This story is very curious! So, as we know, the Duke and Duchess of Sussex started Archewell after their initial plans to start their own separate charity/foundation kind of fell apart in the UK. This was all part of the great unraveling in 2019 – the Sussexes moved out of the Kensington Palace offices and set up an office in Buckingham Palace. The Sussexes left The Royal Foundation at the same time, but the split of charities and charitable donations has been a long process. There were some dumb concerns that the Royal Foundation divvying up their funds for Harry’s separate projects was some kind of breach of tax laws but that was nothing. In any case, Harry left the UK with Sentebale, Invictus, and several other programs and initiatives he alone started under the Royal Foundation banner. I think that’s connected to this Eden Confidential story:
They publicly attacked the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge in their infamous TV interview with Oprah Winfrey, but Prince Harry and Meghan have a reason to be grateful to the royal couple. I can disclose that the Duke of Sussex’s charity for injured ex-servicemen has enjoyed its best year ever, thanks to Prince William and Kate.
The Invictus Games Foundation, which former soldier Harry set up in 2014, received a grant of more than £500,000 from the Royal Foundation of the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge. The huge transfer of £560,984 meant that Invictus could boast an income of £1.77 million last year in newly published accounts. That’s a huge jump on 2019 when its income was £1.06 million.
‘Prince William and Catherine always supported Harry’s efforts to establish Invictus,’ a courtier tells me. ‘They are delighted that it has been a success.’
The comments seem magnanimous given that Meghan claimed to her friend Oprah that Kate had made her cry and accused an unnamed royal of making a racist comment about her unborn baby.
The Royal Foundation, originally called the Foundation of Prince William and Prince Harry, was set up in 2009 when they were still close friends as well as brothers. Their wives were later added to the title of the charity. After Meghan moved to Britain in 2017, there were hopes that the quartet (jokingly referred to as the ‘Fab Four’) would become a powerful fundraising force.
However, just two years later Harry and Meghan announced they were quitting the charity to set up their own foundation called Sussex Royal. The Queen banned them from using the word ‘royal’ after they confirmed they were leaving Britain for North America last year and stepping down from their roles as senior royals.
It will be fascinating to see how Invictus fares without the Cambridges’ financial support.
It’s incredibly curious, right? I have no doubt that the Royal Foundation is sitting on millions of pounds, which Will & Kate want to parcel out in their own time. But I don’t actually think that’s what this is. I think this is some kind of final housekeeping in the years-long split of foundations. It feels much more likely that the Royal Foundation transferred that huge sum to Invictus because that money was always earmarked for Invictus anyway, as in it was money raised specifically for Invictus, originally filtered through the Royal Foundation. This was not William and Kate being generous souls and supporting wayward Harry and his little event. This was W&K continuing to split up the charitable funds from when everything was under the same umbrella.
As for “It will be fascinating to see how Invictus fares without the Cambridges’ financial support…” Invictus was and is so successful because Harry organized it from the start. William and Kate always wanted credit for it and they wanted to act like they helped create it with him because it was immediately obvious that Harry had done this incredible thing by creating the Invictus Games. These people are ridiculous.
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The Sussex’s did not “attack” the Lamebridges during the Oprah interview ffs – if that’s the take Eden Confidential wants to go with, you know which side is buttering their toast.
I love how they try to make Meghan look bad by saying she said kate made her cry , as if kate was not the one who leaked that lie in the first place. If kate had not lied about it 2 yrs ago Meghan wouldn’t have corrected it
Osty, I thought the same! The narrative has totally turned! Suddenly Meghan saying Kate made HER cry is some sort of attack. I guess the difference is that Kate didn’t say it directly into a camera – just the whole Middleton clan running to the media and keeping that story alive.
Not only that narrative. Meghan shared that questions were raised about the baby’s skin color. Something she learned from Harry. Questions that came up in conversations between Harry and unnamed person/s. Harry talked about it in the interview, Richard. Richard really needs to learn to report factually. But that’s not his game plan. Questions were raised with Harry about their unborn baby’s skin color, not just her unborn baby.
