A spokesman for Buckingham Palace said Monday: “Our commitment to look into the circumstances surrounding the allegations of the former staff of the Duke and Duchess of Sussex is being taken up, but we will not comment publicly on it.”
Harry and Meghan did not comment on Monday, but a spokesman for the couple previously denied the allegations of intimidation reported by The Times newspaper as “defamatory”.
“Let’s call it what it is – a calculated smear campaign based on misleading and harmful misinformation,” the Sussexes spokesman said. “We are disappointed to see that this defamatory portrayal of the Duchess of Sussex is given credibility by the media.”
The war of words between the two camps broke out shortly before the broadcast of Meghan and Harry’s conversation with Winfrey, in which the couple lifted the lid of their lives as kings and made a series of condemnatory accusations against the family.
She took a different approach to the allegations that Meghan assaulted royal staff, which appeared in an article in The Times.
The hiring of an external company comes after the Palace declared that “their human resources team will analyze the circumstances described in the article”.
“Staff members involved at the time, including those who left the household, will be invited to attend to see if lessons can be learned,” it said in a previous statement.
During their interview with Winfrey, Harry and Meghan also said that they had complained to the Palace several times that their mental health was suffering, but they were fired. Meghan revealed that at one point she was thinking about suicide, allegations that reverberated in the British media and put control over the family.