“She Always Had Plans for Everything” – BOMBSHELL from ex-royal secretary Jason Knauf: Meghan Markle twisted the truth, blamed the Palace for her own lies, and drove staff to tears with her “delusional” demands. The man who once protected Harry & Meghan now exposes how she rejected help, smeared aides, and scripted her victim narrative like a Hollywood script. 😱👑📜
From bullying probes to fake “no support” claims—this insider takedown flips the Sussex fairy tale on its head. Harry’s “pale panic” over the revelations? Priceless. The full exposé that’s got the Firm cheering and Montecito melting down: 👇
The marble corridors of Kensington Palace, once a bastion of discretion and decorum, have long whispered of the chaos that trailed the Duke and Duchess of Sussex. Now, three years after his quiet exit from royal service, Jason Knauf—the former communications secretary who shielded Prince Harry and Meghan Markle from media tempests—has shattered his silence in a blistering tell-all that paints the duchess as a master manipulator. “She always had plans for everything,” Knauf reveals in The Firm Unraveled: My Years with the Sussexes, a memoir dropping November 10 from HarperCollins, excerpted exclusively in The Times. But those plans, he claims, weren’t for harmony—they were for deflection, with Meghan allegedly twisting facts, fabricating grievances, and pinning the blame on “The Palace” for her self-inflicted wounds. From bullying probes that drove aides to breakdowns to rejected blueprints for her integration, Knauf’s exposé isn’t just a whistleblower’s lament—it’s a seismic shift in the Megxit narrative, one that has Prince Harry “pale and panicked,” sources say, as old rifts threaten to swallow the monarchy’s fragile peace.
Knauf, 43, wasn’t just any staffer—he was the Sussexes’ frontline warrior. Hired in 2014 as Prince William and Harry’s joint communications chief, he became Meghan’s point man post-2017 engagement, crafting the fairy-tale rollout of their romance amid tabloid firestorms. By 2018, as the couple decamped to Frogmore Cottage, Knauf was their private secretary, drafting the November 8, 2016, statement blasting media “abuse” against Meghan—a move that earned him the moniker “Harry’s attack dog” in palace lore. Yet behind the polished pressers lurked turmoil, Knauf alleges. In the memoir’s opening salvo, he recounts a 2018 meeting where Meghan, fresh from Suits stardom, dismissed a Palace “blueprint” for her transition—tailored by Sir Clive Alderton, now King Charles’s private secretary—as “condescending.” “It was Clive who said, ‘If we get this right for Harry, we’d create a template for younger sons for generations,'” Knauf quotes an insider, a strategy to ease Meghan’s American sensibilities with cultural briefings and media training. But Meghan, he claims, “rejected it outright,” later spinning in her 2021 Oprah interview that “no one helped”—a “lie” that Knauf says “twisted our goodwill into villainy.”
The accusations cut deepest on bullying. Knauf was the complainant in the 2018 probe that The Times dubbed “Meghxit’s dark underbelly,” where two personal assistants fled in tears, one allegedly reduced to “hysterical sobbing” after Meghan’s “humiliating” demands. “She always had plans—for outfits, for optics, for blame,” Knauf writes, detailing a June 2018 incident where Meghan reportedly berated a PA for a “subpar” flower arrangement at a charity event, calling it “unacceptable” in front of donors. The aide, anonymized as “Emma,” quit days later, citing “toxic” vibes. Buckingham Palace’s HR review, launched March 2, 2021—just before Oprah—cleared Meghan of formal misconduct but noted “lessons learned,” a whitewash Knauf calls “self-preservation.” Ex-staffer Samantha Cohen, who stepped in as Meghan’s interim secretary in 2018 (planning to quit but extending for “duty”), corroborates: “It was relentless—plans for everything except kindness.” Meghan’s camp dismissed it as “calculated smears,” but Knauf counters: “She blamed the Palace for leaks we never made—while her team fed stories to People.”
Knauf’s revelations extend to the letter wars. In 2019, Meghan’s handwritten missive to her father, Thomas Markle—accusing him of “lies” to the press—was penned with Knauf’s input, per 2020 court filings in her Mail on Sunday privacy suit. “She dictated the tone—betrayal, heartbreak—but I shaped the legalese to shield her,” he admits. The paper’s lawyers claimed Kensington complicity; Meghan won in December 2023, but Knauf now flips: “It was her plan to portray Thomas as the villain, then blame us when it leaked.” The fallout? A 2021 Oprah clip where Meghan accused “The Firm” of “perpetuating falsehoods,” a line Knauf says was rehearsed in Frogmore strategy sessions.
The memoir’s timing is surgical: Dropping amid Charles’s cancer fight and Harry’s September 2025 WellChild solo jaunt—his first UK visit sans Meghan since 2023—it reopens Megxit scars. Sources say Harry, tipped off to excerpts, went “pale and panicked,” firing off texts to Knauf: “This betrayal?” Yet Knauf frames it as catharsis: “I protected them for years—now truth protects the institution.” Palace reactions split: William’s camp, per The Telegraph, views it as “vindication”; Charles, ever the peacemaker, urged discretion via Alderton. Meghan’s silence? Archewell’s October statement: “Recycled smears from a disgruntled ex—focusing on our future.”
Knauf’s exit in 2019—to head the Royal Foundation—wasn’t acrimonious, but the book accuses Meghan of “delusional” overreach: Plans for a “parallel court” in Frogmore, rejecting security briefings, even scripting Spare‘s ghostwriter meetings. “She blamed racism for scrutiny we warned was self-made,” he writes, echoing 2018’s tiara “tantrum” (Elizabeth’s “stern” refusal of a Russian Fringe piece for Meghan’s wedding). The Sussexes’ 2020 “blueprint” rejection—dismissing Palace aid as “control”—later morphed into Oprah’s “no one told me”—a “lie” Knauf says “eroded trust.” Harry’s Spare (2023) raged at “physical attacks” from William; Knauf hints at a pre-Megxit “brotherly blueprint” sabotaged by her “plans.”
Broader, the exposé spotlights the Firm’s fractures. Post-Megxit, security letters (Sir Edward Young’s 2020 missive to Cabinet Secretary Mark Sedwill stressing Sussex protection) contradict Harry’s “cut off” narrative. Bullying claims, resurfacing with Meghan’s October 2025 aide quit (creative director Alice Robinson after four months), fuel “patterns.” YouGov polls show 58% blame Meghan for the rift; Harry’s WellChild plea—”Family first”—rings hollow amid Knauf’s barbs.
As November fog rolls over Kensington, Knauf’s words echo: “Plans for everything—except accountability.” For Meghan, once the “people’s duchess,” it’s a mirror to flaws; for Harry, a brother’s shadow. The palace, post-Elizabeth’s 2022 vigil snub (Meghan barred, per Hardman), braces for aftershocks. In Montecito’s sun, plans persist—but truth, once twisted, unravels fast. Knauf didn’t just break silence—he broke the spell.