Harry and Meghan spent nearly £250,000 of public money on flights just months before quitting the royal family. New accounts show the travel costs for the Duke and Duchess of Sussex's tour to southern Africa reached a staggering £246,000.
It has been branded a "disgraceful abuse of public money", but representatives have defended the expenditure. Harry and Meghan took their baby son Archie, then four months old, to South Africa in September last year on his first royal overseas trip.
Harry then travelled solo to Angola, Malawi and Botswana. The flights came to nearly a quarter of a million pounds and were the most expensive royal journey of 2019-2020, according to the royal financial records.
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