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If you already binged your way through all six episodes of Netflix’s Harry & Meghan, you’ll hear about some guy named Jason who causes an awful lot of drama in Meghan Markle‘s lawsuit against the Mail on Sunday. Markle sued the UK tabloid for stealing and publishing a private letter written by her for her estranged father. In Episode 6, attorney Jenny Afia explains that just before they were set to go to the Court of Appeals, a “senior member of The Duke of Cambridge’s team came forward to give this witness statement that wasn’t required.” The Duke of Cambridge is, of course, the current Prince of Wales, Prince William. The senior member was Jason Knauf and his witness statement was made to suggest Markle knew her private letter could be leaked. Ergo it was public and the Mail on Sunday was in the clear.
Jason Knauf’s involvement in the case is troubling for Prince Harry and Meghan Markle because there’s no way he would have gone forward with this testimony without the consent of his then-boss (and still colleague) Prince William. Markle delivers her most juicy bit of shade in the whole series about this, putting her hands up and saying, “It’s your brother. I’m not going to say anything about your brother, but it’s so obvious.”
In the end, Knauf’s testimony did not sink Markle’s case. She won her lawsuit against Associated Newspapers Limited, the parent company of the Mail on Sunday, in December 2021. But who exactly is Jason Knauf? How close was he to Meghan Markle? Why would he push himself into the lawsuit? Is there a chance he meant to help? And, uh, has he tried to sink Meghan Markle before?
Here’s everything you need to know about the mysterious Jason Knauf in Harry & Meghan…
Jason Knauf is a Texas-born, Virginia-raised former communications secretary for Meghan Markle, Prince Harry, Prince William, and Kate Middleton. Texas Monthly‘s Emily McCullar reports that he wound up in the royal system after attending college in New Zealand, getting his masters at the London School for Economics, and doing comms for the Royal Treasury. In 2015, he joined the “Royal Household.”
In 2018, Knauf was the Communications Secretary for the “Fab Four.” As The Duke and Duchess of Sussex point out in Harry & Meghan, Prince Harry originally shared a small comms team with his brother (in the hopes they would keep a united front). After Prince William married Kate Middleton, Prince Harry was still working with their team. Meghan Markle was grandfathered in to the arrangement.
Because of Knauf’s position, he had to wrangle PR for four super popular senior members of the royal family. And it seems he didn’t get along with Markle. Knauf was the staffer who submitted the anonymous complaint to HR about Markle’s alleged “bullying” in 2018. As Harry & Meghan shows, this complaint was conveniently leaked ahead of the Oprah Winfrey interview in 2021 and Markle believes the initial complaint was a lie.
There are reports that Knauf briefly left Palace life, but in 2019 he returned and became Prince William’s aide. He left the position in 2021 to serve as Chief Executive Officer of The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge’s Royal Foundation. Now he’s on the board of Prince William’s pet charity project, The Earthshot Prize. You know, that award show for ideas to save the planet that just had a splashy party at Fenway Park? (That weirdly a lot of celebs flew in for, but none of the winners attended to minimize their carbon footprint??) So Jason Knauf has remained super duper close with Prince William to this day.
Knauf is so intertwined with Prince William that his move to offer testimony against Meghan Markle in 2021 seemed to signal to some — like Harry, Meghan, and their friends — that Prince William wanted Meghan to lose her lawsuit.
Harry & Meghan ends with a post-script where representatives for Knauf dispute the allegation:
“These claims are entirely false. Mr. Knauf was asked to provide evidence by both The Duchess of Sussex and Associated Newspapers.
He was advised by counsel that evidence in his possession could be relevant and he then provided this directly to the court, staying neutral in the process.”
We then see this response from Meghan Markle’s attorneys:
“The legal team for Meghan, The Duchess of Sussex, disputes this claim. Mr. Knauf was not asked to provide a witness statement by The Duchess or her team.
Nor do her attorneys believe Mr. Knauf remained ‘neutral’ by submitting a witness statement relied on by Associated Newspapers whilst working for The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge.”
It’s up to you what you believe, but the fact that Jason Knauf continues to be closely aligned with Prince William and has not once, but twice, put himself in a position to cause Meghan Markle grief sort of paints a pretty striking picture.
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