12:50 06/09/2021
The Prince of Wales's closest aide resigned in dramatic fashion last night after The Mail on Sunday revealed how he offered to help secure a knighthood and British citizenship for a billionaire Saudi donor to Charles' charity.
Michael Fawcett resigned as chief executive of the Prince's Foundation after facing a letter in which he said the royal charity would be "happy and willing" to use its influence to help businessman Mahfouz Marei Mubarak bin Mahfouz. who had given hundreds of thousands of pounds to the foundation.
According to the charity, the Prince's most trusted aide had offered to step down temporarily pending the necessary investigations.
A former Palace official said the loss of Mr Fawcett was 'an earthquake' for the future King.
The "money for favours" scandal centers on how donations were solicited for Charles' beloved scheme to renovate Dumfries House, a palace in Scotland, and what might have been promised in return.
The "bombshell letter", written by Faëcett on August 18, 2017, to Busief Lamlum, an aide to Bin Mahfouz, says:In light of His Excellency's ongoing and recent generosity... I am happy to confirm to you, in confidence, that we are ready and happy to support and contribute to your application for Citizenship. I can further confirm that we are prepared to make an application to raise His Excellency's honor from an Honorary CBE to a KBE in accordance with Her Majesty's Honors Committee."
The revelation comes a week after this newspaper published an email in which the society's regulator Michael Wynne-Parker gave details of how dinner with Charles and an overnight stay at Dumfries House could be secured in exchange for a six-figure donation paid into an account banking related to Burke's Peerage, a guide to the aristocracy./tvklan.al
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