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Lionel Richie becomes First Global Ambassador and First Chairman of the Global Ambassador Group for The Prince’s Trust.
American singer, songwriter and global superstar Lionel Richie is helping youth charity The Prince’s Trust to scale-up and expand its work around the world.

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As Chair of the new Global Ambassador Group, Lionel Richie will support the charity as it sets to work on a new global environment.

The Prince's Trust is a charity in the United Kingdom founded in 1976 by Charles, Prince of Wales, to help vulnerable young people get their lives

on track. It supports 11 to 30-year-olds who are unemployed and those struggling at school and at risk of exclusion.

In 1999, the numerous Trust charities were brought together as The Prince's Trust and was acknowledged by the Queen at a ceremony in Buckingham Palace where she

granted it a Royal Charter.

His Highness The Aga Khan is the Global Founding Patron of The Prince's Trust Group. American singer and songwriter, Lionel Richie, is the founding Global Ambassador and Chairman of the Global Ambassador Group.

Aga Khan (Persian: آقاخان, Arabic:

آغا خان; also transliterated as Aqa Khan and Agha Khan)[1] is a title held by the Imām of the Nizari Ismāʿīli Shias. Since 1957, the holder of the title has been the 49th Imām, Prince Shah Karim al-Husseini, Aga Khan IV (b. 1936). All Aga Khans claim descent from Muhammad, last

prophet of Islam.

The title is made up of the titles "agha" and "khan". The Turkish "agha" is "aqa" (Āqā) in Persian. The word "agha" comes from the Old Turkic and Mongolian "aqa", meaning "elder men", and means something like "master" or "lord." "Khan" means king or ruler in

Turkish and Mongolian languages.

The Aga Khan Foundation (AKF) is a private, not-for-profit international development agency, which was founded in 1967 by Shah Karim Al Hussaini, Aga Khan IV, the 49th Hereditary Imam of the Shia Ismaili Muslims.

The Foundation's activities

often reinforce the work of other sister agencies within the Aga Khan Development Network (AKDN).

The AKDN is one of the first Global Alliance Founding Partners, who will be providing funding for the Earthshot Prize, launched in October 2020 by Prince William in partnership with

Sir David Attenborough through The Royal Foundation.

Originally named The Foundation of Prince William and Prince Harry, the foundation was set up in September 2009 to enable Prince William and his brother, Prince Harry to take forward their charitable ambitions. Catherine

Middleton (now Duchess of Cambridge) and Meghan Markle (now Duchess of Sussex) later joined as patrons of the Foundation upon marriage.

In April 2020, the Foundation supported the launch of Our Frontline, a mental health support initiative for emergency workers. It provides

digital and online resources, as well as remote counseling, to support workers' mental health.

The project is in partnership with King's College London and the Open University.

The simultaneous support of Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington (who was also Prime Minister

of the United Kingdom then), for an Anglican King's College London and the Roman Catholic Relief Act, which was to lead to the granting of almost full civil rights to Catholics, was challenged by George Finch-Hatton, 10th Earl of Winchilsea, in early 1829.

Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington, KG, GCB, GCH, PC, FRS (1 May 1769 – 14 September 1852) was an Anglo-Irish soldier and Tory statesman who was one of the leading military and political figures of 19th-century Britain, serving twice as prime minister. He is one of the

commanders who won and ended the Napoleonic Wars when the coalition defeated Napoleon at the Battle of Waterloo in 1815.

During the early part of the 19th century, the Rothschild London bank took a leading part in managing and financing the subsidies that the British government

transferred to its allies during the Napoleonic Wars. Through the creation of a network of agents, couriers and shippers, the bank was able to provide funds to the armies of the Duke of Wellington in Portugal and Spain. In 1818 the Rothschild bank arranged a £5 million loan to

the Prussian government and the issuing of bonds for government loans. The providing of other innovative and complex financing for government projects formed a mainstay of the bank's business for the better part of the century. N M Rothschild & Sons' financial strength in the

City of London became such that by 1825, the bank was able to supply enough coin to the Bank of England to enable it to avert a liquidity crisis.

Nathan Mayer's eldest son, Lionel de Rothschild (1808–1879) succeeded him as head of the London branch. Under Lionel the bank

financed the British government's 1875 purchase of a controlling interest in the Suez Canal. Lionel also began to invest in railways as his uncle James had been doing in France. In 1869, Lionel's son, Alfred de Rothschild (1842–1918), became a director of the Bank of England, a

post he held for 20 years. Alfred was one of those who represented the British Government at the 1892 International Monetary Conference in Brussels.