It’s time for Katie the greaty to let it the f go. You did that shit, you pulled a Karen at another woman wedding. Try to be a f—-Ing adult and own it. Meghan already gave your sorry ass more grace that your Botox button up ass ever deserved.
Word.
Great comment!
And honestly, the more they keep bringing it up the more we know that what Meghan said was true. (I mean I didn’t doubt her, but its just hammering the point home.) Watch how they word it whenever it is brought up – not that Meghan lied, not that Meghan put out a false story, not that Meghan was talking trash to make herself look better – no, its always things like “Meghan claimed” or “meghan told Oprah.” Tominey tried desperately to spin it a little bit after the interview, but even saying “well I had impeccable sources” (which I take to mean either Kate herself or Carole) just means that someone lied to her and she either didnt care or didn’t bother to check, and the closest she’s come to admitting she was wrong was saying “well so there were tears on both sides” or some BS like that. But its never “the original story is true and we stand behind it, Meghan was lying in the interview.” And the more they keep bringing it up, 6 months after the interview, 3 years after the incident – I am starting to think part of is tugging the Cambridges leash a little bit.
US will support the Invictus Games even more than UK has. We love Harry and Meghan and don’t mistreat them as the UK has. UK would rather support their Prince Rapist Andrew than Harry and Meghan.
Calling RepliKate a good person must be the most savage insult ever. I hope she got some cream for that burn.
@heatherc as a Southern lady, THIS. That note of pity in Meghan’s voice…combined with that gracious “She’s a good person.” Oh my god. Meghan and Harry don’t always play the game the way I would (and ultimately I think they have better instincts than me) but this was EXACTLY how the ladies I know shank someone (well in public anyway, in a very private space they will go ahead and call you a raging c-bag).
TOTALLY. This is a “bless her heart” if I ever heard one.
Plus, nobody criticized William. Maybe that hurt his feelings.
I think it’s really interesting how they say the Sussexes attacked both Will and Kate and the examples they give are Meghan saying Kate made her cry and accusing “someone” of saying racist things about Archie. It’s like an admission that Will was the one to make racist comments. They don’t give any other examples of supposed criticism towards William but they make sure to specify that he was individually targeted as well as Kate.
Patronages have credited archwell generous contribution and of course noboby credited Douche & Douchette of Cambridge for anything on afghistan, Haiti, etc (we got an encouragement toncount butterflies the day before the project ended) so of course they need to be attacking and at the same time divulging that they did give a significant amount to a charity – becuase they still are doing nothing. Only that amount was probably to send back was was to invictus anyway and not a contribution. Lame
This is pure PR stunting to claim credit for Invictus which is Harry’s success story not the Cambridges – the have a long history of taking credit for what others do. Also, I have a vague recollection that there was an external fund/organisation that was connected to the RF that provided a lot of the funding to Invictus – I guess this story is just the final payment to Invictus from that fund, via the Cambridges and the are making out it was their money (they likely sat on it to be difficult and to make interest off it).
I made the statement yesterday that this was solely a grant. I also stated that this was NOT a donation by TOBB and Keen Guevara as they would NEVER give their own money to anything!! TOBB would rather give someone one of his children than to let his grip go that has money in it. But given that everyone think that this is the final separation of the bookkeeping, that makes perfect sense.
As for her nasty comments, I am sick of them harping on Harry and Meghan and constantly defending the abhorrent behaviour of the entire royal family!!! They are trash, white trash only with money.
So, I am not an expert on fundraising or tax laws or tax implications or anything like that. BUT to my extremely non-expert eye, this seems like pure housekeeping – there was money raised by the foundation, or as part of the foundation, that was specifically earmarked for Invictus, and the royal foundation has to pay it out. My guess would be that the reason for the delay is that there was either some additional funny business going on (as in, the Cambridges did not want to let this money go) and/or they were delaying as long as possible so they could announce the “donation” when the Cambridges are otherwise quiet.
It’s not a donation, it’s a transfer of funds, and Eden knows that, but this plays to the base.
