On Meghan Sussex’s birthday, the media returned to a familiar tactic, reheating a debunked bullying narrative. This time, however, the smear came wrapped in self-promotion. Valentine Low, former royal correspondent and now author, appeared on anti-Sussex commentator Kinsey Schofield’s YouTube show to revive his 2021 claims against Meghan, conveniently timed to promote his book, Power and the Palace.

A Strategic Hit Job Disguised as Journalism

In a Daily Mail article, Low claimed staffers were “frightened” of Meghan and saw her “capacity for revenge as infinite.” He described aides as “psychologically delicate,” supposedly still haunted years after working for her. These claims, like those in his original 2021 article, remain unsupported by names or documented investigations. No official HR inquiry ever upheld wrongdoing. The Sussexes denied the allegations at the time and again later, framing them as a coordinated palace smear timed to sabotage their Oprah interview.

Low doubled down, saying Meghan and Harry tried to stop the story and later sent ‘feisty‘ legal letters. His real reason for rushing publication, though, was political. He admitted the story had to run before the Oprah interview to shape the public narrative. Waiting, he said, would make Meghan look like a victim. He preferred to prime the audience with suspicion.

If the story had come out after the Oprah interview, it would have just looked like sour grapes. It’d be lost in the noise. Meghan would come across as this this heroine, this person who’d been victimised. The whole narrative would be about what she and Harry said about their experiences with the royal family. It would just get lost and no one would really care. You look back to the Diana years. Stories had come out that the marriage was in trouble. No-one knew for certain until Andrew Morton’s book came out. People then realised that it was the truth. That is what happened with my bullying story. – Valentine Low Via The Daily Mail

Valentine Low’s Record Tells Its Own Story

Low presents himself as a sober insider, but his past behavior raises questions. In 2019, days before Meghan gave birth, he joked on Twitter that Archie was “frog spawn”, an ugly reference while she lived at Frogmore Cottage.

A collage of tweets by royal correspondent Valentine Low, including posts implying Meghan Markle faked her pregnancy, mocking her with the phrase “cross your legs,” and referencing “frogspawn” in connection to Frogmore Cottage. The tweets exhibit sarcastic and conspiratorial tones, suggesting media bias and personal animus.


He later claimed Meghan looked through him during an official engagement, describing her as cold, disengaged, and difficult to connect with. This anecdote became part of a larger narrative he and others used to paint her as aloof or hostile to the press. However, video footage from the same event tells a different story. Meghan is seen engaging with the reporters present, including Low, with visible warmth and professionalism. She maintains steady eye contact, smiles, and responds clearly and respectfully to the questions asked. The contrast between Low’s retelling and the recorded reality casts doubt on his objectivity and suggests that his reporting may be shaped more by personal bias than journalistic accuracy.

This pattern of contradiction has followed Low. He admitted he knew Meghan was in mental distress in 2019, referencing her conversation with the head of HR. Still, he helped push the bullying story just days before the Oprah broadcast, knowing the couple’s emotional state. And he confirmed what many suspected: Jason Knauf, Prince William’s former aide, initiated the complaint, not Meghan’s direct staff.

UK Media Uses Books to Push Coordinated Attacks

Low’s new book, Power and the Palace, attempts to build on his book titled Courtiers. But his formula remains the same. Rely on unnamed sources, push anti-Meghan narratives, and time the marketing to coincide with a media moment.

Low isn’t acting alone. The same week his claims resurfaced, the Daily Mail began serializing Andrew Lownie’s new book Entitled, which includes a fabricated story about Prince Harry allegedly getting into a physical fight with Prince Andrew in 2013, three years before Harry even met Meghan. Lownie also claims that Andrew made disparaging remarks about Meghan, supposedly provoking Harry’s defense of her. But how could Harry defend Meghan’s honor to his uncle in 2013 when he hadn’t even met her until 2016? The timeline collapses under basic scrutiny. Harry swiftly denied the claims, calling them false and defamatory. Lownie, for his part, admitted he never contacted the Sussexes for comment before publishing.

This is the same Andrew Lownie who, in a 2022 GB News interview, declared that Harry and Meghan posed a greater threat to the monarchy than Prince Andrew. So these aren’t accidental oversights or isolated incidents. They’re part of a coordinated strategy: repeat sensational gossip until it sticks, using Harry and Meghan as targets for a smear campaign disguised as royal reporting. Like all effective propaganda, it thrives on repetition, repetition, and more repetition.

That both Low and Lownie are pushing new releases through the Mail within days of each other only illustrates how tightly choreographed these campaigns have become.

Final Thoughts

Valentine Low’s latest revival of the bullying claims is a promotion wrapped in contradiction. He offers no new evidence, no named sources, just recycled insinuations timed to benefit his book sales as well as dampen Meghan’s birthday. On Kinsey Schofield’s podcast, he claimed former aides were still “in a very fragile state,” then turned around and said they were “happy leading their new lives.” UK employment law protects staff from workplace abuse through legal channels and HR procedures. Yet no grievance was ever upheld, no tribunal ever heard a case. This narrative wobble exposes the true aim: to stoke public curiosity about Meghan Sussex under the guise of royal reporting. As in 2021, the smear campaign lands with perfect timing, coordinated not for truth but for traction.

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