The Duchess of Sussex has lost her tenth publicist in five years after just three months in the role, it has been reported.
Emily Robinson, a former senior director of publicity at Netflix who previously worked on The Crown, was appointed as director of communications in June to oversee media strategy for the Duke and Duchess of Sussex but left this month, the Daily Mail reported.
Robinson is at least the tenth publicist to leave Meghan and Harry’s team since they left the UK for California five years ago. Two of their former publicists, James Holt and Miranda Barbot, were promoted into non-PR roles for the couple.
Their team currently consists of Liam Maguire, director of communications in Europe, and Meredith Maines, chief communications officer.
They met Tobyn Andreae, the King’s press secretary, earlier this year — talks which are believed to have led to Prince Harry meeting his father last month.
Robinson oversaw publicity for The Crown between the third and sixth series which included story arcs such as Prince Harry’s Nazi costume controversy, Princess Diana’s Panorama interview and the scene in which a vision of Diana speaks to the Queen.
She previously worked for the American History and Discovery channels.
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A friend of Robinson told the newspaper: “It was her decision. She left a few weeks ago.
“She’s not a quitter, so things must have been pretty horrible for her to go”.
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A cover story in Vanity Fair in February said: “The person who worked in media projects read stories in the tabloids about Meghan ‘bullying’ palace aides and couldn’t imagine such behaviour actually happening. After working with her though, this person realised, ‘oh, any given Tuesday this happened’.”
A spokesman for the couple said: “Miss Robinson oversaw project-based work for a very successful season of With Love, Meghan and additional support for the production company. She did an excellent job and completed these projects with great success”.
