Thread by @artisbrutal2021

"The Charity Commission’s decision not to investigate the handing of €3m in cash to one of Charles’s causes has put the spotlight on who runs it and how it works"
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https://twitter.com/Gabriel_Pogrund/status/1553638085031854082

"When Orlando Fraser, the new chairman of the Charity Commission, tied the knot with Clemmie Hambro in a lavish Westminster ceremony in 2006 it was acclaimed as the society wedding of the year."

"The bridegroom was the son of the historian Lady Antonia Fraser and the late Conservative MP Sir Hugh Fraser, and the stepson of the Nobel prizewinning playwright Harold Pinter."

"The bride was the great-granddaughter of Sir Winston Churchill and a scion of one of Britain’s wealthiest banking dynasties. She had tasted early fame as a five-year-old bridesmaid to the Prince of Wales and Lady Diana Spencer."

#Epstein Island? 🤔

dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8…

"It is under Fraser's watch that the charity regulator recently decided not to investigate one of Prince Charles’s causes after The Sunday Times revealed that it had accepted €3 million in cash handed over in a suitcase and Fortnum & Mason carrier bags."

"The watchdog cleared the Prince of Wales’s Charitable Fund (PWCF) of any wrongdoing on the basis of the charity’s own account of how it had handled the cash donations from Sheikh Hamad bin Jassim bin Jaber Al Thani, the former prime minister of Qatar."

https://twitter.com/artisbrutal2021/status/1531809236476432384

"When Fraser .. was put forward as the government’s choice of chairman in April, MPs on the Commons digital, culture, media and sport committee refused to endorse him.. they raised concerns about the lack of diversity on the shortlist of candidates..."

"[which] included John Booth, chairman of the Prince’s Trust, Charles’s flagship youth charity, and Fionnuala Jay-O’Boyle, a former trustee of the Prince’s Regeneration Trust and the Prince’s Foundation for Building Community... The latter two charities were amalgamated in ..

2018 to help form the Prince’s Foundation, which looks after Charles’s Scottish estates.