“My family cut me off financially” – Prince Harry

Prince Harry has revealed that the royal family “literally cut him off financially” after he and Meghan Markle stepped back as working royals. 

 He stated this during a quite revealing interview with Oprah Winfrey. According to Prince Harry, the idea of deals with Spotify and Netflix came after “my family literally cut me off financially.” Harry said that he was cut off in the first quarter of 2020 — shortly after he and Meghan announced they would step back as senior members of the royal family. 

He added that he had the money left to him by his late mother, Princess Diana. “Without that, we wouldn’t have been able to do this,” he said, likely referring to the family’s move to California. 

 The Duke of Sussex added, “All I wanted was enough money to get security and keep my family safe.”

 The Duke and Duchess of Sussex revealed how billionaire filmmaker Tyler Perry came in to help them after they were cut off financially by the royal family. S

oon after they were told they would stop receiving security protection from the British royal family, Harry and Markle, who were in Canada at the time, started to panic about where they should go and where they would be safest.

Tyler Perry offered, not just one of his homes in southern California, but a full security detail. They stayed there for three months. Prince Harry recalled: 

"While we were in Canada, in someone else’s house, I then got told, short notice, that security was going to be removed."

He added that because of tabloids, his and his wife’s exact location was known. He continued: "So suddenly it dawned on me: ‘Hang on, the borders could be closed, we’re going to have our security removed, who knows how long lockdown is going to be, the world knows where we are, it’s not safe, it’s not secure, we probably need to get out of here." 

 At that point, Meghan told Winfrey they didn’t have a plan and "needed a house", at which point Tyler Perry stepped in.

  "We didn’t have a plan and we needed a house and he offered security as well so it gave us breathing room to try to figure out what we were going to do," Meghan told Winfrey of the couple’s first months in California. 

On social media, Tyler Perry was applauded for his generosity to the couple during their moment of vulnerability.