{"id":660138,"date":"2026-06-26T22:53:09","date_gmt":"2026-06-26T22:53:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/660138\/"},"modified":"2026-06-26T22:53:09","modified_gmt":"2026-06-26T22:53:09","slug":"royal-family-one-senior-royal-plans-to-avoid-harry-and-meghan-during-uk-visit-royal-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/660138\/","title":{"rendered":"Royal Family: One senior royal ‘plans to avoid Harry and Meghan’ during UK visit | Royal | News"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Royal Family’s annual report on its finances<\/a> has revealed how much has been spent by the Firm, including on helicopter flights<\/a> and trips abroad<\/a>. It lists outgoings over the 12 months to March 2026, with travel costs of at least \u00a320,000.<\/p>\n

Recorded are 37 separate journeys, some 13 of which involved the King, 11 of which were within the UK. Some 177 helicopter journeys were made by the Royal Family in 2025\/26, costing \u00a3733,063 overall, and total spending on journeys, including trips that cost both above and below \u00a320,000, was \u00a33,316,024.<\/p>\n

The Prince of Wales’s official three-day visit to Saudi Arabia<\/a> in February on behalf of the UK government cost a total of \u00a3130,106, including spending on two additional planning trips by staff. This was just ahead of the \u00a3126,946 in travel costs for the King and Queen\u2019s four-day state visit to Italy in April 2025. There were four trips on the royal train to carry out engagements in Lancaster in June 2025 (a cost of \u00a348,460), in Staffordshire in October (\u00a334,109), in Dartmouth in December (\u00a337,466) and Clitheroe in Lancashire in February 2026 (\u00a340,738).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Royal Family’s annual report on its finances has revealed how much has been spent by the Firm,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":660139,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[96,59,100,983,925,223,56,221416,54,55],"class_list":["post-660138","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-entertainment","tag-gb","tag-meghan-markle","tag-prince-harry","tag-queen-camilla","tag-royal-family","tag-uk","tag-uk-visit-tensions","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/660138","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=660138"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/660138\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/660139"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=660138"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=660138"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=660138"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}