Why Queen Elizabeth's Cousin's Kremlin Scandal Pressures Royals Over Harry and Meghan
On 5/11/21 at 5:23 AM EDT
Prince Michael of Kent was filmed by undercover reporters from
The Sunday Times and Channel 4's
Dispatches posing as representatives of House of Haedong, a fake investment fund targeting gold.
They offered him $200,000 to make a pre-recorded speech endorsing the company for its launch event.
The journalists approached a friend of the prince, Lord Reading, who suggested that he could make open doors to access Russian President Vladimir Putin on behalf of the company.
This, the newspaper reported, would have cost them $50,000 for a four or five day trip by the prince to Russia.