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.

@Crabo and the daily mail / sun etc is all 100% true? hahahah

He's notoriously tight

Yep.

Story from years back was that he expected his then girlfriend to buy her own plane ticket to his mate's wedding.

Exactly. I thought mentioning it rather undercut their “poor us in the tiny hole of a house” story. Presumably they bought cheap furniture because they knew they were only going to be living with it for a few months until their luxury accommodation was selected and refurbished for them. So hard done by….

I note Harry doesn’t my mention whether Meghan was reimbursed for buying the furniture, which I think was very likely.

From yesterday's Popbitch
"We were also pleased to get conformation right from the horse's mouth about Harry's legendary miserliness.
One detail that's been plucked out is how Harry once used Meghan's credit card to buy a discount second-hand sofa. This squares with Chelsy Davy's experience of dating the young prince, as she would complain to friends that she generally had to pick up the tab whenever they went out on dates. This despite her being a dance student at the time, and him being a literal prince – yet Harry rarely even offered to go halves on so much as a cinema ticket."

More fool Chelsy then. Can't bear a miser

I can just imagine the AIBU
I'm over 30, get $400,000 per annum, have an inheritance of over £10million - AIBU to make my wife (who is worth considerably less) pay for a sofa on a credit card? Or should it be my DF that pays for it?

Harry says in Spare that he had to do the deals with Netflix etc to fund his security. He couldn't use his £23m inheritance from his mother because he wanted this to go to Archie and Lilibet. I'd like not to use my £2000 savings to pay my gas bills and instead give them to my dc but hey ho ... He simply doesn't understand the real world the rest of us live in, whatever he may claim

Yes of course but it was KC's when the late Queen was alive. He has now inherited the Queen's private income source of the Duchy of Lancaster. So he had independent means to provide for his sons outwith the public purse.

The Duchy of Cornwall accounts for the relevant years shows you the sum spent on the expenses of both the Sussexes and the Cambridges. Harry later complained when his Dad cut him off financially. Meghan spent literally hundreds of thousands on her wardrobe for her 18 months as a royal, not including her wedding dress.

So yes, they were funded by Charles.

Meghan used her credit card, but who paid the credit card bill?

Bachelor lives the life of a bachelor and has a style like a frat house. He doesn't have nice cushions.

He slobs along because he isn't remotely bothered.

Then he meets a nice guy with aspirations and is embarrassed by his own borish ways and wants to impress her.

Instead of being honest that he was too lazy to trawl through fabric patterns because he was too busy getting high or shagging behind the pub to sort his shit out and do the place up nice, it's easier to blame Dad for being means and tight fisted. It's easier to blame William and Kate for making him wear the Nazi uniform. It's easier to say Camilla set him up over the drugs than admit to funding the criminal underwork that uses trafficking to smuggle drugs and is built on the misery and poverty of others. It's easier to talk about killing the Taliban in a selfless way to release the mental health of others rather than admit you've thoughtlessly endangered the lives of others and are a massive security risk with your big gob and past reckless behaviour because it was fun at the time to talk to bins. It's easier to criticise all your peers from childhood and young adulthood with self examination because if you do that you might have to admit you've grossly misrepresented yourself whilst trying to impress a girl.

I don't think Meghan is to blame btw. I think it's an entitled prick trying to rewrite history cos otherwise his future PR career is total bobbins and his wife might find out he's an utter bellend.

Well, she didn't marry him.

I wondered how much polo ponies cost (given H seems to have had plenty of them - apparently you need two for low level games but at higher levels you need eight), and have disappeared into another world 😁

Anything from £5,000 to £60,000 here www.cscpolo.com/polo-ponies-for-sale

Perhaps he could have sold one to cover the costs of a sofa?

I was thinking about this. It is beyond odd. That and their second hand sofa and ikea stuff.

Meghan was worth 6 million when she met harry, harry worth over 30 million. Why are they making out they are skint.

Harry and in fact most of the royal family don't own credit cards, do not carry cash and have never had to think about paying for anything. It was once noted that they didn't even know how to use one. So although they have access to millions of pounds, such is the gilded life that they have no idea how to pay for anything. Harry had no idea how to manage adult life because he has never had to think about. Aides pay for things, aides book flights, fix the plumbing, bring breakfast.

I should think it has been a very very very steep learning curve for Harry.

No she ran a mile when she realised that H has no control over his finances.

But MM is the 'gold digger'.

Erm....... the person named on the credit card?

I thought she ran a mile when she realised how little privacy and freedom royals got.

I don’t think you can get second hand sofas on sofa.com???

Good decision. Bet she's thrilled to be mentioned in The Book.

However she did go out with him for a long time and he was welcomed into her family so the alleged 'tightness' is even worse however much she was also wealthy

Meghan is not out of pocket, so although I accept she had to fund certain things because Harry doesn't 'pay' for things as such, it is all provided by Charles and BP - it is not about being tight, he has no idea about the concept of 'money' and managing finances and the cost of things.

Meghan has gained multi millions thanks to her marriage, so lets not pretend otherwise. The few million she had from her stint in suits would have been long gone and she would be leading a very average life now without Harry's royal connections.

That's a tax dodge if there ever was one.

Harry had access to his money from at least his 30th Birthday, so that is a red herring. The trustee prior to that was John Major, who was chosen by Diana (specifically to not have a royal but someone she trusted).

It was not Charles who controlled the civil list which pays for the working royals, that was the Queen. Charles was funding him (as is available in public documents).

What is at issue here is what Harry considered sufficient income. I suspect he had plenty of disposable income for normal people but he was moving in circles where they had silly money available so he felt he didn't.

Brilliant summary.

Yes Chelsy realised she couldn't cope with the intrusion, and Harry did not want to her 'free spirit' ruined by the pressure. It was one of the things he loved about her. Had they gone to South Africa together, I think he would have been very very happy.