Meg’s a monster, Sussexes’ staff say

LONDON: Anxious royal staff reported “feeling sick” before taking part in work with the Sussexes, royal author Valentine Low has claimed.

Staff were wracked by nerves and some left “shaking” ahead of meetings with Meghan Markle, according to The Times’ royal correspondent.

Low made the claims during an appearance on Good Morning Britain, saying a “paranoid” Prince Harry would carry out “loyalty tests” on staff to check if they were “fighting for him”.

In his new book Courtiers: the Hidden Power Behind the Crown, Low writes that Harry would look for signs of what he dubbed “the palace syndrome” which showed staff had become “institutionalised” within the royal household.

The journalist told the morning show on Britain’s ITV morning how palace staff who worked under Prince Harry and Meghan Markle called themselves the “Sussex Survivors’ Club”.

The claims are made in his new book, quoting royal sources who said staff labelled Markle a “narcissistic sociopath” and repeatedly said they felt like they “were played”.

Asked by Good Morning Britain host Susanna Reid whether staff had created a group called the “Sussex Survivors Club”, Low replied: “Absolutely, yes.”

Reid replied: “What did they survive?”.

Mr Low said: “I think it was a very difficult experience for some of them. As I revealed last year, there were allegations that Meghan bullied staff. People talked to me of people being completely destroyed.

“I’ve heard people at the time, faced with a possible encounter with Meghan, were saying things like ‘I feel sick’ or ‘I’m shaking’ – extraordinary things for an employee to say about the prospect of seeing their employer.”