Prince Charles once received 1 million euros worth of cash in a suitcase from Qatar’s former prime minister, meant as a donation to the Prince of Wales’s Charitable Fund, per a new report.
that told the story of a 2015 meeting. According to the newspaper, Qatar’s former prime ministervisited the prince at Clarence House where they had a private one-on-one conversation. It’s not too unusual for Charles to host foreign dignitaries in his London home, though it seems that this time his guest had one very strange gift.
Still, a source present for at least one of the cash exchanges told the newspaper that the transaction was odd. First, two royal advisers hand-counted the money, and then London private bank Coutts was called to pick up the cash, which was deposited into the account of the charitable fund. “Everyone felt very uncomfortable about the situation,” said one former adviser who handled some of the cash. The “only thing we could do was to count the money and make a mutual record of what we’d done.
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