Last summer, I covered the completely boring and nitpicky controversy around some claims that the Royal Foundation misappropriated funds to Prince Harry’s Travalyst charity/organization. I went back and looked at my coverage, which you can see here. I’m not going to go through the whole thing again, the basic gist is that the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge’s Royal Foundation was accused of doing some inappropriate financial deal where they “gave” money to Travalyst when Harry sussexited that bitch. I’ve always thought the larger issue was that Harry and Meghan got a closer look at the Royal Foundation’s dodgy finances and they wanted their projects out of there.
In any case, the claims of misappropriated funds were taken seriously because those salty people were salivating at the chance to “punish” Harry over anything. The British Charity Commission – a sort of watchdog group – conducted a year-long review of the specific issue and guess what? Per Omid Scobie, “the charities did NOT act outside charity law in transferring funds to Travalyst.” Harry’s rep issued a statement:
Britain’s Charity Commission has announced the conclusion to its almost one-year review into MWX Foundation (formerly Sussex Foundation) and The Royal Foundation, confirming that the charities did NOT act outside charity law in transferring funds to Travalyst.
Says a Sussex rep: pic.twitter.com/arnJkCJgG0
— Omid Scobie (@scobie) May 25, 2021
Republic, the group which raised red flags over the issue, also issued a statement:
Republican pressure group @RepublicStaff issued an apology for making the claims, writing: “We apologise unreservedly to the charities and personally to The Duke of Sussex for our actions and the public damage that has been caused as a result of widely publicised untrue claims.” pic.twitter.com/2O288cRUFR
— Omid Scobie (@scobie) May 25, 2021
Republic basically saying that they overreacted and called the media and the charity commission before doing their own due diligence. Their issue never made any sense anyway – The Royal Foundation is supposed to be an umbrella organization for several separate initiatives and charities. When the Sussexes split from the Royal Foundation, of course they were going to take their earmarked charitable funds with them, you know?
Photos courtesy of Avalon Red.