As a reminder – it has been 44 days since we’ve seen any of the cambridges, so of course we’re going to get these kinds of stories, ESPECIALLY in light of the 40×40 and the Sentebale fundraising.
Exactly just transfer of funds and Eden the liar used that to placate his jealous boss and wife , and I bet they were happy because PWT has always been jealous of harry and hsi success of invictus. If they had that kind of money they would have used it to help their own failed patronages.
And here I was wondering how great it was that His Incandescence Willileaks Baldemort of House Lamebridge first of his name, future future Statesmen king of Salty England and Her Keenness Guevara Mandela of House Lamebridge, first of her name, lynchpin and peacemaker, “jewel of the crown” (because suddenly her name is Kohinoor, not Kate) and Buckingham Palace’s literal Rock were quiet and not spreading bs. Guess I spoke to soon.
I’m not an expert either but I agree that this is probably what happened. Funds were raised for Invictus through the royal foundation and that was handed to Harry as it’s Invictus money. The Cambridges didn’t hand over a penny of their money or made a donation in general. They just gave funds that were rightfully Invictus’.
100% Becks. Just pure housekeeping as part of the split. It’s all laid out in the accounts and the senior statutory auditor signing that audit report is one of the most respected charity auditors in London. She makes sure everything gets disclosed properly. This is just the press twisting it to be pro-Cambridge.
Given the unusual sum of the gift, I’d say someone made a 500,000 pound pass through gift to Invictus and, since the games were canceled last year, it earned some interest before it was transferred. This is a pretty common practice in the foundation world.
It was not 500,000, it was 560,984. But nice try at attacking the Sussexes again sideways.
Invictus is owed that interest is it not? Does someone else’s foundation get to benefit from a donation that was never theirs in the first place?
If, in this rate environment, the Royal Foundation could earn over 12% on their money in under a year, then they’re a bunch of magicians.
I agree – the odd amount sounds like the balance of restricted funds for Invictus. Invictus went to Archewell and the funds have to go there, as well. Nothing magnanimous about it. We’ll know better when the Archewell 990 tax return is made public.
I think Mac was just saying that the original amount donated to the foundation was probably 500,000 but then with interest it earned added to the amount transferred that’s where the other 60,000+ came from. Yes, it is entitled to the interest it earns, hence the odd amount.
@Lucky Charm – Sure, but whatever it is that Mac was saying didn’t actually happen.
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Have the Cambridges tried to take credit for it though? They’ve done a lot of fucked up things, but I’m not sure that’s one. Sussex fan here, FYI!
Yes, Cain tried to hold on to Invictus, when he saw it was successful, but Harry was the one with the idea after he saw the American warrior games.
How many charities have failed under the lamebridges in the last few years, why would they give Harry money, when their charities needed money, as if that spiteful couple would help Harry in any way.
That’s what this article is doing so unless they get Eden to retract his comments implying this, then they are in fact letting one of their surrogates give them credit for funding Invictus.
Did the Daily Fail print a correction or retraction to this story? I have looked but cannot find it. Does anyone have the link?
He’s also tried to trademark Harry’s initiative HeadFit that he worked on with the Ministry of Defence so I’m not at all surprised if this news is true.
The success that the Invictus Game has received so far has reached the level that William can only dream of. It’s why he hastily started the “ambitious “Earthshot Prize”.
It helps William and Kate optics-wise. To their sycophants, it makes them seem mature, non-petty and above it all, with no reproach to whatever “Emotional Harry” has said about them. Its also a way to keep their foot at the door as the faces of the Invictus by “being” invested and proactive.
@Selene I’m sure the Cambridge stans are already gloating about this, when in reality, all this article really did is remind people that the Cambridges have never done anything even remotely in the same league as Invictus or Sentebale.
Whenever we hear anything about those two organizations, everyone automatically thinks of Harry; he’s so closely associated with them. The Cambridges don’t have anything like that, because they’ve never created anything nearly as successful. So while every single thing you said is true, it’s pathetic that all they’ve done is ride Harry’s coattails.
