Talk about a royal flush.

Meghan Markle’s lawful group is saying that her wedding ceremony to Prince Harry introduced in £1 billion in tourism revenue, significantly off-environment the noted £32 million charge of the affair.

The Day-to-day Mail reviews that the new figures came in as aspect of the most new filings in the 38-12 months-aged Markle’s circumstance towards the Mail on Sunday. They counsel that British isles taxpayers footed the huge the vast majority — £30 million — of the shindig’s total expense, most of which went to stability, with the church support, flowers and reception paid out for by the Royal Family members.

In the meantime, her attorneys contend that the nuptials had been “not, in point, publicly funded, but instead personally financed by HRH The Prince of Wales” (Harry’s father, Prince Charles). “Any community fees incurred for the wedding ceremony ended up exclusively for security and crowd management to protect customers of the general public,” they include, “as deemed needed by Thames Valley Police and the Metropolitan Police.”

The Mail’s dissenting viewpoint arrives from a consulting company, Manufacturer Finance, who estimate that the total shot in the arm to Uk tourism provided by the wedding day was a scant £300 million and that the billion-pound valuation normally takes into account other, tangential economic aspects this kind of as retail and fashion.

Markle is battling the British isles tabloid around an posting that published pieces of a letter she had despatched to her father, Thomas Markle.