May 13, 2026
Harry and Meghan’s Money Problems?
Commentators pile on Prince Harry and Meghan Markle over reports of financial pressures, shrinking staff numbers, and growing unhappiness in Montecito. Plus: Meghan reportedly fumes over a Saturday Night Live joke and jokes herself about renewing vows with Harry.
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Caloroga Shark Media. Hello and welcome to Palace Intrigue. I
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am your host, Mark Francis. In The Express, Rebecca Russell writes,
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as if we needed any more proof, Prince Harry's lack
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of awareness has grown from a minor character flour into
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a full blown walking disaster, despite being left eye watering
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sums of money that most of us can only dream of.
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The latest whispers from Montecito Echo Chamber claim that Harry
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and Meghan are now having to come back on their spending,
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with that number of full time employees reportedly dropping from
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sixteen to just five, an astonishing feat rarely given the
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multi billion pound inheritance he was left by his mother
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and the huge tax free windfall that the Queen Mother
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left him when he turned twenty one, not forgetting the
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healthy seven million pound topper from the Queen Mother when
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he reached the Big four h less than two years ago.
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And of course there's their multimillion dollar deals with everyone
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from Netflix to publishing houses that have given Harry the
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platform to exploit his family in every strain of genetic
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pain he has ever felt. Former People magazine editor Dan
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Wakeford spoke to five sources and wrote in his Celebrity
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Intelligence newsletter that Harry lacks basic awareness of what things cost,
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while Megan has a sense of how careful they need
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to be. Unfortunately, the issue is that Harry's only marketable
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skill complaining about every slight he has ever felt from
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his family hasn't just expired. The stench is lingering and
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clinging to everything around it, no matter how worthy the cause.
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By now, the public isn't just exhausted at Harry's moaning.
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We're exasperated. There's really only so many times you can
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bite the hand that feeds you. We are watching a
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forty one year old man profit from his family's private
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pain while making miscanated claims that he thinks he is
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still a working royal in one breath and making another
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jab than the next. In a masterclass in contradiction, Harry
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routinely moralizes to the world about equality, online safety, and
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the environment from the comfort of the massive estate he
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didn't bill, while being sustained by a legacy he continues
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to disparage, even though they are the reason he keeps
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answering the phone to enormous check after an enormous check.
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Daniela also writes in thenews dot com dot au. There
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was one thing that no one told Cinderella, Princess a
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crap at money. Then Prince Charles had to borrow from
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the Bank of Mum to pay for his divorce from Diana,
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Princess of Wales. Prince Philip once blurted out, we go
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into the red next year, I shall have to give
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up Polo, and the former Prince Andrew was sued for
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forgetting to pay twelve million dollars he owed after deciding
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to buy a Swiss chalet. We've all been there right. Unfortunately,
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Prince Harry, the Duke of Sussex is reportedly proving similarly
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princely when it comes to money, and it has been
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reported he has eaten through has estimated twenty million dollar
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inheritance since moving to the US. Yes, even with Netflix
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and Company having back in the good old days, formed
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an orderly queue outside his and his wife Megan's front
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door to chuck fistfuls of cash at them. That's reportedly
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one of the reasons why the couple stuck in career
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doldrooms and vibe wise, the NFTs of hrh Dom are
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now wildly unhappy and in a strange way, I nearly
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feel sorry for Harry. Fundamentally, he was born in captivity
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with a spoon in his mouth so solid silver it
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would have taken two footmen to lift it. For the
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first thirty five years of his life, he never ever
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had to think about paying a gas bill or when
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his bins went out. His every pair of socks, tea bags,
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scotch egg and rounded boogies were paid by either his
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power is Granny. Money like voting, must have been a
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largely alien concept for the Duke, something that people waving
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on the other side of ropelines had to trouble themselves
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with per Wait for the issue lies in their expenses reporting.
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The Duke and Duchess have multiple mortgages on their at
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nineteen point four million dollar Montecito mansion, while a source
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that says they have to find four point one million
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a year just for their security. The inheritance has largely
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been spent on the house and the legal trials, one
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source told Wakeford. A source in their orbit told him
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as well. They are wildly unhappy. According to the Peace,
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the Duke does not want the life he has right
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now and would be content to downsize move somewhere like Montana.
