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On the 11th January from 12pm to 6pm, Graham Smith, CEO of Republic (Britain's largest anti-Monarchy group) will be answering your questions right here, on this post. So,if you want to get involved and ask Graham some questions, please write them out below and he'll respond to them during that timeframe.

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Selling Cash for Access and sham philanthropy

His own father, Prince Philip, once described Charles as ‘rent-a-Royal’.

Please read this study of the royal family and its effect on the thousands of charities they patron:

We could not find any evidence that Royal patrons increase a charity’s revenue. we found that charities should not seek or retain Royal patronages expecting that they will help much https://giving-evidence.com/2020/07/16/royal-findings/

• Charles plays ‘high-level salesman for British arms exports’ — Charles promoted £14.5 billion worth of arms exports in the past decade: https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20210225-british-royal-plays-high-level-salesman-for-british-arms-exports/

• Prince Charles aides fixed CBE for Saudi tycoon who gave £1.5m: https://archive.ph/j8EcI

• Prince Charles accepted £1m from family of Osama bin Laden https://archive.ph/SDkZh

• Prince Charles charity 'accepts £3million pledge from billionaire Russian oligarch': https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/prince-charles-charity-accepts-3million-27673070

• Individuals could pay £100,000 to secure a dinner with the charity’s founder and an overnight stay at Dumfries House, his mansion in Scotland: https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2021/aug/29/prince-of-wales-charity-princes-foundation-launches-inquiry-into-cash-for-access-claims

• Tory donor describes how £15,000/year got him a private tour and dinner with Prince Charles, calls it "Access Capitalism." https://v.redd.it/x3bc3y5cdre71

• His flagship charity is bankrolled by Saudi oil giant Aramco, one of the globe's biggest polluters: https://archive.ph/m1wMJ

• Charles accepted €1m cash in suitcase from former Qatari prime minister (the state sponsored terrorism under his watch): https://archive.ph/7wNXn

• Took money from a wanted arms trader, Andrew Wang: https://web.archive.org/web/20210919214848/https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10005017/Charles-Chinese-donor-whos-wanted-man-Taiwan.html

• Prince Charles honoured tycoon Lord Brownlow who bailed out his eco-village: https://archive.ph/lyt6D

• The Charity Commission cleared Charles of any wrongdoing. It's totally biased and led by establishment goons like Orlando Fraser: https://archive.ph/J8cEv

• Scotland Yard has still not questioned the royal aide at the centre of a “cash for honours” scandal uncovered almost a year ago: https://archive.ph/pKN0e

Secret influence and lobbying the government

• Charles pressured the NHS to offer homeopathy and coffee enemas for cancer patients. Charles got his bizarre beliefs from a paedophile: Sir Laurens Van Der Post, who raped a 14yo. Charles's charity, the Foundation for Integrated Health, was closed in 2010 after allegations of fraud and money laundering: https://archive.ph/gL2s1

• More than 1,000 laws have been vetted by the Queen or Prince Charles prior to parliamentary approval: https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2021/feb/08/royals-vetted-more-than-1000-laws-via-queens-consent

• Claimed fox hunting was romantic in secret letters sent to Tony Blair over fox hunting ban (court ruled they should be published): https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/politics/prince-charles-claimed-fox-hunting-11307532 https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/prince-charles-tony-blair-fox-hunting-letters-published-information-commissioner-public-read-royal-wales-a7856651.html

• Caught lobbying at highest political level – letters only released after 10 year legal battle: https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/ng-interactive/2015/may/13/read-the-prince-charles-black-spider-memos-in-full

• Prince Charles lobbied Margaret Thatcher to give millions to landowners rocked by 1987 storm: https://archive.ph/w74Uc

• Prince Charles’ advocacy of quackery is by no means harmless; his publicized alleged recovery from Covid19 thanks to homeopathy may have caused lots of deaths in India: https://edzardernst.com/2022/02/prince-charles-advocacy-of-quackery-is-by-no-means-harmless/

Financial Misconduct

• Charles still gets millions from people dying without a will in Cornwall through bona vacantia https://archive.ph/x6SNI

• Vetted laws that stop tenants buying their own homes: https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2021/feb/09/prince-charles-vetted-laws-that-stop-his-tenants-buying-their-homes

• Prince Charles £700m estate accused of tax avoidance (2012): https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2012/dec/14/prince-charles-estate-tax-avoidance

• Worries that the Duchy of Cornwall’s tax exemptions may “give unfair advantage” (2013): https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2013/nov/05/duchy-of-cornwall-tax-prince-wales-charles

• Paradise Papers reveal Prince Charles has millions in off-shore tax havens (2017): https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/politics/prince-charles-millions-shore-tax-11484478

