Meghan Markle and Prince Harry Announce Another Staff Shake-Up as 4 Team Members Exit

Meghan Markle and Prince Harry had another shakeup in their staff.

Four members of the Duke and Duchess of Sussex's staff have parted ways with the couple in recent weeks, PEOPLE has confirmed.

Staffers who have departed include Los Angeles-based deputy press secretary Kyle Boulia and U.K. press officer Charlie Gipson, who were both brought on last year, Hello! reported on June 13.

The shift comes after Meghan, 43, and Harry, 40, hired Meredith Maines as their first chief communications officer, who previously worked for Google, Hulu and American Idol, earlier this year.

The couple also recently added Emily Robinson, formerly of Netflix, as a new director of communications and retained a team from Method Communications.

Last year, Meghan and Prince Harry's global press secretary and head of communications Ashley Hansen parted ways with the couple as she launched her own communications firm. The Duke of Sussex’s chief of staff Josh Kettler also left his position after three months in 2024 after a trial period, with the decision to part ways being mutual.

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"Something tells me there will be another change in the future,” a source told Hello!. “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."

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Maines said in a statement about the change, "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."

"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," she added.

At the start of 2025, Meghan rejoined Instagram after disabling her social media accounts ahead of her 2018 wedding to Prince Harry. The Duchess of Sussex has since shared personal elements of life at home with Harry and their children, 6-year-old son Prince Archie and 4-year-old daughter Princess Lilibet.

Meghan has also been promoting As ever, her new lifestyle brand, and With Love, Meghan, her Netflix show that debuted in March.

Prince Harry recently gave a candid interview to the BBC in early May after he lost a pivotal legal appeal to restore his state-funded security in the U.K. He said that his father, King Charles, "won't speak to me because of this security stuff."

"I would love reconciliation with my family. There's no point in continuing to fight anymore," the Duke of Sussex said in the interview.

"Life is precious. I don't know how much longer my father has," he continued, alluding to King Charles' cancer diagnosis announced in 2024.