Page 21 | Harry had little access to money

babsanderson · 2023-01-13T11:37:08+00:00

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.

Blossomtoes · 13/01/2023 19:23

Eyerollcentral · 13/01/2023 19:22

‘…so-called objective facts…’ could be the mist Trumpian of all post Trump phrases. Guy is a moron.

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Thought that was Gordon.

Showing my age here.

Justbetweenus · 13/01/2023 19:27

Eyerollcentral · 13/01/2023 19:19

He had access to at least part of the capital sum before his wedding (to which he contributed NADA) and the benefit of around a half a million quid a year paid to him for the interest earned on the sum.

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£25m in the 1990s, if invested and earning even 5% per annum, would be worth about £65m 20 years later. Add to that the QM legacy and he might have more like £100m. I think he can afford clothes and furniture.

Eyerollcentral · 13/01/2023 19:31

Justbetweenus · 13/01/2023 19:27

£25m in the 1990s, if invested and earning even 5% per annum, would be worth about £65m 20 years later. Add to that the QM legacy and he might have more like £100m. I think he can afford clothes and furniture.

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Thank you for those figures. These numbers are incredible. Harry is a walt.

RedToothBrush · 13/01/2023 19:42

purpledalmation · 13/01/2023 18:53

He had enough money for drink drugs and cigarettes not to mention a nazi uniform

He had free food. Free housing. Free travel albeit with a work schedule built in. Free cars and travel. Free security. An allowance (true we don't know how much). Did he also have access to his inheritances post marriage?

If Harry had no money and Daddy paid for everything, why haven't we had the story about how Daddy was to blame for the Nazi Uniform incident because Daddy had to approve the expense and Harry had to provide the recipe?

Or did he somehow sponge that off someone else too.

As for having no money, and no access to money are we supposed to believe he went out with his army mates and went 'you know what lads, you'll have to pay for me cos Daddy won't let me have my own card' or did he always just have a crony at the bar who bought him his pint but only his pint because Daddy couldn't possibly pay for a full round for everyone?

Really?

Canthave2manycats · 13/01/2023 19:51

Ylvamoon · 13/01/2023 19:21

I thought Garry is Harry's step son...
🤷🏻‍♀️ anything is possible.

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I think Gary might be the Queen? Wasn't that what Prince William called her when he were a lad? 😛

CathyorClaire · 13/01/2023 21:06

Thought that was Gordon.
Showing my age here.

Gordon was another deemed 'very cheap'

Just sayin'...

EpicChaos · 13/01/2023 22:36

"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."

Why on earth should/would it keep her awake at night? Surely even though s**t for brains harry hadn't a clue about budgeting ' little miss can sew her own clothes ' former renter of property and payer of bills ( presumably ) knew about having to run a house and should have wound her neck in a bit, when they were deciding what property to buy?! Can't afford to keep a 10 bedroom, 16 bathroom house running? buy something a lot smaller instead that you can afford!
Anyone else would have sat down and worked out what they could afford, before they started visiting estate agents but no, not them, that would be too much like using a bit of common sense! :-/

I think it was @miri1985 that made a very good point, about the cost to taxpayers every time he took one of his many, expensive and varied, luxury holidays because we were having to pay not only his security costs but for their plane tickets and hotels too, not to mention the working away from home bonuses, food and drink allowances and everything else!

As for him not having his own car! Shame for the useless article! He could have driven it to France and particularly through the tunnel his mother had her accident in, instead of forcing someone else to drive him, above the speed limit, risking his licence but his life, just to satisfy the whim of someone who doesn't appear to be the full shilling! He had no right to do that!

EsmaCannonball · 13/01/2023 22:43

Goodness, after hearing about Harry's endless foreign jaunts, I had assumed he was rather rich, but now I am worrying that he was being trafficked around the globe by the Albanian mafia. Who knew that polo playing, skiing and wild boar hunting were all actually forms of modern day slavery?

