Millionaires Harry and Meghan get another free private flight

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By sarah nathan

Prince Harry and Meghan Markle make millions, but they don’t like spending their own money, multiple sources tell Page Six

Their latest gift, Page Six has learned, was a private jet that took them to Vancouver, Canada, for a three-day trip to promote the launch of the 2025 Invictus Games for injured service personnel.

The couple landed in Vancouver on Tuesday in a 10-seat Bombardier Challenger 605 rented from a local private aviation company. Page Six is ​​told they were “guests” on the flight.

A source who worked with the duo told Page Six, “They certainly don’t like spending their own money,” and another well-placed source added, “It’s always other people’s money.”

The couple tends to fly privately with friends; Apparently, as Harry said, for security reasons – and often make use of their rich friends’ homes.

The trip to Canada is the latest use of someone else’s jet by the couple, who were not available for comment.

Last October, they flew on a private jet to New York to attend a conference on the dangers of social media for children, and then vacationed on the Caribbean island of Canouan. It is not known who paid for that trip.

In November, they flew to Las Vegas for a Katy Perry concert aboard Texas oil heir Michael Herd’s plane, with his wife, billionaire and Bumble founder Whitney Wolfe Herd, along with celebrities Cameron Diaz, her husband Benji Madden and Zoe Saldana.

And in January, the couple joined Paramount CEO Brian Robbins and his fashion designer wife, Tracy, in Jamaica for the premiere of the Bob Marley biopic “One Love,” traveling on a jet private.

When they’re in Los Angeles for work and meetings, they often stay at millionaire makeup artist Victoria Jackson’s house, we get it.

Their notorious claim of being on a terrifying paparazzi chase last May was when they were staying at a private home on the Upper East Side, and they also stayed at Attorney Barry Bloom’s apartment in New York while visiting the UN.

And after leaving royal duties, they stayed at movie mogul Tyler Perry’s $18 million Los Angeles home when they first moved to the United States.

They also planned their escape from the royal family in The luxurious Canadian retreat of Russian oligarch Yuri Milner on Vancouver Island, British Columbia, over Christmas and New Year’s 2019.

The Duke and Duchess were banned from receiving gifts when they were working royals, but Page Six told how she turned a diamond set gifted to Harry from the Middle East into a pinky ring and earrings.

Markle has also worn clothing from the Staud range run by Sarah Staudinger, the wife of WME boss Ari Emmanuel, who is now the former “Suits” star’s Hollywood agent. Markle wore the clothing to an LA Lakers game, although it is unknown if he paid for the items.

“She certainly has the Hollywood mentality: ‘If I use your brand, it will increase sales,'” the well-placed source said.

And with the arrival of its new Sussex.com website this week, a palace source said: “Basically, it’s ‘Look at us… don’t forget we’re royals above all else.'”

Cash has long been a source of concern for the couple. Acclaimed real writer Valentine Low revealed in her book “Courtiers” that during an official tour of Australia and Fiji in 2018, Markle told staff: “I can’t believe I’m not getting paid for this.”

Harry infamously told Oprah Winfrey that if it weren’t for his mother Princess Diana’s inheritance, they wouldn’t have been able to move to the United States.

“I have what my mother left me and without that we wouldn’t have been able to do this,” Harry said, referring to half of his 1997 inheritance.

She left him and Prince William around $10 million, which was invested for them and would have been worth much more when he earned it at the age of 30, in 2014.

But in reality he was also given “substantial” control by his father, the then Prince Charles, when he left the United Kingdom. It is unknown whether he has also received a legacy from his beloved grandmother, Queen Elizabeth, or from his grandfather, Prince Philip.

And when they stepped down from royal duties, the couple quickly made multimillion-dollar deals with podcast platform Spotify and streamer Netflix, and bought a $14.6 million property in Montecito, with a $9.5 million mortgage.

Shortly after, Harry signed a $20 million deal with Penguin Random House for his memoirs, which were the best-selling book of 2023 on Amazon, and two more books.

Although they lost their deal with Spotify last summer (and were dubbed “damn scammers” by Spotify executive Bill Simmons), they tell us their deal with Netflix remains strong, despite rumors to the contrary.

Markle is working on new projects for the streamer and Harry’s documentary about Africa is still quietly in the works, Page Six is ​​told.

Markle also announced Tuesday her first deal since signing with Emanuel: a new podcast deal with Lemonada Media.

Under the deal, Lemonada will distribute the first season of Markle’s “Archetypes” series to all audio platforms, beginning this spring, and will develop a new, as-yet-untitled original podcast series hosted by Markle.

However, another source who worked with the couple reflected: “Lemonada is a small company, there is no way this is a big business.

“This is probably more of a production deal to try to fix the scammer narrative.”