robinthehood
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About Harry and Meghan, The story is dominating every news outlet but is it really such big news and worthy of so much airtime?
Does anyone care?
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full_throttle
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NO, makes no difference to my life,
Certain reports value Meghan's wealth at £3.8m, so financial security should be no problem for them. Away from the spotlight, they can hopefully have a 'normal' family life
Certain reports value Meghan's wealth at £3.8m, so financial security should be no problem for them. Away from the spotlight, they can hopefully have a 'normal' family life
Wolf
Well-known member
Yes and No...
In the sense I'd like to know how its being impacted from a tax payer point of view, if I'm right he gets paid about 300k from Prince of Wales duchy to live his life off of plus the house etc...
Do i really care about it from a media point of view and will it permeate into conversation with friends and family or will I be looking for follow up stories.. NOPE couldn't careless, good luck to them maybe givd their child more chance of a balanced upbringing.
In the sense I'd like to know how its being impacted from a tax payer point of view, if I'm right he gets paid about 300k from Prince of Wales duchy to live his life off of plus the house etc...
Do i really care about it from a media point of view and will it permeate into conversation with friends and family or will I be looking for follow up stories.. NOPE couldn't careless, good luck to them maybe givd their child more chance of a balanced upbringing.
Del_Boy
Head Pro
I think he gets around £2m from PoW and I doubt this will stop. PoW receives an income of around £20m from the Duchy of Cornwall estate. He can pretty much do what he wants with that dough.
Harry and Megan are forfeiting their payment from the Sovereign Grant which prevents them generating their own income.
Wolf
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If it's that much then the BBC need a better reporter as it was an article on there that I read the 300k from the Duchy of Cornwall estate.
Bunkermagnet
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I think they've shot themselves in the foot, and will come to regret their statement.
He has had a very privaleged upbringing, and whilst he hasnt played marbles in the street, he's never worried about money, clothing or food. I think many in the country who aren't so lucky but admire the Monarchy will start to dispise his actions and the privacy he says they crave will be a deafening silence when he is ignored by the average person in the street.
Financially self sustaining?....... give it a rest he doesn't know a thing about it.
He has had a very privaleged upbringing, and whilst he hasnt played marbles in the street, he's never worried about money, clothing or food. I think many in the country who aren't so lucky but admire the Monarchy will start to dispise his actions and the privacy he says they crave will be a deafening silence when he is ignored by the average person in the street.
Financially self sustaining?....... give it a rest he doesn't know a thing about it.
SwingsitlikeHogan
Major Champion
ITN Lunchtime News stated Meghan Markle and Prince Harry both have about £30m...but I thought their reporting was of the sort that has played into their decision - making out that this is a crisis for the Royal Family and Monarchy equivalent to the abdication of King Edward VIII - when it quite factually is nothing of the sort.
Do I care? I care for them as a couple under intense pressure and speculation through media gossip - and gossip kills.
I don't care for them as members of the Royal Family as I not that bothered about the Royal Family.
Do I care? I care for them as a couple under intense pressure and speculation through media gossip - and gossip kills.
I don't care for them as members of the Royal Family as I not that bothered about the Royal Family.
Wolf
Well-known member
Not sure where you gor those figures from Meghan Net worth is valued at £3.8m from her career earnings. So way short of that valuation you made. Harry supposedly is around £30m in trust funds from Diana that matured on his 30th birthday. But we don't know the true value of those and what the legal stance is on how he keeps that, there could be caveats in place of royal duties to access or keep access to the fund.
SwingsitlikeHogan
Major Champion
I got them from the ITN Lunchtime News today. As I said - their whole reporting of the situation this lunchtime I found pretty irritating.
But maybe given criticism directed at me elsewhere today on believing what I hear, I should have gone and done my own research and not simply took as truth what ITN News told me
Orikoru
Tour Winner
Don't care about any of the royals or what they do.
i would tend to agree, my only thought is the Taxpayer paied for their wedding and the referb of the house they live in, so i would hope they repaid if they are no longer carrying out Royal duties, but other than that i could care less
Del_Boy
Head Pro
Think it is a bit harsh to pay back the cost of their wedding. Decision was made at the time that it would be paid for. Unless it was agreed that the tax payer would pay for the wedding on the basis they will carry out royal duties for X number of years.
Re the refurb I think the queen paid for that from the Sovereign Grant
which is paid by who??
Wolf
Well-known member
I think asking them to repay the wedding is naive and over the top. Would you ask them to do the same if they got divorced. The past is the past and time to move on.
Del_Boy
Head Pro
Paid by profits from the crown estate. % of which go to the queen and a % that goes to the treasury
Tashyboy
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Am I bothered, No.
Am I a Royalist, Yes.
Do I think they handled it badly, Yes.
Do I think he served his country and is bothered about opinions from folk who have not walked in his flip flops, No.
Do I wish him all the best away from the gutter press in the UK and Europe and the ability to have a normal life.
Have I lost a Playing Partner. No.
Am I a Royalist, Yes.
Do I think they handled it badly, Yes.
Do I think he served his country and is bothered about opinions from folk who have not walked in his flip flops, No.
Do I wish him all the best away from the gutter press in the UK and Europe and the ability to have a normal life.
Have I lost a Playing Partner. No.
AmandaJR
Money List Winner
I care in that I feel let down by them both. As a staunch supporter of the Royal Family it feels like they've basically stuck two fingers up to those who feel similarly to myself. It's not like they didn't know what they were getting into and agree the media are piranhas but that's the price the rich and famous can pay. Perhaps from the outset they should have stayed out of the public eye as much as possible. Bit like Edward and Sophie - become a non story.
i don't expect them to pay it back, of course they won't... its just a point of view.
i wouldn't expect it to be payed back if the divorced, but they hav't they want to go there own way, fine. if they want to live like ord people they shouldn't expect the public to pay for things, simple as
Tashyboy
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Just watched itv news and it appears we are not being told everything ?
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Harry should go and ask his Dad to support them. Failing that, Prince Charles 