Justbetweenus · 13/01/2023 22:50

Is that a quote from his book Epic? If so, why would they not raise Archie (and Lili) to expect to have careers and earn their own money 🙄

IcedPurple · 13/01/2023 22:54

EpicChaos · 13/01/2023 22:36

"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."

Why on earth should/would it keep her awake at night? Surely even though s**t for brains harry hadn't a clue about budgeting ' little miss can sew her own clothes ' former renter of property and payer of bills ( presumably ) knew about having to run a house and should have wound her neck in a bit, when they were deciding what property to buy?! Can't afford to keep a 10 bedroom, 16 bathroom house running? buy something a lot smaller instead that you can afford!
Anyone else would have sat down and worked out what they could afford, before they started visiting estate agents but no, not them, that would be too much like using a bit of common sense! :-/

I think it was @miri1985 that made a very good point, about the cost to taxpayers every time he took one of his many, expensive and varied, luxury holidays because we were having to pay not only his security costs but for their plane tickets and hotels too, not to mention the working away from home bonuses, food and drink allowances and everything else!

As for him not having his own car! Shame for the useless article! He could have driven it to France and particularly through the tunnel his mother had her accident in, instead of forcing someone else to drive him, above the speed limit, risking his licence but his life, just to satisfy the whim of someone who doesn't appear to be the full shilling! He had no right to do that!

That's what I said to someone above.

You don't have a 'right' to live in a huge house in one of the most expensive areas of California. Especially when you have no job or obvious marketable talents, and supposedly need to spend millions a year on your security. For someone so hard up that according to the OP he 'had to' buy his clothes at TK Maxx, you would think the expression 'cut your coat according to your cloth' would be familiar to poor Harry.

Didn't Charles supposedly as them to provide him with a 'business plan' when they were wanting to 'leave'? I guess they didn't think it necessary because their star power would pay the bills. Along with Charles' money, obviously.

QueenSmartypants · 13/01/2023 23:00

EpicChaos · 13/01/2023 22:36

"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."

Why on earth should/would it keep her awake at night? Surely even though s**t for brains harry hadn't a clue about budgeting ' little miss can sew her own clothes ' former renter of property and payer of bills ( presumably ) knew about having to run a house and should have wound her neck in a bit, when they were deciding what property to buy?! Can't afford to keep a 10 bedroom, 16 bathroom house running? buy something a lot smaller instead that you can afford!
Anyone else would have sat down and worked out what they could afford, before they started visiting estate agents but no, not them, that would be too much like using a bit of common sense! :-/

I think it was @miri1985 that made a very good point, about the cost to taxpayers every time he took one of his many, expensive and varied, luxury holidays because we were having to pay not only his security costs but for their plane tickets and hotels too, not to mention the working away from home bonuses, food and drink allowances and everything else!

As for him not having his own car! Shame for the useless article! He could have driven it to France and particularly through the tunnel his mother had her accident in, instead of forcing someone else to drive him, above the speed limit, risking his licence but his life, just to satisfy the whim of someone who doesn't appear to be the full shilling! He had no right to do that!

I so strongly disagreed with the point about saving his inheritance for Archie. That's now how money works!!!

If you've got the money and need it for something important / essential, the you USE it! You don't keep it buy for some far off distant time in the future!

And THEN winge about how your dad (aka the goverment) denied you access to public funds!! 🤬

QueenSmartypants · 13/01/2023 23:03

I mean, Jesus, what about all those people denied benefits because they have sufficient savings? Do they have the option of saying, oh no we're saving that for Dylan and Marigold as their inheritance and we really deserve benefits you know because we've always paid our taxes?!

NameChangeGin · 13/01/2023 23:06

babsanderson · 13/01/2023 11:57

He should have had enough money to but clothes without personally going to TK Maxx and buying cheap clothes. And to be able to buy nice furniture without Meghan having to pay for it.
This isn't unreasonable.

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Aww bless his cotton socks! His millions in the bank wouldn't be enough for a new sofa. Poor little hard done by Harry!!!

