Meghan's credit card

[notanotheroneagain]

Are we all going to sidestep the fact that 'gold digger' Meghan was paying for everything.
'we don't have money for her'

She was paying for heaters, lights and sofas. You name it.
All the while we are being fed that she is a 'gold digger' who has come into a privileged family.

'Family she never had' was scripted by the palace.

Do keep up.

Literally laughed at that.
The Poverty narrative is a load of old bollocks.
Harry like many wealthy people just do like spending.
Also, lots of Aristocratic people have quite modest homes.
beautiful homes, but fairly tatty
” Country house condition “ as Auctioneers love to term it.

Edit : Modestly furnished .

I think this is what everyone is avoiding thought.

• I don't think H did have access to his money. I thing that is why Charles avoided his calls. I think everyone is obliged to stay because of this.
• Presumably, Charles was being financially abusive. Using money to keep them with the family. That goes for all royals.

Aargh Edit again
Aristocratic people “Don’t “like spending .
fat fingers.

Has he got the full set of Natwest pig money boxes on his windowsill next to his IKEA bed?

They are worth a bit now. Could flog em on eBay and be able to buy a reasonably good sofa.

Today's news was that apparently Air New Zealand (the company says) do not fly from Mexico nor have a first class service anywhere so they are bit fed up that Harry in his book said that Meghan had paid herself for a first class flight from Air NZ to the royal wedding for her father. Why don't the couple have books etc fact checked? It would mean errors could be corrected before they got out and fewer people would think they made things up?

I know! She stopped working to be with him and then she wasn’t even paid for some of the official engagements and she had to pay for basic stuff. I’m sorry - but a heater is something really basic and Harry should have provided this.

I don’t begrudge anything she’s done to earn money.

Kate paid for her own wedding dress. Your point is?

I understand that Harry is notoriously miserly. Apparently Chelsy Davy regularly had to pay the whole tab when she and Harry went out together.

They were provided money! Why else would Harry complain his father had cut him off once he moved to US?

It wasn';t unfurnished - it just wasn;t to their liking.

Meghan came into the relationship with apparently circa £5m to her name. She was given a free house by her in laws in one of the most desirable neighbourhoods in London. Any self respecting feminist would be prepared to pay her bit to the tune of, what, a couple of grand at most out of a huge fortune, as a contribution to the couple's new home.

Harry received £10m at age 30 (2014, before he met Meghan) from Diana's estate. At some point, he received the bulk of the Queen Mother's £14m estate (it was not shared equally with William, he received the majority).

Harry confirmed in the Oprah interview that he has his mum's money. There's no suggestion it is or was withheld from him.

If Nott Cott was in a state, it was Harry who had been living there and put it in a state. I believe interior designer Kelly Hoppen had refurbished it for the previous occupants, Kate and William, so it can't have been that bad, even if it was not to the taste of subsequent occupants. Harry had the means to make it presentable before Meghan moved in.

I don't know who paid for Meghan's wedding dress. There are conflicting reports. However, Kate's parents paid for hers, so perhaps the outfits of those marrying in don't come out of the royal purse as a rule. I don't see what the problem is with a wealthy feminist paying for her own wedding dress.

Author of Harry, Life, Loss and Love, Katie Nicholl, said: “My sources tell me that Meghan wants to make a contribution to the wedding. She’s a feminist and a wealthy and independent woman and the fact is that pretty much all of the wedding cost are being picked up by the royal family.”

It's William's now.

Harry said that when he was on radio 4, also said what a wonderful Christmas they'd had with his family, staying with William and Kate and running round with the kids. Now it is all William and Kate were off with her, they had no money etc. Was he lying then or now?

It was in December 2017 and unless the BBC had an impostor doing the show this was from his own mouth. I vaguely remembered it so googled it and several paper, British and foreign, report on it.

Oh that was the ghost writer getting the facts wrong. Again. Not Harry spouting utter bullshit. Get with the correct 'woe is me' narrative.

Are we into implying financial abuse in the same way we were into implying racism with Oprah?

You know that level of plausible deniability enough to get past the slim anxieties of the lawyers.

And he would have had access to that money, even if in a trust fund

He has oodles of money - reportedly around £10million from Diana, the bulk of £14-20 million ( some went to William) from the Queen mother (she left Harry the bulk as she knew he would have less money than William once William was Prince of Wales), Charles covered all Harry's costs for public duties and private expenses, working Royals get their accomodation and bills for free, he also got money from the Sovereign Grant as a working Royal ( Edward gets around 400k a year from the SG). Charles paid for the wedding and clothes etc but the taxpayer picked up the reported security and other costs of £30million. It was widely reported that Charles gave Harkle a "substantial sum" to help with their transition to financial independence when they left the Firm. He has also likely inherited dosh from the Queen and Prince Philip recently.

The Duke and Duchess of Gloucester were asked to leave their KP apartment, next door to W&K ( and which was the same size - 20 palatial rooms) and renovations had started so that it could have a total eye wateringly expensive refurb like W&K got, courtesy of us plebs. So he was getting a similar property to W&K.

I think he couldn't access some of the bequeathed money until he was 30 but he is well past that now. What did he do with it all if he now has a "huge mortgage" and no dosh?

@Cuppasoupmonster I think you might want to read the Stately Homes thread, and the numerous threads in AIBU where people have had to go NC with toxic family members, before you judge her. And praising her dad for simply doing his job as a dad is quite pitiful.

Didn't the taxpayer pay £millions for the refurbishment of froggmore cottage? Money they are paying back of course, but this wouldn't have been the case if they had remained working royals. I think Charles paid for the engagement dress? Not clear on this but she paid for the wedding dress. Their clothes were paid by Charles once they were married as they were working.

then she wasn’t even paid for some of the official engagements
Of course she wasn’t! What a ridiculous thing to say. None of the royal family receive a fee for each engagement. That’s why we have the civil list. And Charles funded W&H.
IMO, none of this Nott Cott stuff is reflecting badly on Meghan. Her money. Her credit card. Who are we to say what she should and shouldn’t do with her money.
This is on Harry. He’d been living- rent-free - in that house for years. And K&W before that - with a baby. If it was that bad, why didn’t he do something beforehand? He not only had money, he had access to the kind of assistance ordinary people can only dream of.

You were told this by the DailyMail or did Charles tell you he paid for it?

Proof?

Doesn't Harry get a military pension, or some payment as an ex officer?

Although am sure that the RF are really controlling about money.

Frankly if people are believing the tosh that he’s written in Spare then you are very gullible indeed. It is complete BS born of fantasy.

Frankly if people are believing the tosh that he’s written in Spare then you are very gullible indeed. It is complete BS born of fantasy.