#samantha cohen was bullied

[grits-galraisedinthesouth]

Meghan Markle is a Bully: "We been knew!"

In 2021 Valentine Low exposed the palace investigation into Sussex behavior that created high turnover and shattered the personal and professional lives of employees.

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In response to this investigation, The Meghans quickly devised a victim narrative to garner sympathy and distract from their bad behavior. I

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2019 South Africa: In response to MEgain & Sparry's bad behavior, Samantha Cohen's replacement resigned mid-trip. S/he departed the entire royal tour and return to the UK

The duo responded w/a victim narrative: 1) "Not many people have asked (ME) if I'm okay" 2) Threats to UK newspapers 3) suits co-star creates hashtag love for meghan 4) space heater faux fire 5) Sparry complained that wife cries & is unhappy. He declares his path is different from Wills 6) fled to Canada for a thriving "sabbatical"

2022 Indianapolis: filmed harassing female staff

2022 UK: Both filmed publicly harassing staff. Sparry had to be confronted by KP staff to release the hold his wife had on all the Queen's flowers.

2017 Jamaica Gatecrasher: "she didn't like us"

[brf-rumortrackinganon]

Rumour, have you read that Herald Sun interview with Samantha Cohen? It has a delicious reveal in it which is being ignored by everyone. The press never revealed it either. When asked about the bullying rumours, she confirms them by telling a story about why she worked for the Sussexes for 18mths instead of initial 6mths that she’d agreed to do. Apparently she lasted that long because they had difficulty finding a replacement for her and when they did find someone, they were added to the South Africa tour to get some on the ground training, but they quit/ turned down the job while still in Africa on the tour!!!

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No one’s talking about Samantha extending her support from 6 months to 18 months because it was talked about at the time and again 2 years ago when Tom Bower revealed it in Revenge.

The new staffer quitting during the Africa tour isn’t a surprise. If there were staffers that quit because of the Australia tour, there were staffers that quit because of the Africa tour. It’s also really old news and not that interesting /not that important anymore, not in the grand scheme of BRF relations. It’s also further evidence that the BRF really did protect the Sussexes by squashing this revelation for over 4 years. If this had come out while the Sussexes were losing staff on a weekly basis or during the bullying investigation, it would have been damning but now, 4 years later, it’s a nothingburger.

[saintmeghanmarkle]

Update on the bullying scandal: Samantha Cohen let it drop that two of Meghans aides left during the Africa tour. They didnt even wait until they were back. Credit: Camera-Realistic & Popcorned Planet by u/Negative_Difference4

Update on the bullying scandal: Samantha Cohen let it drop that two of Meghan’s aides left during the Africa tour. They didn’t even wait until they were back. Credit: Camera-Realistic & Popcorned Planet https://youtu.be/Jhia-V_cclU post link: https://ift.tt/MPY9pnx author: Negative_Difference4 submitted: April 20, 2024 at 01:49AM via SaintMeghanMarkle on Reddit disclaimer: all views + opinions expressed by the author of this post, as well as any comments and reblogs, are solely the author's own; they do not necessarily reflect the views of the administrator of this Tumblr blog. For entertainment only.

[anonymoushouseplantfan]

I reckon M couldn’t bear her (female) staff to be more competent than her. Their expertise perhaps made her feel diminished and jealous which is why she bullied them out of their roles. It must have been rough if Samantha, with all that experience behind her, felt she needed to leave. I saw her being interviewed after QE died. She was lovely - calm, articulate, engaging and didn’t give too much personal detail away about her working relationship with QE . Just the kind of person you’d need on your team in M’s position. She didn’t appreciate how lucky she was to have her. Shame.

She doesn’t my listen. She does what she wants and then when it goes wrong she blames other people.

She did the entire baby shower and People leak on her own and then whined about how people “twisted” it. Imagine working for someone who is constantly doing self-destructive stuff behind your back and then blaming you for the inevitable fallout. That was Sam Cohen’s life.

