PR disasters Thread 17

[Mylovelygreendress]

Can’t see a new thread so thought I would start a new one to continue discussing the grifters

The Sussex’s and their embellishments / lies again

www.dailymail.com/news/royals/article-15910371/RICHARD-EDEN-Harry-Meghan-lost-lucrative-TV-podcast-deals-donation.html

I think it’s behind a paywall. The assumption at the time was that it came from his court case settlement, not so it seems,

‘Prince Harry visited Community Recording Studio in the St Ann's area of Nottingham to meet social action groups and local charities.

The trip captured headlines when it was announced that Prince Harry had made what was described as a 'personal donation' of a staggering £1.1million to the BBC's Children in Need charity. The money would, it was said, be used to support projects that tackle violence affecting young people.

Sources told the BBC that the donation was 'from his own money rather than his Archewell organisation'. It would, Harry said, help 'changemakers in the city continue their mission to create safe spaces... and offer hope and belonging to young people who need it most'.

The size of the donation did, however, cause some surprise on both sides of the Atlantic.

How on earth, some people wondered, could the Sussexes afford to hand over £1.1million of taxed income to just one cause, however worthy?

I have now discovered the answer.

The money didn't come from Harry's own pocket, but from another charity.
It did not come from money that Harry had made from the couple's corporate deals or royalties from his tawdry memoirs, Spare.
All £1.1million came from charitable funds originally from his mother, Princess Diana.

The donation was made not by Harry but by the Glen Beg Foundation. This is a charity that was established in 1999, two years after Diana's death.

It was set up using funds from the Princess of Wales Charities Trust. This was established by Diana in 1981, the year she and Prince Charles were married at St Paul's Cathedral. It was financed by generous donations from companies and organisations that she visited or represented. When she died, the money in the trust was split equally between Harry and his brother, Prince William.
The boys' charities were named after hills on the monarch's private Balmoral estate in Scotland. William's was called The Broad Cairn Foundation; Harry's the Glen Beg Foundation.

Documents filed at the Charity Commission confirm that £1.1million was transferred from the Glen Beg Foundation to Children in Need on October 10 last year, a month after Harry announced the donation.

It's not clear how much, if any, money remains in the Glen Beg Foundation. When it was established, the trustees were Hugh van Cutsem, a long-term friend of Charles who died in 2013, and Harry's late godfather, old Etonian farmer Gerald Ward. Charles's solicitor Baroness (Fiona) Shackleton of Belgravia was the only trustee to sit on the boards of both Harry and William's charities.

A spokesman for the Duke and Duchess of Sussex failed to respond to a request for comment.

The question I'd love to ask H and MM if I ever met them face to face is why on earth do they, as parents who claim to have been so badly treated by his family, including being subjected to racist slurs and made to cry and ignored for serious MH issues, want to expose their DC to that same environment. They've basically said MM was ready to kill herself over her treatment. Yet now they think it's all fine and dandy?

Indeed. It's very bizarre.

Quelle surprise. Tangentially, the photo of William in that article has a real look of George imo. (Basilisk posted an archive link for those without a Mail subscription btw.)

The repeated issue is that PH has breached agreed confidentialities and conflated the private life of the RF with his public monetisation and status claim.

Beyond OW, Spare, NFs etc - KC3 had attempted to maintain private personal relationships with A&L. There was an occasion when KC3 video called them on his birthday (maybe 75th? before his cancer diagnosis) as a private family moment and PH broke this to the media (no doubt egged on by MM) KC3 was said to be furious.

PH did it again after his mercy dash when KC3 cancer was announced - this could have been private - why did he need to disclose he was going or speculate on KC3 prognosis.

Yet again 2025 - lots leaking about both the content and the timing of the private, personal family meeting.

I didn’t realize it was already posted by @BasiliskStare 🙏

love that they get exposed time and time again.

Re that CiN thing, I remember well how the fact that Harry had donated the money "out of his own pocket" (according to People) was used over and over again on here as evidence that all was fine and dandy in Montecito, no money worries, everything proceeding as planned, nothing to see here etc etc. And whaddya know, it turns out to be yet another lie. You could knock me down with a feather.

