‘Not a life of service!’ Prince Harry and Meghan blasted for working ‘one hour a week’ for their charities
‘Not a life of service’ Prince Harry and Meghan blasted for working ‘one hour a week’ for their charities
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Prince Harry and Meghan Markle have been blasted for working just "one hour a week" for their charities by a royal commentator.
After stepping down as working royals in 2020, the Duke and Duchess of Sussex founded their non-profit charity organisation Archewell.
However, Harry and Meghan reportedly worked just 52 hours for the tax year between 2020 and 2021, according to their nonprofit's tax returns.
The duke and duchess say they have made their humanitarian charity their priority since stepping back as working royals.
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Proving their humanitarian efforts, Archewell drew in around £3,700 in public donations and gave out approximately £2million in grants that year.
But GB News host Patrick Christys claimed: "Harry and Meghan, and this is just what we found online, worked 52 hours in the year, which equates to one hour per week, and it raised less than £4,500 in public donations.
"Is that a dedicated life of service?"
Royal commentator Angela Levin opined: "No, of course not. That's one hour a week for all the territories that they're supposed to be involved in, which is really nothing.
Prince Harry and Meghan Markle founded Archewell in October 2020
PA"It's five, 10 minutes for each of them."
Despite this, Archewell gave an organisation in Europe just over £149,422 to help improve access to Covid-19 vaccines globally.
Prince Harry and Meghan also supported families that evacuated from Afghanistan, along with the Welcome US organisation.
The couple additionally developed four community relief centres to help in a crisis.
Meghan Markle and Prince Harry announce their charity work on their Archewell website
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As well as this, the former working royals expanded the fellowship programme at the Centre for Critical Internet Inquiry, and The Institute for Rebooting Social Media.
Archewell is described as "an impact-driven nonprofit” with a core mission to “uplift and unite communities, local and global, online and offline, one act of compassion at a time".
Prince Harry and Meghan have said that they believe that “compassion is the defining cultural force of the 21st century and through its work, Archewell Foundation supports a growing community of partner organisations fuelling systemic cultural chance”.
The duke and duchess say they aim to "listen to people and their communities, help them tell their stories, put real action behind [their own] words, and spotlight a new generation of leadership”.