King Charles’s youngest son will celebrate a milestone birthday and turn 40 years old on September 15. Consequently, he will land a huge sum of money due to a trust fund set up by his great-great-grandmother, the Queen Mother.
An Express.co.uk poll asked ‘Should Prince Harry give £7m back to the Royal Family after inheritance is revealed?’. The results of the poll reveal 75 percent of voters think Harry should give the money back. 22 percent of voters disagreed and thought Harry should be entitled to keep the money, whereas 3 percent of voters stated they ‘didn’t know’.
Harry is set to receive a larger share of the inheritance than his brother, given William is already benefiting from the Duchy of Cornwall’s wealth.
The Duke of Sussex is set to inherit £7million from a trust set up by his great-great grandmother (Image: Getty)
The Prince of Wales is reportedly unhappy at the sum, given Harry has stepped back as a senior royal and has subsequently criticised Royal Family members both on TV and in his explosive memoir, Spare.
A source told Closer Magazine: “William’s pretty disgusted that once again Harry’s going to be cashing out and taking millions back to his Montecito home without lifting a finger for it.
“William and Kate don’t trust Harry or Meghan one bit, so the idea that Harry’s now cashing in on his great-Granny’s inheritance leaves a very bitter taste in their mouths.”
Whereas, former royal correspondent Jennie Bond believes the old family matriarch would not be happy with the way things have turned out for the Sussexes, particularly given her close bond with Harry.
“She told OK! magazine: “I’m afraid the Queen Mother would have been mightily disappointed to see history repeating itself as Harry fell in love with a divorced American woman and then left royal life and went to live abroad… almost in exile, like her brother in law King Edward VIII, who abdicated for the love of Wallis Simpson.”
Since leaving the UK for the US and stepping down as a working royal in 2020, Harry has criticised his family and the royal set-up on a number of occasions.
In Spare, he alleged he was left with stitches after a physical altercation with William. He admitted to Oprah Winfrey he was on “different paths” with his sibling and hoped things would “heal”.
It comes after a commentator suggested Harry would have missed out on the inheritance had the Queen Mother been aware of what was to come.
Speaking to Fox News, Christopher Andersen said: “Of course, the prince’s great-granny couldn’t have anticipated all the trouble Harry caused the rest of the family. I think she would have cut him out of [the trust] entirely had she known.”