But, but, but…the tree trunk bench to cloud-gaze in…
The money was the endeavour fund money buy was with the Royal foundation because of harry but now that harry left with endeavour and the invictus they have to release the funds ( that was theirs in the first place ) To its rightful owner. Eden the liar wrote that stupid story because he and the kp characters were jealous of Harry’s santebele success.. And he couldn’t even explain his own headline well in his pathetic article. Eden realising his lie didn’t stick then tried to victim play claiming the Sussex fans want to cancel him , as if we care about his pathetic arse .
I think he would have had plausible deniability (“oh no no no, I never said it was the cambridges money, only that money was transferred!”) except for the last line about how it would be “interesting” to see how Invictus fared without the Cambridges support. That’s definitely implying (very strongly) that the Cambridges are directly supporting Invictus, which is, of course, total BS.
He wanted to remind people that his favourite royals are still , are equally generous and are helping harry . All because harry did so well last week with the polo match . The cambs are awol so we will see these ridiculous lie all the time .
This is a small, petty thing to complain about in the grand scheme of things, but this dipsh!t ALWAYS starts his columns with, “I can disclose…” and for some reason it drives me insane. It just makes it sound like he has sooooo much insider information and that he’s deigning to share tidbits of it with us peasants.
Cue the “Harry is lying when he said that the RF cut him off financially” stories…
He published this stupid story after Harry’s $1.5 milliom donation to Sentabale was made public but unfortunately for him a few hours later it was revealed that Harry was also able to raise $3.5 million for the same charity. So his stupid “how ever will Harry be able to raise money without the Cambridges” swipe looks even dumber now.
Also: Harry got Invictus a production credit on Heart of Invictus and waved Archewell’s production fee so Netflix would donate what they’d usually give Archewell to the Invictus Games Foundation so IG is doing just fine and probably a hell of a lot better than the Cambridges’ pattonages.
Some people said he wrote this story just to get clicks and engagement. I thought this issue of transfer of funds already came up last year. This was when that group Republic filed some complaint against the Sussexes with the Charity Commission, because funds were transferred to Travalyst. They claimed, all over the press, that the transfer was illegal, or suspicious. Harry filed a legal complaint, Republic had to issue an apology. So it seems like Eden is trying to go at it from a different angle. Since he can’t say there was anything untoward about the transfer, because he could get sued, he is using the tactic that the Cambridge’s generously donated the funds to Invictus. Again, it is most likely just legal and financial housekeeping since the Sussexes left and they kept certain charities. What I’m not clear on is who exactly Eden wants a response from on this. Does he want KP to respond or the Sussexes? Did he contact the Royal foundation or Invictus for a response before publishing this, and what was it? Obviously someone is very bothered by Archewell’s visibility and, trying to credit others.
To answer the question posed in the headline of this post – a Daily Heil wet dream.
Of course this is housekeeping and of course it’s being presented to shine more sunshine up the Lazybridges. H&M are so well off away from all this hate and spite.
Except W&K haven’t created anything even half as successful as Invictus. And excluding Harry’s projects, Archewell has done more in a year than the Royal Foundation has done in 10. The RRs might have better success artificially propping up the Cambridges if they compared them to other working royals, instead of H&M. Because at this point, they’re in two different leagues.
The money was moved because the Endeavour Fund, which Harry founded, moved to be housed under the Invictus Games Foundation the Royal Foundation last year. The Endeavour Fund is that military program Harry runs which helps veterans take on expeditions as part of their recovery and assists them with reacclimating to civilian life. The Fund’s Endeavour Awards is where we got that infamous rain shot of Harry and Meghan last year. It has always been Harry’s project and he has been the one spearheading fundraising for it from the start.
If you could update this post with that that’d be great. There were multiple articles about this last year and the transfer of money and the reason for it (the move of the Endeavor Fund to the IG Foundation) was explicitly mentioned in the Royal Foundation’s 2020 Financial Report.
Exactly. The RR’s and BRF rely on people forgetting what really happened. It’s probably why Eden was careful not to use the word donate or donation. It was a transfer to where it was intended for to begin with. William & Kate did not voluntarily donate or gift $ to Invictus.
