Like I say, I do wonder if they've been blackballed. This definitely is a 'thing' in Hollywoodland if a celeb becomes so difficult to work with that they essentially become unprofitable. I've posted before about the hidden premium Hollywood and Cali place on celebs being professional and easy to work with. That's because celebs who are difficult, throw tantrums, go back on commitments or are generally off their game, lose money for producers because so much time is spent compensating for their failings - and time really is money.
The cliche of the prima donna starlet is actually a hangover from the old 'studio system' of 'Old Hollywood' - when stars basically signed up with studios and were paid a salary for however many years - diva behaviour was thus less disruptive to the schedule and could be tolerated. These days though, everything is funded and budgeted on a fixed time fixed cost basis, so if the star of your movie has, say, a drug problem and fails to turn up on set 3 days in a row, that pushes you overbudget, and that's a bad, bad thing.
A recent example of a blackballed celeb would be Kanye West - he went from being everywhere to being nowhere because his behaviour had just got too weird and unpredictable.
So yes, I do wonder whether something's going on with either H or M, or both of them, that have led them to be blackballed because they're just too unpredictable to work with, or consistently fail to deliver the goods. This theory would fit with the fact that they can't seem to keep any good staff or advisers, and this is now very apparent as they both, visibly, lack a stylist or a good PR manager. It does almost make me wonder if the money's run out - the stylist is usually the VERY LAST cost to be axed from the books for most celebs.
It's all very strange to me, very weird. Why is Meghan being photographed for such low grade products? Why are she & Harry not using a stylist anymore?
Or it could just be, as I said, that the RF have made it known behind the scenes that US celebs have to choose between being on good terms with the RF or on good terms with H&M. There aren't many savvy celebs or advisers who would hesitate over that choice; it's pretty damn binary.