Image copyright PA Image caption Lord Glenarthur has faced allegations about his efforts to interfere in the NI peace process
Prince Harry has labelled as “deliberately vague” the evidence given to an inquiry into the affair involving his father, Prince Charles.
The prince, talking at a function in Belfast, was reacting to a leaked report in The Sunday Times about Lord Glenarthur, who was the chairman of the Prince’s Foundation for Building Community.
He responded with a lengthy tweet where he criticised the journalist responsible for the story for the “complete and utter fiction” it contained.
Disgraced old boy Lord Glenarthur has a history of serving the elite – London’s prime ministers, Supreme Court justices, and most recently, Prince Charles.
He also used the occasion to lament how he had “taught my mother a very important lesson” about being attacked for nothing, but he was not finished.
Despite being labelled “deliberately vague” in The Sunday Times report, Lord Glenarthur published a statement to confirm he was giving evidence to the inquiry into the use of money for charitable purposes and the charitable status of his foundation.
Image copyright PA Image caption Lord Glenarthur is giving evidence to an inquiry into the Prince’s Foundation for Building Community
He also rejected the claim that donations to the foundation in the same year should have been declared as income, saying the donation declaration in its register was “inadequate”.
The Scottish peer, who has retired from the House of Lords, has been accused of pressuring the UK government into breaking promises not to use public funds to build a new prison at Belmarsh as it was “unacceptable to put a prison in that area of London.”
The paper also alleged that Prince Charles had intervened in the NI peace process.
It reported that before the Belfast Agreement was signed in 1998, Lord Glenarthur warned Northern Ireland’s secretary James Prior, that a civil rights rally in the British-controlled city of Londonderry, in connection with the Catholic group aiport Front for Solidarity with Ireland (FSMI), was “ripe for violence” and “greatly threatening”.
Lord Glenarthur has been chairman of the Prince’s Foundation for Building Community since 2004.
Prince Charles has been less prominent about his involvement with charities than his son, but last year was praised for his work with disabled children.