‘That is then and this is now’: Cases of cash for Prince Charles ‘would never happen’ 요즈음, 소스 말한다
The Prince of Wales would never again accept suitcases stuffed with cash, a royal source insisted yesterday.
Charles faces criticism after it emerged he accepted charitable donations – reportedly totalling £2.5million and some of it in a suitcase – from a former Qatari prime minister.
But a royal source said such incidents have not happened in the past half-decade, 첨가: ‘That is then and this is now.’
프린스 오브 웨일즈의 자선 기금에 대한 기부를 수락한 것으로 알려졌습니다. (PWCF) 셰이크 하마드 빈 자심에서 2011 과 2015.

프린스 오브 웨일즈의 자선 기금에 대한 기부를 수락한 것으로 알려졌습니다. (PWCF) 셰이크 하마드 빈 자심에서 2011 과 2015
The source revealed the money was ‘passed immediately to his [Charles’] 자선 단체, and it was his charities who decided to accept the money – that is a decision for them. And they did so, and as they confirmed, it followed all the right processes. The auditors looked at it. The Prince of Wales operates on advice. Situations, contexts change over the years.’
추가 된 소스: ‘For more than half a decade, with the situation as it has evolved, this has not happened, and it would not happen again.’
On one occasion a round £900,000 was said to have been handed over in carrier bags from luxury shop Fortnum and Mason, according to a report in The Sunday Times.
다른 시간, the sheikh was said to have been in a private meeting with the prince at Clarence House, 에 2015, when he gave him £850,000 in a holdall.
The PWCF – which was founded in 1979 with a mission to transform lives and build sustainable communities – awards grants to UK-registered non-profit organisations to deliver projects in the UK, the Commonwealth and overseas.
The latest questions come after the Metropolitan Police launched an investigation into cash-for-honours allegations involving the Prince of Wales’ former close confidant, Michael Fawcett.
A Clarence House spokesman said: ‘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.’

The scandal comes months after aide Michael Fawcett was forced to resign for a cash-for-honours storm