The Royal cash machines! PR experts predict Prince Harry and Meghan Markle could become the world’s highest-earning celebrity couple...

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Mr Torossian added: ‘The sky is the limit for the two of them.’ Until now, Harry’s senior royal status has prevented him from making money from his celebrity. He and Meghan have complained on their new website that they are ‘prohibited from earning any income’. As with all the royals, the precise details of how they fund their lavish lifestyles are kept opaque. But some sources of the Duke and Duchess of Sussex’s wealth are known....... She made six-figure sums for various film roles and about £60,000 a year endorsing products while running her lifestyle blog, The Tig. She also owns property in Toronto. But all this could be small-fry compared with the global money-spinning opportunities that lie ahead. PR guru Mark Borkowski, who has worked with TV stars Noel Edmonds and Graham Norton, said: ‘They will make a fortune. I think around the world people will be falling over to get brand connections with them.’

Her Majesty deserves better than this and you don't have to be an ardent royalist to be thoroughly disgusted

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Same goes for Meghan Markle — shorn of her royal connections, she’d be just another obscure actress. Be honest, hands up if you’d ever heard of her before she got her hooks into Harry?

Me, neither. Apparently, her big break was holding the briefcase on the U.S. version of Deal Or No Deal. 

She was also in something called Suits, which peaked at two million viewers on an American cable channel — just over 0.6 per cent of the available audience.

So she wasn’t even a household name in her homeland. In Britain, Suits went out on Dave — best known for showing endless repeats of Top Gear.

It is her relationship with the Prince which propelled her to international celebrity, not her unremarkable TV career. "

Twelve steps to Megxit: How Meghan and Harry felt apart from the Firm...

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And finally, the deepest cut of them all...  

Just two weeks into the New Year and newly-arrived ‘home’ from a six-week overseas holiday, comes the most seismic punch of all: Meghan and Harry dramatically announce they are stepping down as senior royals, apparently without telling his grandmother (the Queen), father (Prince Charles) or brother (Prince William).

They even conspired to create a new website independent of the Royal Family, apparently without the knowledge of their UK-based Press team."

Prince William told Harry to heed his mother Diana's warning not to marry in haste - and then the rift began: reveal how the closest of brotherly bonds soured over Meghan

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Further tension in the lead-up to the event threatened to spill over after Meghan insisted she be allowed to choose a tiara once worn by Diana. This time it was the Queen who said no and instead allowed Meghan to wear the diamond lozenge bandeau made for Queen Mary in 1932.

Meghan accepted the Queen’s decision. But it seriously upset Harry and provoked his emotional outburst ‘what Meghan wants, Meghan gets’."

Meghan and Harry REFUSE to name the mystery 'Russian billionaire' who loaned them $14 million holiday mansion

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The latest disclosure comes amid their bombshell decision to quit their royal duties and split their time between the UK and North America. That decision was announced after spending more than two weeks over Christmas and New Year at Mille Fleurs, a $14 million seafront home close to Victoria, British Columbia. Five neighbors, a former colleague of the realtor who last sold the mansion, and a friend of the former owner all told DailyMail.com the current owner is a Russian businessman. Some said he is a billionaire. Meghan and Harry were introduced to the mystery owner by David Foster, a friend of the owner. Foster's wife Katherine McPhee was a school friend of the Duchess of Sussex."

....As well as drawing the ire of transparency campaigners, the cost of Harry and Meghan's vacation has irked some Canadian taxpayers.

At least four Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) officers were assigned to the couple's 24-hour protection unit, at an estimated cost of at least $240,000.

According to 2016 figures, RCMP sergeants earn $99,790 to $102,775 CAD, and DailyMail.com understands that the force assigned enough officers to give the royals a four-man 24-hour support unit for their six-week stay in Canada. Travel, overtime and other costs would have been on top.

 An RCMP spokeswoman said: 'For security reasons, the RCMP does not disclose the number of police personnel assigned to work during this type of visit.

'Security costs for protection of visiting members of the Royal Family while in Canada are covered through the existing operational budget. For security reasons, we cannot provide a detailed breakdown of these costs.'

'No blank cheques': Prince Charles 'threatens to STOP Harry's £2.3m annual handout if he steps away from public duties'

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• Prince of Wales could stop Harry's funding from the Duchy of Cornwall Estate 
• He receives around £2.3 million from the grant which could be pulled away
• Charles made clear he would not bank roll Harry by writing him 'blank cheques'

The HRH egos have landed: That’s the devastating verdict from Diana’s private secretary, who argues Harry and Meghan have let rocket-fuelled vanity triumph over duty

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The Sussexes’ path was particularly bumpy in 2019 as their post-wedding popularity dwindled alarmingly.

