Whom else has Qatar bought? General John Allen, for one, and there are doubtless many others. This may explain why American politicians are in lockstep in concern about “Islamophobia” and so anxious to dissemble about the root causes of jihad terror.
“Prince Charles took bags stuffed with millions in cash from controversial Qatari sheikh: report,” by Mary Kay Linge, New York Post, June 25, 2022:
Prince Charles personally accepted suitcases and shopping bags stuffed with millions of dollars’ worth of cash from a controversial Qatari politician between 2011 and 2015, according to an explosive new report.
“Everyone felt very uncomfortable about the situation,” a former adviser to the Prince of Wales told the Sunday Times of London….
Sheikh Hamad bin Jassim bin Jaber Al Thani, the former prime minister of Qatar, bestowed the big bucks on the heir to the British throne in three deliveries during private, off-the-books meetings at Clarence House, the prince’s official London residence.
He came toting stacks of bills totaling 3 million euros — about $3.2 million at today’s exchange rates — in duffel bags, a suitcase, and several branded shopping bags from the famed Fortnum & Mason department store.
The payments were deposited into the Prince of Wales’s Charitable Fund (PWCF), a grant-making entity that quietly bankrolls the prince’s pet projects — and pays the bills at his Scottish country estate.
The charity “carried out the appropriate governance and assured us that all the correct processes were followed,” a Clarence House spokesman said….
CogitoErgoSum says
Wait. What? The Prince’s charitable organization pays his bills at his estate? So the Prince is a charity case? The poor man. He just can’t get a break in life.
CogitoErgoSum says
I must say I am very disappointed with the people in the U.K. that they would let their prince down is such a way that he is forced into relying on charity from foreigners in order to live like a prince. The man is going to be your king someday, for crying out loud.
maria says
He will be a tgerrible King. I think he should resign already Probably Prince Edward could be a King or his eldest son
Infidel says
I somehow doubt that he’ll survive his mom! Or if he does, his reign will be real short, like Kim Jong Ill
Keith O says
I can only imagine what it would be like to have Charlie and his skank Camila on the throne.
The Brits would be better served with Harry as their king.
At least he put his life on the line as a grunt in Afghanistan. Show me any other member of the royal family who has done that in the last few centuries!!
Infidel says
Keith
I think Prince Andrew saw action in the Falklands, but of course, having him as a ruler will completely destroy the monarchy, given the Epstein saga
I do think that if and when we have King Charles and Queen Camilla, more and more members of the Realm will follow the example of Barbados and become republics
raja says
Infidel,
I couldn’t agree more on your take on Charles. This prince is buffoon when compared to his illustrious mother. He is just no match for the acumen, grace, elain, wisdom and knowledge his mother possess. He probably squandered his life in the company of Islamists (he was found to be very curious about islam than Christianity most part of his life, tough he understands hardly any Christianity) and Camilla for far too long.
gravenimage says
I wish the succession could go from Queen Elizabeth to her grandson Prince William.
raja says
CogitoErgoSum,
He is a pathetic prince hobnobbing with islam all his life (so was Diana with a Paki doctor, Egyptian millionaire of Herodds’ fame and God knows who else). This cash could be a bribe to pussy-foot UK for the upcoming launch of official Sharia. May be the other elites are already bribed by Qatar. The elites are so bribed you never know how deep it is.
Tim says
being a grunt doesn’t excuse future bad behavior says I, a former combat grunt.
Andrew Blackadder says
Charlie is a Ponce, not a Prince.
Hoi Polloi says
I’ve been looking into Charles’ machinations for a few years and found that he has been expanding his holdings and has been making his tenants quite unhappy.
His and his mother’s PR case is that the right of review is a mere formality but in reality many say they’ve privately used it to veto many moves that would not have been to their benefit. They profit from windmills installed on the massive proportion of the coast in their holdings, for example, so he’s a fan of “green energy.”
Charles in this case was taking money from Qatar and had input into the World Cup location decision; now the only dispute is just how many Qatari slaves died building the stadium.
Obviously, I’m not a fan and agree with you.
Ade Fegan says
Buying islam a free pass
Devasur says
LOL, still ruled by corrupt royalty yet the UK has the audacity to lecture about democracy to India.
Infidel says
If India is still being lectured by the UK, it needs to pull out of the Commonwealth
gravenimage says
The monarchy does not rule the UK. It is a constitutional monarchy.