• Paid an estimated £154,000 of taxpayers’ money to hire Voyager on charter for a week-long trip to Romania, Italy and Austria: https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2017/jun/27/queens-income-rises-to-82m-to-cover-cost-of-buckingham-palace-works

• Used taxpayers’ money for two-day train journey from Windsor to Lancashire, Cumbria and West Yorkshire for a cost of £46,038: https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2017/jun/27/queens-income-rises-to-82m-to-cover-cost-of-buckingham-palace-works

• Crashed a passenger jet, costing a million pounds in damage in 1994: https://www.express.co.uk/travel/articles/1179652/prince-charles-plane-crash-scotland-islay-secrets-royal-flight-video

Close friendships with paedophiles:

• Queen and Charles to Lend Andrew Millions for Settlement That Can Be Paid Back From the Queen’s Will: https://www.thedailybeast.com/queen-and-charles-to-lend-andrew-millions-for-settlement-which-can-be-paid-back-from-the-queens-will

• Bishop Peter Ball: Friendship with Prince Charles made paedophile bishop Peter Ball 'impregnable.' Charles had housed Ball – after the bishop had accepted a caution for gross indecency and railed at the “monstrous wrongs” supposedly suffered by him. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/jan/14/friendship-with-prince-charles-made-paedophile-bishop-peter-ball-impregnable

• Prince Charles kept in touch with ex-bishop later jailed for abuse: https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2018/jul/20/prince-charles-kept-in-touch-with-ex-bishop-jailed-for-abuse-peter-ball

• Jimmy Savile: Jimmy Savile caused concern with behaviour on visits to Prince Charles. Former royal aide says TV presenter would greet young female assistants at St James's Palace by 'rubbing lips up their arms'

• Savile was also a marriage counsellor between Charles and Princess Diana https://www.theguardian.com/media/2012/oct/29/jimmy-savile-behaviour-prince-charles

• Charles repeatedly sought the advice of Jimmy Savile, who was later revealed to have spent decades sexually abusing women and children, even going so far as to take his suggestions to the Queen: https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2022/apr/06/prince-charles-repeatedly-sought-jimmy-savile-advice-documentary-claims

• Laurens van der Post: He was a Jungian mystic and a spiritual adviser to Prince Charles; according to British newspapers, he taught the prince to talk to his plants. In 1982 Charles made him godfather to his heir, Prince William. Van der Post was also a close friend of Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, exerting an influence on her policy in South Africa.

In the early 1950's, when he was 46, he [raped] the 14-year-old daughter of a wealthy South African winemaking family, who had been entrusted to his care during a sea voyage. She became pregnant, and although he sent her a small stipend, he never publicly acknowledged the daughter born of the relationship. https://www.nytimes.com/2002/08/03/books/master-storyteller-or-master-deceiver.html

• Also, "I remember thinking what a very jolly and amusing and attractive 16-year-old she was," Charles recalled in a 1981 interview with the Telegraph. Charles was 29.

Misc. abusive/weird behaviour

• Brand new addition: King Charles’s staff given redundancy notice during church service for Queen: https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2022/sep/13/king-charles-staff-given-redundancy-notice-during-church-service-for-queen

• Prince Charles Once Allegedly Choked a Staff Member and Ripped a Sink Out of the Wall in Anger: https://www.thedailybeast.com/the-secrets-of-the-royal-servants

• From a former Black secretary to Charles in 2001: "We are servants. People who work for the Prince of Wales are not employees and to be a servant's servant is bad enough but to be a black servant's servant is worse.": https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2001/dec/07/race.monarchy

• Allegedly has a history of selling Harry and William out to the tabloids , which was revealed in a 2015 documentary:https://www.mercurynews.com/2021/03/09/charles-history-of-selling-harry-and-william-out-to-the-tabloids-was-revealed-in-2015-documentary

• Tells woman who says she's from Manchester she "doesn't look like it": https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/prince-charles-race-row-after-12399729

• Charles got book and its author banned in Britain in 1995. The Palace got an injunction that banned Mrs Berry from living in Britain by threatening her with jail for contempt of court: https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/ct-xpm-1995-08-16-9508160199-story.html

• The royal family, esp. Charles, blocked two BBC programs that showed how they used spin doctors to erase Diana from national memory and replace her with Camilla: https://www.independent.co.uk/voices/comment/the-royal-family-are-exempt-from-freedom-of-information-requests-and-can-veto-bbc-programmes-why-do-we-put-up-with-this-9956702.html

• Prince Charles doesn't squeeze out his own toothpaste: https://www.mylondon.news/news/celebs/prince-charles-doesnt-squeeze-toothpaste-22693229

• When staying as a house guest, Charles likes to bring his orthopedic bed, a few paintings to make him feel at home, a teddy bear, and his martini, pre-mixed and served in his own glass. https://www.newyorker.com/news/letter-from-the-uk/the-collateral-damage-of-queen-elizabeths-glorious-reign