$1m... to see Prince Harry at glittering gala!

RICH Americans are spending up to $1m to rub shoulders with Prince Harry and Meghan Markle at a glittering New York gala.

The British royalty will receive an award on December 6 at the Ripple of Hope gala, which honours people for their humanitarian and philanthropic efforts. Hosted by President John F. Kennedy’s niece Kerry Kennedy, the gala has a top-tier ‘Pioneer’ package that costs a cool $1m and includes four seats at the top table where Harry and Meghan are expected to be seated.

Other packages run from $500,000 and include access to a VIP reception at which photographers are expected to snap the Sussexes with the event’s main benefactors.

The gala is organised by the Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights foundation, named after President Kennedy’s younger brother, who was assassinated in 1968.

Previous winners of the Ripple of Hope award include US President Joe Biden, former Presidents Barack Obama and Bill Clinton, as well as former Democratic Presidential hopefuls Hillary Clinton and Al Gore.

The decision to give Meghan and Harry a top human rights award has baffled Kennedy historians.

Prof. David Nasaw, author of the Pulitzer Prize-nominated book The Patriarch, about JFK and RFK’s father Joseph Kennedy, said: ‘I find it somewhere between sublimely ridiculous and blatantly ludicrous. It’s absurd.

‘What in God’s name have they done to merit this?’