Harry and Meghan’s Mystery Billionaire Connection Finally Explained

Pool / Getty Images The mystery behind Prince Harry and Meghan Markle’s connection to their billionaire host has finally been solved.

Why a hard-nosed billionaire would offer a renegade prince and his wife an English hideaway has puzzled the public ever since Harry and Meghan returned to the U.K. over the summer.

Well, The Royalist can now reveal the answer: Harry and Meghan bonded with their current Cotswolds host after the private jet carrying them was hit by a “terrifying” lightning strike.

The strike happened on board the hedge fund manager’s Dassault Falcon 7X in September 2018, as the three of them plus the businessman’s model wife (who he has subsequently divorced) flew from London to Amsterdam for the celebrity-studded opening of that city’s branch of the members’ club Soho House.

The hedge funder, who has been widely identified by other outlets but the Royalist is not naming, had been asked to give the couple a lift by a mutual acquaintance.

They had not met before the trip.

A Cotswolds source told The Royalist that the terrifying incident “bonded” Harry and Meghan and the billionaire, on whose estate, The Royalist understands, the couple are now living.

Meghan appears to have filmed the video she posted yesterday of Archie and Lilibet walking through a deer park on the property.

The lightning strike was reported by the Mail on Sunday three weeks after it happened, although the identity of the couple’s host has not been revealed until now.

Harry and Meghan, who were then renting a holiday house at Great Tew, boarded the aircraft at London Oxford Airport, about twelve miles from their holiday home.

En route, a bolt of lightning hit the nose cone of the $53 million jet, sending 30 million volts through the fuselage.

Meghan, it emerged a few weeks later, was in the early weeks of her pregnancy with Archie.

The jet did not perform an emergency landing.

It landed safely at Schiphol.