Like with many siblings, the time has come for the royal brothers, the Duke of Cambridge and the Duke of Sussex, to go their separate ways. Yesterday, the Sunday Times revealed that the brothers would split their households within weeks to create separate courts.
The work to create the two separate households has been underway since the wedding of Prince Harry and Meghan Markle last May, and now with the imminent arrival of their child divisions are set to be made sooner rather than later.
The Duke and Duchess of Sussex will move to Frogmore Cottage, on the Windsor Estate, in the spring. Their new office is expected to remain at Kensington Palace.
The main division is said to be of their communications team, which will give each couple the freedom to forge their own media styles. This follows the news that Meghan will support a campaign by black academics and students to ‘decolonise the curriculum’ and confront the legacy of empire and racism on university campuses – her first political intervention since joining the Royal family.
To date, the brothers have shared a press office. In December, Christian Jones, 30, joined Kensington Palace as Deputy Communications Secretary from the Department for Exiting the European Union and was recently photographed in Notting Hill with the Duchess of Sussex. The royal press office is headed up by Jason Knauf, 37, an American who joined the palace in 2015.
A source close to the princes told the Sunday Times, ‘The brothers have leant on each other and looked after each other since their mother died. But now they have their own families, they no longer rely on each other as before. They have become different people with different outlooks on life.’
