‘Wouldn’t change anything’: Former royal aide Jason Knauf speaks out after alleging Meghan Markle bullied junior members of staff…..See More

Prince Harry and Meghan Markle’s former aide has broken his silence after alleging the duchess bullied two staffers out of Kensington Palace.

Former royal aide Jason Knauf has broken his silence after alleging Meghan Markle bullied staff members, saying “he has no regrets” about making the explosive claims.

Mr Knauf worked for Prince William and Prince Catherine from 2015 through 2021 and also served as Prince Harry and Meghan’s press secretary.

A few months after he joined the Sussexes on their first trip as husband and wife to Ireland in 2018, Mr Knauf sent an internal email expressing concern about Meghan’s treatment of two staffers in Kensington Palace.

The Duchess of Sussex has always adamantly denied the bullying allegations, claiming they were part of a smear campaign against her.

“I am very concerned that the Duchess was able to bully two PAs out of the household in the past year,” he allegedly wrote in an email leaked to The Times in March 2021.

“…We have had report after report from people who have witnessed unacceptable behavior.”

Public attention on Mr Knauf only intensified when he later gave evidence in a court case brought by Meghan against the British tabloid The Mail on Sunday.

The case centered on a breach of her privacy after The Mail published parts of a letter she sent to her father Thomas Markle ahead of her wedding to Harry in 2018, with the tabloid ordered to pay Meghan just £1 (AUD $1.99) in damages.

In an interview with 60 Minutes on Sunday evening, Mr Knauf responded to a question about whether he found it challenging to be in the public spotlight after the leaked email.

“I think it’s tough, but it’s probably quite good,” he said.

“You know someone who has been helping other people through how to deal with the public eye. You probably had to take your own medicine sometimes.

“You can’t choose just to take the fun stuff in any job, and that applies to the prince and princess as well as everyone else working for them. So, I wouldn’t change anything”.

Mr Knauf’s claims against Meghan were made public just days before the Sussexes’ explosive tell-all interview with Oprah Winfrey.

The former actress claimed to the talk show host the Palace bullied her and that her sister-in-law Catherine made her cry.

“I don’t know how they (the Palace) could expect that after all of this time, we would still just be silent if there is an active role that the firm is playing in perpetuating falsehoods about us,” she said.

Harry went on the record to call the bullying allegations a “smear” and said the claims were part of a larger media conspiracy to slam the couple.

He later described the story’s impact on Meghan in his Apple TV mental health docuseries The Me You Can’t See.

“(Because of) the combined effort of the firm and the media to smear her, I was woken up in the middle of the night to her crying in her pillow because she doesn’t want to wake me up because I’m already carrying too much,” he said.

That’s heartbreaking. I held her, we talked, she cried, and she cried, and she cried.”

In 2023, The Times royal correspondent Valentine Low claimed Buckingham Palace likely buried the outcome of their 2022 investigation into the claims against Meghan to “keep the peace” with the Duke and Duchess of Sussex.

“The palace said it would not be releasing the outcome of the inquiry, or even revealing what lessons had been learned, on the grounds of confidentiality,” he told The Times.

“But most people suspected that the real reason they were burying the report was to try to keep the peace with Harry and Meghan.”