Even Eden’s use of ‘grant’ is wrong. That implies Harry/Invictus applied to the Royal Foundation for money when that’s not the case. Eden is doing some overt a$$licking and needs to be reminded of 2020 financial report.
It’s not like Willy and Katie Keen went into their trust funds to gift Harry money even though Meghan, Harry ungrateful black hag of a wife had the audacity to deny the white duchess Kate the great the privilege of being the duchess of white tears bought on by the angry black woman meghan. Let’s keep it real , this was not a gift, the money has always belonged to the foundation Harry and Harry alone started. Baldimort and Katie keen probably ran out of ways to keep it from the invictus foundation and then reluctantly had to give it up . However they made sure to put it out there than they were being generous, supportive souls by giving Harry foundation money that was never theirs to begin with.
Every-time I think these bitches have reached the bottom, they manage to surprise me and sink even further
If Invictus truly relied on the Cambridges fundraising skills it would have shuttered years ago. It’s obvious this is some kind of housekeeping thing following the split of the foundation because the Cambridges barely do anything for the causes they do pretend to care about.
And enough with the gaslighting on the interview. Meghan confirming the truth about the crying story exposed Kate for the cruel person she is. Still no correcting the record on her end so she’s still trying to ride the white girl tears for positive coverage at the expense of her sister in law. It’s going to be three years soon on her complicit silence.
@Nic yes that line bothered me, too. Kate’s patronages are shuttering left and right because she doesn’t lift a finger to do anything for them, and Heads Together seems like it just sort of faded away into obscurity.
To claim that the Sussexes are only successful in their fundraising because of the Cambridges is absolutely outrageous. It’s such a ridiculous claim that it’s almost funny. It’s just so easily proven wrong by even glancing at the track records of each couple.
If you think about it, this sort of behaviour from William and Kate is how you know that Harry and Meghan have left a toxic environment (alongside the racism and smear campaign). They sound like jealous exes who are trying way too hard to coax the ex that left back into the relationship by trying to convince the rest of the world that the ex that left won’t be anything without them.
From the way William and Kate’s individual PR’s have portrayed them in recent years, they both seem incredibly narcissistic which makes them perfect for each other.
@Layla, you hit the nail on the head. And yes, I guess those who hate the Sussexes and only get their info from the DM might fall for this, but otherwise it’s just so clear how UNTRUE this statement is. Harry and Meghan have very clearly succeeded on their own accord, while Will and Kate flail in the wind. The amount of projection and stretching is outrageous.
When a foundation raises money, there are restricted fund and unrestricted funds. Restricted funds are those raised for a specific project that cannot be used for any other purpose. Unrestricted funds are those raised for the foundation as a whole and can be used for a variety of projects. The Endeavour Fund was Harry’s projects. It fundraised to support itself. Harry left Endeavour was transferred to Invictus. The money transferred were restricted funds attached to Endeavour. This is spelled out in the Invictus financial statement. The money will be used for Endeavour programs, it will not be used by Invictus for other projects. BTW. Invictus was started when Harry was at the royal foundation but had been a completely independent foundation since 2014. Eden knows this. They are desperately trying to credit the Cambridge’s for Harry’s work and claim some attachement to Invictus. While also trying to make the Cambridge’s look good. It is a complete misrepresentation of facts. Eden claimed last year that Invictus should be taken from Harry. So since that couldn’t happen. He wants to clout chase for the Cambridge’s. My guess is he was crying yesterday because the mail received a legal notice about their misrepresention. Subsequent stories have clarified that the money was attached to Endeavour. BTW. The media pulled the same nonsense last year with Travalyst and it resulted in an investigation by the charity commission. So I would expect that Harry would act quickly to protect Invictus from any questions about its finances. Lastly, stories like this are proof to me that Knauf is still fully working for the Cambridge’s. This is so consistent with his nonsense. Also, just in general they need to distract from the fact that the successful program that were started at the royal foundation were Harry’s and that when he left they did also. If you strip away the Sussexes programs and the “joint” like Heads Together and SHOUT it is obvious that the Cambridge’s do very little and that what they do rarely produces tangible benefits. Also. There are programs that were started by Harry that are still at the Royal Foundation. Those programs are supported by funds attached to them not the Cambridge’s generosity because any of the unrestricted funds raised while the Sussexes were there. They are entitled to because those are funds that are supposed to be split up.
