Posted on 01/18/2020 10:18:43 AM PST by conservative98
Harry, 35, and 38-year-old Meghan are set to snap up the property for a knockdown price after new tax rules on top-end homes sparked a 16 per cent drop in value in the area over two years.
Their near neighbours would include Canadian billionaire founder of the uber-trendy Lululemon Athletica yoga gear brand, Chip Wilson, whose mansion is worth £38 million.
Yoga and pilates fan Meg is known to be a fan of the Lululemon brand.
Kitsilano - full of rich and famous “movers and shakers” and particularly popular with trendy tech entrepreneurs - is seen as a perfect setting for her new life.
The mansion is far cry from sedate, Grade II listed Frogmore Cottage in the grounds of Home Park, Windsor.
The Queen is said to be "privately furious" at the money spent on Frogmore Cottage renovations following Prince Harry and Meghan's announcement they are moving abroad.
The royal couple have lived there since their publicly-funded £23.7million wedding.
Taxpayers also shelled out another £2.4million to fully modernise the historic 219-year-old property installing luxuries including organic gender neutral paint for Archie’s nursery.
Sources claim Her Majesty is angry at the amount spent, now that the couple intend to start a new life in Canada.
The couple will lose the £2million-a-year from the taxpayer-funded Sovereign Grant as they are stepping down from senior roles.
But they are set to bring in millions from lucrative commercial deals, which will be added to their already staggering £33million fortune.
This comes as they said how they wanted to become "financially independent".
Despite breaking ties with the royals,it's believed they will still be entitled to security, paid for by the taxpayer to the tune of around £600,000.
And it's thought they'll keep receiving £2million-a-year from Prince Charles through his private Duchy of Cornwall estate.
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My response to you said “Vancouver Island to be specific.” However, the beachfront villa in North Saanich may not be the residence they want. Whether it is Vancouver Island, Vancouver BC or Toronto, it looks like the Windsors are doing house shopping. I would think the west side of Canada would be the best place for Meghan’s trips to Hollywood. I would prefer Vancouver Island because of its beauty and that gem of a city, Victoria. Vancouver BC is filled with homeless and heroin injections sites.
One question is the costs of security on the island. High security costs the Canadian government is reluctant to finance. To make good with the government, I am sure they are considering a place considering the least security costs. Vancouver Island may be that place.
For the same reason, I question the judgement of Donald Trump Jr’s association with Kimberly Guilfoyle: poor judgment. Both babes hunt celebrity men and will drop them when the time is right.
“installing luxuries including organic gender neutral paint for Archie’s nursery”
LOL...yellow? green? utterly utterly stupid phrase! so they did exactly what every single parent has done when we didn’t know what the gender was going to be... but of course it is now PROGRESSIVE!
When Megxit stated that she would not move to the USA while Donald Trump is president, that put her right into the Utopian liberal fascist Obama camp.
Why should we wish her well? She is putting all of her eggs in the “Resist” basket, as if America , and we deplorables are no count ignoramuses. Meanwhile the US economy and Americas world influence has signaled a new era, one for which Megxit is ill equipped. To assuage her continuing life long rage at America moving back to its traditional institutions and values, for which both she and Harry hold an obvious contempt, she will dedicate her life to a continual primal scream redolent of Greta Thunberg times 100, and 100 times as hateful to America. How can she possibly be a celebrity who can make money from her status? She will become a reviled , bitchy hag trying to finance a wealthy life style without hope of making money at that level.
What will she do? Parade Harry onto the Ellen DeGeneres show and the Oprah Winfrey network as a subjugated Beta male? That ‘ll work? Just like it did for Beto O’Rorke?
Megxit had better conserve their estate, spend frugally and quietly pursue her acting career. Harry needs to find a profession, if he can ever get away from being continually pu$$y whipped.
You certainly put that very well. I think you’re right on the button.
I’m just sick of their faces, you can’t open a magazine or newspaper, or watch fake news on TV without their ugly mugs staring or smiling at you. Should be grateful I suppose they didn’t choose Australia - Canada, you are welcome to them.
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Should be grateful I suppose they didn’t choose Australia - Canada, you are welcome to them.>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
Justin Trudeau will avoid them like the plague, because his minority government cannot afford to offend the Quebec French politicians who revile the British Royal family.He certainly will not pay for their security.
This all adds up to a Megxit mere sojourn in Canada, and a soon to be revealed leap over to you fortunate swagmen down under! ( LOL)
Soon the tabloids will tire of publishing their liberal lefty “resist Trump” mugs all over the grocery store check outs. I am sick of having to see them.
Canada is a head fake. Her goal is Los Angeles/Malibu. I sure hope the Canadians don’t get stuck paying any of their expenses whatsoever.
Speaking of which, we are always hearing about Halfwit’s inheritance from his mother Diana in 1997. Various figures are thrown around, but let’s say that after taxes, he cleared at least $10 million. Starting in 1998, and with a top money manager, let’s say Halfwit’s inheritance grew by an average of 10% per year, and he spent little to none of it since Dad or the British taxpayers covered all his big expenses. Dad may have even added to Halfwit’s nest egg each year. The nest egg should have more than doubled over the years since 1998 and would be earning even more per annum that, with the 2-3 million that Dad has been giving Halfwit each year from Duchy of Cornwall funds, could be used to pay all expenses. Let’s say that at this point, Halfwit has an income of around $5 million per year (not even touching his principal), even before all the billions he and MeGain think they are going to earn start kicking in. Why on earth should any taxpayer anywhere pay any expense for these now-private citizens?
Same here. I think Harry is going to come to realize that he messed up and will hate the life he’s leading.
Harry will realize that he’s being used like a rented mule.
And we can be sure that Meghan is a Hillary supporter and will get one of Hillary’s ‘testicle lock boxes’ That boy will wish for the good old p w days.
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I can’t imagine being surrounded by all the friggin libs he will be.
Let’s say that at this point, Halfwit has an income of around $5 million per year >>>>>>>>>>>>>>
Megxit is an ego out of control. I predict she will burn through her husbands estate in a consecutive series of failed “business” ventures, all within 10 years.
As to 5 million a year income, the Queen will not allow commercial trade on the Royal Family name. And if they try, I expect a law suit to stop them. Megxit has already copyrighted to Duke and Duchess of Sussex trade name in the USA and Canada. She tries that, and the royal knives will come out because such messages will be counter to the various political interests of the Royal; Family in the post Trump era. Megxit is a flaming liberal lefty, resist Trump,Resist Boris,Resist Brexit celebrity dinosaur who is on the wrong side of history.
Unless Megxit is subsidized by George Soros, she is doomed to the poor house eventually.And there seems to be no chance of the necessary frugality which would mean her survival.
Harry should be getting out while he can. But love is blind, as they say. There eventually will not be an annual income of 5 million, certainly not in commercial trade on the royal titles and names.Perhaps Megxit will become the best paid voice over for “yoda” in the world. We have our doubts.
Harry will realize that he’s being used like a rented mule.>
He will be braying within 18 months IMHO.And he will start to wander.
I also bet he will be seduced by a gorgeous African American momma or perhaps a gorgeous “hermena” who will have the skills of every man’s dream. ( Prince Charles went for an old flame)
That’s the way these things can go with these royals as they attempt to live outside the Royal close.
Harry should be backing out of this deal as fast as he can.But he has been bitten by the liberal lefty Obama utopian liberal fascist bug.He’s done.
The Monarchy survived one American gold digger and it will survive another American gold digger
I picture him as a stay at home dad and she will land a movie deal
Addition by subtraction.
I can’t argue with anything you say.
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