Royal expert slams Harry and Meghan for using their titles to earn ‘huge amounts of money’ – as bombshell German documentary exposes couple’s ‘elitist’ California lifestyle

Harry and Meghan suffered a brand new blow tonight after a German documentary accused the couple of hypocrisy whereas having fun with an ‘elitist’ life-style in america.  

The programme entitled ‘Harry: The Misplaced Prince’ contains damning criticism of the couple’s makes an attempt to construct a brand new life for themselves as charity activists and campaigners since leaving the Royal household. 

MailOnline was given a preview of the documentary earlier than it was screened to an viewers of tens of millions in Germany tonight. 

The programme takes a dig on the couple by detailing how their much-publicised visits to poverty-stricken nations comparable to Nigeria and Colombia sits uneasily with Meghan’s love of pricy designer garments. 

One stinging voice within the documentary is former soldier Ben McBean, who misplaced his left arm and had his proper leg amputated above the knee after being severely injured by a landmine blast in Afghanistan in 2008. 

McBean who shared a flight dwelling from Afghanistan with Harry didn’t maintain again in criticising the prince over his revelations about his household in his bombshell memoir Spare and in his Netflix present. 

The veteran soldier says: ‘I simply thought, with him sort of whinging about his household and he was saying one thing about his brother pushing him over or one thing like that, I used to be identical to, “Mate, simply go away it out”.

‘You and your brother had a bit fisticuffs…however household’s household, . 

The movie is titled ‘Harry: The Misplaced Prince’ and contains knowledgeable commentary on the allegations the Duke of Sussex made in opposition to his household in his e-book Spare 

‘If one in every of my mates fell out along with his companion and began posting issues on social media and saying my ex is that this and that, I would have informed him to close up as properly.’ 

The German documentary additionally factors the finger at Harry and Meghan for inevitably buying and selling off their former Royal roles by searching for to earn a living to help their life-style. 

It even pours scorn on them for ‘failing’ to combine with rich neighbours within the celeb enclave of Montecito of California, the place they’ve made their dwelling with youngsters Prince Archie and Princess Lilibet. 

However Harry and Meghan could also be most uncomfortable with the documentary reminding viewers that that they had admitted spending only one hour every week working for his or her charity Archewell. 

In one other, the programme highlights how donations to Archewell dropped from $13million in 2021 to only $2million {dollars} in 2022. 

The couple did face harsh criticism over ‘Megxit’ in some sections of the media in Germany after they introduced their resolution to step again as ‘senior members’ of the British Royal household in January 2020. 

Their reputations soared, nonetheless, in Germany in September final yr after they attended the Invictus video games, that includes competing injured servicemen and ladies, in Dusseldorf.

However the brand new documentary – the primary TV evaluation of the couple in Germany since ‘Megxit’ – even questions the price of the Dusseldorf video games by stating that they had been funded by a €40million donation from Germany’s Ministry of Defence. 

The documentary will little doubt go away the couple unimpressed because it extensively quotes British Royal reporters and specialists, speaking in regards to the gulf between their supposedly noble work and their luxurious life-style. 

The programme takes a dig on the couple by detailing how their much-publicised visits to poverty-stricken nations comparable to Nigeria and Colombia sits uneasily with Meghan’s love of pricy designer garments. This image was taken through the couple’s go to to Bogota in August this yr 

The brand new documentary – the primary TV evaluation of the couple in Germany since ‘Megxit’ – even questions the price of the Invictus Video games that had been held in Dusseldorf by stating that they had been funded by a €40million donation from Germany’s Ministry of Defence

The movie will little doubt go away the couple unimpressed because it extensively quotes British Royal reporters and specialists, speaking in regards to the gulf between their supposedly noble work and their luxurious life-style

One reporter Russel Myers says on the present: ‘If you are going to locations like Nigeria, like Colombia, which have enormous socio-economic issues, among the world’s poorest communities in these nations, and also you’re turning up carrying tens of hundreds of kilos value of designer garments – it actually does not ship the fitting message.’ 

Jack Royston from the podcast The Royal Report additionally picked up on the couple’s need to be ‘half in and half out’ of the Royal household which was dismissed by the late Queen. 

He says: ‘In case you have a scenario the place Harry and Meghan are incomes enormous quantities of cash in Hollywood buying and selling off their reputations, however then they’re additionally bolstering their reputations by working for the Queen – they’re capable of current themselves on the world stage as being these working members of the royal household who’re additionally out there for a worth.

