Harry had little access to money

[babsanderson]

Harry was given Nottingham Cottage a 2 bedroom cottage presumably rent free. He was given security paid by the taxpayers. He was also given a clothing allowance from Charles to pay for clothes for formal public occasions.

But he obviously had little access to money. He bought his casual clothes cheap from TK Maxx and talks about drying shirts on radiators.

When he told Charles he was going to marry Meghan Charles said he could not afford to pay for Meghan and Harry as he was already paying for William and Catherine. Charles suggested Meghan continued working to pay for Garry and Meghan. Meghan paid for furniture from Ikea and sofa.com to improve the furnishings in Nottingham Cottage.

Charles paid for Harry and Meghan's wedding. Although Meghan paid for her own wedding dress. The taxpayers paid for the security.

Remember Harry and Meghan were working Royals.

The taxpayers paid for the renovation of Frogmore Cottage. A cost that Harry and Meghna paid back when they left the Royal Family.

The Civil List used to give a defined amount to each working Royal. But that was changed and all the money went to the heir to dole out.

The Queen and Charles appear to be remarkably stingy towards their own child and grandchild.

@Eaumyword well remembered, was that not the final nail in the coffin for their relationship. He went a better class than her while she paid her own seat?

The guy is as tight as a ducks arse.

Harry could have got a banger of a place near Scunthorpe for a fraction of the price of living in London if he'd wanted to. Maybe even with a swimming pool

But then, he'd have a longer commute to work and it'd be harder to hang out with the rich and famous and go to the designer shops

He still probably could have hung out at tkmaxx though.

The question is why didn't he do this rather than complain and whinge about his free place at Notts Cottage with it's magic fridge / freezer which were always full ?

If he didn't have money how did they buy the Montecito pad?

@Eyerollcentral what he's saying he doesn't own his own car?

He could is he wanted to Charlie has owned his Aston Martin since about 1964!

@Coxspurplepippin maybe Meghan paid on her credit card 😂

Would Harry inherit a legacy from the Queen or Prince Philip?

Is anyone else absolutely incredulous that the OP and others on here believe that Harry and Meghan lived like paupers and had no money?, it blows my mind how utterly gullible people are.

Hang on, Harry complained he's "not a normal person because he doesn't own his own car"?!

I seem to remember the Queen and Prince Philip owned their own motors. And drove on public roads. That is, until Philip crashed, IIRC. Didn't Diana drive too?

Absolutely no reason why Harry couldn't have had his own car to drive on public roads. Unless he simply wasn't interested in owning one or driving on public roads? 🤷‍♂️

Would Harry inherit a legacy from the Queen or Prince Philip?

We'll never know given royal wills are sealed to prevent the public sticky-beaking at their untold wealth.

I had some sympathy for him until I got to part 3 in his book when he turns into a massive whinger. Its quite weird

I took his stories about drying clothes on radiators and shopping in tk maxx to be more about his lack of interest in and enthusiasm for shopping and looking after himself, depression almost. And even rich people can struggle with their mental health.

But then he does start to complain about not being given enough money and that's just weird. It doesn't really match up with what went before.

He mentions it when he's talking about being called out for complaining about his father "cutting him off". He says that he was forced into this life of not owning a car, not carrying cash, prohibited from learning independence...he goes on to say

"The question of how to pay for a home and security kept Meg and me awake at night. We could always spend some of my inheritance from Mummy, we said, but that felt like a last resort. We saw that monet as belonging to Archie."

He has money and lots of it.

👏precisely

Not saying he doesn't have the money but they have a mortgage on Montecito. Believe it's a tax efficient way to do it over there, even Beyonce apparently has a mortgage

Omid seems to be busy posting on Mumsnet today.

As someone else wrote, to push the idea that Harry was impoverished is obscene. He inherited large amounts of money from his mother and the Queen Mother. He also seems to have been able to afford to buy lots of drugs....

They were offered one. They were offered what is regarded as the best apartment at KP- the one that has been lived in for many years by the Duke and Duchess of Gloucester. It is the largest at 21 rooms over 4 storeys and apparently the most impressive. The Gloucesters were ready to downsize and moved into 'The Old Stables' at KP . Their apartment was offered to the Sussexes and would be fully refurbished for them at a cost of £5+ million as it had not been even rewired since 1939. They turned it down.

It's mind blowing alright

Harry is a nearly 40 year old man who by accident of birth has power privileged and extreme wealth that 99.99% of the world's population could only ever dream of. Yet we have people of this thread comparing them to paupers and being sad because Harry is a tight bugger who doesn't want to pay for his own own clothes and furniture.

Cry me a river.

Think OP needs to look up the word 'stingy'.

What a surprise that the nearly 40 year old man is still whinging about not being fully funded by his family and having to dip into his own pocket. Long pockets, short arms that one.

When they announced that they'd be "stepping down as senior members of the Royal Family", their website said that they would no longer be taking money from the Sovereign Grant, which made up 5% of their income.

They genuinely thought that they could resign the job and retain 95% of their income which came direct from his dad, while going off to make commercial deals.
And that they'd continue to "collaborate with HM the Queen". It's all still there on the Sussex Royal website.

And then Harry whinged to Oprah about having been financially cut off by his dad. Yes, laddie, you quit the job! He's clearly still sore about it if it's all coming out in the book.

Maybe he is stingy and resentful of the difference between his treatment and William's treatment.

It is quite unbelievable that these two multi multi millionaires were whinging their free interim house wasn’t good enough and they had to buy from ikea on meghans credit card.

you couldn’t fucking make it up

They didn't turn it down until a small fortune had been spent on renovation already. It doesn;t make sense for them to have done such a big renovation if there was no plan for anyone to move in to it.

Cheers for the clarification.

Absolutely no sympathy for Harry from me. People only need Google Royals driving cars to know he could have done this himself, so I think it's more likely he wasn't interested in driving himself and liked others ferrying him about.

Quite right he was criticised for moaning about Daddy allegedly cutting him off which isn't quite true either.

The whole "we saw my inheritance from my mum as being Archie’s money" just seems like deflection rather than the truth. He had access to that and money left by the Queen Mother before he even had Archie, IIRC.

🎻 for the overprivileged rich boy born with a silver spoon in his mouth. 🤷‍♂️

"The question of how to pay for a home and security kept Meg and me awake at night. We could always spend some of my inheritance from Mummy, we said, but that felt like a last resort. We saw that monet as belonging to Archie."

The problem with this is he effectively left his job, with no other immediate source of in one bid you or I did they then, unfortunately, we would have to live off said inheritance and not have the luxury of saving it for our children

Talking of which, was none of it earmarked for Lilibet?

Perhaps Harry's family, like many families, uses money as a form of control.

*income. Not in one