The Rothschild bank funded Cecil Rhodes in the development of the British South Africa Company and Leopold de Rothschild

(1845–1917) administered Rhodes's estate after his death in 1902 and helped to set up the Rhodes Scholarship scheme at Oxford University. In 1873 de Rothschild Frères (trans. "The Rothschild Brothers") of Paris and N M Rothschild & Sons of London joined with other investors to

acquire the Spanish government's money-losing Rio Tinto copper mines. The new owners restructured the company and turned it into a profitable business. By 1905, the Rothschild interest in Rio Tinto amounted to more than 30%. In 1887, the French and English Rothschild banking

houses loaned money to, and invested in, the De Beers diamond mines in South Africa, becoming its largest shareholders.

In 1812, Moses Montefiore married Judith Cohen (1784–1862), daughter of Levy Barent Cohen. Her sister, Henriette (or Hannah) (1783–1850), married Nathan Mayer

Rothschild (1777–1836), for whom Montefiore's firm acted as stockbrokers. Nathan Rothschild headed the family's banking business in Britain, and the two brothers-in-law became business partners. In business, he was an innovator, investing in the supply of piped gas for street

lighting to European cities via the Imperial Continental Gas Association. In 1824 he was among the founding consortium of the Alliance Life Assurance Company (which later merged with Sun Insurance to form Sun Alliance).

Montefiore was born while his parents, Joseph Elias

Montefiore and Rachel, the daughter of Abraham Mocatta, a powerful bullion broker in London.

By 1670, Moses Mocatta had taken his family to London, and in 1671, he founded a bullion brokerage firm in Camomile Street in the City of London; renamed Mocatta & Goldsmid in 1799,

after Asher Goldsmid was admitted as partner in 1787. The world's oldest bullion house, it exists today largely as ScotiaMocatta.

ScotiaMocatta was formed by Scotiabank's acquisition of Mocatta Bullion from Standard Chartered Bank in 1997. They acquired it from Hambros Bank in

1973.
The company dates back to Moses Mocatta, immigrant from Amsterdam to London. 1671, in London, he established a shop for gold, silver, and diamonds, then opened an account with the English goldsmith-banker Edward Backwell (ca. 1618–1683). Moses Mocatta sent silver to India

in 1676, because silver was cheaper in London than in Bombay or Shanghai. 1684, the bullion dealer and refiner ″Mocatta″ was developed to serve as a broker to the Bank of England and the East India Company in the 18th and 19th centuries.

During World War II, Sir Charles Hambro raised finance for the Norwegian exiled government and was also the head of the Special Operations Executive.

After the fall of France in June 1940, Hambro was made a colonel on the General Staff and was asked by Ronald Cross to join the

Ministry of Economic Warfare, a cover organisation for the Special Operations Executive (SOE). The SOE was charged with creating "a spirit of resistance in occupied territories".

Few people were aware of SOE's existence. Those who were part of it or liaised with it were

sometimes referred to as the "Baker Street Irregulars", after the location of its London headquarters. It was also known as "Churchill's Secret Army" or the "Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare". Its various branches, and sometimes the organisation as a whole, were concealed for

security purposes behind names such as the "Joint Technical Board" or the "Inter-Service Research Bureau", or fictitious branches of the Air Ministry, Admiralty or War Office.

New York City also had a branch office, formally titled British Security Coordination, and headed by

the Canadian businessman Sir William Stephenson. This office, located at Room 3603, 630 Fifth Avenue, Rockefeller Center, coordinated the work of SOE, SIS and MI5 with the American FBI and Office of Strategic Services.

Its cover was the British Passport Control Office. BSC

benefitted from support given by the chief of the US Office of Strategic Services, William J. Donovan (whose organisation was modelled on British activities), and US President Franklin D. Roosevelt who was staunchly anti-Nazi.

Allen Dulles was recruited to run the New York City

office. His address was Room 3603, 630 Fifth Avenue. The address of British Security Coordination was Room 3603, 630 Fifth Avenue.

After the war in Europe, Dulles served for six months as the OSS Berlin station chief. In 1947, Congress created the Central Intelligence Agency and

Dulles was closely involved with its development. His translator at this time was Henry Kissinger.

During Nazi rule Kissinger and his friends were regularly harassed and beaten by Hitler Youth gangs.

In 1946, Kissinger was reassigned to teach at the European Command

Intelligence School at Camp King on the outskirts of Oberursel, Taunus (in Germany).

In July 1946 General Reinhard Gehlen arrived as a Camp King camper and established the Gehlen Organization which later went on to become the BND (Bundesnachrichtendienst, or "Federal

Intelligence Service").

Dulles' CIA Operation Paperclip assimilated Nazi scientists into the American establishment by obscuring their histories and preventing efforts to bring their true stories to light. The project was led by officers in the United States Army. Although the

program officially ended in September 1947, those officers and others carried out a conspiracy until the mid-1950s that bypassed both law and presidential directive to keep Operation Paperclip going.