I think it would be a big deal as an indicator that H and MM are back in the fold and on good terms with the King again, and the consequences that might trigger.

And why having trashed the idea of monarchy as a system - they not only insist on retaining and utilising their titles associated with that toxic anachronistic system but they actively and intentionally choose to put these same titles on their children without their consent - so that they also have an association with / ‘representation’ of this horrid, racist regime.

Exactly, it’s all smoke and mirrors in monteshitshow.

Exactly! They are actively making their children a part of the institution they branded so toxic that it made them flee abroad.

I could see KC3 agreeing to some photos with A&L but these were to be kept in KC3 possession until he died and A&L were over 18 and there were embargoes on publication.

That is absolutely shocking, complete lies once again by Harry. I’m glad he’s been exposed though.

Reading the article, it sounds like the charity was shared with William. So do we assume the £1.1m is only Harry’s “half”, or that he’s emptied out the whole thing but claimed sole credit for it? And if so, did William approve the donation? I mean I’m sure he would be supportive of the cause, but probably less so of Harry claiming full credit for it.

Wasn't it Johnny Mercer rather than Rory Stewart? Both ex-army officers and (now former) Conservative MPs. Anyway, I dug out this BBC article about the Invictus Games Birmingham funding. It was not a grant, but an 'underwriting' in order to secure the successful bid (that actually, Washington DC did not want - it withdrew its bid!).

'Financially struggling Birmingham City Council said a "new delivery model", developed with partners, required "no financial input" on its part.'

[This btw is clearly a lie classic piece of misdirection, given the indirect costs that the local authority will need to pick up through its statutory responsibilities. I doubt very much whether Ingriftus or the Government 'underwrite' will be covering these.]

'Helen Helliwell, chief executive of Invictus Games Birmingham 2027, said the games would be paid for by "central government funding, so we've got a full government underwrite" through the Office for Veterans' Affairs.'

[This is up to the sum of £26 million, which suddenly seems like a lot of money given lack of funding for veterans' homelessness street programmes, yet nowhere enough for Harry's Ingriftus needs. Yet according to the BBC, remember it was always only intended as an 'underwriting' sum to secure the bid.]

'But she added "actually, really importantly, I want the money to come from the private sector, so I've been working hard to secure six founding partners".'

[How's that going, Helen?]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/ckdg9wgzeyko#:~:text=The%20%C2%A326m%20government%2Dbacked,QE%20Hospital%20in%20Selly%20Oak.

^ Excuse the puke-making quote about how amazeballs Harry is, how he walks on water, heals the sick etc, which looks even more ridiculous now we know he didn't found the games and is simply a Spiteful Little C_.

It says the money in the trust was split between the boys, not the trust itself, so presumably this £1.1m came from Harry's allocated share.

I don't see the problem to be honest. The money's come from a charitable foundation that was set up in Diana's name but was transferred to Harry's, meaning he's presumably allowed to donate the money where he sees fit. So yes, it was him donating to CiN.

Oh I added a radooor ooonline link. I think MN doesn’t like it, anyway they are reporting there will be a Netflix team along for the ride. Coming full circle, if it’s true, back to using the UK and the RF for another shot at a Netflix documentary,

If the best they could do was a sneak peak of a single photo I really don't think that would indicate they're 'back in the fold'. Perhaps the opposite. If a senior royal attends the IG 'event' or if they sit in the Royal Box at Wimbledon, laughing and joking with Catherine, that would be a whole other story. But that won't happen.

From what I understand he spoke about the donation in such a way as it sounded as though it was a personal donation. So his own money.

In fact it was money from various legacies, private donations and investments always earmarked for charity (specifically children's charities) in Diana's name, so before he was of age. His contribution is deciding which charity to give it to. According to google this is the entire pot. So the Glen Beg foundation is now closed as it has no money in it.

If it’s not true then I await the clapback !

I think it’s stretching the definition of “ personal donation” a bit far !!

Possibly! I didn't realise the charity trust he siphoned it from has now closed down. Wonder how much is still in William's...

Hardly ‘from his own pocket’ though, as it was reported by People. I expect Harry’s defence will be, I never said that, it was the Briddish press. But he seems to have forgotten to correct this inaccurate reporting by their favourite (American) mouthpiece.