Either you are a troll or having a laugh or u r incredibly gullible/manipulatable!

StatisticallyChallenged · 13/01/2023 23:18

NameChangeGin · 13/01/2023 23:06

🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣!!!!!!!

Aww bless his cotton socks! His millions in the bank wouldn't be enough for a new sofa. Poor little hard done by Harry!!!

Either you are a troll or having a laugh or u r incredibly gullible/manipulatable!

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I know inflation is high but I didn't think sofas were that expensive yet!

EpicChaos · 13/01/2023 23:59

@Justbetweenus Yes, yes it is! :-/

" If so, why would they not raise Archie (and Lili) to expect to have careers and earn their own money "

Sheer entitlement it comes across as! " You give us everything that we want and desire when we want it and we'll just hang on to all our own money, by the way, you owe us an apology for making me buy my own settee! "
His motto seems to be gimme, gimme, gimme! No surprise that he hasn't the capacity to expect his offspring to be any different, imo.

@QueenSmartypants @IcedPurple I absolutely agree with you both.

" I mean, Jesus, what about all those people denied benefits because they have sufficient savings? Do they have the option of saying, oh no we're saving that for Dylan and Marigold as their inheritance and we really deserve benefits you know because we've always paid our taxes?! "

I've known people try it, or at least I've known people post on forums that they were going to try it, complaining that they didn't see why they should have to have savings taken into account, when applying for income support/universal credit because it was earmarked for some other reason.
Ok, let's see how that'll work out for ya when you're charged with benefit fraud!

Eyerollcentral · 14/01/2023 00:03

EpicChaos · 13/01/2023 22:36

"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."

Why on earth should/would it keep her awake at night? Surely even though s**t for brains harry hadn't a clue about budgeting ' little miss can sew her own clothes ' former renter of property and payer of bills ( presumably ) knew about having to run a house and should have wound her neck in a bit, when they were deciding what property to buy?! Can't afford to keep a 10 bedroom, 16 bathroom house running? buy something a lot smaller instead that you can afford!
Anyone else would have sat down and worked out what they could afford, before they started visiting estate agents but no, not them, that would be too much like using a bit of common sense! :-/

I think it was @miri1985 that made a very good point, about the cost to taxpayers every time he took one of his many, expensive and varied, luxury holidays because we were having to pay not only his security costs but for their plane tickets and hotels too, not to mention the working away from home bonuses, food and drink allowances and everything else!

As for him not having his own car! Shame for the useless article! He could have driven it to France and particularly through the tunnel his mother had her accident in, instead of forcing someone else to drive him, above the speed limit, risking his licence but his life, just to satisfy the whim of someone who doesn't appear to be the full shilling! He had no right to do that!

I realise I am now like a surrogate audible reading of the book I’ve referred to it that much, but he actually has a defence of monarchy but in the epilogue where he recites how it only costs the average tax payer the equivalent of a ‘pint a year’ (pint of what and purchased where) to fund the monarchy. And yet they bare still ungrateful bs!!!!

Eyerollcentral · 14/01/2023 00:10

QueenSmartypants · 13/01/2023 23:03

I mean, Jesus, what about all those people denied benefits because they have sufficient savings? Do they have the option of saying, oh no we're saving that for Dylan and Marigold as their inheritance and we really deserve benefits you know because we've always paid our taxes?!

Well, quite. Harry never mentions once in his book about any one poorer than him in the UK. He does tbf at long last acknowledge poorer people when he is in an AIDS orphanage in Lesotho and talks about the children who attended the school - young boys of 8, 9 who herded livestock all day and then walked an hour and a half each way to learn maths and reading. He did have the grace to say he thought how he had squandered his own luxury education. But those less well off than him in the UK were absolutely not even on his radar.

MeinKraft · 14/01/2023 00:24

If he didn't have a RF company credit card I will eat my hat.

