Prince Harry and Meghan Markle have continued the restructuring of their professional operations with several key appointments to their team.
Emily Robinson has joined as Director of Communications, bringing two decades of entertainment publicity experience including work with Netflix.
The Sussex in-house staff have also formed a partnership with Method Communications, described as "an integrated relations and marketing agency that combines earned, owned, paid and shared media to help brands capture the spotlight and achieve meaningful business outcomes".
Meredith Maines, who became chief communications officer in February, arranged for Method to be placed on retainer to support the couple's expanding business and philanthropic portfolio.
Prince Harry and Meghan Markle have continued the restructuring of their professional operations with several key appointments to their team.
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It comes as the couple are establishing their own household structure, marking a significant departure from their previous arrangements.
Each will have their own chief of staff as part of this professional separation, moving away from their earlier reliance on informal advisers for public and commercial activities.
Meredith Kendall Maines will lead this new operation, with her role drawing comparisons to Sir Clive Alderton, the Private Secretary to King Charles and Queen Camilla.
She will oversee a team of 11 staff operating from Montecito, California, and the UK.
This restructuring will function independently from Archewell, the Sussexes' philanthropic foundation. Each senior appointee in the new household will reportedly receive a six-figure salary.
The couple are establishing their own household structure, marking a significant departure from their previous arrangements
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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 Mail on Sunday reported that the launch of his Californian household followed nine months of overtures to old advisers and Zoom calls with former Palace PR experts.
The Duke is preparing to launch his own commercial venture in the coming months, with details yet to be disclosed.
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The Duke is preparing to launch his own commercial venture in the coming months, with details yet to be disclosed.
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This year has seen the launch of Meghan's Netflix lifestyle series With Love, Meghan, whilst Harry held a successful seventh Invictus Games in Whistler and Vancouver, Canada, featuring wounded, injured and ill veteran and active defence personnel.
Whilst the Duke will continue to prioritise the Invictus Games Foundation, sources suggest he has been developing commercial ideas of his own to 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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