The future king faced criticism after he accepted a $4.6 million cash donation for one of his charities from a former Qatari prime minister. Read more here:
will never again handle large cash donations to be passed to his charities, a royal source says.
The Sunday Times said the heir to the throne personally accepted the donations for his charity the Prince of Wales's Charitable Fund from Sheikh Hamad bin Jassim who was prime minister of Qatar between 2007 and 2013.A royal source insisted on Wednesday the future king operated on advice and such incidents had not happened in the past half-decade and would not happen again.
"And they did so, and as they confirmed, it followed all the right processes, the auditors looked at it.Clarence House said the donation was "passed immediately" to one of the prince's charities and that "appropriate governance" was carried out.According to the Sunday Times, a donation of one million euros was handed over during one meeting at the prince's residence, Clarence House.
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