The report's findings will not be made public, a senior palace aide said on Wednesday.
An examination into how bullying allegations made in opposition to Meghan Markle with the aid of palace staffers have been treated has been completed. The Duchess of Sussex has strongly refuted the allegations.
The report's findings will not be made public, but hints have been included into the insurance policies and approaches at the palace, a senior palace aide said on Wednesday.
All staffers and members of the royal household "will be conscious of what the policies and techniques are," a royal supply said.
New implementations include encouraging personnel to be whistleblowers if they have complaints about "inappropriate" practices or actions, while a "concern at work" policy sets out how staffers have the capability to specific a challenge or "blow the whistle" on others inside the royal household.
"It is not limiting in any way whatsoever — there is a method for how you would raise a concern," the source said, including that there are additionally possibilities to raise problems via unbiased counselors "if it truly is appropriate."
The review, which was set up via Buckingham Palace in March 2021, got here in the wake of a report in The Times in the U.K. that claimed that the Duchess of Sussex confronted a bullying criticism made through one of her shut advisers all through her time as a working royal at Kensington Palace — some thing she strongly refuted.
The complaint, which The Times reviews used to be made in October 2018 by the Duke and Duchess of Sussex's former communications secretary Jason Knauf, claimed that Meghan drove two non-public assistants out of the household and undermined the self assurance of a 0.33 staff member.
Immediately following the record in The Times, a spokesperson for Meghan stated in a statement: "The Duchess is saddened via this state-of-the-art attack on her character, especially as anyone who has been the target of bullying herself and is deeply committed to assisting those who have experienced ache and trauma. She is decided to proceed her work constructing compassion round the world and will hold striving to set an example for doing what is proper and doing what is good."
A day later, the palace announced there would be an examination into the claims.
"We are simply very worried about allegations in The Times following claims made by using former body of workers of The Duke and Duchess of Sussex," the palace said. "Accordingly, our HR group will seem into the instances outlined in the article. Members of staff involved at the time, consisting of those who have left the Household, will be invited to take part to see if lessons can be learned."
On Wednesday, a senior palace aide, Sir Michael Stevens, Keeper of the Privy Purse (a.k.a. the Queen's accountant), said that the review, which was once funded privately, was once complete.
"This work was once undertaken privately and had no [taxpayers'] Sovereign Grant cash spent on it," Stevens said in the course of an annual briefing about the royal budget at Buckingham Palace. "I can confirm, though, that this was a review of the coping with of the allegations aimed at enabling the royal households to think about attainable improvements to HR policies and procedures."
"The overview has been executed and recommendations on our insurance policies and tactics have been taken forward however we will now not be commenting further," he added.
It is idea that team of workers and former workforce took phase in the review, which was once carried out by way of an impartial regulation firm.
"The assessment included a vast range of individuals," a royal supply said.
In November, Meghan's lawyer, Jenny Afia, addressed the bullying allegations in the BBC's The Princes and the Press documentary.
"This narrative that no one may want to work for the Duchess of Sussex, that she used to be too hard or disturbing a boss, and that all and sundry had to leave, is just no longer true," she said.
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