Prince William’s former aide helped Harry and Meghan Markle to quit the Royal Family
Simon Case worked as a private secretary for Prince William, with his role in Megxit being uncovered in Prince Harry’s Home Office court case.
Meghan and Harry are ‘jealous’ of William says DolanPrince William’s private secretary Simon Case help according to the judgement from Harry’s court case, The Times has reported.
This week the Duke of Sussex lost out in the High Court to the Home Office, after a judge ruled that Harry’s loss of taxpayer-funded security while in the UK should remain in place.
A 51-page document from the court case exposed Mr Case’s role in Megxit, which saw the Duke and Duchess of Sussex announce their decision to step down from royal duties in January 2020.
The documents show that Mr Case authored a paper on behalf of the Firm which set out the framework for their departure, with the family meeting at Sandringham to discuss the move.
Court papers state: “On January 8, 2020, an announcement was made in relation to the claimant [the Duke of Sussex] stepping back from official royal duties and a public role.
On January 11, 2020, Sir Edward Young [the late Queen’s private secretary] emailed the claimant with a draft paper, which was largely the work of Simon Case, concerning the detailed arrangements to give effect to the announcement.
“Following a meeting at Sandringham on January 13, 2020, what the claimant describes as ‘an agreement of sorts’ was reached, which has been described in the media as the ‘Sandringham Agreement’.”
It is understood that five options were drafted for the Sussexes, later detailed by Harry in his memoir Spare, published three years later in January 2023.
The Prince wrote that option one was keeping everything the same: “Meg and I don’t leave, everyone tries to go back to normal”, while option five was completely at the other end of the scale: “Full severance, no royal role, no working for Granny and total loss of security.”
Given that Mr Case was so close to arranging Prince Harry’s departure from royal life and worked so closely alongside William, there are fears this will not help to rebuild the relationship between the warring brothers.
Members of the royal household also sat on Ravec (Royal and VIP Executive Committee), the body that decides which security provisions should be made for members of the family.
