Charles financially supported the Sussexes until summer 2020

[SnottyLottie]

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Prince Harry revealed in his Oprah interview that the Sussexes stopped receiving money from the royal family in the first quarter of 2020. However, newly published accounts reveal that Prince Charles continued to financially support the Sussexes until summer 2020.

I wonder if this is going to be a case of their truth or incorrect wording on Harry’s behalf. Interesting!

@SallyLockheart

The list I attached has the amounts on it.

Do you give hundreds of thousands?

What a bizarre question. I’m sure if any of us who are inclined to give to charity had that kind of spare money then we would do so. That’s hardly a great achievement if you happen to be minted.

the screen shot is far too tiny for me to be able to read. do you have a link to a full size image?

'Do you give hundreds of thousands?'

It's relative isn't it. If you have raked in a massive fortune by Netflix deals then giving thousands will be peanuts.

Is it their own personal money they give or do they donate money given to their foundation from other donors?

@ChiefInspectorParker

Most ordinary people give to charity and many people also give a lot of time to charity work, volunteering etc.

And I would hardly call those people uncaring or lazy. Why say that about H&M

@clopper

Is it their own personal money they give or do they donate money given to their foundation from other donors?

Their own donations, their foundation does not take money from anyone.

Mummy. I think one of those listed is Hyson Green in Nottingham. That donations was, I believe, made from either revenue from the Grenfell cook book sale or the royal foundation.

It looks fine from my end, I tried to blow it up and do individual screenshots.
Does it not work even if you expand the screen with your two fingers.

Mummy194 Why are they donating thousands of pounds to different causes whilst complaining that they can’t afford their outgoings like security, this is what I don’t understand.

Not sure why we need a list of their donations. Being generous when you have money is obviously kind, but not onerous, and I don’t think anyone actually said that HaM didn’t care so I don’t know what that proves 🤷‍♀️

I read somewhere it works like Charity Water. You donate directly to the charity, they even give you a link.

@clopper

Is it their own personal money they give or do they donate money given to their foundation from other donors?

Interesting question Do the donations come from them directly or from Archewell? If from Archewell then are they not donations received from others, minus H&M’s staff expenses?

@smilesy
previous posts did accuse them of being disingenuous. Someone even took a pop to her personality and her calligraphy.
I already made the point. Lots of people have money and do not donate or volunteer.

@clopper
They are not complaining now. They simply told us what took unfolded in their journey up to this point. The cut off was long before they had any deals.

yes clopper you highlight something that is really rather funny.

So according to Mummy - the amount you give to charity as opposed to percentage of income makes someone "better" - so richer people are "better" than us? Interesting point of view.

Foundations run to funnel money as an income for the people running them. There is no resemblance to what UK perceives as charity - it is seen as self-serving and our country will not ever go down route of US Foundations. People make a good living in UK from various charitable organisations - but nothing (in no way resembles) what is available in US.

I never said anyone was better, get that straight !

their foundation does not take money from anyone

I'm not an expert but I thought the whole idea of a foundation was that it did attract donations. Otherwise, what's the point? You could just give your own money to whatever cause you wanted.

No one can do charity work for years by pretending. I find it hard to believe that people think MM is somehow faking her compassion considering she has been involved with causes long before she met H. Doing projects for the UN, travelling to Africa, India, etc. She really did not need to do all of this

@Mummy194 if you look at what Meghan did for charities, she actually only started in 2013 - so, three years before she met Harry. Before that she had been very focussed on building her acting career. I don’t think she was “faking her compassion”, I think she quite sensibly realised that her run on Suits wasn’t going to last forever, and she’d quite possibly peaked as far as her acting career would go, so she started looking to broaden her CV and expand her brand. She started The Tig at around the same time. I have always thought she was canny to do so - the acting profession is not kind to women in their mid-30s and starting up a lifestyle/activist brand probably was going to serve her much better in the long run.

Anyway, I don’t have a problem with that, any more than I have a problem with gap year students doing charity work to build up their skills (and CVs). But she really hasn’t been a lifelong philanthropist.

their foundation does not take money from anyone

This us the very raisin d’etre of their foundation . We don’t really have this concept in the U.K. but in the US this is a legitimate and tax efficient way for people to make a living whilst raising money for their favoured causes. There are very few which are truly self funding, Gates and Getty come to mind

Or maybe she was at a point where she could afford to ease off concentrating on just her acting work and expand more into other interests that she has.

At some point MM became one of the significant cast members of Suits, which usually gives you more control. It is not unusual to find actors being able to do more projects the longer they are in a show.

We have no idea of how much charity work she was doing before the more prominent UN work. One of the producers from Suits said she was volunteering local at a soup kitchen and asked production to donate any uneaten food from catering to the charity. Indeed, one of the charities produced a picture of MM with the rest of the volunteers in low key casual t-shirts, jeans and cap as a throwback to the time MM was there.

Mummy: you asked a poster "Do you give hundreds of thousands?"

What would anyone imply from that other than you perceive the amount someone gives to charity equals "better"?

You may not have said "it's better" but there is no other interpretation to ask someone "do you give hundreds of thousands". Love to hear what else you possibly could have meant by "do you give hundreds of thousands" as it must be an extremely esoteric point you must be making. Intriguing to hear what you did mean or will it be just a demand that I "get that straight" without any clarification as to what else you could possibly be implying? Just a genuine question of whether someone gave hundreds of thousands of pounds, that would be a weird question.

Surely, if anyone wishes to do a comparison, it should be calculated as a percentage?