Harry and Meghan borrowed a $50million German taxpayer-owned Luftwaffe jet to take them to and from Dusseldorf yesterday, MailOnline can disclose today.
The couple are again at Frogmore Cottage, their grace-and-favour UK home, where they are predicted to spend the day collectively before their subsequent engagement on their pseudo-royal tour of Europe in London tomorrow.
The Sussexes profess to hate the stifling formality and archaic traditions of royal life. But the entirety about Harry and Meghan’s go to to Germany the previous day to promote Invictus Games 2023 screamed of a royal tour-lite.



And MailOnline can disclose this extended to the way they travelled to Dusseldorf, because a $50million German Air Force jet with 'Luftwaffe' on the tail used to be despatched to London to collect them. At around the identical time, Harry's grandmother, the Queen, used to be photographed for the first time considering the fact that July meeting her new Prime Minister Liz Truss at Balmoral.
The German military - acknowledged as the Bundeswehr - and the city of Dusseldorf are jointly hosting subsequent year's Invictus Games. As part of the agreement, the Bundeswehr provided the use of their private jet, also used by means of high-ranking politicians and officials, to Harry and Meghan.





The German Air Force airplane used by Prince Harry and Meghan Markle used to be a Bombardier Global 5000 commonly reserved for senior contributors of the German government or armed forces. But the day gone by it was once lent to the Sussexes who then did not want to fly commercial.
It landed in the UK the day before today morning and took the couple from RAF Northolt at 11.34am, landing at Dusseldorf Airport at 1.23pm - 15 minutes at the back of schedule. After being met on the Tarmac they were then swept into the town in a black Porsche Cayenne. 


After the Invictus engagements, the airplane left Dusseldorf at 8.51pm, touchdown back at Northolt below an hour later. They were then pushed the 20 miles to Windsor. The plane left Northolt at 9.24pm, returning to Cologne at 11.16pm local time, in accordance to flight monitoring provider FlightAware.
A supply said: ‘The Bundeswehr have a fleet of transport jets and this used to be most appropriate for the short outing from England. It has the smallest ability for passengers.





‘There isn’t a army base in Dusseldorf so the plane flew from Cologne and picked up the company at RAF Northolt. It flew the birthday party back to the identical place and lower back to Cologne.
‘The Bundeswehr are proud to be associated with the games to help with wounded warfare veterans and the provide was made when we had been awarded the games. The identical provide will apply subsequent yr when the video games start.’

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