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Everyone loves a freebie, but not everyone gets them like Prince Harry and Meghan Markle. The new book “Finding Freedom,” a lavish biography detailing the royal rulebreakers’ romance, reveals that the couple has received over $4.5 million in gifts from friends, brands and family members. The handouts began on the night of their first date …
Everyone loves a freebie, but not everyone gets them like Prince Harry and Meghan Markle.
The new book “Finding Freedom,” a lavish biography detailing the royal rulebreakers’ romance, reveals that the couple has received over $4.5 million in gifts from friends, brands and family members.
The handouts began on the night of their first date in 2016: Markle’s hotel room at the Soho house, which would have cost $535, was comped. The actress’s friend Markus Anderson owns the trendy lodging.
While the couple was courting, Anderson “put them up” at a private four-bedroom cottage in the Cotswolds Soho Farmhouse and at the Soho House property at Babington in Somerset. He also arranged a weekend getaway for them, saving Prince Harry and his then-girlfriend $6,100.
Markle’s former bestie Jessica Mulroney aided the long-distance lovers by offering the “Suits” star a private jet from Toronto to London so they could date in secret, which would have cost $65,000.
During their 2018 wedding, popular candle company Diptique provided several diffusers, which go for $170, to cover up the “musty” smell of St. George’s Chapel, which Meghan wasn’t a fan of.
They jetted off to their secret honeymoon on a “private jet loaned by a friend.”
Queen Elizabeth gifted her grandson and his new wife their mansion, Frogmore cottage. Good thing she did — The Daily Mail says a similar house in the area recently sold for almost $4.3 million.
Meghan and Harry also vacationed with friends George and Amal Clooney at their Lake Cuomo home. The actor gave up his private plane for the couple to make the trip across the pond, saving them $17,000 in commercial air fare.
The gifts didn’t stop there: Meghan’s star-studded two-day New York City baby shower was hosted by Amal and Serena Williams, who fitted the $400,000 bill. Again, she traveled with Air Clooney, saving her a whopping $65,000, the Daily Mail estimates.
Free air travel is a frequent handout to the Duke and Duchess: Elton John provided the family with flights on his private plane so they could visit the star in Nice, France, during the summer of 2019, which would cost the layperson $7,900.
Harry’s hypocritical attendance at Google’s 2019 eco-summit that year only cost him his reputation: the tech giant footed the bill for travel to and from the Sicilian resort.
After Megxit, Meghan, Harry and baby Archie fled to Canada, where they only had to pay half the rate on their $100,000 rental home.
When the couple first arrived in the States, they set up shop in a mansion owned by Tyler Perry for four months – for free. For a similar rental in the Beverly Ridge area, it would set us normal people back $60k.
