Meghan Markle and Prince Harry could become the BIGGEST Instagram influencers on the planet after royal exit
PRINCE Harry and Meghan Markle could pocket a packet as the “biggest Instagram influencers on the planet”.
Multi-national firms would pay big to get the couple to promote their brands to their ten million followers.
Social media expert Paul Sutton said: “They could make millions. They could be hugely successful.
“Luxury jewellery firms would be particularly keen on Meghan.”
He said Harry and Meghan could leapfrog the Kardashians as top earners. Megastar Kim, 39, gets around £728,000 per post and sister Kylie Jenner, 22, gets £960,000.
The couple could also make serious cash from high-profile public speaking events.
Former actress Meghan, 38, has also launched a clothing fashion line specialising in professional clothes for women seeking work.
She was reportedly worth £3.8million when she wed Harry, thanks to US TV legal drama Suits.
Experts do not expect her to return to acting.
What they've cost...
HARRY and Meghan have cost more than £50million since they became a couple.
That vast figure reflects a lifestyle that few husbands and wives would be capable of funding themselves.
Overseas tours have cost enormous sums — and the wedding in May 2018 cost £32million alone.
Frogmore Cottage, the Duke and Duchess of Sussex’s official residence, had a taxpayer-funded £2.4million renovation in the summer. And round-the-clock security for the home in Windsor is believed to cost £600,000 a year.
The couple paid up to £100,000 for a holiday to Ibiza in August — and were criticised for using private jets. It is reported that they spent £800,000 throughout Meghan’s pregnancy — including £385,000 on maternity clothes and a further £154,000 on a baby shower.
Their 16-day tour through Australia, Fiji and Tonga in October 2018 cost £81,000 — and their trip to South Africa in the autumn is believed to have cost a similar amount.
The Prince of Wales paid £89,000 to fund the public duties of Harry and Meghan and the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge.
Royal accounts showed that Charles’s bill for Harry and Meghan and Wills and Kate, plus some other expenditure, came to £5.05million last year.
That was up from £4.96million in 2017-18.
The Sussexes have now revealed that they plan on becoming “financially independent.”
That would mean they no longer receive funding from the Sovereign Grant — the money paid annually to the monarchy by the UK Government.
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