Report: Prince Charles' charity got donation from bin Ladens

Britain’s Prince Charles is facing more questions over his charities after a newspaper reported that one of his funds accepted 1.2 million USD donation from relatives of Osama bin Laden.

The Sunday Times reported that the Prince of Wales’s Charitable Fund received the money in 2013 from Bakr bin Laden, patriarch of the large and wealthy Saudi family, and his brother Shafiq.

Both are half-brothers of the former al-Qaida leader.  Charles’ Clarence House office disputed that but confirmed the donation had been made.

It said the decision to accept the money was taken by the charity’s trustees, not the prince. Charles, 73, has faced a series of claims about the operation of his charities.

The Prince of Wales’s Charitable Fund was founded in 1979 to “transform lives and build sustainable communities,” and gives grants to a wide variety of projects in Britain and around the world.