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The Cash-for-Honours scandal (also known as Cash for Peerages, Loans for Lordships, Loans for Honours or Loans for Peerages) was a political scandal in the United Kingdom in 2006 and 2007 concerning the connection between political donations and the award of life peerages.
The Metropolitan Police Service began an investigation into the matter after the Times of London reported that a longtime aide to Charles had suggested the then-Prince of Wales would support a ...
A series of newspaper articles alleged a donor to The Prince’s Foundation was offered help securing a knighthood.
British police on Monday said it will take no further action following an investigation into an alleged cash-for-honors scandal linked to one of King Charles III’s charities.
The married SNP MP who made the initial police complaint over the cash for honours scandal was forced to make an apology after it was revealed that in 2005 he had a "heavy petting" session with two teenage girls aged 17 and 18 [22] in a hotel room at the same time his wife was pregnant with their third child.
The act was brought in after the Liberal Party government of David Lloyd George was severely embarrassed peddling honours for party funds. [2] The practice was legal and dated back several decades partly for new money to discreetly acquire titles; [3] Lloyd George made the practice more systematic and more brazen, charging £10,000 for a knighthood, £30,000 for baronetcy, and £50,000 upwards ...
Prince Charles. Gareth Fuller/WPA Pool/Shutterstock The Metropolitan Police announced on Wednesday, February 16, that they were launching an investigation amid claims that Prince Charles ...
The Honours Forfeiture Committee is an ad hoc committee convened under the United Kingdom Cabinet Office, which considers cases referred to the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom where an individual's actions subsequent to their being awarded a British honour raises the question of whether they should be allowed to continue to be a holder.