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Meghan Markle's Former Aide Speaks Out on Bullying Allegations

Meghan Markle's Former Aide Speaks Out on Bullying Allegations Samantha Cohen, a former aide of Meghan Markle, has stepped forward to confirm her participation in Buckingham Palace's investigation into allegations of bullying against the Duchess. Cohen, among ten royal staffers interviewed, sheds light on the tumultuous environment within the royal household during her tenure. "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 (quit) as well while in Africa,” Cohen said. The scrutiny surrounding Meghan's behavior towards staff intensified with the emergence of an internal email from Jason Knauf, the communications secretary of Kensington Palace at the time. Knauf expressed concerns about Meghan's treatment of palace staff, citing instances of alleged bullying and intimidation. The leaked email highlighted a pattern of behavior that raised alarm within the royal household. "I am very concerned that the duchess was able to bully two PAs out of the household in the past year. The treatment of X was totally unacceptable,” Knauf told Case. "The Duchess seems intent on always having someone in her sights," Knauf added. "She is bullying Y and seeking to undermine her confidence. We have had report after report from people who have witnessed unacceptable behavior towards Y ." Cohen's departure coincided with the emergence of bullying allegations against Meghan, garnering media attention and fueling speculation about the Duchess's leadership style. The narrative of a demanding and difficult demeanor surrounding Meghan prompted headlines and public scrutiny, casting a shadow over her relationship with palace staff. The revelations underscore a broader narrative surrounding Meghan's time within the royal fold, marked by both admiration and controversy. While Meghan has vehemently denied the allegations of bullying, the ongoing scrutiny highlights the challenges faced within the royal household and the complexities of navigating palace politics. As Samantha Cohen's account adds depth to the unfolding narrative, the spotlight remains on Buckingham Palace's investigation and the implications for Meghan's reputation within royal circles. Amidst the turmoil, questions persist about the Duchess's management style and the impact on her standing within the royal family. Read the full article

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Valentine Low Book Extract - Harry, Meghan and the palace insiders who saw what really happened

[the-empress-7]

omg empress valentine low in the 60 minutes australia peace confirmed that meghan was bullying samantha cohen and that was who Jason Knauf was referencing in the email to HR.

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The Times

https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/nothing-was-ever-good-enough-meghan-left-staff-shaking-with-fear-hb37gbvn8

‘Nothing was ever good enough . . . Meghan left staff shaking with fear’

Valentine LowFebruary 11 2021, 5.00pm GMT

The Duchess of Sussex has always prided herself on being a good boss. When she was in the American TV series Suits, she would sometimes buy the crew pizza. At Kensington Palace there was the occasion, recounted in the pages of People magazine in February 2019, when she paid for an ice-cream stand for staff. “They were remarking how it was the ‘best day of work ever’,” a friend said.

Some of those who worked for Meghan after she joined the royal family have less fond memories. Staff were bullied, according to sources, and some reduced to tears. One said they were humiliated by her on a number of occasions. According to the complaint revealed by The Times today, two PAs were driven from the household. The duchess denies any allegations of bullying.

The first sign that anything might be amiss came when a story appeared in a diary column in a national newspaper saying that Meghan’s personal assistant had left six months after the royal wedding. A week later the assistant was named in another paper as Melissa Touabti. “Meghan put a lot of demands on her and it ended up with her in tears,” a source was reported as saying.

Touabti was not the first member of staff to leave. Before her there was another PA, a young woman already employed by the palace. She did not stay long after Meghan arrived.

Both PAs signed non-disclosure agreements. There is no suggestion that Meghan tried to prevent them from speaking. Lawyers for the duke and duchess stated that she had no knowledge of the agreements and that they believed staff to be comfortable and happy.

