptable..&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Jason is now the chief executive of William&#8217;s Earthshot Prize which was launched by the Prince in 2020 to search for and scale the most innovative solutions to tackle climate change.<\/p>\n<p><a data-link-tracking=\"InArticle|Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.express.co.uk\/news\/royal\/2018546\/six-bombshells-documentary-prince-william\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">He spoke in an Australian documentary,<\/a> earlier this year, and said: &#8220;We have ups and downs in family even when you really love someone you can have times when you don&#8217;t want to spend that much time with them.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s very difficult to have this stuff play out in the public eye but he&#8217;s chosen to keep his thoughts on it private and I think all of us who know him really have to respect that. We should do the same, but I will say of course it&#8217;s been hard and sad, especially for all of us who know both of them.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Following reports of alleged poor treatment of staff by Meghan, a producer, Jane Marie, who worked with Harry and Meghan during the development of Archewell Audio projects, insisted to Vanity Fair that Meghan is &#8220;just a lovely, genuine person&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Other staff members have leapt to her defence and c<a data-link-tracking=\"InArticle|Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.express.co.uk\/news\/royal\/1953190\/meghan-markle-luxury-presents-employees\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">laimed that she would send her employees gifts from time to time<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A royal book claims Meghan Markle deliberately undermined a royal aide in a &#8220;very public way&#8221; during her&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":337567,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7708],"tags":[120646,7721,1281,120649,5105,120647,120648,7710,519,448,79812],"class_list":{"0":"post-337566","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-royals","8":"tag-british-fashion-awards","9":"tag-duchess-of-sussex","10":"tag-meghan-markle","11":"tag-meghan-markle-events","12":"tag-royal","13":"tag-royal-aides","14":"tag-royal-courtiers","15":"tag-royal-families","16":"tag-royal-family","17":"tag-royals","18":"tag-valentine-low"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115013997258475196","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/337566","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=337566"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/337566\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/337567"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=337566"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=337566"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=337566"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}