Daily Mirror (Northern Ireland)
Fergie in troll blast
A hard job is now a lot harder
FIRSTLY, they swapped the bustle of city life in London for the peace and quiet of quaint Windsor, then moved to a remote Canadian island, before settling on the glamour of Hollywood.
Royal observers long believed this would be where they would end up. Meghan struggled with living at Frogmore Cottage in Windsor, under the Heathrow flightpath. Son Archie will be schooled under the American education system rather than at Eton like Prince Harry and his brother William. Sources have revealed Harry and Meghan have been eyeing up a dream home in the millionaires’ playground of Montecito in California, where their distinguished neighbours would include chat-show queens Oprah Winfrey and Ellen Degeneres.
HOLLYWOOD-BOUND Harry and Meghan sacked their loyal band of 15 staff when they announced they were quitting royal life.
However, their communications chief Sara Latham, inset, has joined the Queen’s staff to work on “special projects”.
As of today, the
Sussexes will no longer have an office at
Buckingham
Palace and will be represented by US PR firm
Sunshine Sachs, which once counted disgraced movie mogul Harvey Weinstein as a client.
Harry and Meghan have hired one of Bill and Melinda Gates’ top executives, Catherine St Laurent, as their chief of staff. She will also be executive director of their new non-profit organisation.
THE couple have abandoned plans to launch The Sussex Royal Foundation but intend to start a “charitable entity”, despite not revealing quite what that entails.
They have promised not to abandon their UK charity patronages – the Duke has 14 and Meghan four.
Harry will continue with the Invictus
Games, although it’s cancelled this year due to coronavirus. His sustainable tourism initiative, Travalyst, is being set up as a Uk-based independent non-profit organisation.
Buckingham Palace said: “The Duke and Duchess will spend the next few months focusing on their family and continuing to support and work with their pre-existing charitable commitments.”
HARRY and Meghan’s latest move to Los Angeles gives rise to a myriad of concerns.
Their insistence on travelling the world has made the extremely difficult job of royal protection even harder.
Over the last months we have seen, with increasing regularity, their sense of entitlement and lack of thought about plans that need to be put in place to allow them to move with ease.
Moving to LA, and the announcement they have made private security arrangements, opens up a Pandora’s
Box of problems.
Los Angeles and California are in my view – having worked there – fraught with potential risks. Protection is best served by a stable team who know their roles and the conditions they are working in.
President Trump’s refusal to support their protection does little to ease my concern over the co-ordinated approach needed to guard them.
The Met and Home Office will have their work cut out making plans to keep them safe – and placating UK taxpayers who are footing the bill.
THE Duchess of York has slammed lack of respect on social media as she continues to stand by her disgraced ex-husband Prince Andrew.
Sarah Ferguson, 60, said: “Social media has become a sewer… I feel very strongly about the importance of good manners and respect. Trolling online is vicious and hurtful.
“Let’s all try to treat each other a little more gently and kinder.”