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Prince Harry is poised to inherit millions of pounds as he approaches his 40th birthday next month, which a royal analyst describes as a "small bonus" for the Duke and Duchess of Sussex.
The 39-year-old will get £7 million from a trust fund set up by his great-grandmother, the Queen Mother, who contributed a major amount of her estimated £70 million fortune to it.
With Harry's portion of about 10%, the bequest raises concerns about how the Queen Mother may see the situation, particularly in light of Harry's recent estrangement with the Royal Family.
According to royal writer Jennie Bond, Harry's great-grandmother, whom he lovingly referred to as "Gan Gan," would be devastated by the family dispute given their close bond.
She told OK! Magazine, "The Queen Mother loved her great grandchildren and they adored her sense of humour."
Bond went on to reveal how she would frequently do impressions of some of her great-grandchildren's favorite characters, which would make them laugh.
"But," she wrote, "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."
The royal journalist believes the Queen Mother would have been upset with Harry and Meghan for their comments against the Firm.
Regarding the money itself, Bond said: "For most of us, an inheritance of several million pounds would be utterly life changing.... for Harry and Meghan, it will be a small bonus compared to their commercial earnings." I'm confident Harry will like it, as he has good recollections of his great grandma, or Gan Gan as he called her.
She also stated that the money would be immensely welcomed, given Harry and Meghan's rising security expenditures.
When the Duke of Sussex resigned as a working royal in 2020, he was removed of his Metropolitan Police bodyguards.
Ravec, the body in charge of security for monarchs, VIPs, and senior public figures, removed Harry's state-funded security after he left the Firm.
