Former assistant Prince of Wales Because of accusations that he used his influence to win honors for a major donor, he temporarily resigned as the charity boss.
Michael Fawcett is accused of helping a wealthy Saudi businessman with honor.
Mahfouz Marei Mubarak bin Mahfouz received the honorary CBE at the end of 2016.
The organization is an umbrella group of many charitable interests of Prince Charles.
The Sunday Times and Sunday Mail published the allegations against Mr. Fawcett.
The Sunday Times stated that Mr. Mafooz, who denied any wrongdoing, donated a large amount of money to a restoration project that Prince Charles is particularly interested in.
According to newspaper reports, Mr. Fawcett was accused of coordinating and supporting Mr. Mahfouz’s honor.
Mr. Fawcett was exonerated from allegations of financial misconduct for the sale of royal gifts in 2003, and after the reorganization of Charles’ charity, he was appointed as CEO of the Prince’s Foundation in 2018.
Douglas Cornell, chairman of the Prince Foundation, said: “Earlier today, Michael Fawcett offered to temporarily resign from the position of chief executive officer of the Prince Foundation, and the trustee’s investigation is ongoing.
“The Prince Foundation has accepted this proposal. Michael fully supports the ongoing investigation and confirmed that he will assist in the investigation in various ways.”
It is understood that Chief Operating Officer Emily Cherrington will take over temporarily, and the Scottish Charity Regulatory Agency (OSCR) has been informed that the Prince Foundation is a charity registered in Scotland.
A spokeswoman for the Prince Foundation said: “The Prince Foundation takes the allegations that have recently come to its attention very seriously and is currently investigating the matter.
“We are extremely proud of the philanthropic work of the Prince’s Foundation and its positive impact on our beneficiaries in the UK and around the world.
“In particular, our education and training programs benefit more than 15,000 people each year and provide our students with the skills and confidence needed for employment or entrepreneurship.”
Mr. Fawcett began serving the royal family in 1981 when he was Queen Every morning at Kensington Palace, he rose from military rank to sergeant servant, then Charles’s assistant personal servant, posing his custom suit and shirt every morning.
When Charles’s personal assistant, he was accused of selling unwanted royal gifts and pocketing a portion of the proceeds, but was cleared through an internal investigation of any financial misconduct.
The investigation led by Sir Michael Pitt, Charles’ personal secretary at the time, found that Mr. Fawcett did “violate internal rules related to supplier gifts”, but he could not be severely criticized because the rules were not enforced and he did not treat such gifts. cover up.
But the report portrayed Mr. Fawcett as an accused bully who accepted valuable gifts from outsiders.
The royal assistant resigned after the report was published, but continued to receive the support of the prince as a freelancer and party planner, and received an undisclosed cash severance payment, and agreed to serve as the prince’s event manager.
