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"Attempt to secure Carrie Johnson role at Prince William’s Earthshot charity ‘rejected’
Simon Case suggested the charity job but was told it would be inappropriate for the PM’s then-fiancée to ‘work closely with the royals’
An attempt to secure Carrie Johnson a role with the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge’s charity was rejected amid concerns it would be inappropriate for the Prime Minister’s fiancée to work with the royals, The Telegraph can reveal.
Simon Case, the Cabinet Secretary, approached the Royal Foundation that manages Prince William’s charity work after the birth of the couple’s first child, Wilfred, in April 2020.
The Telegraph understands that Boris Johnson asked his officials to look for a charitable job for his then-fiancée after his original suggestion of giving her a plum Government special adviser role was rejected by officials.
One aide suggested that Mrs Johnson instead worked in communications for the Duke and Duchess’s Earthshot Prize, which gives an annual award of £1 million for environmental work.
But after Simon Case approached the Foundation, he was given a “quiet rebuke” and the idea was “kicked into the long grass” after staff said it would be inappropriate for Mrs Johnson to work there because she was engaged to the Prime Minister.
Officials are understood to have said that Mrs Johnson’s relationship would risk undermining the political neutrality of the royals’ work, while the role may also have required her to speak to journalists."
