PRINCE Harry and Meghan Markle have been given freebies worth a whopping £3.5MILLION since their relationship first began, their bombshell biography reveals.
The couple, who were pictured carrying out their first charity engagement since lockdown began, have taken flights on private jets, rented luxury homes for well below market value, and stayed in hotel rooms offered for free.
The authors of Finding Freedom – the sensational book about their lives together – revealed cdetails of the gifts handed to the royal pair.
And the combined value of those presents comes to almost £3.5million, the Daily Mail reports.
It began when the couple moved into the US from Canada just before the coronavirus lockdown began in America.
They moved straight into an eight-bed mansion owned by mogul Tyler Perry, a friend of mutual pal Oprah Winfrey.
Harry and Meghan, along with son Archie, stayed there rent-free for four months while they decided where they’d live full-time.
Similar homes are rented for £11,250 a month – meaning the couple saved a huge £45,000 on their accommodation.
But even at the beginning of their relationship, Finding Freedom authors Omid Scobie and Carolyn Durand suggest the couple were given free stays.
It’s understood Meghan may have been given a free room at Soho House in London in July 2016 – when the couple went on their first date.
Rooms at the posh hotel cost £405 per night.
The authors write: “Meghan had been offered a heavily discounted stay at the five-star Dorchester Hotel but chose the luxurious room secured by Markus [Anderson — Soho House director and Meghan’s friend] instead.
“As a celebrity and influencer, Meghan was regularly offered free holidays, travel discounts, and the like.
“But she turned down the Dorchester amid a Hollywood boycott after the hotel chain’s owner, the Sultan of Brunei, introduced sharia law in his country.”
As the couple’s relationship progressed, Markus Anderson offered them a stay at a private four-bed cottage at the Cotswolds Soho Farmhouse and at the Soho House property at Babington in Somerset.
The stay would have cost £4,650.
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Finding Freedom details the stay, with authors writing: “In Oxfordshire, barely an hour-and-a-half outside of London, it was the perfect retreat from the city.”
Anderson later arranged for the couple to spend a weekend at Babington House, a Georgian manor near Bath.
The retreat’s most expensive room costs £525 a night.
After news of Meghan and Harry’s relationship broke, Meghan’s best friend, stylist Jessica Mulroney, was asked to help bring the future royal to the UK for a private visit.
Authors say Mulroney arranged for Meghan to fly via a private jet belonging to Canadian couple Krystal Koo and Michael Cooper, who were said to be happy to help “run interference”.
A flight on a private jet from Toronto to London would cost from £49,000 one way.
Meghan and Harry then became engaged – and much has been made of Meghan’s apparent dislike of the ‘musty’ smell of St George’s Chapel.
In the end, Diptyque Baies diffusers were used, at a cost of £130 each, with the book noting the smellies were “provided by” the company.
After the wedding in May 2018, the couple went on a secret honeymoon – to which they were allegedly flown by a ‘private jet owned by a friend’.
The cost of that trip isn’t known – because the destination was kept under wraps.
But three months later, Meghan and Harry enjoyed a break with George Clooney and his lawyer wife, Amal, at their home on Lake Como in Italy.
They were flown there by the actor’s private jet – at a cost of £13,260.
The couple are well-known for their love of travel – and in January 2017 took a trip to the Arctic Circle together.
The week in a cabin in Tromsö at the very tip of Norway would have cost around £5,021.
Meghan and Harry spent a week dog-sledding, whale-watching and scanning the skies for the aurora.
The following year, they visited Australia with Jessica Mulroney and her husband Ben.
The authors of the book claim a ‘real-estate billionaire’ loaned them his home for the evening, with the friends enjoying a five-course meal.
Although the cost of such an experience isn’t known, it’s estimated it would have cost at least £5,000.
In February 2019, Meghan celebrated her baby shower with celebrity pals in New York, famously hitching a ride back to London with Amal Clooney.
The flight home to Britain would have cost at least £50,000.
Her blowout at the Mark Hotel cost an estimated £328,000, with the penthouse suite costing £57,000 a night.
It was a gift from pals who attended, including tennis star Serena Williams.
