Do you want to know: this is what Meghan Markle really earns per month

Recently someone said, and I found it funny: ‘That caterpillar is the new Meghan Markle’. Yes, that’s how things go in life.

One day we were only talking about Meghan's left and right toe, now you read all summer about caterpillars crawling on tree trunks and leaving annoying itching behind. And that we have to fight them because otherwise the Nijmegen Four Days March cannot take place. That kind of cucumber news. But the how-can-she-be-so-pretty-after-a-birth-Meghan remains a good second, because what do we really want to know about how she and Archie are doing. We love to hear what she can and cannot do. What she wants and does not want. How much trouble she gets into with whom, wherever. Whether she hates Kate. And Kate hates her. But did you actually know that she doesn’t even earn bizarrely much, per year, as Duchess of Sussex and wife of Prince Harry?

Here it comes. Because this is what you secretly always wanted to know. Meghan now earns a neat 466,000 euros per year. Well, that’s not bad, because that’s a little over 38,000 euros per month. Certainly not little. But just for comparison: when she was in Suits, she earned 44,000 euros per episode. Read this carefully: per episode. And that adds up, yes, with six seasons – or how many were there? You do the math.

And compared to other royals she does quite mediocre and we didn’t expect that, given her popularity. Prince William earns 1.8 million euros per year, just like her husband Harry. Our own king then? Wim-Lex earns a royal nine hundred thousand per year and he can even add Máxima's salary to that: almost four hundred thousand per year. But there is only one real Queen of course and that is the Queen of England who will never abdicate unless she literally falls down: Elizabeth earns, hold on tight, 91 million per year. There is still something to learn for Meghan, there in small Great Britain.