In late 2017, after Harry and Meghan’s engagement was announced, a senior aide spoke to the couple about the difficulties caused by their treatment of staff. People needed to be treated well and with some understanding, even when they were not performing to their standards, they were told. Meghan is said to have replied: “It’s not my job to coddle people.”

There is no doubt that Meghan could be a demanding boss. There were a number of people, allegedly including Harry himself, who suggested that those early problems were partly to do with cultural differences in management style. As Omid Scobie and Carolyn Durand put it in their book about the couple, Finding Freedom: “Americans can be much more direct, and that often doesn’t sit well in the much more refined institution of the monarchy.”

However, The Times has spoken to insiders who have argued that it was about more than just American straight-talking. The duchess could be sharp with those she felt were letting her down, sources claim. One former staff member said: “I had unpleasant experiences with her. I would definitely say humiliated.”

After Jason Knauf, the couple’s communications secretary, made his bullying complaint, another member of staff was worried about spending time with her the next day because she feared that Meghan was about to find out. “This is why I feel sick,” they said.

Another time there was a row about whether Meghan had been told that the media would be present at an event. When she rang the aide, they rang back but she did not pick up. “I feel terrified,” the source said. “I can’t stop shaking.”

Another source said: “There were a lot of broken people. Young women were broken by their behaviour.” The source described one member of staff as “completely destroyed”.

Even before the wedding, staff were feeling the strain. One told a colleague the couple were “outrageous bullies” and said they were considering resigning. The colleague replied: “That’s so dreadful. And they are bullies.”

The harsh treatment was not confined to junior staff. One source claimed that Samantha Cohen, the couple’s private secretary, had been bullied. Another said: “They treated her terribly. Nothing was ever good enough. It was, ‘She doesn’t understand, she’s failing.’” In fact, the source said, Cohen was “a saint” and the best organiser of royal tours they had known.

Lawyers for the duke and duchess said they remained close to Cohen and grateful for her support and dedication, acknowledging that she had come out of retirement to work closely with them at a busy time. They deny bullying her.

The Sussexes’ autumn tour in 2018, when they visited Australia, New Zealand, Fiji and Tonga, was stressful for staff, sources say. A senior adviser did his best to reassure them, saying: “You are dealing with a very difficult lady.”

The issue boils down to whether Meghan was a demanding boss with high standards, or a bully. Did her team fail her or did she ask the impossible?

In court papers for her successful privacy action against The Mail on Sunday, her lawyers said that when she was distressed by the negative stories in the media about her, her friends felt frustrated by the instruction from the palace communications team that they should respond “no comment” to allegations. That left her friends “rightly concerned for her welfare, specifically as she was pregnant, unprotected by the institution and prohibited from defending herself”, they said.

An alternative view, sources say, is that Meghan craved rejection from the moment she walked into Kensington Palace, and that nothing that anyone did would ever be good enough.

The palace knew that when Harry married a woman who was biracial, American and divorced, they had to go out of their way to make sure the marriage was a success: if it was not, the royal household and their supposedly hidebound ways would be blamed. “Everyone knew that the institution would be judged by her happiness,” a source said. “The mistake they made was thinking she wanted to be happy. She wanted to be rejected because she was obsessed with that narrative from day one.”

Lawyers for the duchess said this was entirely wrong. The duchess wished to fit in and be accepted and had left her life in North America to commit herself to her new role.

More than one source has expressed their view about her wanting to be a victim. One claimed: “She wanted to be the victim because then she could convince Harry that it was an unbearable experience and they had no choice but to move to America.” Lawyers for the duke and duchess denied this was true. Supporters of the couple have argued that Harry and Meghan were frustrated in their attempts to live their life in a different way.

Finding Freedom quoted a source close to the prince saying that “nothing could convince Harry that some of the old guard at the palace simply didn’t like Meghan and would stop at nothing to make her life difficult”. In her legal case against The Mail on Sunday, the duchess’s lawyers denied that the couple collaborated with the book.