The funds were transferred in 2020 and showed up in “newly published accounts” i.e. the Invictus annual report. If the Cambridges had really donated to Invictus in 2020 (the fiscal year the newly published accounts covers) then why are they coming to one of their Royal Rota Rats this week to make sure the news gets out? The transfer of the money didn’t make the news when it happened in 2020 because it wasn’t a charitable loving supportive donation from the Cambridges, instead it was a depletion of their foundation monies due to Harry in the split. There is no need for a headline saying that the Cambridges contributed to Invictus’ support except to grab credit and diminish Harry’s fundraising success of this week
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They’re trying to put a new spin old news. It’s almost like a “pay attention to me, give me some credit” tantrum. Invictus and Endeavor would have shriveled on the vine if it had stayed with the Royal Foundation.
@lorelei
please get out of my head 😂, no one cares about your disclosures, Richard. Its so condescending🙄
Right?! It drives me crazy. It’s so patronizing. Eden is such a little bitch, lol.
I imagine “bookkeeping” is a pretty loose term at Camp Cambridge.
Indeed – how many financial directors has the foundation been through? I think they are on number 5 or 6 now in about 7 years.
“It will be fascinating to see how Invictus fares without the Cambridges’ financial support.”
Er… Harry’s charities are not the ones that have had to shut their doors due to lack of funds, or call out their royal patrons for not visiting them in 8 years. If Eden wants to see examples of charities that don’t have the benefit of the Cambridge’s support, there are plenty, including a few that still carry their name.
With or without the royal “label”, Harry’s projects seem to be thriving. I get the sense this article was written before the Sentabale fundraiser, as it looks pretty ridiculous to claim that someone who just raised several million in one afternoon is relying on his brother’s generosity. Not to mention that if this were truly a “donation”, there would have been a whole ceremony with a new coatdress from Kate and a giant novelty check. Believe it!
Or maybe Eden meant he is actually interested to see how fundraising works when the principals aren’t away on vacation half the year? In which case, watch and learn, bud.
This is a case of Richard Eden twisting the truth. The Invictus Games has been its own charity for sometime now, long before the split and has not been receiving funding from the Royal Foundation in years. The money it received from the Royal Foundation was not a generous donation but a business transaction. The Endeavour Fund was transferred from the Royal Foundation to Invictus last year and that’s why William and Kate gave money to Invictus. It was money earmarked for the Endeavour Fund.
Twisting the truth is the *only* way that any of them can make the Cambridges look productive or successful.
Or charitable.
My God, they have a whole body of correspondents willing to lie, attack others and possibly ruin their own reputations as journalists for these people…. Every time they twist the truth, they know they are doing it. This must be true desperation born of the complete uselessness of the family they protect. Mind-blowing.
Wow. He can disclose, huh? What great forensic accounting. Surely with such skills in sleuthing, and with such an acute ability to disclose, he can train those lights on revealing what’s going on with the Sovereign Grant.
Or better still, I’d like to know the hourly rate of Andrew’s lawyers, and how much Elizabeth is hemorrhaging to maintain his “innocence.”
This has Keen fingerprints all over it.
“Meghan claimed to her friend Oprah that Kate had made her cry and accused an unnamed royal of making a racist comment about her unborn baby.”
Every time this dead horse is dragged out and beaten (the part about Kate making Meghan cry), it sounds like Katie Keen & Co. still has her nose out of joint that her false narrative collapsed.
William is smart enough to not bring up things like this constantly, but you can tell that it really got under Kate’s skin and she will not drop it. Comments like this are an attempt to control the narrative around Kate only.
There’s a saying, “The guilty dog barks first”. It makes me think that part two of that statement, the part about the baby’s skin colour, was Kate as well. Otherwise, why link them?
