The Duke and Duchess Sussex have spent most of their time in Canada since their resignation from Royal duties early this year. Their staff at Frogmore cottage had been shifted to other serve in other capacities but most recently, the couple are closing their Buckingham Palace office, resulting in the loss of employment for 15 members of staff, including a private secretary and communications chief.
It’s said that the workers had prior knowledge of this and some have been reassigned to new roles before. Assistant communications secretary Julie Burley, who led communications for the inaugural Invictus Games in 2014 and has worked on it ever since, as well as managing the couple’s UK engagements and relationships with patronages,
Clara Loughran, who had the special role of handing Meghan her bouquet at the royal wedding in May 2018, and communications chief Sara Latham, who previously worked for Barack Obama and as an advisor for Hillary Clinton’s 2016 presidential campaign have been affected.
The couple will be expected at this year’s Commonwealth service on March 9 on the request of the Queen and were last seen at Stanford University, California in a seven hour brainstorming session with top professors and academics in the university as they work on ideas for their new charity.
Meghan was also celebrated yesterday by Vogue editor Edward Enninful took to instagram to finally announce that Meghan Markle’s guest-edited edition of the magazine was the fastest-selling in the history of the British edition. The superstar editor shared the news on Instagram alongside an image of the Duchess of Sussex’s cover. The editor’s full post read
“I’m thrilled to report that newsstand sales of @BritishVogue are up in the second half of 2019, but the real highlight for me is the performance of our September 2019 issue. #ForcesForChange, guest-edited by The Duchess of Sussex @SussexRoyal, was our fastest-selling issue in the history of #BritishVogue (sold out in 10 days) and the biggest-selling issue of the past decade. I can’t wait to see what 2020 has in store.”
