{"id":688692,"date":"2026-01-11T10:19:14","date_gmt":"2026-01-11T10:19:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/688692\/"},"modified":"2026-01-11T10:19:14","modified_gmt":"2026-01-11T10:19:14","slug":"royal-family-live-prince-william-hires-crisis-expert-for-andrew-news-royal-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/688692\/","title":{"rendered":"Royal Family LIVE: Prince William hires crisis expert for Andrew news | Royal | News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a data-link-tracking=\"InArticle|Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/prince_william\/index.html\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Prince William<\/a> has hired a crisis management expert to join his team of staff at <a data-link-tracking=\"InArticle|Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.express.co.uk\/latest\/kensington-palace\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Kensington Palace<\/a>, it has been revealed. The Prince of Wales has recruited Liza Ravenscroft, who has worked in crisis managament for years, from the blue-chip communications firm Edelman.<\/p>\n<p>While she has a long history in helping brands with crisis management, it is believed she has been hired by William for a &#8220;non-crisis based role&#8221;. It is believed she could have secured the job with the help of Edelman CEO Julian Payne, who is a former communications secretary to <a data-link-tracking=\"InArticle|Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.express.co.uk\/latest\/king-charles\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">King Charles<\/a> and Queen Camilla, and who has reportedly stayed close to the royals.<\/p>\n<p><a data-link-tracking=\"InArticle|Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-15452287\/Prince-William-crisis-manager-bulletproof-sunshine-old-boss-Andrew-Harry-sagas.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">A source told The Mail on Sunday:<\/a> &#8220;Julian Payne has stayed close to the King, so it is unlikely to be a coincidence that one of his most senior and respected members of staff has taken a key role in William&#8217;s office after a period of turmoil &#8211; and when they are looking for closer alignment between Kensington Palace and <a data-link-tracking=\"InArticle|Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/buckingham-palace\/index.html\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Buckingham Palace<\/a> as minds turn to William&#8217;s eventual succession.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>A Kensington Palace source told The Mail on Sunday that Liza is joining in a &#8220;non-crisis based role&#8221; and will be working on the day-to-day press interaction Kensington Palace has. William&#8217;s decision to hire Liza comes after the monarchy has faced a difficult time following scandals surrounding <a data-link-tracking=\"InArticle|Link\" href=\"http:\/\/www.express.co.uk\/news\/royal\/2152693\/andrews-nightmare-royal-lodge-epstein#:~:text=While%20there%20are%20worse%20things,in%20any%20more%20Epstein%20files.\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">William&#8217;s uncle Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor<\/a>, who denies accusations against him.<\/p>\n<p><strong>THIS IS A LIVE BLOG. ALL UPDATES CAN BE FOUND BELOW.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Prince William has hired a crisis management expert to join his team of staff at Kensington Palace, it&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":688693,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7708],"tags":[532,208044,208045,180169,27851,5105,7710,519,448],"class_list":{"0":"post-688692","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-royals","8":"tag-prince-william","9":"tag-prince-william-crisis-management","10":"tag-prince-william-kensington-palace","11":"tag-prince-william-princess-catherine","12":"tag-prince-william-royal-family","13":"tag-royal","14":"tag-royal-families","15":"tag-royal-family","16":"tag-royals"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115875962079883388","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/688692","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=688692"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/688692\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/688693"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=688692"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=688692"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=688692"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}