The Duke and Duchess of Sussex have lived in the US since stepping down as working royals, in 2020. Prince Harry and Meghan no longer receiv...
The Duke and Duchess of Sussex have lived in the US since stepping down as working royals, in 2020.
Prince Harry and Meghan no longer receive money from the Royal Family, and have a series of commercial arrangements with a number of companies.
Netflix has released the latest documentary it has made with the couple, a five-part series about the Invictus Games, which Harry launched, in 2014, to showcase veterans injured during their military careers.
Why did Harry and Meghan leave the Royal Family?
Harry and Meghan met in 2016 and married in 2018. They stepped down as senior royals in January 2020.
Angry about media intrusion, the couple were frustrated that Buckingham Palace stopped them developing their "SussexRoyal" brand.
Harry remained a prince, and he and Meghan kept their Duke and Duchess of Sussex titles, but they are no longer addressed as his/her royal highness (HRH).
He also gave up his military titles and no longer wears army uniform in public.
When Prince Harry's father, Charles, became King, the couple's children became Prince Archie and Princess Lilibet of Sussex.
Where do Harry and Meghan live?
The couple moved to California in June 2020, saying they wanted space to raise Archie, and to develop their charitable Archewell Foundation. Lilibet was born in 2021.
The duke and duchess returned to the UK for the late Queen's Platinum Jubilee in June 2022, and her funeral in September.
Prince Harry also made an unexpected appearance in London in March 2023, when he attended a court hearing as part of legal action he is taking against a number of publisher.
In August, the five-part documentary series Heart of Invictus was released, in which Harry describes his emotional "unravelling" after military service in Afghanistan in 2013.
Archewell also made podcasts for Spotify, including Archetypes, in which Meghan talked to other high-profile women. The contract was estimated to be worth $25m (£18m) in late 2020 but ended in June 2023.
The couple were interviewed by US presenter Oprah Winfrey in March 2021, but said they were not paid for the appearance.
Books
Harry's memoir, Spare, was officially published in January 2023 - but much of the book's content leaked in advance, including the claim he was physically attacked by his brother, the Prince of Wales.
Written in conjunction with JR Moehringer, the book also discusses his grief over the death of his mother, Princess Diana, and says he and William urged their father not to marry his partner, Camilla, now the Queen.
When the book was announced, the publisher promised donations of $1.5m (£1.25m) and £300,000 would be made to the Sentebale and WellChild charities.
Meghan published a children's book called The Bench in 2021.
Other
In March 2021, Harry was appointed "chief impact officer" for Californian firm BetterUp.
What did Prince Harry and Meghan lose when they stepped down as working royals?
Annual income
As working royals, they received 95% of their annual income from Harry's father, then Prince of Wales.
In the financial year 2018-2019 (the first year of their marriage), Charles's Duchy of Cornwall estate provided more than £5m to cover the public duties - and some private expenses - of the Sussexes, and of Prince William and Catherine, Princess of Wales, then the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge.
The taxpayer-funded Sovereign Grant made up the other 5%.
Charles subsequently gave them "a substantial sum" to support their transition to financial independence.
Duchy of Cornwall accounts show that the couple - along with Prince William and Catherine - received £4.5m between April and June 2020.
"That funding [then] ceased," according to a spokesman.
Bodyguards
Once they stepped back from official duties, the duke and duchess were no longer covered by the security arrangements in place for senior royals.
When Harry first left the UK, he said it would be too dangerous to bring back his family without police protection.
In July 2022, he was granted permission to challenge its removal at the High Court.
That case is continuing - but in May, a judge separately rejected the prince's request to be allowed pay privately for police protection in the UK.
Frogmore Cottage
The Queen gave Frogmore Cottage in Windsor to Harry and Meghan when they married in 2018.
The Crown Estate paid for renovations costing £2.4m, which the couple repaid when they stepped down.
They retained the cottage as their UK residence, celebrating their daughter Lilibet's first birthday there in 2022.
However, in early 2023, Buckingham Palace asked the couple to leave the property.
The Sun newspaper reported that the request was made shortly after Harry's memoir was published.
What other funds do Harry and Meghan have?
William and Harry received the bulk of Princess Diana's £13m fortune when their mother died in 1997.
Harry told Oprah Winfrey this inheritance funded their US move: "I've got what my mum left me. Without that, we wouldn't have been able to do this
