Prince Harry insists that he ‘had’ to make lucrative deals with Netflix and Spotify after being ‘cut off’ financially by the royal family, insisting that he needed to make money so that he could afford to pay for security to ‘keep his family safe’.
The Duke and Duchess of Sussex claimed to Oprah Winfrey during their bombshell primetime interview that they ‘had no plan’ to ink multi-million-dollar deals with the ‘streamers’ when they first quit the royal family, but said that they were forced to find ways of making money when the royal family cut Prince Harry off, and took away his security.
Insisting that their deals with Netflix and Spotify – which are believed to be worth upwards of $100 million – were ‘never part of the plan’, Harry, 36, said: ‘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 security for us.’
The Duke of Sussex revealed that his family stopped all financial support in the ‘first quarter of 2020’, likely soon after Harry and Meghan, 39, announced they were stepping down as working royals, adding that had he not had the money that had been left to him by his mother Princess Diana, the couple would not have been able to afford to move to the US.
‘I’ve got what my mum left me, and without that, we would not have been able to do this,’ he said.
Defense: Prince Harry says he ‘had’ to make a multi-million-dollar deal with Netflix because he was ‘cut off’ by the royal family at the start of 2020 and needed money to pay for security
Safety first: Harry, 36, said that making deals with Netflix and Spotify were ‘never part of the plan’ but said ‘all he needed was enough money to pay for security to keep his family safe’
‘During COVID, the suggestion by a friend was, “What about streamers?”‘ Harry continued, while Meghan added: ‘We genuinely hadn’t thought about it before.’
‘We hadn’t thought about it,’ Harry continued. ‘So,…
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