Tory MP Wants Prince Harry, Meghan Markle to Pay Back for Their UK Home Renovation With Netflix Cash

Earlier this week, Prince Harry and Meghan Markle announced that they had clinched a deal with Netflix to create content for making documentaries, feature films, scripted shows, and children’s programming.

Sir Geoffrey Clifton-Brown, deputy chair of Parliament’s Public Accounts Committee, has urged Prince Harry and Meghan Markle to use a hefty sum from their deal with Netflix to pay back the money they received to renovate Frogmore Cottage, the couple’s  former home on the Windsor Castle estate in the UK.

The Duke and Duchess of Sussex are now in the process of repaying £2.4 million ($3.1 million) for repairing Frogmore Cottage at a rate of £18,000 ($23,921) a month.

Clifton-Brown told The Telegraph on Sunday that he had read “all the facts of the case”, stressing that “clearly anyone who has borrowed taxpayers’ cash needs to pay it back as quickly as possible”.

The Conservative MP also noted that similar sorts of sums “are out of the reach of the vast majority of people in this country who have been trying to make ends meet during the coronavirus crisis”.

According to him, many people “will think that if the couple aren’t carrying out royal duties – and are making a lot of money in America, then they should start paying it back sooner”.

The remarks came after Harry and Meghan announced their upcoming collaboration with the streaming giant Netflix to make documentaries, feature films, and TV programmes.

After the couple stepped down from their roles as working royals in January 2020, Prince Harry and Meghan Markle moved to Canada and have more recently resettled in California.

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