PR Disasters Part X

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For all Meg and Harry PR shenanigans

He was very chatty with the kids when feeding the chickens too and they were excited to see him. Despite Harry trying to paint him as a bad father, I do think Charles has a much more natural and easy way with children than Harry’s wife has ever shown us. I am remembering a toddler Louis clambering into his lap at an event and Charles not missing a beat. I think Harry would have responded similarly to that child because he is also good with kids from what I have seen. Which makes me think he had a rather better relationship with his father than he claims.

He seems like a lovely grandad and that is invaluable for children. A&L will never experience this.

I don't think harry great with kids. Any event pre Megsit was orchestrated and curated by the men in grey suits.

I agree, a lot of his interaction with kids is either making faces at them or what appears to be low level teasing.

I don’t think the men in grey can manipulate how a child in a crowd reacts to someone.

I think he still has a lot of money @Puzzledandpissedoffand the promise of more to come. Although money passes from monarch to monarch, I find it hard to believe there was nothing at all for him from the Queen, even if it’s locked up (please God) for the benefit of his children. The same will be true when Charles leaves us, hopefully not for a long time yet.

If the late Queen followed the pattern I expect she organised trust funds for her grandchildren. That's what seems to happen.

Best ignore goady attempts to derail!

And didn’t Megain promise them something, a washing machine or similar … can’t recall.. but it never materialised

That would seem likely. Which suggests Harry has a trust fund to keep the wolf from the door and Meghan in his life.

Harry will always have extreme wealth. As will his children as they'll have KC inheritance. They'll probably live off that and lead a rudderless life like PH 🙄🙄

Also, doesn't KC have step grand children ? Harry and Meg will no doubt unleash hell if they are considered

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I think the Late Queen organised trust funds for her grandchildren who are NOT in the direct line. William and Harry had money from Diana’s estate (we know about this) and we think Harry had money from trust funds set up by The Queen Mother.
This is based on the fact he was the second son (as was her late husband) and Charles was her favourite grandchild, and there has been stuff in books/the press but nothing 100%. William would likely not have been left anything much by the Queen Mother as he was always going to be Prince of Wales and inherit the Duchy of Cornwall. We don’t know for certain what was in The Queen Mothers will as all monarchs wills are closed. Diana was not a monarch so we have access to her will.
I don’t think QEII ‘left’ anything much to her children - that would have been subject to IHT (only monarch to monarch is IHT exempt) but they have all been very well provided for in the terms of homes and trust funds.
If AMW had been left £20million the decorators would have been in Royal Lodge before the late Queens coffin arrived in London.
I would assume the King gives his siblings , the Gloucesters and the Kent cousins money too annually to pay for clothes, travel etc. I don’t think Anne has spent on clothes in the whole of her working life what Meghan spent in the 18 months she ‘worked’.
If we go on the assumption that Harry was worth £30 million when he left his duties in March 2020 then they could have lived a very nice, secure life if they had remained in the uk. He would have had security necessary for his threat level provided by the MET.
So, he would not have had to spend £3million PA on security. It’s this that’s strangling him financially. We know that Charles spent around £5million on the costs/households of William, Catherine & Harry & Meghan. That’s in the accounts for the DoC. So assuming W&C had a bigger slice of the cake their total running costs including staff, clothes, travel etc were £3 million PA which is what Harry spends on security alone.
As a PP said, if the monarchy vanished tomorrow W&C would be quite happy with £30 million and their family. The reason is is that they are not in this game for praise, profile, and being ‘famous’.
Meghan doesn’t want to be just wealthy. She wants what Lauren Bezos has -unfortunately she is now too old to catch a richer man. Plus she’s horribly tainted. No man with brains and wealth would touch her as her baggage she brings is enough to sink the titanic.
Plus she would bore anyone with a brain to death.

You could tell Louis was well used to being on Grandpas knee. It was a lovely moment.

Yes he does and the Queen has said he reads the children stories and can do all the voices from the Harry Potter books.

I don’t suppose Harry and Meghan will ever have access to The King & Queens wills.

