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.

Also illustrating right there, how the rich stay rich - through inherited wealth! Showing his blue blood traits indeed

Yet we are supposed to feel sorry Harry because Daddy didn’t give him enough to spend on clothes after he did all that work playing polo

But he was offered better - he was offered the same as William, basically

When they married (or soon after, taking in to consideration that W&K had been together longer and had lived together so were a bit more settled whereas M was just moving from Canada), both couples had:

1. Nott Cott
2. A rental outside of London (W&K had Anglesey, H&M had a place in the Cotswolds)

They both were offered a big Kensington Palace apartment - W&K got apartment 1A, H&M were offered the Gloucesters equally huge quarters, with the Gloucesters moving out and renovations starting before they even married.

They were both given a country place on a royal estate (Anmer for W&K, Frogmore for H&M)

H&M decided not to live in KP - probably because they wanted distance.

W&K didn't move in to KP until late 2013, after George was born and about 2.5 years after their wedding. I think Anmer was 2014.

By 2.5 years after their wedding H&M had already left the country.

Exactly! Just ring them up and say your granny used to give you pocket money until age 12 when that stopped and she died. You have managed to hold on to all that in the bank, but you’re not really feeling paying them for your services because someone else usually pays for everything for you so you aren’t really sure why they are even asking you to pay. I’m sure they’ll be only too happy to oblige you.

Ah, the spare, short on dough. Long on Doh!

@babsanderson You seem to be suggesting that he wouldn't have a choice whether to keep or donate his Services salary. He wasn't a child when he earned it, he could keep it if he wished to. Same as his inherited wealth.

Adults have control over their own money!

The bloody cheek of saying he’s saving his money for his children . By all means do that but don’t then plead poverty!

He’s a great candidate for Rich House Poor House or even Rich Kids Go Skint because he behaves like some disgruntled teenager who has blown his allowance and thinks his parents are “so meeeeeaaaan”.

You're talking about someone who inherited in the region of 7 million pounds from his mother alone. He got millions from his great grandmother, and presumably his grandmother's legacy will be millions more. FFS.

😂

Wasn't he already living in Not cottage before he met Meghan? So did he live with no furniture before she moved in and bought some? Or did she not like the furniture on offer and wanted to buy it all new. Maybe Charles wasn't up for financing furniture for the home.

Aside from his inheritances, the man had a job in the army till 2015. No reason he couldn't buy a couch.

While he was in the Army, he would have been paid a salary that - err - quite a lot of people somehow manage to live on, without the free house etc etc etc.

That also would have been invested for him. 7 mil 25 years ago will be worth a lot more today. I’m sure I read that they think this would have increased to around 20 mil (Inc queen mothers )

20 mil and the OP wants us to feel sorry for the posh toff

And why wouldn't it have been? It's like resigning from a job and then expecting still to be paid - it doesn't happen. Although i had a Saturday job in 1990 in Marks and Sparks whilst at sixth form so i may phone them and get my 32 years backpay.

I’m sure the 200 million he’s just got will help.

though my mum reckons he won’t be able to afford security with that! Shocker:…

Gonna go out on a limb here, it is speculation of course but there is zero chance harry has given 1 penny of his wages to any charity and not done a three part series on it. He would absolutely have mentioned it by now.
The man isn’t scraping by on two grand a month spending money fgs - and that’s what it is to him, spending money. That’s more than most people in the uk live on in a month. He was probably getting at least that handed to him a week as his pocket money.
In the book as well he keeps just rocking up to people’s homes and expecting them to put him up and entertain him as well. He thinks he doesn’t have to pay for anything.

There are posters up everywhere just now saying “if they control the purse strings they control you’ highlighting the tactics of covert abusers. I don’t think he had much access to personal money from what he says.

Harry and Meghan lived in Nottingham Cottage from 2017 till 2019
In 2019 they signed a lease for the Cotswolds House while they were waiting for renovations to be carried out to Frogmore House. They signed a lease on Frogmore in 2019.

🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 dying here

But K&W were given Nott Cott and rented themselves in Anglesey, reportedly £750 per month. They redecorated Nott Cott while they were there.

Harry just had Nott Cott and presumably kept it like a frat house... but I am wondering why he couldn't just have decorated Nott Cott to his taste or rented out a bigger house....He definitely had the money to do this.

Then K&W were given a KP apartment on marriage and Anmer. But they didn't get either (due to renovations) until after George was born.

H&M were to get the Gloucester's (huge) old apartment on marriage, but then declined and switched to frogmore for some reason. No doubt they would have had been given access to a country house - probably frogmore - once their family grew.

😂

Me too.

What actual planet are you on OP?
Is it the planet Wind Up?

In the words of John McEnroe - 'You cannot be serious'

And I really don't think you will convince anyone that Harry is poor in any way, shape or form.

@ferneytorro My comment was in response to a post suggesting the money came from the Queen and/or Charles for the house, which it clearly did not.

@jays It would be illegal to prevent a man in his 30's with capacity from accessing his inherited wealth. Same with his Services salary. There's no way he wouldn't have mentioned that in the book if the RF had done this, it would be a huge scandal.

He had access to sums of money that most people can only dream of; he just didn't want to spend it on furniture.

Ha ha ha ha ha ha. Okkkkkkkk. So how do you think it worked? He had to ask for every fiver? Says absolutely nothing about having no access to personal money in his book and he has whinged about every single other thing in his life. It would have been front page news fgs. Why do you think he didn’t have access to money???

@MrsDoyle351 Harry has never been poor. He has never had to worry about having enough to eat or not having a roof over his head. But he does appear within the Royal Family to have been relatively poor.
The Royal Family are fabulously rich. A member of that family should not have to walk down to TK Maxx to buy discount clothing.