Meghan Markle, Harry’s reputation sinks like a stone: Here's why their PR's taking blame

Editor Tom Sykes, from The Daily Beast has just come forward with his personal thoughts regarding the resignation of Prince Harry and Meghan’s fifth PR personal in a few years, Meredith Maines.

According to her Linkedin, she is said to have been onboarded on March 2025 but has since parted ways, and her statement which was released to the same outlet cited that she is leaving because the work she was doing is “now concluded” according to the piece.

In Mr Sykes eyes, “there is a problem with the ‘mission accomplished’ framing, though. Firstly, the Sussexes have had a terrible year PR-wise, and their reputation has sunk like a stone, which presumably wasn’t the aim.”

“Secondly, nobody at the time of Maines’s appointment suggested she’d been brought in for a finite task.” After all “this was a grown-up who would bring order to every part of a brand that has spent five years pinballing between reinvention, self-inflicted fiasco, and frantic damage control,” the editor even said.

He also didn’t end there and instead doubled down saying, “this was a grown-up who would bring order to every part of a brand that has spent five years pinballing between reinvention, self-inflicted fiasco, and frantic damage control.”

Near the end, he also shared his own two cents about what he thinks the Sussexes are in store for, in the coming years. In his eyes, “the story is also the pattern. This is to say that Maines’s exit is just the latest in a long line of staffers who arrive with glossy résumés and depart a few months later, often accompanied by brief statements that read like they have been mailed in from a re-education camp.”

All in all the Sussex machine has become a place where senior professionals appear, attempt to impose structure, and then vanish, leaving behind a burning question: are Harry and Meghan simply impossible to work for?” he asked.

Because as the world sees it, “a PR can survive, even shine, in a hostile press cycle. What they can’t easily survive is clients who won’t listen, or, worse, clients who lie to them and insist you push a narrative that collapses under basic scrutiny,” he said before signing off.

“Although it's been years since the children last saw Harry, Charlotte and George still ask about him regularly. They were very close, and video calls have helped them maintain that bond, but Kate wants it to be maintained face-to-face, even if it winds up her husband.”

“William is firmly opposed to showing any warmth toward Harry, but he struggles to refuse his children when they ask for something. He also doesn't want to face their questions about why he won't engage with their uncle, but Kate is insistent a reunion between her kids and Harry is essential for everyone's well-being, including her own.”

“Kate hopes 2026 will bring peace in all areas of her life. To achieve that, she's decided to reach out to Meghan and extend an olive branch. It's not that Kate has forgotten past resentments – she still doesn't trust Meghan and doesn't plan to be close friends – but she believes William and Harry's chances of reconciliation would improve if she and Meghan can establish some common ground.”

“Kate is saddened that her children have no relationship with Archie and Lilibet, and she plans to address that during Harry's visit.”