Harry had little access to money

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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.

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.

Do you remember the scene in 'The Windsors' where Harry opens a bar which goes out of business in a few days? When Kate examines the bar's accounts she finds to her dismay that Harry had been happily giving the wine and cocktails away for free.

"What?" a puzzled Harry replies, "People pay for drinks?"

I know The Windsors is a comedy but at times it seemed like a documentary, and this is one of them! I think Harry has absolutely no concept of money. Everything major such as his home, his travel, his staff, his security, was paid for by 'them'. Someone else probably picked up the tab for the drinks, drugs, holidays, nights out, and so on, for the 'honour' of getting to be with a prince. He rarely had to pay for anything out of his own pocket, and seems to resent the rare occasions when he did. He is just so utterly lacking in gratitude and it is not an attractive trait.

So how did Harry afford to take Meghan to Botswana then? That wasn't a royal trip, but a holiday for a man who was basically extremely underemployed (hence his dissatisfaction with life). Who paid for him to go to Vegas? How did he buy drugs - he isn't an addict, but even recreationally how did he fund them? What about all the trips to Mahiki and other nightclubs in his youth? Are you telling me that Harry required Meghan to pay for him at Soho house on their first day.

How did he afford to go out to dinner with her? (They were spotted literally thousands of times)

How did he afford to run a car, to go on shooting weekends?

Honestly, OP, this is so tone deaf.

I absolutely do not believe the Sofa.com story. Harry says he is so cut off and unworldly due to his position, has never ordered from Amazon, but used his famous girlfriend's credit card to buy a second hand sofa off eBay? Yeah, right. I bet he collected it in a van and carried it himself.

If Harry had wanted to buy and furnish a house using his trust fund in the same way that Charles bought Highgrove, I cannot imagine that John Major would have said no.

Truth is, he was cheap and unimaginative and now is painting that cheapness as being somehow really controlled.

Awe poor wee Harry!
He only inherited two large sums of money, he had a house paid for and his army salary.

Just like Harry of Privet Dr, lots of money in the bank but treated like to poor sibling

@IcedPurple I am sure that is true about drinks.
But apart from Nottingham Cottage, Harry did pay for a lease on Frogmore and the Cotswolds House.

Did they sign the lease after all the millions were spent renovating it? Interestingly in the book he says the Palace announced that they were paying back the costs of renovation but he was presenting it in a list of things the Palace announced that he says he hadn’t agreed to. Doesn’t say anywhere after that, I don’t think, that he actually paid it. And there is no way tightwad shelling out £2 million plus and isn’t going to let everyone know for sure

I was looking at a sofa on sale in IKEA last week. I think I'll ask my Dad to buy it for me, 'cos I don't feel like paying for it.

In fact, I shouldn't have to buy a discounted sofa, it's not fair. I want an expensive one. 😂

Imagine selling your old sofa on gumtree and Haz and Megs rock up in a hire van to collect it and haggle the price.

Why not? Do you think a member of the royal family is better than any of us?

You very clearly are not British if you think that a member of the royal family is superior to anyone else

So hang on.

They're suddenly rich enough to buy a massive house in one of the most expensive areas in California, yet just a few years previously he was so destitute that he had to, wait for it, shop in TK Maxx and buy sofas from IKEA?

I'd quietly move away from the laptop now if I were you.

Poor Harry 😂😂😂

Only worth tens of millions and living rent-free in Kensignton and getting free pretty much everything. How on EARTH could he have managed to survive?!? 😭

@Sugarfree23 Harry was not bought a house. He had Nottingham Cottage a small 2 bedroom house. Then he paid to lease or buy houses.

Also, as a man of a certain age entitled to a trust fund, he undoubtedly could have asked for that money to be delivered to him, as he did when he left the royal family. Even a very basic understanding of trusts law would help you here OP - a sole beneficiary who is not a minor generally has quite a lot of rights.

Harry worked for the army for 10 years

Now was doing that for free? Or did the army give him money for his labour? And if he was paid, where did it go? Into his bank account or into his daddy's?

Now if Harry was getting his board and lodging and food for free for most of this period, what happened to the money? It would add up quite quickly.

If a grown man can manage 10 years of income and pleads poverty because daddy would buy him a posh new sofa and he's got free board, you have to ask some big bloody questions about 'taking responsibility'.

Every single comment Harry makes about how awful his family are seems come come around to a circular argument about 'why is Harry incapable of taking responsibility for himself and his own actions?'

He's a manchild who needs to grow the fuck up.

This HAS to be Meghan posting right?

@GinaandMartin The Royal Family is not better than anyone else as you suggest I might believe. They are fabulously rich though. Everyone in the family should have enough money so they do not have to walk to and buy clothes in the sales of discount stores. That is what I do and I am anything but rich.

Sorry *daddy wouldnt buy him a posh sofa

And so how did Harry lease a house in the cotswolds if he didn't have access to money. Do you have any idea how much that would have cost per month? It would not have come out of pocket money.

The 'Cotswolds House' was their choice, which is odd for a destitute couple.

All royal houses, other than the ones owned outright, are leased, so that's not unusual. While you rattle a tin outside Tesco's collecting for poor orphan Harry, bear in mind that he's had to pay for almost nothing in his charmed life.

But he DOES NOT have to. He doesn’t even say in the book he had to. He actually says he loved it because he could just grab a load of stuff in fifteen mins and didn’t have to think about it for another six months!!!! He was revelling in getting a load of clothes for 200 quid, which actually I found distasteful. The man is tight. He says he doesn’t give a stuff about clothes and even when Charles bought him a beautiful pair of shoes he wore them until they were falling apart because he couldn’t even be bothered to get someone else to take them to get resoled. Tight and a slob.

@RedToothBrush Maybe you are right Harry was living off his army salary. And that paid for dates with Meghan, food, clothes, etc. So not poor, but poorer than just about anyone he would be mixing with in the aristocracy.

@Eyerollcentral Do you have a link about the shoes? Or evidence at all?

He had a ten year career in the army and had very few financial liabilities in terms of board and lodgings. He had a budget for clothes for engagements.

So either he's a tight fucker trying to pass the blame, he's piss poor at managing his finances and has pissed it all up the wall with his lifestyle choices rather than on furniture or he's just a straight up liar.

All possibilities return to 'grown man fails to take responsibility for his own shit'.

My parents stopped paying for me when I left home at 18. Also I quite like Ikea.

You're not actually suggesting that he 'had to' buy in TK Maxx' are you? That he literally couldn't even stretch to Primark or Zara for Men?

He could rent a home in the Cotswolds and only a few years later buy a mansion in one of the most exclusive areas in California, but he 'had to' shop in TK Maxx?

Is this a wind up and we're all being played?