One source claimed that most of the tensions in the household at the time concerned the Sussexes’ relations with the media. “The way I see it, their view of not getting institutional support was that they were not getting permission to blow up the institution’s relationships with the media.” Again, lawyers for the duke and duchess deny this.

One conversation confirmed to The Times seems to reveal how much the palace was prepared to go out of its way to help Meghan. Before the wedding, the couple had a meeting with a senior aide who told them that the palace was doing everything it could to help and there was no need to think she had to take on her role in a particular way, a source said. If she was passionate about the acting world, they could help her to think about finding a role within the film industry.

The source said: “The entire place, because of everything about her, and because of what Harry’s previous girlfriends had been through, was bending over backwards to make sure that every option was open.” They said Meghan thanked them, but said she had no wish to carry on acting. Instead she wanted to concentrate on her humanitarian and philanthropic work, and to support Harry as a member of the royal family.

That might have been that, except of course it wasn’t. Part of the problem, according to the source, was that everyone in the palace was so genteel and civil; too genteel and civil: “When someone decides not to be civil, they have no idea what to do. They were run over by her, and then run over by Harry. They had no idea what to do.”

The duchess issued a detailed statement last night stating that the allegations were a smear campaign and an attack on her character.

[celticcrossanon]

Hello! Sent this to Empress7 as well - Seriously wonder if Harry will threaten or give a warning to the staff that he thinks accused his wife of bullying to drop the case while he’s in the UK. Or maybe try to force the Queen’s hand to make them drop the case. Jason Knauf’s and Samantha Cohen’s name was mentioned by Valentine Low. Let’s not forget the four people who wanted to testify and lawyered up against them during the trial. He made a lot of enemies behind the palace walls.

Hello! Yes, that is another scenario that I believe is possible. I hope it doesn’t happen, and I believe a lot of the bullied staff have moved on to other positions, but Harry using his presence at the funeral to try and squash all bullying allegations via threat, emotional blackmail, or other means is, sadly, all too possible, probable and plausible.

[trexalicious]

Rachel supposedly told to back off about the bullying report🤔Interesting...

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Tough-talking Aussie mother-of-three dubbed 'Samantha the Panther' is set to be 'central' to Buckingham Palace's bullying probe after working as Meghan and Harry's private secretary

By Bryant Hevesi For Daily Mail Australia - March 10th 2021, 12:00:04 am

Aussie Samantha Cohen was the Queen's assistant private secretary before moving to Kensington Palace after being entrusted by the Monarch to prepare Meghan for life as a royal.

[saintmeghanmarkle]

TOM BOWER: The dam of silence on Meghan's 'bullying' at the Palace has finally broken. This trickle will soon become a stream by u/Von_und_zu_

TOM BOWER: The dam of silence on Meghan's 'bullying' at the Palace has finally broken. This trickle will soon become a stream Seems as if Tom Bower thinks Megs and Harold's bullying will start emerging now that Samantha Cohen has broken the dam: It is hugely unfortunate that the bullying complaints have resulted in no resolution either way.To date, the palace lawyer’s investigation remains under lock and key, a situation which is hard on the accusers – and unfair to the accused.Jason Knauf’s leaked email correspondence have given us a starting point, but until a few days ago, Ms Cohen and fellow palace staff had remained silent.Now, finally, that dam has been breached – and I have no doubt that more will now emerge.The trickle of information will, soon enough, become a stream.That’s not to prejudge the matter or say what the verdict will be.But it’s very much to the Palace’s discredit that, whatever truth we arrive at, it should have to emerge in this painful and unsatisfactory way.https://ift.tt/fKaob6Z few of the comments:https://ift.tt/7ZDowlY post link: https://ift.tt/odIf960 author: Von_und_zu_ submitted: April 23, 2024 at 02:43PM via SaintMeghanMarkle on Reddit disclaimer: all views + opinions expressed by the author of this post, as well as any comments and reblogs, are solely the author's own; they do not necessarily reflect the views of the administrator of this Tumblr blog. For entertainment only.

