The Duke and Duchess of Sussex were in talks with a £1.3billion-backed US company a year before they stepped down as senior royals, it was reported last night.
Prince Harry, 36, and Meghan, 39, are said to have had multiple meetings with Quibi, a now-defunct video streaming service, from early 2019 until after they quit as working royals last January.
Prince Harry returned from the landmark Sandringham summit to meet executives from the American company in London, according to the Daily Telegraph.
A deal for him to provide content on the platform reportedly reached advanced stages but ultimately fell through as the app failed to take off, according to the paper.
Vanity Fair also claimed the couple had been approached by Quibi founder, Jeffrey Katzenberg and its CEO Meg Whitman.
Despite this, during the Sussexes' bombshell interview with Oprah Winfrey they claimed they 'didn't have a plan' when leaving the Royal family.
Harry told Oprah: “The Netflix and the Spotify [deals]… that was never part of the plan.'
'We didn’t have a plan. That was suggested by somebody else by the point of where my family literally cut me off financially, and I had to afford… afford security for us.'
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“If you trust in yourself, and believe in your dreams, and follow your star. . . you'll still get beaten by people who spent their time working hard and learning things and weren't so lazy.”
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That bit always makes me laugh. Prince Charles' finances are somewhat opaque, but enough public information exists to conclude that he, through the Duchy of Cornwall, funded Harry to the tune of around £5 million in the year ended March 2020. Harry decided to leave the job in January 2020 (although it seems from the above that he'd been talking to other potential employers much earlier than this) and unfortunately, and obviously very unfairly, they decided to stop his salary. Rotten luck, old chap.
I'm not defending the Duchy of Cornwall which is an almost feudal institution. Had Harry said something like "I refuse to continue to take that ££££ raised off the backs of those hard working Cornish folk like Mr and Mrs Poldark" I might have had more respect for him.