Prince Harry and Meghan Markle sacked members of staff in an attempt to create their very own "royal household", GB News has been told.
The Duke and Duchess of Sussex lost five members of staff in another round of restructuring, later appointing a new head of communications.
Sharing more details of the "global response" team for Harry and Meghan, newly appointed communications chief Meredith Maines told GB News: "Transitioning from a team of two to an agency support staff of eight, operating across five different time zones, will give international media and stakeholders better access, and critically, faster response times to inquiries."
Speaking to GB News, Editor-at-Large for the Mail on Sunday Charlotte Griffiths said the royal couple wants to create a "firm structure", similar to that of the Royal Family.
Prince Harry and Meghan Markle are 'restructuring' their staff once again to create a 'royal household'
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Griffiths explained: "They're restructuring their staff to become a sort of royal household. What's happened is as part of the restructure, a few heads had to roll.
"One of them is Charlie Gipson, who was their sort of head of UK PR and has overseen some blunders. He's been there for a year, and he was such a surprise appointment anyway because he used to do the PR for Pedigree and Mars bars. It was just a strange appointment anyway."
Revealing one of Harry and Meghan's new appointments, Griffiths said that the new staff members is a "friend of Harry's" with a prominent military background.
She told GB News: "They've now got a friend of Harry's who actually went to Sandhurst Military Academy, so very much of that ilk, running their UK PR.
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Meredith Maines has been hired as the Sussexes' new head of communications.LinkedIn / Meredith Maines"So Charlie's gone and a man in America, Kyle Boulia has gone as their Deputy Press Secretary."
When asked by host Ben Leo why the Sussexes "can't keep a hold of anyone", Griffiths argued that these former staff members "did not walk out", but were instead part of Harry and Meghan "cutting wheat from the chaff".
She stated: "I think on this example, it's not people walking, which has happened many, many times. It's them sort of cutting the wheat from the chaff.
"And what they want to do is create this really firm structure so that when people come and go, we don't all go crazy saying yet another person's walked or yet another person's been fired, they just say this is the structure."
Griffiths told GB News that Prince Harry's privacy is contradicted by the new structure
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However, Griffiths also claimed that the Sussexes's "global response" team could raise eyebrows about Prince Harry's bid for privacy.
Griffiths concluded: "They've issued this really lofty statement from Meredith, who's their new boss, saying, we're now going to have eight members of staff globally responding to to press inquiries and stories, on all different time zones all across the world.
"And I've got to say, for somebody who wants to be private, I do think Harry's got an awful lot of people now, globally responding in time zones all over the world to press enquiries."
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