Harry and Meghan told to repay £2.4m owed to taxpayer for renovations on Windsor home after £112m Netflix deal
HARRY and Meghan have been told to pay back £2.4million owed to the taxpayer for renovations on their Windsor home after scooping a megabucks Netflix deal.
The couple have signed a whopping multi-year production contract with the streaming giants estimated to net them between $50 - $100million.
But they owe at least £2.4million for extensive renovations on Frogmore Cottage which they abandoned to live in £14.7million California mansion.
After Megxit Harry, 35, and Meghan, 39, pledged to pay back £18,000 a month which will take them 11 years to clear.
Former Lib Dem MP Norman Baker said the rich couple should also pay for security of Frogmore and their own travel costs - which are currently covered by due to their HRH status.
He said: "They should pay the taxpayer back immediately for Frogmore renovations rather than wait eleven years.
"They can both definitely afford it. They should either pay it when the Netflix money arrives or give up the cottage.
"Even the monthly amount they have set is willfully inadequate. I don't mind them having this deal with Netflix, good luck to them.
"But if they are going to do that then they have to make sure they are not benefiting from their royal status.
'BABY YOGA STUDIO & VEGAN PAINT'
The £2.4million bill only includes the costs from 2018/19 and does not include any work before they left for Canada then California, The cottage was remodelled for the couple from five separate living quarters into a family home to bring up Archie.
The pair forked out for some of the fittings themselves but Sovereign Grant paid for replacing ceiling beams and floor joists and revamped electric, plumbing, gas and heating.
New bathrooms were installed as well as a "floating" kitchen floor and £50,000 on soundproof windows to drown out the aircraft noise on Heathrow flightpath.
It was also claimed the home had a 'baby yoga studio' and was decorated with vegan paint.
It was entirely redecorated thanks to Vicky Charles, the designer behind luxury Soho Farmhouse.
Mr Baker, a member of the Privy Council and author of 'And What Do You Do? What The Royal Family Don't Want You To Know', added: "They still have their HRH status that means that the taxpayer is still paying for security guards walking round Frogmore and free travel back to the UK.
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"Of course they should pay back Frogmore straight away - and also give up their HRH status.
"I don't mind them getting a deal as former HRHs but it surely goes against the terms of them stepping down if they get this deal using their HRH.
"The HRH title is a passport to state support. There needs to be a clean break."
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