Prince Harry distances himself from his father and his “dangerous friends”

His controversial statements in the interview with Oprah Winfrey. Everything seems to indicate that the wounds with Prince Charles are not closed and the proof of this is that Prince Harry has just marked distances with him publicly again. It was believed that after their encounter in the funeral for Philip of Edinburgh They had managed to smooth things over and they had even resumed communication, but the prince’s new step could have meant a setback in the process of regaining their relationship.

Queen Elizabeth II’s most wayward grandson has stated that it expressed concern about Mahfouz Marei Mubarak bin Mahfouz a year before prince of wales He proposed to him to obtain the appointment of Commander of the Order of the British Empire, which he finally achieved in 2016. A gesture that does not suit his father, who is being questioned.

Prince Harry says he was concerned about the motivations for his “generous” donations to charitable causes related to Prince Charles in order to obtain the aforementioned distinction and British citizenship.

The truth is that the Duke of Sussex he did have a relationship with the Saudi billionaire and saw him twice, but is said to have severed all relationships with him in 2014 and he has reported that he has absolutely nothing to do with the scandal of his 2016 honor.

Prince Charles has been embroiled in severe criticism in recent months as a result of his relationship with Mahfouz and the hundreds of thousands of pounds that the billionaire donated to his foundation and in fact this has brought immediate consequences …

The Prince’s valet, Michael Fawcett, was forced to resign as director of the Prince’s Foundation last month due to his role in this scandal and can be interpreted as a first firewall in the face of the situation generated.

So far it has been discovered in an independent investigation that Fawcett would have had contact with representatives of Mahfouz who were trying to get that honor in exchange for donations.

There are those who estimate that these donations could have reached a million and a half pounds sterling, but there are still many loose fringes that need to be clarified, among other things. to whom would Prince Harry have shown his concern.

What has also become clear is that Prince Charles, in addition to having presented him with this recognition in a private ceremony at Buckingham Palace, had meetings with him in Scotland and Saudi Arabia.

Clarence House said yesterday that it was not aware that the donations were for those purposes of guaranteeing access to Prince Charles and obtaining his favorable treatment. He also did not comment on Prince Harry’s claims.

Former MP Norman Baker, who filed a criminal complaint three months ago has stated that “Harry leaving this guy should have been a red light for Prince Charles, who ignored him and moved on.”

According to The Sunday Times, Harry met Mahfouz in 2013 at a pub in Chelsea, west London, owned by Mark Dyer, a former royal squire. Apparently they were talking about Sentebale, a charity of the Duke of Sussex, created in 2006 to help people affected by AIDS in Lesotho and Botswana, after spending her sabbatical year in Africa and thus embracing one of the causes that her mother supported the most, the remembered Lady Di.

The same newspaper states that the two met again at Clarence House the following year after Prince Charles had also met Mahfouz. It would have generated a relaxed tone and the prince would have said jokingly, “My father beat me to it and got the money?”

In February 2013, Mahfouz donated 50,000 pounds sterling to the aforementioned organization and that same year another 10,000 to Walking With The Wounded, another charity that Harry is also involved in.

A spokesman for Harry said yesterday, throwing balls out: “The Duke had a planned meeting with this donor eight years ago, did not introduce him to any member of the Royal Family and expressed his concern about the donor.”

The Prince’s Foundation is being investigated for accepting a huge figure from a wealthy Russian donor later rejected by its ethics committee and has put Prince Charles in a delicate position.

Be that as it may, the British royal family is going through a delicate moment not only because of this issue of Prince Charles, which has a much smaller dimension than that of his brother Andrés, already sentenced to family ostracism and institutional by his past association with controversial billionaire Jeffrey Epstein and the accusations of having had sexual relations with Virginia Roberts when she was a minor.