Prince Harry and Meghan Markle also received financial support from Prince Charles in the months after they parted ways with the British royal family. This is according to documents released today. The money tap was turned off only last summer.
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Documents used by the royal family to account for its income and expenditure show that British Crown Prince Charles paid 4.5 million British pounds (about 5.2 million euros) to his sons Harry and William in the period between 1 April 2020 and 31 March 2021. has donated.
Part was used to help Harry and his wife Meghan – the Duke and Duchess of Sussex -, a spokesperson said, although it was not specified how much each family received. However, Prince Harry claimed in the much-discussed interview with Oprah Winfrey that the money tap was turned off ‘in the first quarter of 2020’ when he and his family separated from the British royal family and left for the United States, and that he had to use the inheritance of his mother, Princess Diana, to pay for their security .
A spokesperson for Clarence House, where Charles resides, confirms to BBCthat when the Duke and Duchess of Sussex wanted to relinquish their royal duties and become financially independent in January 2020, ‘the Prince of Wales (prins Charles, red.) allocated them a substantial sum to help with that transition’. ‘Financial support was stopped last summer. The couple is now financially independent.’
Frogmore Cottage
A spokesperson for the couple says there are no contradictory claims, and that Prince Harry in the interview referred to the first quarter of the fiscal period, which in the UK is the period from April to early July. The couple subsequently signed lucrative contracts with Netflix and Spotify, among others.
The documents also confirm that Harry and Meghan have repaid £2.4 million towards the renovation costs of Frogmore Cottage, the Windsor residence they moved into after their marriage. That sum includes the price to rent the house until at least the end of March 2022.
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