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And live modestly. That's an assessment shared by the Royalist
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and the Daily Beasts Tom Sykes, who said during a
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recent YouTube appearance, I have been told that he is
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not remotely enamored with the prospect of spending the rest
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of his life in California, and that he certainly does
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not want things to continue as they are. But what
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about Megan? Would the duchess be open to trading their
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tor p cashmir Cali life for spending the next few
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decades bumping along bad lands dirt roads to get to
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Costco and never once seeing a bar of five g
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Former Royal Press Secretary Dickie Arbot had told Talk TVs
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Jeremy Carl Joe the Sussex marriage has always looked a
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bit dodgy for quite a long time, adding that Harry
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appears to have lost much of his identity and purpose
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he once had within the Royal family and the military.
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Arbata argued that Harry has not really achieved anything beyond
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the Invictors Games, which he noted only takes place every
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two years. He also suggested that leaving the British Army
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in twenty sixteen was the biggest mistake he ever made.
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Claiming Harry could have continued building a meaningful public role
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had he remained in military service. Royal expert Duncan Larcom
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says the biggest obstacle to any reconciliation between Prince Harry
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and King Charles is now trust. Speaking about the ongoing
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rift within the Royal family, Larcom said, Charles is an
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impossible position right now. He and Prince William can't reach
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out to Harry for fear of them publicizing it. That's
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the big blockage. If they were to resume contact, they
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run the risk that Harry and Meghan could disclose more
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personal details and drop more bombshells about what's happening. This
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is where the fear lies for the Royal family. If
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Charles ring Harry and said I'm coming to the US,
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I'd love to see you, the dangerous Harry would go
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public with it. That breakdown in trust is the most
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significant thing. More pounds in just a moment. Meghan is
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reportedly furious over a recent joke on SNL. According to
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entertainment columnist Rob Shooter, Meghan was upset after a Weekend
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Update host Colin Jos referred to her as an American
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terrorist during the joke about King Charles visiting the United States.
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During the segment, Jos joked that the King had traveled
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to America to seek the release of a British hostage
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being held by an American terrorist. As a photo with
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Megan Prince Harry appeared on screen, a source quoted by
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a shooter claimed Meghan does not laugh when she feels
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publicly humiliated. She sees this deliberate, cheap and personal, and
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once she feels mocked, she shuts the door. Another source
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alleged this is what Meghan does when she feels attacked.
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She doesn't confront, she cuts off access. She distanced herself
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from Vanity Fair after coverage turned, and now NBC is
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getting the same treatment. A source told Palace intrigue does
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that means she won't do the deal or no dual reboot.
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Tutor appeared on The Nerve with Maureen Callahan instead of
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Harry and Meghan. They don't really have any common interests
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apart from the Sussex brand, he claimed. Much of the
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couple's shared focus is now tied to their public image
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and business ventures, with sources suggesting they maintained separate friendships
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and spend time in different social circles. The commenter also
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claimed their personalities and interests were never a line from
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the beginning, though he said they previously made efforts to
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find shared activities and projects. In this take on their marriage,
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Prince Harry has become increasingly focused on parenting and family life.
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Tutor referred to him as mister Mark, alleging that Harry
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spends much of his time with the couple's children. Megan
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joked about renewing her vows with Prince Harry during his
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surprise appearance in a video with Australian content creators Sean
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Skills and Maley Waterowl. The duchess appeared alongside the pair
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who run the popular Get Down with on Marley YouTube
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and TikTok channels in footage film during Harry and Meghan's
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visit to Australia last month. During the video, showing at
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Marley handed Megan a collection of Australian theme guests to
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take back to California, including rugby shirts, bluey toys for
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Prince Archie and Princess Lilla, bit snacks, bears, and a
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pair of swimming trunks branded Ossie bum As the trunks
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were pulled from the gift bag. Meghan laughed and said, Oh,
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I see what's coming. I see that that's going to
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be for my husband. I just have a feeling. She
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then joked, for the love of my life, we might
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renew our valves with him wearing these. The appearance came
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after Sean and Maley went viral for recreating Meghan's one
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pant spaghetti recipe from her Netflix series With Love. Meghan
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direct to email us and addresses to the Palace Intrigue
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