Kate Middleton's private secretary quits her post after two years working for the future queen
Win a New iPhone 11 PRO: http://bit.ly/33PIJPQ. Kate Middleton's private secretary quits her post after two years working for the future queen. The Duchess of Cambridge is set to lose her ‘gatekeeper’ after just two years – but the pair are said to be parting on the ‘best of terms’.
Royal right-hand woman Catherine Quinn has worked as Kate’s private secretary since October 2017, a role that is similar to a chief of staff.
She is responsible for everything from organising Kate’s diary and meetings to accompanying her on engagements.
But she has also been instrumental in helping the future queen develop her ‘early years’ project, working with organisations to better support children in order to avoid issues such as addiction, social exclusion and crime in later life.
The high-flying Oxford-educated mother-of-one’s appointment was seen as sign of the duchess’s determination to ‘beef up’ her office and public profile as a working royal and future Princess of Wales.
Miss Quinn had been working a chief operating officer at the University of Oxford's Saïd Business School, and previously worked as head of grant-giving at global charitable healthcare foundation the Wellcome Trust.
She also had positions on the boards of The Charity Commission for England and Wales, The Met Office, The Royal British Legion and The National Memorial Arboretum.
Her six-figure salary was met by Prince Charles, through his private income from the Duchy of Cornwall.
But now Lancashire-born Miss Quinn has decided to quit the role in search of new challenges. She will be leaving just after Christmas.
Her decision to go after just two years is unusual. The job is considered a plum one and private secretaries can often stay in the role for a decade or more.
But sources insist the parting is amicable and Miss Quinn simply wants to take a step back from what is a demanding, full-time job and return to her charitable roots, working
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