‘That could be a enormous compromise to demand off the monarchy. In the event that they had been to be perceived to be selling their business tasks whereas representing the Queen, then that is additionally… beginning to border on corruption there as a result of they need to by no means be utilizing the monarchy as a platform.’ 

Royston provides: ‘The actual means by which Harry and Meghan crashed out of the Royal Household, firing hand grenades at Harry’s family, precipitated their status to be considerably broken. 

‘And that has had a significant impression on their capability to make the world a greater place as a result of lots of people simply aren’t listening to them in any respect!’ 

Royston additionally factors out the massive value of the Invictus video games with the large contribution by the German taxpayer and the expectation that public funds within the UK should help the video games that are booked to be held in Birmingham in 2027.

Describing it as ‘an enormous sum of money and clearly falling on the taxpayer’, he stated: ‘It’ll be a giant challenge on the 2027 video games which is in Birmingham, as Birmingham lately was pushed to the verge of chapter.’ 

Specialists have additionally referred to as Harry and Meghan out for profiting off their royal status within the documentary. Pictured here’s a seize from Harry: The Misplaced Prince 

Royston additionally refers to Harry and Meghan as now being ‘a part of an elite in America’, main lives which separate them even farther from the Royal household. 

Richard Mineards, one of many couple’s neighbours in Montecito, additionally seems, speaking in regards to the unique life-style that the couple get pleasure from within the space. 

He says: ‘It does not come low-cost. I imply…most homes are about eight or 9 million {dollars}.’ 

However he added: ‘I personally do not suppose that Meghan is an asset to our neighborhood… She does not actually exit or become involved with the neighborhood. 

‘Harry has to a sure extent, as a result of he is fairly jolly…however Meghan does not appear to get seen wherever…. And you do not see him both.’ 

The documentary additionally options Royal biographer Angela Levin, speaking about Harry’s dissatisfaction at ‘Megxit’, saying, ‘he did not get precisely what he wished – that he may very well be half within the royal household and half out.’ 

She explains within the programme: ‘However the late Queen who died stated that truly does not work and I do not need you to make use of your place inside the royal household to earn a living.’ 

German journalist Dr Ulrike Grunewald, who directed the documentary, says: ‘What shocked me most was how ineffectively Harry and Meghan’s basis is organised. 

Harry and Meghan attended the 2023 Invictus Video games – a paralympic event for wounded and injured veterans – that had been held in Dusseldorf, Germany 

The Duke and Duchess of Sussex pictured on the sitting volleyball remaining throughout day six of the Invictus Video games in Dusseldorf on September 15, 2023

‘The quantity of donations has fallen drastically in a single yr: from $13million in 2021 to $2million in 2022. In accordance with their very own paperwork, Harry and Meghan solely work one hour every week for the Archewell Basis.’ 

Dai Davies, a former Head of Royal Safety and a Divisional Commander within the Metropolitan Police, additionally criticises Harry, accusing him of creating others a goal by detailing in his e-book what number of Taliban fighters he had killed in his Apache helicopter.

Davies says: ‘In his e-book, Spare, for him to reveal, as he did, that he had killed numerous Taliban was, for my part, completely unwise, as a result of I used to be conscious, as certainly he was, that the Taliban and numerous teams had put a worth on his head.

 ‘And actually, I feel that worth nonetheless stays, which might type a foundation for him saying, properly, I want safety. 

‘Should you open your huge mouth, as he has collectively, that e-book, not simply on that, however given away all types of secrets and techniques, then it isn’t shocking that some individuals may regard you as a possible goal.’ 

Davies additionally accuses Harry of failing to combine a lot with unusual individuals on what he describes as their ‘rigorously orchestrated’ worldwide journeys. 

He says: ‘In Colombia, though there are very wealthy individuals there, the overwhelming majority, 85 per cent or 90 per cent, are very poor.

‘And what I’ve seen of those excursions, he mixes with the higher courses. He does not actually, other than carefree orchestrated areas the place he mixes with so-called the ‘regular individuals’ – properly they are not. 

‘These are rigorously orchestrated campaigns so far as I can see… I look fairly dispassionately on the proof and the proof I’ve seen is, it is all about Harry and Meghan.   

‘It is little or no to do with an precise alleged rationale for going there.’