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.
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Prince Michael of Kent, the Queen’s cousin and an honorary military patron, has been caught in a media sting offering to sell South Korean gold traders his royal access to the Russian Kremlin.
Prince Michael, 78, who is also a member of the Russian aristocracy and is related to the last Tsar, Nicholas II, told undercover reporters posing as South Korean investment executives he was “very excited” to work with them, including making a speech from his Kensington Palace home in exchange for US$200,000, and making introductions on a future trip to Russia in exchange for $50,000. The idea was to help the company emphasize the links between gold and monarchy.