Repairs To Prince Harry, Meghan Markle’s New Home Cost Taxpayers $2.8 Million

London: The official home that UK’s Queen Elizabeth II has given to Prince Harry and Meghan Markle, the Duke and Duchess of Sussex, was refurbished using 2.4 million pounds ($2.8 million) of taxpayers’ money, accounts published by Buckingham Palace on Tuesday showed. The Queen gave Prince Harry and Meghan the use of Frogmore Cottage within her vast Windsor Castle estate but it needed work done to convert it into a modern royal household. “The scheme (Frogmore Cottage) consisted of the reconfiguration and full refurbishment of five residential units in poor condition to create the official residence for The Duke and Duchess of Sussex and their family,” Buckingham Palace said in a statement cited by Efe news. The cottage is located northwest of Frogmore House, a larger luxury residence set within palatial gardens where the royal couple, as newlyweds in May 2018, held their wedding reception. The money for the repair work on the cottage came from the Queen’s Sovereign Grant, which the government paid to the Head of State in 2018-19. (IANS)

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