@Puzzledandpissedoff
Serenster you see it on here - and in real life - quite often: suggestions that the Queen holds Boris to account / she safeguards our freedom / the monarchy saves us from tyranny and more, usually with something about "they cost only 67p a day / bring in through tourism more they cost" tacked on for good measure
And all of it indicating that the speaker has a rather loose grasp on reality 
Well, quite. Loads of opinions but tenuous knowledge of facts is a bit of a feature of these threads. To take some points here:
What the papers are reporting about this case are allegations made in witness statements filed in court by the parties, not proven facts. I would have thought posters would have recalled that witness statements are necessarily always truthful accounts 
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The allegations made to date are not “undeniably money laundering”, as many are happily posting. The paying bank obviously didn’t think so, as they rang up the Palace to check the reason for the transaction. If they had thought it was a suspicious transaction they would not have taken this action, which could have been the criminal offence of tipping off.
It would also be a spectacularly stupid money laundering scheme - to give money as a gift to a known public figure. The whole point of laundering money is to re- introduce the dirty money back into your hands in a clean form. Giving it away as a gift kind of defeats that purpose.
It’s more likely to be an offence under the Bribery Act, in fact - the woman’s witness statement could be taken as an actual admission that she was intending to bribe Prince Andrew to get her a passport. I suspect that her account may change at some stage, given this! Quite how she thinks he would have managed that is anyone’s guess, meanwhile…
If anyone seriously thinks that the Palace staff are not very well aware of the Bribery Act and its implications, and don’t have any controls to protect themselves and the Royals, I have a bridge to sell you.
£750,000 as a gift for a wedding doesn’t sound unlikely to me in this kind of world. Read the evidence given in the fraud trial against Nigella Lawson/Charles Saatchi’s personal assistants, the Grillos, who were spending up to £100,000 a month on their employer’s credit cards just to pay for the Grillo’s personal expenses. They were also spending £1.2m a year on expenses for the Saatchi/Lawsons in addition, as part of their duties. They were only two of five PAs of the couple, and the others apparently spent more on personal expenses than the Grillos did. They were acquitted, by the way…
Everyone who thinks all these transactions are murky/dodgy/likely compromising - yes, I agree. The world of the super rich is very very murky. How on earth do you think other senior former royals are making their way in the world though?