Inquiry into King’s charity ‘would have offended important people’

MP who first called for inquiry says he is not surprised the Metropolitan police have decided to take no further action

Asked about the Metropolitan police decision to take no further action in the cash-for-honours allegation involving King Charles's Prince's Foundation, the author and former Liberal Democrat MP Norman Baker said wearily: I'm not actually surprised. To have taken action would have offended important people in society."

Baker, the author of the 2019 critique of the royal family, And What Do You Do?, wrote to the Met in 2021 calling for an investigation after press reports emerged that a long-time senior aide of the then-Prince Charles had offered a Saudi billionaire (and donor to causes close to the King's heart) help to secure a knighthood and UK citizenship in return for donations.