Four staffers have left Meghan Markle and Prince Harry’s team, Page Six confirmed Friday.
Kyle Boulia, the couple’s Los Angeles-based deputy press secretary, and Charlie Gipson, their UK press officer, have quietly exited their positions after the couple took on new advisers, Hello! reported Friday.
A source also confirmed to the outlet that two members of their private team have also departed their roles in recent weeks.
The exits came after the Duke and Duchess of Sussex launched a new team headed by Meredith Kendall Maines, who was appointed as their Chief Communications Officer earlier this year.
Maines addressed the changes in a statement to Page Six Friday, telling us, “As the Duke and Duchess’s business and philanthropic interests grow, I have made the strategic decision to move toward a more traditional communications structure of specialist agency support, as previously reported in Forbes and PR Week several weeks ago.”
She continued, “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.”
Boulia and Gipson hung up their hats just over a year after they were hired by the Invictus Games founder and his wife in April 2024. Boulia previously worked at United Talent Agency and Gipson was a brand manager at Edelman.
A source familiar with the situation told Hello! that they believe there will be “another change in the future.”
“Meghan and Harry have hired some of the most incredible people at the top of their fields, yet somehow none of them ever work out,” the source said.
Last summer, the Sussexes’ then-chief of staff, Josh Kettler, memorably quit after just three months on the job.
In January, a former media staffer accused the “Suits” alum of creating a toxic work environment.
It was “really, really, really awful. Very painful,” the unnamed staffer claimed in a Vanity Fair exposé.
“Because she’s constantly playing checkers — I’m not even going to say chess — but she’s just very aware of where everybody is on her board. And when you are not in, you are to be thrown to the wolves at any given moment.”
However, Markle’s former audio producer insisted the duchess was “just a lovely, genuine person.”
Meanwhile, Dr. Sophie Chandauka, the chair of the Sentebale charity which was co-founded by Harry, accused the “Spare” author of harassment and bullying.
Harry and his co-founder, Prince Seeiso of Lesotho, announced their decision to step away from the charity in March.
