The former secretary to Prince Harry and Meghan Markle has compared working with them to working with teenagers. Samantha Cohen resigned from her role as private secretary to Harry and Meghan in 2019, a job that she had taken on at the request of the late Queen Elizabeth II.
Before that, Ms Cohen had previously spent 17 years working as the press secretary for the Queen. And according to historian Valentine Low's book 'Courtiers: The Hidden Power Behind the Crown', Samantha had resigned after being "treated harshly" by the couple.
She also likened the job to "working with teenagers", it has been claimed. In an interview with the Herald Sun, Ms Cohen also claimed that she had worked in the job for three times longer than she had originally planned because officials were struggling to find someone to replace her, The Express reports.
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She said: "I was only supposed to stay for six months but stayed for 18 – we couldn't find a replacement for me and when we did we took them on tour to Africa with Harry and Meghan to show them the ropes but they left as well while in Africa."
Ms Cohen also spoke of her time working for the late Queen, who she described as having "no ego". "The Queen had no ego, she was so comfortable in herself, yet she loved it when things went wrong," she said.
"If a cake was not cutting, or a plaque didn't unveil, because everything was so perfectly organised, it spiced her life up when things went wrong."
Harry and Meghan spent 10 days on a tour in Africa with their son, Prince Archie, back in 2019. It ended up being their last trip as senior working royals.
The tour began in Cape Town in South Africa, and saw the couple and Archie also visit Botswana, Angola and Malawai. In an ITV documentary filmed during the visit, Meghan told broadcaster Tom Bradby that courtiers failed to ask if she was "okay" and admitted to struggling with royal life.
She claimed that she had had issues coping with the intense media scrutiny and that she was "existing not living".