I'm a retired editor, I couldn't resist providing a professional opinion (and feedback to the poster that there was nowt wrong with her command of English) 🙂

I mean Harry inherited an estimated £15 million from Diana (if he kept the principle intact between 1997 and 2020), there was a tranche of £8 million from the Queen Mother's trust in 2024 and I believe there was an earlier payment when he was 21 (if he didn't spend it), and it was reported that Charles gave him £4 or 5 million to help them set up in the US. Plus whatever savings Meghan had.

So they had lots of money to live a very comfortable life - however they live a very expensive life as they wanted the billionaire lifestyle from the start ... the 9 bedroom/16 bathroom mansion, security team, motorcades, office staff and domestic staff etc which was previously covered by the royal family.

I can’t remember where it was quoted -might have been Tom Bowers first book which is at my mums so I can’t check- but I’m pretty sure they didn’t buy their house outright- it has at least one mortgage on it, plus they didn’t do what every other LA/Hollywood/Wealthy person does and that’s re model. I’m not sure if Adele has moved into Sylvester Stallones house yet that she bought 3 yrs ago due to massive works.
Harry is typical English Upper class -won’t mind old stuff, saggy sofas, slightly frayed textiles which is common in the ‘old money’ set. Meghan however……..well I doubt she would go for that.
Harry was happy enough living in Nottingham Cottage - he didn’t NEED loads of room and he knew he would get ‘nice pads’ when he married and his father moved up the order, I’m pretty sure his Dad would have liked him to be in Clarence House and either Highgrove or Royal Lodge. I’m also sure he would have been happy in Apartment 1 at KP too until Meghan told him how horrible his brother and sister in law were and there’s no way she was living next door to them.

Prince Harry's Net Worth (2026), Inheritance, Netflix Deal - Parade

Don't know accurate this is, but most sources seem to say he's currently worth $60 million. Not sure if this includes her money too, but wasn't she supposed to be a multimillionaire though when they met? (Although she then had to buy a second-hand sofa on credit, so not sure how that works... maybe it was an extremely valuable sofa.)

Also, I'm sure I read Charles was intending Highgrove for Harry. Though can't really imagine Meghan there! I can't see Charles ever giving up Clarence House, so Harry would have had to play nice with William at least until after Charles died if he wanted it.

Highgrove is owned by the Duchy of Cornwall, and Charles rents it from the Duchy.

Yes they took a mortgage .
https://www.forbes.com/sites/megangorman/2020/08/14/what-prince-harry-and-meghan-markles-home-purchase-shows-us-about-financial-planning-for-the-wealthy/

It’s possible Highgrove will be earmarked for George, but I think it probably has unhappy memories for William. It wouldn’t surprise me if it will be wrapped up into some sort of gardening educational charity to leave an ongoing legacy of his garden / Highgrove commercial etc. when Charles passes.
I doubt it was ever on the cards for Harry though he probably would have been bought a nice Cotswold mansion. He doesn’t seem to have shown any interest in country matters, be it farming/gardening/racehorses apart from thrashing the hell out of a polo pony and getting stuck into the champagne afterwards.
Indeed, this is one of his problems - he seems to have a shortage of interests. He used to like his drunken fun times (see CGString texts) before marriage but even Sentabale and Africa which he claims to be so attached to were all a bit of a trial when he had to do a fundraising dinner or whatever.

I doubt he would have been happy with a Cotswold mansion and farm.

Who would watch marriage vow renewal?? Especially these two who are unbelievably dull

Quite.

I CBA with the first time round when all the royal bells and whistles were wheeled out in what I now suspect was an attempt to shore up Harold's fragile ego.

Hard to imagine anyone being interested in a repeat version staged in some let by the day anonymous mansion with the pair no doubt insisting on strict editorial control and vetoing any remotely entertaining slip-ups.

I think he still has a lot of money

I agree.

I think he's hoarding his inheritances for the dc as he's said and is being bankrolled in his current expenses on the sly by us the Bank of Pa.

He does now, yes and it now goes into W's well-lined wallet but for decades the rent he paid was being circulated back into his own pockets in the form of Duchy profits.

All of it so insular.