Rarely says
Maybe the “donation” was collected one Euro at a time from ordinary Qataris in tins at the 7-11s and Safeways throughout Qatar and the politician was just delivering them. Thoughtful of him to make the gifts anonymous.
Kesselman says
Royalty is not always noble in thought and deeds, to say the least. Remember Nazi wannabes the Duke of Windsor, Edward, and Ms. Simpson. Not to speak about Harry and Meghan.
Infidel says
You forgot one Andrew Christian Edward, Duke of York, who was very close to one Jeffrey Epstein
raja says
Infidel,
Prince Andrew admitted using the “services” of underaged girls from Epstein, the late disgraced criminal. But he also feigned ignorance of Epstein having such a clout among the elites or whatever.
Correct me if my memory has not served me right this time.
Black Sabbath says
Prince Charles should try a burkha next.
Hugh Fitzgerald says
Mrs. Simpson’s checkered past led one wit to say, when she and Edward were in the Bahamas, “why, when you were once First Lord of the Admiralty, would you want to become third mate on an American tramp?”.
Wellington says
Hadn’t heard that one yet, Hugh. So, thanks for it.
I think the last great thing that happened to the British monarchy was Edward’s (David) younger brother (Berite) becoming George VI. Since then it has been all downhill.
Phil Copson says
Umm – I think you’re over-looking Prince Philip?
Re Keith O’s request to be shown any member of the British Royal Family who has put their “life on the line in centuries” – there are quite a number, eg HRH Prince Maurice killed in Flanders 1914 whilst leading his company forward as a Lieutenant in the Kings Royal Rifles.
(I doubt that Harry was ever put in harm’s way, ditto Prince Andrew.)
Infidel says
Andrew did see action in the Falklands in 1982, when Argentina was on top for several weeks
gravenimage says
Brilliant, Hugh–I hadn’t heard that one. Actually, Wallis Simpson did Britain a favor, since her sniffing around eventually caused Edward to step down. I shudder to think what having a Nazi-sympathizer as king would have meant for the UK and the world.
Phil Copson says
Wallis Simpson definitely did Britain a massive favour: But I think that the real story is that Edward had no wish to be King, and seized on his affair with the divorced Mrs Simpson as an excuse to duck out of his responsibilities.
Wallis Simpson apparently had no real wish to marry the useless article, but found herself stuck with him once he’d made that all that ludicrous fuss about it.
gravenimage says
Phil, no one forced Wallis Simpson to marry again.
tim gallagher says
That’s a very clever line, Hugh. It would be amazing to be the first person who came up with some of these really clever, witty comments that then get repeated many times over. That one I had never heard.
Wellington says
Traditionally, even though an American, I have been a long time admirer of the British monarchy, but the abnegation by Elizabeth II of speaking out against the loss of liberty in the UK, in addition to some of her progeny being corrupt, base or stupid (examples being Charles, Andrew, the ever tedious Harry and his spouse, etc.) has lost my support any longer for this once great institution.
Like so much else in Western society in our time—college education and even education at the primary school level, professional sports gone woke, major political parties losing their collective mind (e.g., the Democratic Party of the US), gender distorted to ludicrous ends and even pronouns, horrible politically correct excuses for Islam, et al., I am exceedingly tired and fed up with people with no guts or no mind or both who have allowed idiots and the foreign malevolent (think Islam first and foremost here) to systematically engage in the destruction of the greatest civilization of all time, i.e., Western Civilization, and which did wrongs certainly, as every civilization and society has, but which is held to an account that no other civilization or society has been and which, additionally, did more to correct mankind’s wrongs more than any civilization or society ever has.
Phony world we live in. Profoundly so. Those averring otherwise are demonstrating either their ignorance or their malevolence. A Hell of a lot of ignorance and malevolence “lurking” out there. You betcha’.
mortimer says
Wellington is quite right. The younger Royals have mostly blown it. However, Princess Anne has not. It’s a pity she couldn’t take over because she is reputedly the hardest working Royal of them all.
She has almost never puts her foot in her mouth. She would be respected if she took over, but the previous succession law did not supported her as a candidate.
A first-born princess may now succeed to the thrown ahead of her brothers.