The causes were mostly self-inflicted. How else to describe the slippery handling of news around Archie’s birth; virtue-signalling about climate change while continuing to emit tons of CO2, much of it from private jets; pleading victim status while enjoying the trappings of royal privilege to the hilt; or jeopardising the national interest by announcing a major legal action against the Press during an official visit to South Africa?"

how the Queen was forced to phone Harry to ask his Xmas plans, how Palace aides pleaded with him to be patient... and the rage as royals learned the truth from TV

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It was early November when the call came through to the Duke and Duchess of Sussex's taxpayer-funded home, Frogmore Cottage, at Windsor. On the line, unusually, was the Queen.

It is important to stress from the start of this insight into what has unfolded over the past 48 hours that the monarch doesn't just call anyone, not even her own family. They call her.

But the 93-year-old felt that she had no choice.

Since no one else could get any sense out of her brooding grandson, not even his own father, she had decided to try herself."

Harry was due to fly out to join Meghan in Canada last night after she fled back to be with Archie who they had left with the nanny

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• Baby Archie was left behind in Canada with his nanny while Harry and Meghan flew back to the UK this week 
• The Duke and Duchess of Sussex visited London on Tuesday before sensationally quitting the royal family
• As Prince Harry faces the wrath of the Queen and the royal family, Meghan has already flown back to Canada 
• Meghan spent just three days in the UK, after the couple and Archie had enjoyed a seven-week break abroad
• She could now spend foreseeable future in North America, as Harry thrashes out their roles with his family
• Harry is expected to go back to Canada too,but has official engagement at Buckingham Palace next Thursday

So much for being financially INDEPENDENT! UK taxpayers will still pay Prince Harry and Meghan Markle's '£600,000 security and £130,000 travel costs' while they will get £2.3m-a-year from Prince Charles' Duchy

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• Meghan Markle and Prince Harry said they are 'stepping back' from their duties 
• They also claim to be losing access to Sovereign Grant shared by the Queen 
• But if they continue royal duties their travel is covered from £83million pot
• They also receive £2m-plus from Prince Charles, who now faces a big decision 
• Couple and their son Archie require 24/7 police bodyguards costing £600k
• Refurbishment on Frogmore Cottage cost £2.4m - but work is still not finished 
• 
  The couple have launched a new website, registered in March 2019 and developed secretly in Toronto, and it announced their desire to achieve 'financial independence' - but critics have branded this impossible.
• Harry and Meghan say they will still 'proudly' carry out official overseas visits in support of the Queen, which are also covered by the Sovereign Grant. In the last financial year they claimed £130,000 for travel costs, including £80,000 alone for their trip to Australia, New Zealand and Pacific islands such as Tonga and Fiji at the end of 2018.
  And they are also demanding to keep their publicly-funded private protection officers costing up to £1million-a-year and paid for by the Home Office. 
   

The 10 critical questions left unanswered by Harry and Meghan Markle's bizarre announcement

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Prince Harry and Meghan Markle's bombshell announcement that they are 'stepping back' as senior royals shocked the world and left the Palace 'deeply disappointed.' 

The extraordinary statement, released without consulting the Queen, Prince Charles and Prince William, set out their plans for the future, telling how they want to 'carve out a progressive new role within this institution.'

Royal aides said they had pressed the 'nuclear button' making their intentions known in the six paragraph declaration posted on their new sussexroyal.com website just days after returning from a six-week break in Canada with their son Archie. 

Sources said they spent weeks 'secretly plotting ' their decision during their trip, in what one insider branded a 'staggering level of deceit.'

'They will be punished for this': Furious royal aides warn of backlash against Prince Harry and Meghan Markle

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The Duchess of Cambridge's 38th birthday was completely eclipsed today after the Duke and Duchess of Sussex quit as senior royals having defied the Queen's plea to delay announcing their 'nuclear' plans.

Courtiers have warned that 'Harry and Meghan will be punished' for ignoring crystal-clear orders from Her Majesty not to go public until the proposal was finalised by senior family members including his father.

Prince Charles and Prince William were both said to be left 'incandescent with rage' after learning about the Sussexes' announcement just 10 minutes before it was published on the couple's own Instagram page - followed by the roll-out of a slick new website secretly set up 10 months ago.

The fallout saw crisis talks held today between senior royals at Kensington Palace, where members of the family had already gathered to celebrate the Duchess of Cambridge's 38th birthday, with their decision branded a 'declaration of war' on Harry's family.