Prog on Meghans finances tonight

[LadyJaneGrey18]

Channel 5 at 7.30 there is a programme called Duchess for Sale looking at her business operations.

I know you will always leap to Meghan’s defence ( as is your right ) but it strikes me - and many others - as odd that someone who is supposedly worth millions didn’t own property or a car .
I know many very wealthy people and cannot imagine any of them in that situation.

@IsoldeWagner - thank goodness someone said no to the entitled little spoilt git

😂😂😂👍

@Spectre8 - she's made some money, by Hollywood standards she is extremely low down on the successful scale though, extremely low down, and frankly a crappy Z list actress, people only know who she is because of the RF, bar the odd few watching Suits and having an interested in a non-lead shit actress

Because they don't listen to anyone whatsoever, they think they're right, yet keep getting it wrong - hilarious

Fair point. She has made more money than I will ever make. I now realise the point the commentators were making about that was that she was used to monetising things eg through the Tig.

????
no you were right first time!

Well one poster thinks thats not successful, so someone is saying it

When there are ridiculous comments criricisnf someone it could be anyone cos they dont own a car then I jump in. It just so happens ridiculous comments like this are made about Meghan.

Its only odd to you. Outside of the UK owning homes isn't the status symbol British people seem ro believe it is.

Perhaps she didn't need a car at the time? There are plenty of reasons not to need to own a car or a home.

And we have people always moaning about wealthy people and their carbon footprint or driving polluting cars and here you are criticising someone who doesnt own a car. So is she had one you would crricise about her carbon footprint no doubt and is she doesnt your criticising her for not having one cos she should have one cos she is wealthy.

Wow ao she isnt an a list actress.. actually we tend ro see quite a few a list actresses and actors doing netflix shows now a days.

She is still successful though regardless of how much you try to make it sound like she is nothing. She still had a role in a show for multiple seasons. You don't know what shows she would have appeared in after Suits if she hadn't married Harry or how well know she would have been by now based on what she did next in acting.

Lets face it this whole A list or Z list is just elitism at play. Another way to just make some people feel more superior than others. Lets just stick more labels and people into boxes and judge them.

I was trying to be fair. She has definitely made more money than me but on the other hand, that’s because society pays celebrities more than educators 😊. Oh well there’s always the job satisfaction and the gift cards at the end of term!!

There is success and success @JSMill!
making money isn’t the only means of being successful and certainly isn’t an indication of a happy life.
you as an educator contribute to society something that is essential!
im sure you didn’t succeed by using others then discarding them along the way , I’m sure you didn’t do things against your better judgment to to fulfill your goals.
and when you go to sleep at night , you know that your success was down to you alone .

This ⬆️.
Most of us on here have had to work for ourselves and our families. We've had to out the graft and the hours in. We haven't progressed because we've married a prince and got a royal title. That's not success, that's aristocratic privilege.

Exactly right @IsoldeWagner, and while I’m on the subject!
I’ve never understood how as a society we don’t appreciate the people who educate our children our future, a once respected and essential role is now downplayed and paid less than non essential roles.
did no one learn from lockdown?

Thank you @jeffgoldblum! I would like to have made more money because money obviously brings choices but I am proud of the differences I have made to children’s lives. I was joking about the gift cards. The homemade pictures and cards from children are priceless 🥰.

She has made more money than me, but equally I've never had to sit next to my husband whining that at nearly 40 they've been cut off by his father/FIL. Or been middle aged and declare that we need financial aid whilst we work at being financially independent. It's the two narratives, which one is true, the successful actress with millions in the bank or the upset couple reliant on a billionaire's kindness.

She did have a car. She talked about having to crawl in and out of the boot or something .
If she is concerned about her carbon footprint maybe ditch the private jets ??

@Spectre8 - I don't argue she was successful. Quite prepared to believe she earned $5m. And that's way more than I've ever earned . And the renting the house thing - I think she was just in Toronto for ithe filming so why would she buy? Not when she was living with her boyfriend. What would have happened after Suits - who knows. I think the point the programme was making is that it is because Harry is a Prince and because she married him that they had all these mega-deals. Not because of any innate talent. Those which dealt with the RF did well so , the docuseries & Spare , the likes of Invictus and Polo - well let's say not so much. She got $700,000 advance for The Bench and it flopped - but she got to keep that money. I think the point is that it her marriage which is giving her these opportunities and some of them the pair of them have fluffed.
To a large extent I think calling her B or C list is a handy shorthand people understand. The fact is , whilst making a very very nice living for herself she just wasn't a big Hollywood movie star. But - plenty of people have never got as far as she has in a hard business , so I don't knock her for where she got to but (and let's see what happens with WLM and As Ever) , but outside RF gossip they really haven't made the most of the opportunities they were given

Watched this programme which is a great timeline too. There's been so many chops and changes much of it has been forgotten. The message seems to be she is nothing without the royal title, it has opened doors but Harry has little part in it now other than providing the title.

Who really cares? H&M are no longer tax payer funded

I care all the time Harold persists in rooting in the public trough to stage his increasingly discredited games (where did that £26m bid go?) and his vexatious litigations.

I would say 'Spare' has been easily the biggest earner for them over the past few years, but that's not something that can really be repeated.

Agree this was probably the most lucrative (and string free) of the three big deals they made but the original deal was reputedly for four books, three of which haven't materialised.

I think Harold cleaned up (did that promised lump sum ever show up in the Sentebale accounts?) but the publishers allegedly took a hit.

Any sequel would be published by a smaller house, subject to far more clauses and line Harold's pockets much more 'Sparingly' IMO.

He went nuclear with Spare. I don't know what else there is for him to say, really.

He's on record as saying he has enough for a second book.

Personally I believe such a tome would always have been part of the original deal.

Yes, I'm sure he could rustle up some more stories and anecdotes if it filled the coffers.

I wonder who he'd try and throw under the bus this time ... family or friends?