@Bunny You’re right! Why *does* this article link the baby’s colour comment to the Cambridges? 🤔
Bwa ha ha “It will be fascinating to see how Invictus fares without the Cambridges’ financial support” – the Lamebridges are so jealous how successful Archwell is doing and how so many countries are bidding to host Invictus. They’re hoping to latch on to any success so all of a sudden they want us to believe they are financially supporting Invictus…Bwa ha ha.
Oh this again. The financial statements for the Foundation were posted on Companies House website this week and so they’re scouring them to twist the results.
Note 8 of the accounts clearly state that it is a transfer from the Endeavour Fund. Then page 21 of the accounts clearly state that discontinued operations in 2020 consist of “The Duke of Sussex’s Endeavour Fund programme, which transferred funds to the Invictus Games Foundation on 1 June 2020.”
They were just transferring Harry the money he raised. https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/company/07033553/filing-history
These tweets have good explanations: https://twitter.com/invictusbypepp/status/1429802908149768192?s=21
https://twitter.com/royal_suitor/status/1428500436961546240?s=21
but in summary funds raised for Endeavour Fund which later became part of Invictus umbrella were rightly transferred to the org. Nothing to do with generosity of the Cambridges. Amazing how they can spin simple charity admin. But idea Harry needs Cambridges’ help was funny given amount raised with no pre publicity for Sentabale charity match compared to their recent fundraisers.
The press make it obvious that william was key one who raised the colour concerns. They didn’t mention him by name in the Oprah interview except Harry saying he will always be there for him but relationship is space. Yet they frequently claim he was attacked in the interview & randomly bring up the colour thing as one of the claims.
The article may have propped up the Cambridge’s, but Eden was baiting Sussex supporters. He knew the truth but wanted to be corrected. Eden in turn would cry Sussex supporters attacked him. It’s the latest game royal rats are playing for engagement.
The Royal Foundation granted £560,984 in 2020 in relation to the transfer of The Endeavour Fund programme to Invictus Games Foundation.
A simple transfer of funds together with programme has been twisted out of context by the British tabloids .
The Endeavour Fund which was set up by Prince Harry in 2012 under the Royal Foundation was transfered to the Invictus Games foundation on 1 June 2020 and the funds meant for the Endeavour fund was accordingly transfered.
The Sussexes legal team should demand the tabloids to correct their reporting on this matter.
This family is so envious in a bad way, and small minded, they are always leaking to the media in order to belittle The Sussexes, but it is not working. Archewell is now more well known than The Royal Foundation, Archewell has done so much in it’s short existence. H&M are getting praised left and right and that does not sit well with them, what kind of low self esteem family is this, despite all it’s privileges.
Reading the financial report
‘Discontinued operations in 2020 relates to The Duke of Sussex’s Endeavour Fund programme, which was transferred to Invictus Games Foundation on 1 June 2020 and to the Coach Core programme, which was transferred to a new independent charity, Coach Core Foundation, on 1 April 2020.’
After that I find a transfer
Invictus Games Foundation (transfer of The Endeavour Fund programme) 560,984
Meaning those are likely funds Harry raised for The Endeavour Fund, which TRF was legally required to transfer to Invictus Games when The Endeavour Fund moved there last year. Trust an inside source, this ‘courtier’ (PoorJason?) to spin it otherwise.
If the bullying claims are ever properly investigated i promise you that it will stem from the use of money in the Royal Foundation. We’ve already heard about William trying to take control of the money Meg raised through the cook book and smartworks. I bet it became a tense work environment for ppl who had to be stuck between Cambridge and Sussex dueling plans. Meg was probably a total sweetheart to her employees but firm in her choices. Since TOB is the ffk, they probably didn’t know who to listen to.
Also, no way the Cambridges donated to Invictus. Since everyone knows this is Harry’s personal project they can’t take credit for it. They therefore want it to fail so bad.
Brilliant connecting of the dots $$$
The Working Royal HRH Cambridge’s are exceedingly desperate to attach themselves to the work and good publicity the Duke and Duchess are getting for their charity work and projects in the USA and worldwide. It screams desperation and deflection. They have the titles and island I suggest they embrace it, the rest of us could care less about them.
