Prince of gratuitously suspicious financial transactions? Apologies to the perv Prince Andrew: Charles has stolen that crown
Prince Charles. Photo: Chris Jackson/Getty Images “Prince of pegging”? Probably not. . Britain’s future king has apparently been wheeling and dealing in a reckless manner, according to a new report from the Sunday Times, entitled “Prince Charles accepted £1 million from family of Osama bin Laden.
According to the new report, Charles thought it would be “too embarrassing” to return the money, even though certain people close to him encouraged that solution. In Charles’s defense, none of these payments went to him, personally, but to the Prince of Wales’ Charitable Fund; the bin Laden donation, specifically, came from two of the Al Qaeda founder’s half-brothers in 2013, almost two full decades after Osama bin Laden was disowned by his family, according to the BBC.
And sure, I guess, but then there is the whole “bags full of bank notes” thing. In June, the Times reported that in 2015, Sheikh Hamad bin Jassim bin Jaber Al Thani — formerly the prime minister of Qatar — handed Charles bags crammed with €1 million on three separate occasions.
In any case, a Clarence House spokesperson insisted that the cash was “passed immediately to one of the prince’s charities who carried out the appropriate covenants and assured us that all the correct processes were followed.
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