King’s ransoms: An incomplete history of royal money scandals

They say success is walking from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm, which when you think about it, is much like the royal family’s appetite for blithely walking from scandal to scandal. The latest royal hoo-ha is a perfect example. Michael Fawcett, Prince Charles’s right-hand man, lost his job at the end of last year after being accused of selling a CBE to a Saudi businessman in exchange for £1.5 million in donations to royal charities. The cash was partly used to restore the Castle of Mey, one of Charles’s Scottish properties.