EpicChaos · 14/01/2023 00:28

@Eyerollcentral " I realise I am now like a surrogate audible reading of the book I’ve referred to it that much, "

Well that's ok, no harm done there, though it has to be said, that your narration isn't a patch on Matt Berry's, to be honest and indeed, very fair. 😂😂😂

" but he actually has a defence of monarchy but in the epilogue where he recites how it only costs the average tax payer the equivalent of a ‘pint a year’ (pint of what and purchased where) to fund the monarchy. And yet they bare still ungrateful bs!!!! "

Well quite honestly and if it's all the same to him, I'd rather that the portion that's expected to pay for anything to do with him, was just thrown out with the slops, or piddled down the drain.

" But those less well off than him in the UK were absolutely not even on his radar. "

Because we're all just here to pay his way and pick up the bills for his jollies! Selfish pos that he is!

Eyerollcentral · 14/01/2023 00:41

EpicChaos · 14/01/2023 00:28

@Eyerollcentral " I realise I am now like a surrogate audible reading of the book I’ve referred to it that much, "

Well that's ok, no harm done there, though it has to be said, that your narration isn't a patch on Matt Berry's, to be honest and indeed, very fair. 😂😂😂

" but he actually has a defence of monarchy but in the epilogue where he recites how it only costs the average tax payer the equivalent of a ‘pint a year’ (pint of what and purchased where) to fund the monarchy. And yet they bare still ungrateful bs!!!! "

Well quite honestly and if it's all the same to him, I'd rather that the portion that's expected to pay for anything to do with him, was just thrown out with the slops, or piddled down the drain.

" But those less well off than him in the UK were absolutely not even on his radar. "

Because we're all just here to pay his way and pick up the bills for his jollies! Selfish pos that he is!

Lol omfg please let’s crowd fund Matt Berry to do a version Toast style of Spare, I love listening to his audio version of the Toast biography! If Matt’s not in to it could Steve Coogan be persuaded? He is in the Hacked Off crew (q rightly) but is this book is more Partridge than anything he has ever done!

EpicChaos · 14/01/2023 00:53

Eyerollcentral · 14/01/2023 00:41

Lol omfg please let’s crowd fund Matt Berry to do a version Toast style of Spare, I love listening to his audio version of the Toast biography! If Matt’s not in to it could Steve Coogan be persuaded? He is in the Hacked Off crew (q rightly) but is this book is more Partridge than anything he has ever done!

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Oh I haven't heard his Toast narration, I shall have to look that up, many thanks for the heads up @Eyerollcentral , i am much obliged. :-)
I did hear Matts narration of some of the E. Arden part earlier and it killed me 😂how much else he has done, i don't know but if he's done, or is doing it all, i'd even pay to listen to it and that's saying something.

Eyerollcentral · 14/01/2023 00:57

EpicChaos · 14/01/2023 00:53

Oh I haven't heard his Toast narration, I shall have to look that up, many thanks for the heads up @Eyerollcentral , i am much obliged. :-)
I did hear Matts narration of some of the E. Arden part earlier and it killed me 😂how much else he has done, i don't know but if he's done, or is doing it all, i'd even pay to listen to it and that's saying something.

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I’m away here to google Matt’s E Arden narration! Best news of the day!!!

EpicChaos · 14/01/2023 00:59

Eyerollcentral · 14/01/2023 00:57

I’m away here to google Matt’s E Arden narration! Best news of the day!!!

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It's only just over a minute long but worth the listen imo @Eyerollcentral :-) but then, i just think anything with Matt Berry is worth listening to 😁

Patineur · 14/01/2023 07:29

he actually has a defence of monarchy but in the epilogue where he recites how it only costs the average tax payer the equivalent of a ‘pint a year’ (pint of what and purchased where) to fund the monarchy

He's so blind to reality. Does he not realise that there are people going without food in order to feed their children? Does he think they can spare the cost of a pint to keep him in luxury?

clyspa · 14/01/2023 07:36

Reposting link that seeks to explain Harry's money:

www.bbc.com/news/explainers-51047186.amp