{"id":269032,"date":"2019-03-09T08:38:40","date_gmt":"2019-03-09T15:38:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/b1022151"},"modified":"2019-03-09T08:38:40","modified_gmt":"2019-03-09T15:38:40","slug":"meghan-markle-to-lose-third-palace-aide-in-months","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/music-news\/meghan-markle-to-lose-third-palace-aide-in-months\/","title":{"rendered":"Meghan Markle to Lose Third Palace Aide in Months"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"photo-txt-0\" data-hook=\"scrollable-block\" readability=\"40.50527325024\">\n<div class=\"column post-content__image--left post-content__image\" data-swiftype-index=\"false\"> <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"image--full\" src=\"https:\/\/akns-images.eonline.com\/eol_images\/Entire_Site\/201929\/rs_634x1024-190309073312-634-amy-pickerill-meghan-markle.cm.3919.jpg?fit=inside|900:auto&amp;output-quality=90\" title=\" Meghan Markle, Assistant Amy Pickerill\" alt=\" Meghan Markle, Assistant Amy Pickerill\"><\/p>\n<p class=\"image__credits\">Karwai Tang\/WireImage<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<section data-textblock-tracking=\"text-block-photo-text\" readability=\"22.436826640548\">\n<p>Staff shakeups in the House of Sussex are continuing, as&nbsp;<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/meghan_markle\">Meghan Markle<\/a><\/strong>and&nbsp;<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/prince_harry\">Prince Harry<\/a><\/strong> count down the days until they welcome their first child.<\/p>\n<p>The pregnant&nbsp;duchess&#8217; assistant private secretary and &#8220;right hand woman,&#8221; <strong>Amy Pickerill<\/strong>, has handed in her notice of resignation and is set to leave her job after one year. She is the third Kensington Palace aide for Meghan to quit her job over the past few months.<\/p>\n<p>Pickernill, who has been helping Meghan&nbsp;adjust to royal life and has also helped her organize charity projects, is leaving on good terms with the duchess and is set to remain&nbsp;until after she&nbsp;has given birth to her and Harry&#8217;s&nbsp;first child this spring.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Amy will be leaving but has agreed to stay on to help following the birth of the baby,&#8221; a source told NBC News. &#8220;She and Meghan are very close and it&#8217;s all very amicable. She has been with her since she moved from Canada and she will remain as a personal adviser to her in the long term.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Kensington Palace has not commented on her upcoming departure.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"text-2\" data-hook=\"scrollable-block\" readability=\"54.862068965517\">\n<section data-textblock-tracking=\"text-block-text-only\" data-swiftype-index=\"false\" readability=\"16.16091954023\">\n<p>In December, the&nbsp;<em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thetimes.co.uk\/article\/meghan-loses-second-close-aide-samantha-cohen-amid-duchess-difficult-rumours-8zz9t5b2l\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Sunday Times<\/a>&nbsp;<\/em>reported that Meghan and Harry&#8217;s interim private secretary,&nbsp;<strong>Samantha &#8220;The Panther&#8221; Cohen<\/strong>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/994697\/meghan-markle-to-lose-second-aide-amid-rumors-about-duchess-difficult-behavior\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">does not want to make her job permanent<\/a> and &#8220;has let it be known that she intends to leave after Meghan&#8217;s baby is born next spring.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>News of her departure came&nbsp;amid <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/994697\/meghan-markle-to-lose-second-aide-amid-rumors-about-duchess-difficult-behavior\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">rumors that Meghan is supposedly a &#8220;difficult&#8221; boss<\/a>, and alleged tensions between her and Harry&#8217;s brother <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/prince_william\">Prince William<\/a><\/strong>&#8216;s&nbsp;wife&nbsp;<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/kate_middleton\">Kate Middleton<\/a><\/strong>. Kensington Palace had&nbsp;no immediate&nbsp;comment on Cohen&#8217;s exit news&nbsp;and does&nbsp;has in the past&nbsp;not commented on most of the&nbsp;negative reports about the duchess.<\/p>\n<p>Cohen&#8217;s upcoming exit was also reported less than a month after it was revealed that Meghan&#8217;s&nbsp;personal assistant,&nbsp;<strong>Melissa Touabti&nbsp;<\/strong>had&nbsp;quit after six months in her job. She and the duchess were reported to have had a difficult relationship, according to the<em>&nbsp;Sunday Times<\/em>.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"video-int-txt-3\" data-hook=\"scrollable-block\" readability=\"31.846153846154\">\n<section data-textblock-tracking=\"text-block-video-text\" data-swiftype-index=\"false\" readability=\"8.3076923076923\">\n<p>Kensington Palace&nbsp;announced in November that&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/990264\/meghan-markle-and-prince-harry-are-moving-away-from-kensington-palace\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Harry and Meghan plan to move out<\/a>&nbsp;of Nottingham Cottage&nbsp;in the palace complex, where his William and Kate&nbsp;have a massive apartment, and into Frogmore Cottage on&nbsp;<strong>Queen Elizabeth II<\/strong>&#8216;s Windsor estate, not far from where they wed in May 2018. However,&nbsp;the&nbsp;<em>Sunday Times<\/em>&nbsp;reported that the Duke and Duchess of Sussex&#8217;s new separate office is expected to remain at Kensington Palace.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/1022151\/meghan-markle-to-lose-third-palace-aide-in-months?cmpid=rss-000000-rssfeed-365-topstories&#038;utm_source=eonline&#038;utm_medium=rssfeeds&#038;utm_campaign=rss_topstories\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: E! Online<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Karwai Tang\/WireImage Staff shakeups in the House of Sussex are continuing, as&nbsp;Meghan Markleand&nbsp;Prince Harry count down the days until they welcome their first child. The pregnant&nbsp;duchess&#8217; assistant private secretary and &#8220;right hand woman,&#8221; Amy Pickerill, has handed in her notice of resignation and is set to leave her job after one year. 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