Infidel says
I think that Princess Charlotte will be way ahead of Princess Ann in the succession sweepstakes. Not sure whether Princesses Beatrice and Eugenie – daughters of Prince Andrew – are still in the line of succession
gravenimage says
Prince Charles accepted suitcases and shopping bags stuffed with $3.2 million in cash from Qatari sheikh
……………………..
Just disgusting. Not perfect, but I hope Elizabeth lives forever–or at least until she can essentially and the crown directly off to William.
mortimer says
Some of the Arabs like cash. So they give donations in cash. For them, cash is HONORABLE and checks are not.
Charles has requested the CHARITY COMMISSION investigate the receipts to prove they followed correct procedures.
The CHARITY COMMISSION will lay this false accusation to rest.
Charles gets most of his own income from rents on his land holdings.
mortimer says
Reply to GI: most people will agree with you that William and Kate would be much more popular with the young people and others as well.
Charles should step aside for the sake of the stability of the monarchy. He is accident prone.
If the Queen lives a few more years, he will be 80 and the law now changed makes that too old to become king.
gravenimage says
I wish Charles *would* step aside–but he won’t. He’s been waiting a long time to be king.
And–with respect–I don’t believe that there is any law saying that 80 is too old to become monarch. After all, Elizabeth has been older than that for a long time now.
But William will make a *much* better king than his feckless father.
tim gallagher says
A few commentators here in Australia have made the point that the monarch in the UK is not meant to make partisan political comments and the Queen has apparently stuck to that. Charles has recently commented that that idea of sending illegal arrivals to Rwanda was an “appalling” idea or some such thing. He needs to stay away from sticking his nose into political decisions because only politicians who have been voted into their positions in democratic elections should make such decisions or he will destroy the monarchy over time. Once he becomes King, his butting into political decisions could destroy the monarchy. If he wants to be a politician then he should ditch his current position and run for election. This money caper stinks of someone who thinks that he is up above the law and can do whatever he feels like doing.
mortimer says
Agree with Tim: Charles just can’t keep it zipped. He may share his views in private with politicians, but he is not elected to create policy as members of parliament are.
The presumptive king of Bulgaria actually returned to Bulgaria and became the prime minister.
But I disagree that Charles erred legally … he erred in PUBLIC RELATIONS … it looks bad to have bags of cash.
He shot himself in the foot.
tim gallagher says
Thanks for the comment, mortimer. The commentators out here, on Sky News, have made the point that they think that Charles, who i think has always been a person who lets his opinions be known on all sorts of issues, (I think climate change and catastrophic scenarios just around the corner are a big thing for him – I tend to ignore him as I have never been much a fan and see him as bit of a loon talking to his plants, etc) will, once he has become king, keep butting in with his wondrously “wise” political views and will blow up the monarchy. I don’t know whether it is true that his mother, as Queen, has always stayed neutral. i can see Charles failing to keep his mouth zipped, as you say, and pissing a lot of the population of the UK off. I didn’t know about the Bulgarian presumptive king. He must have been a very popular man. Good on him. On the bag of money, you are no doubt right, though bags of money do seem quite weird. As you say, it is not a good look in terms of public relations. I am a fan of the Queen, just as a seemingly decent human being, but i can see Charles buggering everything up and possibly leading to the UK ditching the monarchy because he will always be butting in with his crappy ideas on endless issues. He seems to be full of self-importance so I don’t think he’ll stop butting in.
gravenimage says
Tim, I believe the point about partisan politics is mostly so you don’t have the spectacle of royals essentially campaigning for one party or another, which would indeed be inappropriate.
But that the Queen has said so little about the threat of Islam to her realm is genuinely concerning. After all, her father *did* speak out against the threat of Fascism, and I’m very glad that he did.
My mother–in her teens at the time–said what an inspiration his speech was. She later joined the British army along with her sister. Here’s the text:
https://www.americanrhetoric.com/speeches/kinggeorgevifirstradioaddress.htm
tim gallagher says
Thanks for that, gravenimage. Very impressive, somewhat Churchillian. This Queen has been impressive over many years. Here in Australia, the UK royal family get a fair bit of attention because Australia really is still tied to the UK monarchy. It is a strange situation, but they are still our royal family in an odd way. We have a Governor General, an Australian who is the Queen’s representative, who sits up supposedly above politics and can intervene in a crisis. That happened back in 1975 when the Governor General, sort of representing the UK’s Queen, dismissed a Labor Government when there was a deadlock and crisis.. In a way, i think that having a head of state who lives so far away in the UK is weird, I actually don’t mind the set up. I used to be for Australia becoming a republic, but I couldn’t care these days because the system works and having someone up above the politicians seems OK to me. The Labor government that has just been elected is out to turn Australia into a republic. I’m not sure that all that many people out here care, but once Charles becomes King and starts to butt in and tell politicians how they should behave according to his woke agenda, then maybe Australia will decide to ditch the UK royals. Several commentators out here think that that will happen. maybe Charles will be told to button his mouth and actually follow that advice..
