Late Queen was ‘thrilled’ on the dramatic resignation of then-Prince Charles’ closest aide following a Mail on Sunday expose, says ‘money for entry’ fixer

Queen Elizabeth was ‘thrilled’ on the dramatic resignation of the then Prince Charles’s closest aide following a Mail on Sunday exposé, it was sensationally claimed final evening.

Michael Wynne-Parker, a society fixer – himself now embroiled in a ‘money for entry’ scandal – alleges he was advised by Prince Andrew in a cellphone name that the late Queen was relieved when Michael Fawcett, who ran Charles’s charities, stepped down amid the MoS’s revelations about his misuse of his place.

The Duke of York, who was calling from Balmoral, is claimed to have knowledgeable Mr Wynne-Parker: ‘I am with Mum and he or she’s thrilled with you, Michael, since you’ve most likely saved the monarchy.’

The astonishing declare is only one of numerous incendiary feedback made by Mr Wynne-Parker, 78, who was talking for the primary time since being disqualified by the Charity Fee final week after a three-year investigation into donations to The King’s Basis. 

He advised this newspaper: ‘They’ve singled out the one one that was a participant, however was not the principal participant.’

In August 2021, The Mail on Sunday revealed a leaked e-mail during which Mr Wynne-Parker offered particulars of how dinner with Prince Charles and an in a single day keep at Dumfries Home in Scotland – owned by the King’s Basis (then the Prince’s Basis) – might be secured in change for a six-figure donation paid by means of a checking account linked to Burke’s Peerage, a information to the aristocracy.

Per week later, in an extra bombshell revelation, this newspaper uncovered how Mr Fawcett, who was at Charles’s aspect for 40 years, supplied to assist safe a knighthood and British citizenship for Mahfouz Marei Mubarak bin Mahfouz – a Saudi billionaire and a donor to the Basis.

Mr Fawcett, 61, the King’s former valet, resigned because the Basis’s chief govt shortly after being confronted with the MoS’s proof. His downfall was an enormous blow to Charles the 12 months earlier than his mom’s dying and his accession to the throne. He’s stated to have as soon as remarked: ‘I can handle with out nearly anybody, besides Michael.’

However elsewhere within the Royal Household, claims Mr Wynne-Parker, there was gratitude to him for what was perceived as his function in bringing the controversy to gentle.

Final evening he stated: ‘I used to be actually satisfied to get a name from Prince Andrew. What he meant was the Queen was so thrilled that Fawcett was now lastly uncovered that she would have felt reduction – thank God we can’t need to cope with him once more.’

Mr Wynne-Parker claimed there have been issues in regards to the appreciable affect Mr Fawcett had over Charles.

‘He would say ‘Sir, that is what we should always do, that is how we should always do it’, and in a really busy life you’ll are likely to associate with it.’

The Palace and Mr Fawcett declined to remark final evening.

Mr Wynne-Parker, who was an adviser to Dr Bin Mahfouz and a trustee of his charity, the Mahfouz Basis, was final week dominated ‘unfit to function a charity trustee’ following a probe by the Charity Fee. A damning inquiry discovered that he used the Basis as a conduit to attempt to channel donations to The King’s Basis.

A separate Charity Fee report on the Burke’s Peerage Basis stated that trustees

William Bortrick and Mark Ayre misspent greater than £113,000 of charity cash, together with £16,000 on an vintage desk and bookcase that each ended up at Mr Bortrick’s house.