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

And From.what i understand, they have a team of at least 10 advisors, on full time salary, all being paid $150,000+ (maybe more), plus their expenses. This team ranges from PR guru's, personal assistances, personal secretaries, etc. You often read about a new advisor, who worked for NBC or Google, or the likes, joining their team.

Taxes on that houses will be around $500k per year.

As this poster said, you fly through money in LA with all these outgoings.

The millionaires that live in their neighborhood made millions in music, TV, movie industry, etc. Years ago, I mean the 70's, 80's and 90's, and they invested millions back then, so they are now getting huge returns every year to sustain their LA lifestyle. But they keep a low profile, so security costs are lower, and they don t tend to bring legal action against every second media outlet, government, etc, so their annual legal costs are a lot less than H&M !

"We didn't have a plan. That (the streaming deals) was suggested by someone else by the point of where my family literally cut me off financially and I had to afford security for us".

Seems to me that the deals with Spotify and Netflix were cash grabs i.e. get the signing on fee and then figure out how to satisfy the terms of the contract later on if at all. It also seems that Megxit itself was a reactionary and reflexive one in that they had nowhere to stay, no work for financial independence lined up, no grand vision or plan to highlight their passions/charity/interests. It was a hard Megxit so to speak. When, judging by their output, it seems that they're only interested in the money then delivering something stream worthy was going to be a problem. With all their PR manifesting and the dent to their reputation then their stock, their earning power has dwindled to the point that whatever they ultimately do deliver will not have an audience commensurate with what they get paid. Needless to say, if they'd gotten their expenses picked up by the Royal family then according to Harry quoted above there would be no Netflix and no Spotify deals. Their jaunt to New York and visiting Harlem, United Nations etc wasn't because these are projects and issues they are passionate about but rather they simply didn't have a choice because when paymasters are paying you millions then (shock horror) the feckers want their pound of flesh.

The Megxit comparison was an astute one as well. One of the best albeit crude analogies I've read likened Brexit to a 50 year old married man who thinks that the only thing stopping him from being an in-demand silver fox shagging twentysomethings all around him is his boring marriage so he decides to get a divorce. Six months later he's squatting in a bedsit washing his jocks in the sink. I am convinced that Harry and Meghan's PR sold them on a similar ideal i.e. that the only thing stopping them from being Hollywood royalty and making eye watering sums of money was the dull and archaic Royal family so they left, they made some initial bank (ironically stemming from their links to the BRF) but now the reality of their situation has sunk in and they have to actually do some work which they need help now in delivering.

spotify and the like are not stupid, they don't invest if they won't get a return.

megsit was a response to the likes of the daily mail and sun and their knuckle draggery and it has been shown to be a good idea and the couple seem happier then ever to be out of that toxic environment.

they are the closest people to the UK royal family that are living in the US, their earning power is quite reasonable on that basis alone.

either way they are gone and won't be returning to the UK and to the RF as working members and i highly suspect they do not regret their decision to get out of royal life.

they’ve the absolute best of medical care so even if they get unwell they have best chance of beating it. It would be a deadly twist in the tale if Charles got v sick and the worst happened and if Wills n Catherine got promoted ahead of schedule

It would appear the Queen just cut a cheque for her darling son.

Is it any wonder the Ginger one wants to get far away from that awful family.

Well expect he was told he’d have to go it alone ?

they are and always have been on good terms, same as all the rest of the non-senior membersof the rf.

There is no tangible evidence that anything has been sold.

Also

Land Registry documents in Switzerland named the owners simply as Andrew York and Sarah Ferguson, and confirmed that it was bought with the aid of a mortgage.

By the time the mortgage is cleared and Sarah gets her cut, what's left?

The lady he allegedly abused called his bluff and won, the price invariably then goes up.

Some people speculating between legal fees and the payoff to her and her charity it could be in the 10s of millions.

British politicians already asking on clarity of where the money is coming from.

AFAIK the lad is depending on handouts from Mummy at the moment, what's another cheque to make this god awful business go away, there is a jubilee to celebrate after all.

It seems that recollections may vary again in that the Home Office are saying that Harry didn't offer to pay for his security until it was put out in the "born into the risk" statement i.e. the part of the statement saying he offered to pay since January 2020 is false. They've also given a dressing down for failing to show respect to the actual experts and decision makers when it comes to protection and security i.e. he can't say he knows better if he and his private security are not privy to what the Home Office knows. In the end it seems that their point of view is that providing security is dependent on the reasons why they are in the UK. Official Royal engagements? Yes. Filming for Netflix? Jog on. Same deal with the rest of the rank and file Royal family really i.e. on engagement then protection provided, when not then subject to ongoing risk assessment by the Home Office.

Ludicrous this idea that he can’t bring his children to visit until he gets the police protection he wants. There’s nowhere on earth they’d be safer than staying on his fathers estates. I’m sure Prince Charles would send a man or two to Heathrow to meet them off their private plane.

Hope he loses and gets stuck with the costs too.

sure yeah.

harry actually already gets the police protection when he arrives in the UK, it's the ability for him to pay for the costs of that protection rather then the tax payer having to do it is what he is looking for.