The Duke and Duchess of Sussex
last night revealed they plan to relaunch their careers – potentially
earning millions of pounds a year. In an astonishing statement on their
new website, they complained they had been unable to earn their own
money as senior royals. They
will give up their income from the Sovereign Grant – the money
taxpayers give to the Queen every year – and launch themselves onto the
international celebrity circuit. .....While the statement on the
couple’s website makes great play of the fact
they are giving up the money from the Sovereign Grant, it does not say
whether they will be making do without the cash they get from Prince
Charles via his private £1.2billion Duchy of Cornwall estate – which
some argue should be regarded as a public asset. .....
Charles paid £4.9million to his sons from
his duchy income last year, of which slightly less than half is believed
to have gone to Harry. Yesterday the
Sussexes said the money from Charles amounted to 95 per cent of their
office expenditure. They added: ‘The remaining 5 per cent of funding for
the Office of the Duke and Duchess of Sussex, covering costs associated
with employing members of their official office, is received through
the Sovereign Grant.’ Harry’s other wealth comes from his estimated £20million inheritance
from his mother Princess Diana. He also banked around £7million from his
great-grandmother the Queen Mother, who paid it into a trust fund in
1994.
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