Meghan Markle upsets royals by keeping secret Hollywood agent to negotiate her children’s book

Meghan Markle has a secret management team in the US looking after her future career, and the royals aren’t happy about it.

Duchess Meghan could soon be adding ‘author’ to her growing list of titles.

Amid reports the Duchess of Sussex has sparked concerns at Buckingham Palace by using a Hollywood agent, lawyer and business manager, it has been revealed she is writing a children’s book inspired by her dogs.

The secret US team is believed to have been hired to start negotiations for the book, according to The Sun.

While royal insiders say such matters would normally be handled “exclusively” by Palace staff, Markle is being advised “on the quiet” by agent Nick Collins, business manager Andrew Meyer and lawyer Rick Genow.

Collins works for her former talent agency The Gersh Company, whose clients include Tobey Maguire and Jamie Foxx.

Prince Harry and Meghan Markle during the announcement of their engagement.

An assistant there recently told a company wanting to work with Markle that Collins could contact her or reply on her behalf.

Our Hollywood insider revealed: “He filters the deals and passes them on to Meghan.”

But a senior royal insider said the team’s “role in ongoing projects like her children’s book” is “concerning” the Palace.

Markle, 38, believes the book — which she has already written — will be a sensation with the right launch.

But the source said: “As a full-time member of the Royal Family, it would be the expectation for that type of work to be exclusively handled by Palace staff who balance individual desire over what’s right for the wider institution.”

They went on: “It is clear she (wants) to keep surrounding herself with her Hollywood people. That wasn’t the expectation.”

Prince Harry, Duke of Sussex and Meghan, Duchess of Sussex, pose with their newborn son.

She may spend part of the year in the US in future, it is believed.

It comes days after we revealed she hired a controversial Hollywood crisis-management PR firm.

Buckingham Palace said last night: “Rick, Andrew and Nick have been legal, financial and business advisers to the Duchess for many years during her career in the US and remain friends.”

This article originally appeared on The Sun and was reproduced with permission