Prince Harry left millions by the queen … but William inherits a billion
Paula Froelich
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(NewsNation) — When Queen Elizabeth died, she left her eight grandchildren a whopping $90 million, but it wasn’t split evenly. While $16 million was allocated for Harry and William, Harry is set to receive $8.5 million (slightly more than half) as he doesn’t directly benefit from the Duchy of Cornwall.
Prince William in charge of the duchy
Since King Charles ascended to the throne in 2022, Prince William is now in charge of the duchy, which spans 130,000 acres across 23 counties in England and Wales and includes land, farms, houses and other assets. The duchy is worth over $1 billion, according to the Times of London, and William started garnering a salary; last year, he made a whopping $30 million as the big man in charge of the estate.
Harry, who is a nonworking royal, earned nothing. (When Harry was part of the ‘working royals,’ he was also paid a substantial sum from the estate — a sum he gave up when he quit the job).
Prince Harry received funds from dad
However, Harry did receive some funds from his father when he and Meghan left the royal family. He was given a “substantial portion” of the $6 million Charles allocated for his sons that year to help start a new life.
Harry leaves after attending an Invictus Games Foundation 10th Anniversary Service of Thanksgiving at St Paul’s Cathedral in London, Wednesday, May 8, 2024. (AP Photo/Kirsty Wigglesworth, File)
Prince Harry, Duke of Sussex attends The Invictus Games Foundation 10th Anniversary Service at St Paul’s Cathedral on May 8, 2024 in London
FILE – Britain’s Prince Harry meets the crowd as he leaves after attending an Invictus Games Foundation 10th Anniversary Service of Thanksgiving at St Paul’s Cathedral in London, on May 8, 2024. An attorney for the publisher of The Sun tabloid Thursday accused Prince Harry of engaging in “shocking” and “extraordinary” obfuscation by destroying evidence it was seeking in his lawsuit claiming the newspaper violated his privacy by unlawfully snooping on him. (AP Photo/Kirsty Wigglesworth, File)
FILE – Britain’s Prince Harry, the Duke of Sussex, waves during the Formula One U.S. Grand Prix auto race at Circuit of the Americas, on Oct. 22, 2023, in Austin, Texas. Prince Harry, the son of King Charles III and fifth in line to the British throne, has formally confirmed his is now a U.S. resident. Four years after Harry and his American wife, Meghan, decamped to a villa on the Southern California coast, a travel company he controls filed paperwork informing British authorities that he has moved and is now “usually resident” in the United States. (AP Photo/Nick Didlick, File)
DUSSELDORF, GERMANY – SEPTEMBER 16: Prince Harry, Duke of Sussex and Meghan, Duchess of Sussex are seen during the closing ceremony of the Invictus Games Düsseldorf 2023 at Merkur Spiel-Arena on September 16, 2023 in Duesseldorf, Germany. (Photo by Joshua Sammer/Getty Images)
Prince William and Catherine, the new Prince and Princess of Wales, accompanied by Prince Harry and Meghan, the Duke and Duchess of Sussex, proceed to greet well-wishers outside Windsor Castle on 10th September 2022 in Windsor, United Kingdom. Queen Elizabeth II, the UK’s longest-serving monarch, died at Balmoral aged 96 on 8th September 2022 after a reign lasting 70 years. (photo by Mark Kerrison/In Pictures via Getty Images)
Prince Harry, the Duke of Sussex, talks with skeleton athletes during an Invictus Games training camp, in Whistler, British Columbia, Thursday, Feb. 15, 2024. Invictus Games Vancouver Whistler 2025 is scheduled to take place from Feb. 8 to 16, 2025 and will for the first time feature winter sports. (Darryl Dyck/The Canadian Press via AP)
FILE – Prince Harry leaves the High Court after giving evidence in London, on June 7, 2023. Prince Harry won his phone hacking lawsuit Friday Dec. 15, 2023 against the publisher of the Daily Mirror and was awarded over 140,000 pounds ($180,000) in the first of his several lawsuits against the tabloids to go to trial. (AP Photo/Kin Cheung, File)
FILE – Prince Harry leaves the High Court after giving evidence in London, Tuesday, June 6, 2023. A judge ordered Prince Harry on Monday, Dec. 11, 2023, to pay nearly 50,000 pounds (over $60,000) in legal fees to the publisher of the Daily Mail tabloid for failing to knock out its defense in a libel lawsuit. (AP Photo/Alberto Pezzali, File)
FILE – Prince Harry and Meghan Markle, Duke and Duchess of Sussex visit the track and field event at the Invictus Games in The Hague, Netherlands, Sunday, April 17, 2022. The production company founded by Prince Harry and his wife, Meghan, are splitting ways with Spotify, Friday, June 16, 2023, less than a year after the debut of their podcast “Archetypes.”(AP Photo/Peter Dejong, File)
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Prince Harry: My family “cut me off”
Harry sees it differently and told Oprah in the 2020 bombshell interview: “My family literally cut me off financially, and I had to afford security for us. … I’ve got what my mum left me, and without that, we would not have been able to (move to America).”
Good thing Harry and Meghan still have their Netflix deal to help pay the bills. Let’s hope his show about the athleticism of polo and her show about cooking do well.
