Meghan Markle and Prince Harry are returning to familiar territory by reuniting with a publicist they previously worked with.
Page Six can confirm that the couple is once again working with Sunshine Sachs Morgan & Lylis (SSML), a venerated, bicoastal public relations firm that also reps Leonardo DiCaprio and Ben Affleck.
The Sussexes will be working in tandem with their internal team, which includes Liam Maguire, the pair’s director of communications in the UK and Europe.
The royal duo has long held a close relationship with SSML.
The firm repped Markle during her acting years on “Suits” and has partnered with the actress and her beau on projects since 2017.
Keleigh Thomas Morgan, one of the firm’s co-presidents, even attended Markle and Harry’s royal wedding in May 2018.
Markle, 44, and the Invictus Games founder, 41, have struggled to retain publicists since they quit the royal family and decamped to North America in 2020.
Last December, their 11th publicist, Meredith Maines, resigned after the couple’s brouhaha following their appearance at Kris Jenner’s 70th birthday party.
An insider told us that the drama with the Kardashians was the “final straw” for Maines.
Kim Kardashian and Jenner mysteriously deleted photos they had taken with the Sussexes on Instagram.
Markle and Harry were criticized for attending the ostentatious bash, held at Jeff Bezos and Lauren Sánchez’s $175 million Beverly Hills, Calif., mansion, where they mingled with A-listers, including Jay-Z, Beyoncé, Bill Gates, Paris Hilton, Tyler Perry, Ciara, Mark Zuckerberg and many more.
A source told Page Six that the “Spare” author and the actress’s rep asked Jenner and Kardashian, 45, to remove Instagram photos of them at the party.
“They don’t want to piss off the royal family while they are trying to reconcile,” a source said.
The duo has also recently lost other staff members.
Last month, James Holt, the chief of the Sussexes’ charity, Archewell Philanthropies, announced he was stepping down.
Holt’s departure follows that of former Archewell senior staffers Genevieve Roth, Christine Schirmer and Ashley Hansen.
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