Cash to his Charities donated in Shopping bags; Prince Charles again under scrutiny

Dana Malcolm

Staff Writer

#UnitedKingdom, June 27, 2022 – For the second time in six months the Prince of Wales’ Charity is on the defensive after the Sunday Times claimed he received £ 1 million in cash donations from a Qatari Prince stuffed into a suitcase on one occasion and into shopping bags on others between 2011 and 2015.

They claim Charles personally accepted the cash donations from former Qatari Prime Minister Sheikh Hamad bin Jassim on different occasions for his charity the Prince of Wales’s Charitable Fund (PWCF)

While there were no allegations of illegal actions by the newspaper, the Charity Commission, a regulator for charities in the UK says it will be probing the incident.

Clarence House, which is the Prince’s Office, said there was no wrongdoing.

“Charitable donations received from Sheikh Hamad bin Jassim were passed immediately to one of the prince’s charities who carried out the appropriate governance and have assured us that all the correct processes were followed, Our auditors signed off on the donation after a specific enquiry during the audit. There was no failure of governance.”

Back in February the police investigated claims that a Saudi citizen was promised British citizenship and a knighthood if he donated to the Charity.

No one was arrested but the head of the Charity Micheal Fawcett resigned over the allegations.

The Prince’s press office has maintained that he knew nothing of the situation.

For now the Charity remains in the clear but the optics of the prince collecting bags full of cash is regarded as poor.