Harry and Meghan only worked one hour a week for Archewell, tax filings show
Prince Harry and Meghan Markle have each worked one hour a week on Archewell, their charitable endeavour, a new tax filing shows.
The Duke and Duchess of Sussex revealed their working hours in the nonprofit's tax returns - which is similar to one week's full-time work.
Across 2021, they worked 52 hours each but managed to draw in £10 million from wealthy backers who propped the organisation up.
The couple say they have made their humanitarian charity their priority since stepping back as working royals.
Archewell drew in around £3,700 in public donations and gave out approximately £2 million in grants.
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The vast majority of their money, £8 million, came from a single wealthy backer, with another forking out £2 million.
It isn’t known who the money came from.
The tax forms showing how little the royals worked (archewell.com)Whilst Harry and Meghan don’t take a salary, Archewell CEO James Holt does, and receives a cool £48,337 a year including a few thousand in benefits.
This leaves him making almost £1,000 an hour.
They also spent just over £172,000 on legal fees as well.
Three previous employees, a Treasury secretary, President Secretary and Treasurer all left at various points over 2021 and all only worked an hour per week as well.
One of the groups they helped was Invisible Hand, based out of Brooklyn, who received £174,254 and a second California based charity received almost £89,000.
The document sheds some light on Archewell and the organisation’s works.
Through Archewell, Harry and Meghan helped a huge range of people and groups (Peter Dejong/AP/REX/Shutterstock)One group they helped outside the USA was in Europe, they gave the organisation just over £149,422 to help improve access to Covid vaccines globally, “mental health” and to “improve diversity of thought and experience within the media”.
Other work included supporting families evacuated from Afghanistan, with the Welcome US organisation.
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They also developed four community relief centres to help in a crisis and expanded the fellowship programme at the Centre for Critical Internet Inquiry, and The Institute for Rebooting Social Media.
Alongside that they helped fund a study into the impact of the pandemic on working women in the USA, funded repairs of a women’s shelter, supported work to improve paid leave in the US, funded an award in coalition with the NAACP and more.
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.
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.”
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