We found out last week that Meghan and Harry want to quit the Royal Family, and everyone seems to have very mixed feeling about it.

The Queen is reportedly devastated, Piers Morgan is taking it as a personal affront, and others think they’re making the right decision.

Harry is supposedly going to talk to the Queen today about how all of this is going to work. Meanwhile, Meghan, following a brief public appearance with the Prince, jumped ship (or rather, private plane) and headed back to Canada, where she’d left Archie with his nanny.

As for where she’ll be staying, and indeed where the family stayed during their trip to Canada over the holidays, Page Six has the details:

Prince Harry and Meghan Markle have been hiding out at the home of Canadian billionaire Frank Giustra (below), whose close ties to the Clintons have created international controversy, Page Six can exclusively reveal.

Harry and Meghan refused to reveal the owner of the multi-million dollar waterfront mansion near Victoria, British Columbia — the place where they plotted their shock exit from the royal family.

Nothing stays hidden for long, especially when it’s tied to one of the biggest royal scandals of the year.

Giustra made his fortune as a stockbroker. He also co-founded Lionsgate, the film studio that brought us American Psycho and the Michael Moore documentary Fahrenheit 9/11.

He’s also been at the centre of some controversial politics.

In 2005, he and President Bill Clinton traveled together to Kazakhstan to meet with the former Soviet republic’s authoritarian leader. Days later, Giustra acquired shares in three of the country’s state-run uranium mines — a venture valued at more than $3 billion.

Months after the Kazakh pact, Giustra reportedly gave a $31.3 million donation to the Clinton Foundation and has since publicly pledged he’ll donate another $100 million.

He denies that Clinton helped him in any way, but then later divested himself of the assets. Also, Bill isn’t the only Clinton that he’s helped out.

In 2016, as Hillary Clinton was running for president, the leaked e-mails of her campaign chairman, John Podesta, revealed that Giustra and Mexican billionaire Carlos Slim gave an endowment of $20 million in 2010 to the Clinton Foundation to set up the for-profit Haiti Development Fund, intended to give seed money to Haitian entrepreneurs after the devastating earthquake.

Yet there is “almost nothing in the public record” showing what happened to the millions of dollars, according to reports at the time.

Giustra was furious at the claims and later told Canada’s National Post that the Clinton controversy was “insanity … a f–king circus,” ranting, “I’m like, seriously, folks? I’m giving away money. There’s a campaign, a political campaign. Anybody with half a brain would know what’s happening.”

He currently runs the private equity firm, Fiore Financial, and remains on the board of directors at the Clinton Foundation. He’s also known for his philanthropic work through the Radcliffe Foundation, which helps causes such as the Boys Club network and the homeless and supports the International Crisis Group by providing humanitarian aid and supplies to refugee camps in Greece and Turkey.

Back to the house that Meghan and Harry stayed in:

The main house, called Mille Fleurs, was bought in 2014 and registered under a local country club to shield the identity of the owner. Even the neighbors haven’t known who the buyer is. The home is11,416 square feet, with five bedrooms and eight bathrooms, and the property also boasts a 2,349-square-foot guest cottage with three beds and two baths.

Meghan and Harry’s publicist, Sara Latham, is a former Hillary Clinton aide.

But sources told Page Six that the royal couple’s access to the mansion was set up through famed music producer David Foster, not Latham.

Meghan is hiding there until Harry can negotiate some kind of friendly exit with the Queen.

She’s a formidable woman, ol’ Queenie – I wouldn’t want to face her either.

[source:pagesix]