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Prince Charles Denies Wrongdoing Over $1 Million bin Laden Donation<!-- wp:html --><p>Jonathan Brady - WPA Pool/Getty Images</p> <p>Welcome to this week’s edition of <a href="https://www.thedailybeast.com/newsletters?newsletter=royalist&tdb_source=royalist&tdb_medium=top_article">Royalist</a>, The Daily Beast’s newsletter for all things royal and Royal Family. Subscribe <a href="https://www.thedailybeast.com/newsletters?newsletter=royalist&tdb_source=royalist&tdb_medium=top_article">here</a> to get it in your inbox every Sunday.</p> <p><strong>Prince Charles downplays bin Laden donation</strong></p> <p><a href="https://www.thedailybeast.com/will-prince-charles-and-prince-william-face-the-royal-future-united">Prince Charles</a> successfully avoided reputational damage flowing from reports that he received €3 million ($3 million) in cash in shopping bags from a Qatari politician by framing it as a slightly irregular form of charitable donation. Happily for him, the Charity Commission took just a few weeks to agree that <a href="https://www.reuters.com/world/uk/charity-commission-no-action-needed-over-prince-charles-cash-donation-2022-07-20/">it was totally OK</a>.</p> <p><a href="https://www.thedailybeast.com/prince-charles-denies-impropriety-over-dollar1-million-bin-laden-donation?source=articles&via=rss">Read more at The Daily Beast.</a></p><!-- /wp:html -->

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Prince Charles downplays bin Laden donation

Prince Charles successfully avoided reputational damage flowing from reports that he received €3 million ($3 million) in cash in shopping bags from a Qatari politician by framing it as a slightly irregular form of charitable donation. Happily for him, the Charity Commission took just a few weeks to agree that it was totally OK.

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