Meghan Markle and Prince Harry have spent Memorial Day weekend apart as the Duke of Sussex has flown to China.
Prince Harry made a surprise appearance in Shanghai, China, at the Envision 2025 Global Partner Conference as part of his role as the CEO of Travalyst.
The Duchess of Sussex did not join her husband at the event and opted to stay in California.
It comes as the Duke and Duchess of Sussex are establishing their own 'royal' household structure in a significant shift from their previous arrangements.
Meghan Markle and Prince Harry have spent Memorial Day weekend apart as the Duke of Sussex has flown to China.
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The couple will each have their own chief of staff as part of this new professional separation.
This represents a departure from their earlier approach of relying on informal advisers for their public and commercial activities.
At the helm of this new operation will be Meredith Kendall Maines, a seasoned communications strategist whose role has drawn comparisons with Sir Clive Alderton, the Private Secretary to King Charles and Queen Camilla.
She will lead a team of 11 staff operating out of Montecito, California, and the UK.
The couple will each have their own chief of staff as part of this new professional separation.
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This restructuring will operate separately from Archewell, the Sussexes' philanthropic foundation. Each senior appointee in the new household will reportedly earn a six-figure salary.
A source told the Mail: "Harry is turning away from all sorts of Hollywood publicists and is seeking counsel from his old friends and associates.
"He is clearly reaching out thinking, 'I need to do something different because what I'm doing is clearly not working'."
The launch of his Californian 'household' follows nine months of overtures to old advisers and Zoom calls with former Palace PR experts, according to the Mail on Sunday.
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Prince Harry is set to launch his own as-yet-undisclosed commercial venture in the coming months.
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Prince Harry is set to launch his own as-yet-undisclosed commercial venture in the coming months.
While he will continue to focus on the Invictus Games Foundation, sources indicate he has "commercial ideas of his own" that will be revealed later this year.
A source said: "Harry is unkindly described as the 'spare' to Meghan's endeavours.
"In reality, he has been giving her the space to flourish. Now it is his time to throw himself into exciting new work. Invictus will always come first, but he has also been working on commercial ideas of his own."
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