Who is Prince Harry? Biography, Wife, Children, Net Worth, And Parents

Prince Harry, Duke of Sussex, KCVO is a member of the British royal family.

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Prince Harry is the younger son of Charles, Prince of Wales, and Diana, Princess of Wales, and a grandson of Queen Elizabeth II. He is sixth in the line of succession to the British throne.

Who is Prince Harry?

Prince Harry is a member of the British royal family. He is the younger son of Charles, Prince of Wales, and Diana, Princess of Wales, and a grandson of Queen Elizabeth II.

Full name: Henry Charles Albert David

Age: 37 years

Date of birth: 15 September 1984

Place of birth: St Mary’s Hospital, London, United Kingdom

Nationality: British

Education: Eton College, Ludgrove School

Parents:  King Charles III, and Diana, Princess of Wales.

Spouse: Meghan, Duchess of Sussex (m. 2018)

Children:  Lilibet Diana Mountbatten-Windsor, Archie Harrison Mountbatten-Windsor

Net worth: $60 million

Height: 1.86 m

Rank: Major (Army), Lieutenant commander (Royal Navy), Squadron leader (Royal Air Force)

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In July 2016, Prince Harry began a relationship with American actress Meghan Markle. In November, the prince directed his communications secretary to release a statement on his behalf to express personal concern about pejorative and false comments made about his girlfriend by mainstream media and internet trolls.

In September 2017, Prince Harry and Markle first appeared together in public at the Invictus Games in Toronto. Their engagement was announced on 27 November 2017 by Harry’s father Prince Charles.

The announcement prompted generally positive comments about having a mixed-race person as a member of the royal family, especially in regard to Commonwealth countries with populations of blended or native ancestry.

On 19 May 2018, the marriage ceremony was held at St George’s Chapel, Windsor Castle. The couple later revealed in the 2021 television interview Oprah with Meghan and Harry that there was a private exchange of vows 3 days before with the Archbishop of Canterbury in their garden. However, this earlier exchange of vows was not an official religious or legally recognised marriage. 

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It was reportedly agreed in advance that excess funds generated from the BBC broadcast of the wedding ceremony would go to a charity chosen by the newlywed couple. In April 2020, Feeding Britain (which provides food packages to families in food poverty) was nominated to receive £90,000 from the BBC.

The Duke and Duchess initially lived at Nottingham Cottage in London, on the grounds of Kensington Palace. They then moved to Frogmore Cottage in the Home Park of Windsor Castle. The Crown Estate refurbished the cottage at a cost of £2.4 million, paid out of the Sovereign Grant, with the Duke later reimbursing expenses beyond restoration and ordinary maintenance.

On 6 May 2019, the Duke and Duchess’s son Archie Mountbatten-Windsor was born. Their office was moved to Buckingham Palace and officially closed on 31 March 2020 when the Sussexes ceased “undertaking official engagements in support of the Queen”.

After some months in Canada and the United States, the couple bought a house in June 2020 on the former estate of Riven Rock in Montecito, California, where they own a chicken coop with hens rescued from a factory farm. The next month, the Duchess suffered a miscarriage.

On 4 June 2021, their daughter Lilibet Mountbatten-Windsor was born. The Duke and Duchess own a Labrador named Pula, and two Beagles named Guy and Mamma Mia, respectively.

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Harry is godfather to “five or six” children, including the daughters of Major Nicholas van Cutsem (the son of Hugh van Cutsem) and Jake Warren, his mother’s godson, whose father is the Queen’s horse racing manager. He became godfather to Charlie van Straubenzee’s firstborn daughter in May 2020.

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