If Richard Eden of the Daily Mail is incapable of reading the annual report of the Royal Foundation then he has no business writing in the Daily Mail and misleading its readers.
Such misleading article will also hamper the fund raising efforts of the Invictus Games .
@Noor
Obviously not, as Harry just raised a cool $2 million at the latest Sentebale Cup.
The phrase “I can now reveal, disclose, etc” is always a signal that something skewed is going to be reported. I would be so ashamed to have these stories under my by-line.
Totally. “I can disclose” rubs me the wrong way too. It reads more like “Somebody gave me permission/directed me to disclose…”
He’s not incapable – he just doesn’t want to. And he knows his readers won’t bother to look up anything.
@Eurydice, exactly. Also, if he can now disclose, why doesn’t he say straight out where he got the information. Not big on fact checking are the RR’s.
The money was “Harry’s” (i.e. Invictus’) to begin with. It’s like you bringing me lasagne one night and then the next day me telling the neighbours how generous I am for giving you a Pyrex dish.
The Cambridges have absolutely nothing to show for the last year and a bit, huh? There are no donations to any covid-relief organization, nothing to help children navigate the mental stress of having been locked down, nothing for bereaved families, nothing to help service workers get back on their feet. They have done so little that they have to lie about a transfer of funds and act like it’s a 6-figure donation? They’re pathetic.
The Cambridges are incredibly lazy. They always use the excuse of ‘raising three children’ but how much longer can they use that?
I still think a lot of the bad blood between The Cambridges and The Sussexes was money. I think that Wills in particular was pissed that Harry and Meg wouldn’t let Wills take $$$ from their projects, like the Hubb cookbook.
It just makes sense…
Money does come between the closest of family. However I find jealous people are jealous of everything, so in this case probably money and popularity.
I have always thought that that was the beginning of the end (the Hubb cookbook money). Meghan wasn’t going to let him take money from that project, and he became incandescent that she would stand up to him over that.
Which makes sense because the Cambridge’s foundation sits on the money u til they maybe use it to find a gala to fundraiser more. Meanwhile they have had charities close their doors due to lack of funds.
The Royal Foundation is corrupt af.
I’m sure there have been ongoing “issues” divvying up the foundation monies, and the genesis of the problem was that William and Kate were using monies generated by Harry’s charities to their own purposes, hence the split between KP and BP. It’s probably been a complicated process to unravel involving accountants and lawyers, etc., and mostly stonewalling by the Cambridges who likely put up all sorts of road blocks before capitulating. Classic turd polishing.
Not true Jaded! Money had nothing to do with it.
I really hope you’re trying to be sarcastic.
If money had nothing to do with it, why are the Cambridge’s through their DM mouthpiece Eden trying to take credit for a donation they did not give. The money belonged to Endeavour so it was a simple accounting transfer, not generosity of Will & Kate’s part.
@J, then can you please clarify what you believe the split to be caused by in more detail? I have the feeling whatever theory you’re trying to convey is going to be very interesting (and amusing).
I agree Jaded.
The Sussexes donated just before that big Royal Foundation donation to Invictus. hmmm …
What big Royal Foundation donation to Invictus? Oh, the transfer of money that belonged to Endeavor/Invictus in the first place! Read the other posts hmmmmmm…..
“big Royal Foundation donation” LOL. You mean big legit transfer of Endeavour funds that didn’t belong to Will & Kate’s Royal Foundation. Fixed it for you.
Lots of trolls here lately
‘Without W&K’s financial support’ lol. Even if you somehow believed all of the nonsense assumptions that underlie that statement, I’m pretty sure the money from the Netflix docu series has got them covered. Lol these people are ridiculous.
lol the keenbridges are so predictable in the way they ran to their trusty mouthpieces to leak their “donation” right after we learned how Harry exceeded his annual sentebale fundraising and him,nacho & organisers raising 3.5MILLION(bearing in mind WITHOUT much hype/promotion..et). Willywonka must’ve been triggered by that😂