This has to be a joke??? Britain's Prince Harry loses home on royal estate: reports

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159. The Palace announced the cottage was a gift from the Queen. That wasn't a lie on Harry's part.

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And Harry and Megan paid back the balance on the 2.4 million renovation costs in full when they made the Netflix deal in 2020.

But why should they have had to bear ANY cost of renovating a decrepit 200 year old building with sagging floors and ceiling joints, and an electrical and heating system that was so old they had to build a new electrical substation? A house that was on the Palace's list of properties in line to be rehabbed? What sort of gift giver requires the receiver to spend millions of their own money making the "gift" habitable? And then evicts the giftee without paying them back for the cost of the renovations?

It made some sense when the Prince was living there. But it was a cheap gift from The Firm, to be allowed to spend his own money fixing up a house that here would have been a teardown. But what a deal the Palace got -- someone else to fund the millions it cost to make their teardown livable.