Tom Barr, a GB News commentator, recently claimed that Prince Harry and Meghan Markle were perpetual freeloaders and scroungers.

According to him, Meghan approached a wealthy person at a gathering and got their contact information, after which Harry called the next day to ask if they could borrow their beach house.

When they were told yes, Harry called again the following day, asking if they could use the person’s private jet to get to the borrowed beach house, but they were told no.

This is probably what they did to other wealthy people like the Clooneys, Tyler Perry, and Elton John.

Barr also alleged that Netflix and Spotify were both fed up with the non-stop grifting they put up with from the Sussexes.

In his memoir Spare, Harry wrote that Meghan shared all the freebies she received, such as clothes, perfumes, and makeup, with all the women in the office.

Markle was allegedly hungry for luxury freebies even after joining the royal family and thought they needed her more than she needed them.

In the book The Palace Papers, Inside the House of Windsor, The Truth and the Turmoil, author Tina Brown claims that Meghan wanted leading lady status within the UK.

Brown explains what Meghan’s life was like just as she was meeting Harry and how a blog at the time, The Tig, was her way of getting luxury freebies.

She won a reputation among the marketers of luxury brands of being warmly interested in receiving bags of designer swag, Brown writes in the book, and it allegedly didn’t stop after she officially joined the royal family.

According to the book, even once she married Prince Harry, Meghan still allegedly tried to get freebies from luxury brands.

A publicist said she was copied into a message from Meghan’s team where Meghan allegedly wrote, “make sure the publicist knows that she can still send me anything.

She’s always been one of the good ones.”

It’s not the first time questions have been raised about Meghan’s acceptance of presents while a working member of the royal family.

Royal expert Camilla Tominey, writing in The Telegraph, has said when Meghan first came on the scene, she expected to keep some of the dresses she’d been loaned.

Under the rules, gifts offered by businesses in the UK should normally be declined, unless they’re offered as a souvenir of an official visit to the enterprise’s premises, to mark a royal marriage or other special personal occasion.

The rules also say when gifts are accepted, the consent of the members of the royal family should depend on the business not exploiting the gift for commercial purposes.

Gifts should always be returned unless it’s not justified to do so due to the cost.

However, if such presents are not returned, they should then be treated as official gifts, the rules state.

Official gifts are not the private property of the royal who receives them but are received on behalf of the monarch.

The rules stipulate they should be traceable wherever possible.

Royal author Valentin Lowe in his 2021 book, Courtiers, claimed palace sources said clashes between Meghan and her assistant, Melissa Tubati, centred around free gifts some companies would send Meghan.

Lowe wrote, “Tubati was apparently punctilious in following the household rule that members of the royal family cannot accept freebies from commercial organisations.

Her approach didn’t go down well with Meghan.”

The Sun reported in 2021 that there were rows when the former Suits actor was told by palace aides that keeping clothes sent by fashion labels was against royal protocol.

A source then told the publication, “As an actress, it was perfectly acceptable to take freebies sent by fashion chains and designer labels.