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  • a deal has been agreed on the future of the Duke and Duchess of Sussex, who to step down as working Royal's in this spring.

  • Buckingham Palace confirmed on Saturday that Prince Harry and his wife, Megan, will no longer receive public funds.

  • They won't use their royal titles, either.

  • They've also said that they want to pay back taxpayers money spent on renovating their home in Windsor.

  • They plan to spend most of their time living in Canada, and the other Ralph is outside Buckingham Palace.

  • Well, Harry and Meghan had said that they had wanted to step back from their royal duties, but this is much more than that.

  • They're not just stepping back.

  • They are stepping away entirely from royal life.

  • It was clearly felt by senior members of the royal family that this idea of a roll that was ah, hybrid half in half out just wasn't viable, that there needed to be this clean break for clarity, and they would now step away entirely from their royal life.

  • So that means no more public money they won't have the H.

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  • H isn't her Rule Highness titles, and they will forge a different role from them themselves outside of the royal family and largely based out of North America.

  • They will still have some money some private funds from the Prince of Wales, Harry's father.

  • But you have to presume that they will now have to produce some kind of commercial interests alongside their charity work.

  • How will that look?

  • How will they decide the kind of deals that they're going to do?

  • The royal family has not set any boundaries around that.

  • There are no rules and regulations.

  • Instead, they have just been told one thing.

  • Harry Megan have been told that any commercial activity that they pursue should uphold the values off the queen.

  • Now that's quite a broad statement.

  • It's perhaps a little bit vague in terms of the decisions they make.

  • But going forward this well in many ways be a test of the integrity of Harry and Megan in terms of the kind of decisions they make and how they make this plan work Going forward any years time, this will be looked at.

a deal has been agreed on the future of the Duke and Duchess of Sussex, who to step down as working Royal's in this spring.

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