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MEGHAN and Harry will control their image with a ruthless PR machine after quitting life as senior royals and striking out on their own.

Drawing on Meghan's experience in the entertainment industry, the Sussexes have already built up an extensive group of savvy PR experts to help with their media relations.

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Last year, Meghan and Harry hired US public relations company Sunshine Sachs whose clients include Jennifer Lopez and Leonardo DiCaprio.

The ruthless PR company, founded by Ken Sunshine, has represented Harvey Weinstein and has uses clever tactics to gloss up its clients' online presence.

The firm worked with Meghan after her controversial editorship of British Vogue last year and she is reportedly relying on them even more following the Sussexes' announcement to step down from royal life.

Former senior advisor to Hillary Clinton's 2016 presidential campaign, Sara Latham, has been hired as the couple's head of communications.

Along with an impressive PR resume in the US, Latham has been helping politicians with their media presence since the 1990s.

Jessica Mulroney - Meghan's best friend living in Toronto - is also a figure the Sussexes can rely on.

The Canadian stylist and wedding planner - who is married to Ben Mulroney, son of former Canadian prime minister Brian Mulroney - is also an effective self-publicist.

Legal papers have claimed that Ms Mulroney was enlisted by Meghan to influence the media's portrayal of her and put pressure on a former business adviser of Meghan's to change statements she's given to the Mail on Sunday.

Meghan has also set about carefully controlling her image while setting up home in Vancouver this week when she visited two women's charities.

The Duchess of Sussex vetted pictures and a tweet posted by charity Justice For Women revealing that she made a surprise visit while starting her new life in Canada.

Zoe Craig-Sparrow, a co-director of Justice For Girls, revealed that photographs of Ms Markle at the charity were taken by one of her team and that they had to get the go-ahead from the royal before they were published.

Kate Gibson, director of the Downtown Eastside Womens Centre, also revealed that she had received a mysterious email from the Duchess assistant, asking to drop in and visit the refuge on 15 January to boost the staffs morale on a surprise visit.

Unusually, neither of the visits were announced on their joint Sussex Royal Instagram account.

After leaving her husband, the Duke of Sussex, in the UK to finalise the complex negotiations over their breakaway from the Royal family, many have seen this as the beginning of the Duchess new relationship with the media.

In the announcement laying out theformalities of Megxit, it was confirmed that the couple wants to live a "happy and peaceful" new life out of the royal limelight.

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The Sussexes outlined their plan to amend their media relations policy on their official website - aiming to "engage with grassroots media organisations and young, up-and-coming journalists."

After launching their Sussex Royal Instagram page last April, the couple aimed to take their media presence into their own hands by directly providing information straight to their followers.

They have cast aside traditional royal reporters.

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