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letsdothis3 ago

Let's break down this Town&Country article on Sara Latham: Sara Latham, Meghan Markle and Prince Harry's New PR Manager, Worked for Hillary Clinton's Campaign

According to her biography on the Milken Institute's website, Latham "led the political strategy and execution for the 'super surrogates,' (Obama, Biden, President Clinton) and ran the campaign’s covert running-mate selection process, announcement and general election plan." Latham is also often referred to as the chief of staff for John Podesta, Clinton's campaign chairman. Latham even played a pivotal role in Podesta's infamous email leak during the 2016 presidential campaign. It was Latham who forwarded the phishing scam onto the IT employee asking if it was legitimate.

Is that so? I find that very interesting...

She was in President Obama's orbit as well. USA Today reported that Latham had "helped [John] Podesta sneak President Obama’s cabinet prospects in for secret interviews."

Uh huh...

Her stint at Freuds was a homecoming for Latham, who had been a director at UK PR firm from 2003 and 2005, and per PR Week, she returned last year to lead the company's "change agenda."

Yes, we're aware of that agenda.

In another T&C article about the "communications staff": https://www.townandcountrymag.com/society/tradition/a26826699/prince-harry-meghan-markle-royal-household-split-buckingham-palace/

Jason Knauf, who was formerly Communications Secretary to both couples, has been promoted to Senior Adviser to the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge.

Who is Jason Knauf?

An American at the Palace: Duke and Duchess of Cambridge hire RBS spin doctor Jason Knauf - https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/kate-middleton/11245163/An-American-at-the-Palace-Duke-and-Duchess-of-Cambridge-hire-RBS-spin-doctor-Jason-Knauf.html

The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge and Prince Harry have poached the Royal Bank of Scotland's public relations chief to be their new Communications Secretary, Kensington Palace has announced.

Jason Knauf, an American who has also worked as an adviser to the former New Zealand prime minister Helen Clark, will begin his new job in the New Year.

He replaces Ed Perkins, who left the Royal Household earlier this year for a job with a public relations consultancy. Mr Knauf, 30, whose experience of crisis management includes trying to diffuse the row over a £963,000 share bonus paid to RBS chief executive Stephen Hester in 2012, will be in his new job in time to manage the media arrangements outside St Mary's Hospital in Paddington when the Duchess of Cambridge has her second child, due in April.

Mr Knauf, 30, whose experience of crisis management includes trying to diffuse the row over a £963,000 share bonus paid to RBS chief executive Stephen Hester in 2012, will be in his new job in time to manage the media arrangements outside St Mary's Hospital in Paddington when the Duchess of Cambridge has her second child, due in April.

He was appointed as RBS director of corporate affairs in May, having previously been the bank's head of media relations. Before that he worked as a press officer at HM Treasury, as a speechwriter to New Zealand's deputy prime minister Michael Cullen, having started his career in 2004 as a media advisor to Steve Maharey, New Zealand's then minister for social development.

Mr Knauf (who pronounces the 'K' in his name) took a degree in political science and international relations at the Victoria University of Wellington in New Zealand and later completed a masters degree in politics and communication at the London School of Economics.

The Duke and Duchess and Prince Harry have a track record of appointing people in their 30s to key positions in their household. Others include Nick Loughran, their deputy communications secretary, and private secretaries Miguel Head, Edward Lane-Fox and Rebecca Deacon.

Hmm..New Zealand prime ministers you say?

letsdothis3 ago

@carmencita @think- see parent