Prince Harry and Meghan Markle have hired the PR guru who helped to re-elect Barack Obama in the modern-day hint the couple might also have political ambitions.
Miranda Barbot, who was once part of the crew behind Obama's re-election in 2012, has been employed with the aid of the Sussexes in the hope to 'transform their image'.
Speaking to the Mirror, an insider said: 'There are colours of the Clintons or even Kennedys. It wouldn't be a massive shock now if Meghan went into politics.'
Ms Barbot was a 19-year-old undergraduate at college when she won a scholarship onto Obama's team.
According to sources, she has now left US public members of the family firm BerlinRosen and joined the Sussexes' firm Archewell.
She used to be also reportedly been spotted amongst Harry and Meghan's team at the Invictus Games in Holland.
Ms Barbot used to be named a 'key figure' in Harry and Meghan's team and described as a 'shrewd operator' by a source.
They delivered that Ms Barbot has 'plenty of experience' to assist them adapt to their lives away from the Royal Family.
On Twitter, Ms Barbot's bio says she is a 'New Yorker and year-round iced coffee drinker.'
It comes days after it emerged that the couple are protected by way of an ex-Obama bodyguard.
Harry and Meghan have faced swathes of controversies that have affected their public image.
This includes ultimate year's interview with Oprah Winfrey in which Meghan claimed an unnamed royal had been racist.
The Sussexes have been accused of 'meddling' in both UK and US politics after stepping back as 'senior royals', notwithstanding in no way declaring their political allegiance. two two
It used to be claimed in October that Meghan had lobbied for paid depart for mother and father by way of using 'tactics of an aspiring politician.'
Using the Sussexes' headed paper, she penned a letter to the Speaker of the US House of Representatives Nancy Pelosi and Majority Leader in the US Senate Chuck Shumer about paid household depart policies.
Meghan additionally phoned Republican senators to motivate them to agree to the plans. In the bloodless calls she brought herself as the Duchess of Sussex.
The Obamas have a long-standing relationship with Harry, having bonded with him over his Invictus Games - for which they starred in a video with the prince and the Queen to help promote it in 2016.
The following 12 months Harry interviewed Barack in Toronto for his guest edit of BBC Radio 4's Today programme, at some stage in which they discussed the dangers of social media and the corrosion of civil discourse.
Meghan also made a factor of attending Michelle's speak at the London Southbank Centre in December 2018, with the two ladies reportedly getting together behind the curtain afterwards for a 'power meeting' to discuss their shared passion for girls' education.
The Sussexes have accompanied a similar trajectory to the Obamas on account that quitting royal life, having signed a multi-million dollar deals with Netflix and Spotify to produce their own documentary sequence and podcasts.
Harry has additionally signed a beneficial four-book deal with Penguin Random House - the equal publishers used by means of Obama for his memoir A Promised Land in November last year. In 2018 Michelle published her existence story, Becoming.
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