Stevens said that several recommendations were made, but did not reveal in any substantial detail the conclusions that emerged or the recommendations that were made. As the review was privately funded, there was less pressure on the Crown to publish its findings. “I can confirm, however, that this was a review of grievance redress to enable royal households to consider possible improvements in human resources policies and procedures,” Stevens said. “The review has been completed and recommendations on our policies and procedures have been forwarded, but we will not comment further.” A senior royal source said the palace remained closed on the inquiry to protect the anonymity of those who collaborated. “We recognize that those people who participated in the review participated with the understanding that there would be confidentiality in these discussions with the independent law firm and therefore we have a duty to respect that confidentiality,” the source said. The source said the Palace made several policy changes after the review, but declined to disclose them in detail. “Whenever you undertake an independent review or there is such an examination, there will always be lessons to be learned, there are always ways in which you can improve procedures and procedures,” the source said. “We do not normally disclose any changes to our policies and procedures.” The allegations surfaced last year when the Times in the United Kingdom published an article citing anonymous sources who claimed that the Duchess had evicted two aides from her home in Kensington Palace and undermined the trust of a third staff member. Buckingham Palace initially said it would investigate the allegations, but later hired an outside law firm to do so. At the time, a Sussex spokeswoman dismissed the Times report as a “calculated slander campaign” as it was published a few days before Oprah Winfrey’s bomb interview with Meghan and Prince Harry went up in the air.
The interview was the first time the couple spoke in public after announcing their plans to step down from senior roles in the British royal family in 2020. Megan told Winfrey that life as King of Britain was so isolated and lonely at one point that she “no longer wanted to be alive.” She described herself as a victim of a Buckingham Palace obsession with the image that weighed on everything from how dark Archie’s son’s skin would be to how often he went out to eat with friends.