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OK, let's talk about Harry and Meghan
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So they have got rid of how many more staff and why? Well, this sort of links to that story I was talking about
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on this show a couple of weeks ago that I had on Mail Sunday, which is that they're restructuring their staff
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to become a sort of royal household. And, of course, now what's happened is
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as part of the restructure, a few heads had to roll. And one of them is Charlie Gibson
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who is their sort of head of UK PR. Right. And has overseen, I suppose, some blunders
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I would have thought we'd put them in like that. UK PR. He's not done a great job
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Well, he's been there for a year, and he was such a surprise appointment anyway, because he used to do the PR for Pedigree Charm and Mars Bars
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It was just a strange appointment anyway. So anyway, he's gone, and their man in America, Kyle, is gone
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And they've now got a friend of Harry's, who actually went to Sandhurst Military Academy
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so very much of that ilk, running their UK PR. Why can't they keep hold of anyone? What's the issue
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Well, I think in this example, it's not people walking, which has happened many, many times
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is them sort of cutting the wheat from the chaff. And what they want to do is create this really firm structure
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so that when people come and go, we don't all go crazy saying
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yet another person's walked or yet another person's been fired. They just say, look, this is the structure
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Of course, inevitably, as an old job, some people come and go. How many people would be..
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You can tell I'm smiling because I'm only semi-convinced by their take on events
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How many people would be in that sort of target structure? Well, there's about sort of 10 now, but what they've said in their statement today
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they've issued this really lofty statement from Meredith, who's their new boss, saying
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oh, we're now going to have eight members of staff globally responding to press inquiries and stories
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you know, on all different time zones all across the world. And I've got to say, I mean, for somebody who wants to be private
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I do think Harry's got an awful lot of people now. Yeah, right. Globally responding in time zones all over the world to press inquiries
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OK, Charlotte, thank you
