Harry and Meghan - OP updated with Threadbanned Users 4/5/21

Their income is dependent on deliverables and intermittent one time payments whereas they have high and recurring expenses in parallel. What happens if, with a diluted "brand", the books flop? What happens if Netflix, sensing that they won't get ROI on the $120 headline deal, rejects their current projects and cancels future ones? Very real possibilities. Look at the Spotify deal. One podcast. Would you be pleased with that as a paymaster? What does that do for their reputation as deliverers of viable content? So to clarify, they have no sustainable income. Going back to Spotify then Harry could have done a series on settling into life in America. He'd be the Brit out of water type inviting guests onto the show to help him (and listeners) appreciate all things Americana, to promote causes. Even something like Joe Rogan's show where he is the foil to the expert guests talking about various American subjects. Something to justify the fee but there is nothing as this understandably involves work. Even a Michael Portillo type travel documentary with Harry travelling the country by train for Netflix. It could have failed but it could have been a success and his reputation for sustainable income would be on a firmer footing.

You're forgetting the six months between the Oprah interview and the Time cover magazine and the need for some good old positive PR i.e. the reputational fall out what with all the logical fallacies in their truth. Even the owner of Time was ridiculing their cover.

And you accept now that they didn't get this $120 million upfront from Netflix because that's what you were inferring?

I wouldn't deem their Netflix deal as a sustainable one. Yes, they get the one time sign on fee (which gets swallowed up in expenses) but then there must be deliverables to satisfy the nitty gritty of the actual contract. What are the planned projects? An animated series and seemingly a documentary about themselves and their foundation. That's worth $120 million? Where's the earning power? I'd say the whole deal with the Sandringham summit was for them to show how they could achieve and sustain their financial independence.

The Sussexes, as flavors of the month, had a bevy of deals thrown at them, the signing on fees were banked but the reality then set's in and they have to do the work to produce the content and they don't get paid the full value of the headline deals if that work is rejected. That's my rationale for no income i.e. there is no predictable stream of income coming in. Contrast it all with something like the Duchy of Cornwall which delivers a predictable income stream and from which expenses can be budgeted for annually. It's an asset for the Prince of Wales and will go the the next Prince of Wales in time i.e. William and then George. The old saying of "The only thing worse than what you don't have is seeing someone else get it instead" applies to Harry's mindset in my opinion i.e. he won't inherit what William will and in advance of living off is brothers asset then he (understandably) wanted to make his own money. Problem was that after having money initially thrown at him as you mention then he had to do the work to sustain it all himself.

yes it's all the little woman's fault, getting uppity and brainwashing poor little harry who doesn't know his own mind and who she forcibly took away from the life he was supposed to lead whether he wanted to lead that life or not.

never mind that he made and makes his own decisions and decided he wanted out, but of course they must know their place, meghan especially isn't that right?

if him speaking out makes things difficult for those remaining that is life, perhapse everyone should have treated him and his wife better.

he's gone, he's not coming back, get over it.

Their earning power comes from their celebrity, it's not a new phenomenon especially in the states. That earning power right now based on public domain reporting is quite high.

Netflix sure as fook did not pay for their sterling track record on producing blockbuster entertainment, relative to just what Netflix spend on marketing (not content), it's a fraction of a decimal percentage, the marketing will pay for itself.

Everyone accepts they are earning huge sums at the moment and have the potential to cash in further on their celebrity going forward.

But for some reason, you think they are going broke and are trying to manipulate Charles into paying them off.

One is the reality and one is a manufactured figment of your imagination.

I was gonna say he's not successful or prestigious enough for rolex but then I saw that Michael Buble is one of the current ones so I guess it's possible

this is just what you want to be rather then what actually is .

spotify and any of the others who have paid the couple for material are i would very much expect happy with what they are getting from the deals they have put up money for to receive content in return.

the couple's marketability seems to be high and even if they produce little content it will likely pay for itself.

these companies are not stupid, they will not put up money for nothing, they will get their content.

the couple are fine, they are not going broke.

he is happy to pay for private security.

however when he comes to the UK he has to have police protection whether he wants it or not due to his status of being a high ranking rf member.

he is a heroe who has broken away from the clutches of the sun and daily mail and daily brexpress and their knuckle draggery.

nobody can exactly say how much they got, still have, receiving form their deals or will inherit in the future. I think there can't be enough coming in to keep up with their lifestyle, maintaining their 'mansion', household staff and jetting around staying in costly hotels, expensive clothing and what else they 'need' we can't imagine. they mainly lived on their millions they already had (savings so to say) for the last 2 years fmpov and that's logically not sustainable so the pressure is on I would say.

Yet there were few events, where they were not invited in 2021, like Obama's 60th Bday or MET Gala. They are now telling they won't attend Oscars, because of the film about Diana. It is hard to believe the reason if they signed a deal with Netflix, not bothering about such connotations, or made an interview with Oprah for CBS, who was the only station, which showed pics of Diana dying.

I think they might have got an invite but only under the condition to promote this film.

I mean as guests of this film producers, not as them on their own.

And the owner of the Daily Mail - Viscount Rothermere - is a keen tax payer:

"A new investigation by the Observer shows that the Daily Mail is set up as an offshore entity based in Bermuda, to avoid paying tax in the UK.

Not very British, or patriotic.

Particularly laughable is that the Mail has described offshoring recently as a 'scourge' which 'deprives Britain of billions'."

You heard the one about glass houses and throwing rocks?

"A who's who of Britain's legal offshore tax avoidance

This article is more than 7 years old

Some of the UK's most prominent business people appear in Jersey's offshore history of legal avoidance

....

Rothermere family, Daily Mail

A Lady Rothermere trust is recorded in Jersey. It appears to refer to the late Lord Rothermere's second wife, Maiko Lee, of Korean nationality. She did not respond to our invitations to comment. Rothermere's son Jonathan by his first wife inherited the Daily Mail, also through a Jersey trust, and a Bermuda-registered offshore entity. Jonathan is estimated to be worth £760m. He has not denied claiming tax concessions as a "non-dom", on the grounds that his father lived in Paris. He resides at Ferne Park, a stately home in Wiltshire built for him by architect Quinlan Terry."

https://www.theguardian.com/business/2014/jul/10/whos-who-britain-legal-offshore-tax-avoidance-james-dyson

absolutely, however as we know, hypocracy knows no bounds with the mail and nothing is off limits.

hypocracy and gass lighting are it's very core/being/existance.