Aformer aid of Meghan Markle has shared previously unknown details about the bullying allegations that were levelled against her during her time as a working member of the British Royal Family.

Samantha Cohen was one of the 10 royal staffers to be interviewed in Buckingham Palace’s investigation into the Duchess of Sussex.

She had worked for the royal family since 2001 and became Markle’s private secretary. She held that post in 2021 when the first complaint was made that Markle had created a hostile work environment.

Although she would not elaborate in an interview with the Australian newspaper The Herald Sun, Cohen told the outlet: “I was only supposed to stay for six months but stayed for 18, we couldn’t find a replacement for me and when we did we took them on tour to Africa with Harry and Meghan to show them the ropes but they left (quit) as well while in Africa.”

Elsewhere in Cohen’s interview, she claimed the late Queen Elizabeth II “had no ego” yet “loved it when things went wrong.”

The allegations against Markle came out just days before she and Prince Harry sat down to be interviewed by Oprah Winfrey, where they said that life in the royal family was ‘almost unsurvivable’.

The HR review was privately funded by Queen Elizabeth II and carried out by an independent investigator in March 2021 after two royal staffers alleged they’d been bullied while working for her.

Markle’s legal team denied all of the allegations, calling it a ‘calculated smear campaign’. The investigation came to an end in June 2022 but the findings won’t ever be made public.