Clarence House confirmed that the terrorist’s brothers donated money to a royal charity, but denied reports that the prince had personally brokered the deal or made the decision to accept it.
“The Prince of Wales’s Charitable Trust has assured us that this donation was thoroughly accepted,” read a statement released by Clarence House.
“The decision to accept was made solely by the charity’s trustees and any attempt to characterize it otherwise is false,” the statement said.
News of the payment follows a series of recent royal scandals, including a report in June that Prince Charles had accepted $3.1 million in cash donations from a Qatari billionaire between 2011 and 2015, some of which were personally received in suitcases and shopping bags. report NOW.
The British paper reported that Prince Charles had brokered the payment after a private meeting with Bakr bin Laden at Clarence House in London on October 30, 2013, two years after Osama bin Laden was killed in Pakistan.
The newspaper also reported that the heir to the throne had agreed to accept the donation despite loud objections from his own advisers, reported NYT.
Some of the prince’s aides had warned Charles of an inevitable backlash if it emerged that his charity had received money from nearly 3,000 people, including the family of the man behind the terror attacks that killed 67 Britons.
A royal official, who was not authorized to speak publicly, denied that the prince accepted the donation, negotiated the deal or was told to return the money, NYT reported.
Founded in 1979, the Prince of Wales Charitable Trust says its mission is “to transform lives and build sustainable communities by making grants to a range of good causes across our key funding themes: heritage and conservation, education, health and wellbeing, social inclusion, environment and countryside.”
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