gravenimage says
Thanks, Tim. I know about Australia’s links to the Royal Family (similar to Canada’s and New Zealand’s, all part of the Commonwealth).
I hope Charles doesn’t damage things too much–but given his record even now, this seems sadly unlikely.
mortimer says
We don’t know the motives of the sheikh in question and it would be unfair to assume his motives are bad. Perhaps, he just wanted people to see how generous he was. Bags of cash make the point of the generosity.
I think Prince Charles should have had a public relations adviser then and there to handle it so there would be no appearance of wrong doing.
I personally don’t think there was wrong doing, otherwise Charles would not have asked for an investigation to clear his name.
Michael says
Qatar’s use cash in hand to obtain World Cup rights, finance terrorists and empower political parties, eg Somalia.
In this case to Windsor-wash their image.
gravenimage says
Yes–it’s grotesque that the World Cup is being held there.
john smith says
To accept money in this manner is something that is very fishy indeed. It appears to me that Prince Charles may well have a greedy streak in him. But if there is any truth in what many historians claim, that Prince Charles is a direct descendant of the false prophet muhammad, then it should come as no surprise it will be in his DNA.
gravenimage says
Actually, John, the “Queen Elizabeth is a descendant of the ‘Prophet’ Muhammed” thing is likely a canard–especially since it seems unlikely that he ever existed. Actually, there are several people in this supposed family tree who may not have existed, at least not as they would have had to be to make these figures work.
And he was going back *43 generations*–44 in the case of Charles. By this light, a good chunk of humanity is this closely related.
john smith says
Gravenimage, the Queen being a descendant of muhammad could well be a canard, but no one knows for certain. As for muhammad ever existing, well I agree maybe he didn’t, but on the other hand maybe he did, we will probably never know.
If muhammad didn’t exist then someone has gone to awful lot of trouble to make it look like he did. As you well know, you can supposedly visit his grave and also the graves of the first two caliphs. Then you have the name “Sayed”, which is given to the names of his supposed descendants (incidentally I’d hate to discover that my real name was John Sayed Smith)
Apparently they also have a grave reserved for Isa (Jesus) when he returns. When I first heard this I thought to myself, what sort of religion is this, now I Know.
God I hate islam. P.S. sorry about the plagiarism
gravenimage says
John, thanks for the reply. Even if Charles was a descendent of the “Prophet”, after 44 generations I doubt he’d be directly influenced by his legacy, ethically or genetically.
And you can use that term any time–I doubt I coined it. I wish more people would use it. 🙂
john smith says
You are probably right Gravenimage the gene pool will of been well diluted now, but I still wouldn’t be overjoyed if I was to find out that muhammad was an ancestor of mine.
Thanks for the reply
John Sayed
gravenimage says
John, I have to say I wouldn’t personally much care if I found out I was a descendant of Muhammed’s 44 generations back. Our worth depends on what we do, not what thugs we may possibly be related to, especially many centuries ago.
In fact, if most of his descendants of the foul “Prophet” became generally decent people like the British queen this would be a good thing.
Most Jihadists are probably not all that closely related to the vile “Prophet” himself.
john smith says
+100
gravenimage says
🙂
Pray Hard says
Fairy emoji …
gravenimage says
Then there is this story, from today:
“Prince Charles accepted $1,217,760 from Osama bin Laden’s family”
https://www.jihadwatch.org/2022/07/prince-charles-accepted-1217760-from-osama-bin-ladens-family
somehistory says
Isn’t this old news? I seem to recall unprincely chuck accepting bribes in suitcase and shopping bag some months ago.
It was in the news a few weeks ago that the old queen gave the nod to him for his ascent to being a *king* soon. Is there not a way for her to have nodded to her grandson, the one she still speaks to and invites to places, William?
He’s younger, much better looking and doesn’t seem to have an ugly camel a on the side.