Have Harry and Meghan announced their children’s school choice yet?

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Has HAMs school choice been announced yet? Moneys not on Lambrook!
Would parents of said school need to be informed? Or because they are no longer working royals would they not need to announce?
Will they go state or private? Can they afford the top private schools now? I gather the state won't pay for their kids education?

That's the things... if they were so wealthy why did they need a mortgage in the first place?!!

In the US, you can deduct the amount you pay yearly in mortgage interest when you file taxes. Maybe that's a factor?

Is this return mainly about money/tax liability? Isn’t something triggered after 8 years for non Americans?

Why not? Beyoncé and jay-z have mortgages- it’s often a better option, do something that earns more return with your cash

In California, and some other parts of the states, where you can offset some mortgage interest against your tax it can be tax efficient to have a mortgage.

Lots of very wealthy people have mortgages.

The six year advantage seems to be. For UK residents ( see middle of article)
https://fortune.com/2026/08/21/harry-and-meghan-homecoming-multimillion-dollar-tax-catch-waiting-four-years-shield-60-million-fortune/

Money would be invested elsewhere. If their investments were making more than the interest then why take money out the investments?

But they might also have been counting on the Spotify/ Netflix deals bringing in much more than they have.

Harry got most of his mother's estate. William was going to, and did, inherit from the crown as a future king so he didn't need any inheritance.

He may have also got money from Brenda and the Queen Mother.

I was asking how anyone knew they had £60 million. How does anyone on MN know if they have a mortgage. I couldn’t care less where their kids go to school.

They Just read it in some rich list. The mortgage has also been published, its public record. They just follow the reporting around them I imagine.

Yes I don't think they are troubled too much about the cost of living.

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Its public knowledge in America when a housey is dold how big the mortgage is. Something like 9 million when it was bought. They used Charles' divorce
settlement as a dorn payment. Couple of million.

They may be more than we thing. It costs at least 6 or 7 million a year to sustain their lifestyle: security, mortgage, running costs, schools. That kerps haemorrhaging as the income streams dry up.In the grand tradition of rich people though, they get a lot for free. Private jets etc.

I'm sure they will manage.

Eton though was very supportive of William throughout the fiasco that was his parents' marriage collapse and after his mother's death, maybe it just suits Harry's victim narrative to claim it wasn't supportive.

Had he not been sent to Eton like William then he could have added to his whines that he was sent to an inferior school because he was the spare part.

I believe that their great grandmother left more to Harry than to William knowing that William would have the Duchy in future. Did I also read that the late Queen left everything to Charles for him to sort out, maybe pieces of lesser jewellry to Anne and Sophie?

“Spare” showed he wasn’t interested in the academic side & didn’t apply himself. I read thinking you’ve no idea how lucky & privileged you were to have teachers who so wanted to engage. The History master went above & beyond & he was just dismissive.

I wonder if he wasn’t receptive re: pastoral care rather similarly? Although as so damaged harder to reach him & help I suspect.

Any news yet of schools?

The Queen will have left absolutely everything to Charles. Sovereign to Sovereign transfers are exempt from IHT.

So even if there’s an understanding that Anne gets x piece of jewellery ok life loan and Sophie gets y piece it’s extremely likely they were technically left to Charles.

I think it's time the media stopped reporting about them. Does it even matter what school they go to. It won't suit them to fade into obscurity. It will be briefing after briefing. And then complaints about invasion of privacy.

I believe this is the crown inheritance you’re referring to which belongs to the monarch and is transferred upon death. The queen’s private wealth would’ve been inherited as per her wishes.

Well, they won’t be wrong. People are obsessed with.

Private inheritances between sovereigns are exempt from IHT. So they don’t pay taxes on Sandringham, Balmoral, race horses, personal anrtwork and anything else.

For that reason they leave everything to the next one (including with consorts to the next monarch as they are also exempt from IHT).

So whilst things could have been done as per her wishes, it’s far more likely to have been simply inherited by Charles and her wishes known to him.

Gossip (from a Kitebrook parent today) is that they are at the Dragon School in Oxford.