Just a few points:
> The Bin Laden's are a large family, and have publicly disowned Osama Bin Laden many years ago. To paint them with the same brush as OSama is inherently unfair to them, IMO.
It is perhaps bad enough for German eyes, that the fortune of the next Prime Minister's of the UK family might be dependent on the good will of Indian politicians... This is all a tad to dodgy much!
No one would want to be judged by the actions of a few family members they don't associate with. There are some Osama family members who support terrorist but most of them don't.Just a few points:
> The Bin Laden's are a large family, and have publicly disowned Osama Bin Laden many years ago. To paint them with the same brush as OSama is inherently unfair to them, IMO.
> Charles was not involved in the decision to accept the donation. That donation was accepted wholly by the Board of Trustees of the PWCF.
> The donation was accepted after due diligence, and with information sought from a wide range of sources, including government.
> To me, this is a non-story and just an attempt to create a scandal where none exists.
If you mean Rishi Sunak, and his wife's family, there's nothing dodgy about them at all. They are a wealthy family who have earned their money through hard work. And I'm not sure why anyone in Germany would be concerned about Rishi Sunak's wife's money .
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In that regard, if it would have been in bad faith to refuse the donation out right or at least push the bin Ladens towards a charity that was more similar but less intimately connected to the BRF, then I would have tried to run that money through several different companies and organizations before it came to the charity. That was, the bin Laden would have still donated, but not in such a direct way.
Why were the Bin Laden relatives donating this huge amount of cash to Charles’s charities, though? Because they thought Prince Charles was terrific? Out of the kindness of their hearts?
One would hope that none of Charles’s aides, assistants or others associated with the charity suggested greater access to Charles if such a sum was given. The suggestion has, after all, bobbed up previously.
What would the Bin Ladens want from Charles? They have mostly been private and have always been wealthy, I don’t think they needed Charles for anything or wanted anything from him. No one knows why they donated money to his charity but it is their personal matter and anyone can donate.Why were the Bin Laden relatives donating this huge amount of cash to Charles’s charities, though? Because they thought Prince Charles was terrific? Out of the kindness of their hearts?
One would hope that none of Charles’s aides, assistants or others associated with the charity suggested greater access to Charles if such a sum was given. The suggestion has, after all, bobbed up previously.
Charles is not perfect, but comparing him to Andrew in that regard is way off. The money is for the charities not for an expensive lifestyle or himself. Andrew has done far worse than Charles. Plus most of the family don’t support Osama, but the optics look bad though because when people hear the name Bin Laden, they only think Osama.This is exactly one of the reasons Charles needs to pipe down a bit on the harsh stance he has taken regarding his brother Andrew's banishment from public life. Yes, Andrew's own poor judgment and arrogance has merited the treatment he deserves.
But the PoW has image issues of his own, brought about by stubbornness and equally poor judgment.
The bin Laden family? Really?
It is perhaps bad enough for German eyes, that the fortune of the next Prime Minister's of the UK family might be dependent on the good will of Indian politicians... This is all a tad to dodgy much!
To me, this is a question less on morality and more on optics.
From what I've gathered, the bin Ladens as a whole are pretty average albeit wealthy people, and Osama was a black sheep who even his own family had disowned long before September 11th. Of course, no one should be blamed for the atrocities of their family members, especially ones they haven't had close contact with.
As unfair as it is, however, the sad reality is that it happens all the time. Someone above mentioned Hitler's family. One of his nephews, William Stuart-Houston, immigrated to the United States and actively fought against his uncles regime in U.S. Navy. In spite of that, however, he still had to live quietly, and his four sons independently decided never to have children because the legacy of Hitler was too great to overcome.
So, personally, members of the BRF can say, I know our donors better than the average joes on the street, I know they're good people, and that's that. The BRF, however, have shown themselves to be very image conscious, especially to those average joes. They will do things that seem cold but ultimately preserves their image among their constituents e.g. George V encouraging the British government to rescind its offer to offer asylum to the Romanovs partly because the average British citizen at the time resonate with Russia's new government, and he feared a similar uprising may occur in Great Britain.
So yeah, some may roll their eyes and say that once again, HRH The Prince of Wales is being attacked for no reason, that he's followed due process and that all of his donors are on the up-and-up, that anyone who thinks otherwise is uninformed and/or looking for drama. All of that is probably true...but I suspect, as an American looking from the outside in, that the average British citizen is not someone who knows the inner workings of charity work; it's someone with a 9 to 5 who maybe hears the name Osama bin Laden every September 11th. For better or worse, that is the proletariat that the BRF has ascribed their image to.
In that regard, if it would have been in bad faith to refuse the donation out right or at least push the bin Ladens towards a charity that was more similar but less intimately connected to the BRF, then I would have tried to run that money through several different companies and organizations before it came to the charity. That was, the bin Laden would have still donated, but not in such a direct way.
Why were the Bin Laden relatives donating this huge amount of cash to Charles’s charities, though? Because they thought Prince Charles was terrific? Out of the kindness of their hearts?
I don't want to go completely off topic here, but if you think this Sunak dude and his family fortune are out of interest for a German; What would you think about a German Chancellor with a family fortune in Putin's Russia? Totally apolitical, right?
And Prince Charles and his "donations" in Harrod's bags - It is getting out of hand!
No idea why the Bin Ladens would have made a big donation to Prince Charles's charities. Maybe they did genuinely want to fund good works, but there are a lot of other charities about.
If you mean Rishi Sunak, and his wife's family, there's nothing dodgy about them at all. They are a wealthy family who have earned their money through hard work. And I'm not sure why anyone in Germany would be concerned about Rishi Sunak's wife's money .