[theblogtini]

On the “Stories of our Times” podcast Valentine Low has stated that Samantha Cohen was behind “the central allegation” in the Meghan bullying case.

[motherofbulldogs]

Senior royal aides warned Prince Harry over press attack

Valentine Low, Johannesburg

October 3 2019, 12:01am, The Times

The Duke of Sussex insisted on making his inflammatory attack on the tabloid press during his official tour of southern Africa against the advice of some of his most senior aides, The Times understands.

The duke is understood to have been so angry about the treatment of his wife by sections of the media that he demanded that the statement go out, even though advisers warned that it would inevitably push the tour itself off the news agenda.

Royal aides were visibly embarrassed yesterday amid the fallout from the duke’s unprecedented intervention, in which he said that the tabloid press had waged a “ruthless campaign” against his wife and “vilified her almost daily for the past nine months”.

The statement, which was written entirely by the duke without any input from his staff, was posted on a website created especially for the purpose. The website, which was registered in March, contains nothing other than Harry’s statement.

It was issued as the couple revealed that the duchess was taking legal action against The Mail on Sunday, alleging that it had unlawfully published one of her letters.

Royal sources have admitted that the timing of the statement, on the penultimate day of the tour, was “unfortunate”. It is understood that senior officials counselled against the release of the statement, were keenly aware of the damage it could do and regretted his decision to go ahead. They have been anxious to distance themselves from the move.

Neither Sara Latham, the couple’s communications secretary, nor Samantha Cohen, their private secretary, is believed to have had any input into the statement, in which the duke accused the media of writing stories that were “knowingly false and malicious”.

Ms Cohen, who previously worked for the Queen, is on her last tour with the couple before handing over to Fiona Mcilwham.

There was speculation that the Queen, the Prince of Wales and the Duke of Cambridge were not told in advance about Prince Harry’s statement. Royal sources refused to comment. The use of the new website was intended to keep the statement, which aides repeatedly described as “private”, separate from the official material posted on the duke and duchess’s Buckingham Palace website.

Engaging the law firm Schillings, instead of the usual royal choice of Harbottle & Lewis, for the lawsuit was also intended to separate it from the duke’s official activities. Harbottle & Lewis has represented both William and Harry in recent months, including in a privacy case brought by Prince Harry against a picture agency over photographs taken of the Sussexes’ weekend home in Oxfordshire.

Royal observers are puzzled as to why the statement was released before the end of the tour, which has been funded by the government. The result has been that engagements that the government would like to have received publicity, including a business reception yesterday and the couple’s meeting with President Ramaphosa of South Africa, have received far less coverage than they would have done.

According to the palace, the release date of the statement was decided by the filing of the case against The Mail on Sunday at the High Court. “The timing was based on specific legal advice,” a source said, emphasising that it had nothing to do with the tour. It was filed on Sunday, a week into the couple’s visit. However, the documents are not yet accessible to the public from the court file.

The action involves a letter sent by Meghan to her father, Thomas Markle. Plaintiffs in privacy cases have up to six years in which to file their claim. The threat of legal action by the duchess was first reported in February.

The confusion has prompted speculation that Harry wanted to release it during the tour, which has garnered much positive coverage, in order to have the greatest impact.

Emma Woollcott, partner and head of reputation protection at the law firm Mishcon de Reya, said: “The Duke and Duchess of Sussex have said that with this claim they are standing up against what they consider to be oppressive and bullying behaviour.

“The letter in issue is clearly private — it is handwritten, addressed to ‘Daddy’ and details the duchess’s anguish at her father’s behaviour. While this intimate correspondence may be fascinating for the public to read, it is difficult to see how its publication contributed to a story of genuine public interest.

“Being a member of the royal family does not mean that you waive your fundamental human rights — each one of us is entitled to respect for our private life and correspondence.”