Prince Harry Claims King Charles III Told Him There Wasn’t ‘Enough Money’ for Meghan Markle: He ‘Couldn’t Stomach’ Someone ‘Shiny’ Stealing the Limelight

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Father and son feud. Prince Harry alleged that King Charles III told him the royal family didn’t have enough money to support Meghan Markle while also providing for Prince William and Princess Kate.The Duke of Sussex, 38, claimed that his father, 74, told him “there’s not enough money to go around” because he was “already having to pay” for the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge, both 40.“Pa didn’t financially support Willy and me, and our families, out of any largesse,” the Invictus Games founder wrote in an excerpt from Spare exclusively obtained by Us Weekly. “That was his job.

That was the whole deal. We agreed to serve the monarch, go wherever we were sent, do whatever we were told, surrender our autonomy, keep our hands and feet inside the gilded cage at all times, and in exchange the keepers of the cage agreed to feed and clothe us.”The former military pilot said that he soon came to believe the conflict “wasn’t about money” at all. “Pa might have dreaded the rising cost of maintaining us, but what he really couldn’t stomach was someone new dominating the monarchy, grabbing the limelight, someone shiny and new coming in and overshadowing him,” Harry wrote. “He’d lived through that before, and had no interest in living through it again.”After Harry and the Suits alum, 41, stepped down as senior working royals in 2020, they stopped receiving public funds, but for a short time, Charles continued to offer financial support using his private funds.“My family literally cut me off financially, and I had to afford security for us,” the BetterUp CIO said during his tell-all CBS interview in March 2021. “[I was cut off] in the first quarter of 2020.