PRINCE Charles’s closest aide faces a police probe over claims a Saudi billionaire was promised a knighthood and British passport in return for donations.
Michael Fawcett, 58, was willing to help Dr Mahfouz Marei Mubarak bin Mahfouz, a leaked letter shows.
Former valet Fawcett, who has twice quit royal jobs because of scandals, has now stepped down temporarily as the £95,000-a-year chief executive of Charles’s charity The Prince’s Foundation.
Ex-Lib Dem MP Norman Baker has written to Met Police chief Cressida Dick demanding an investigation into potential corruption.
Mahfouz has donated £1.5million spent mostly on renovating two of Charles’s properties where parts of the grounds are named after the Saudi.
It is alleged he paid tens of thousands to fixers with links to the prince who had told him they could secure him an honorary CBE, the Sunday Times reported.
Mahfouz denies any wrongdoing.
Charles presented him with the gong in 2016.
Fawcett wrote to Mahfouz in 2017, saying: “In light of the ongoing and most recent generosity of His Excellency Sheikh Marei Mubarak Mahfouz bin Mahfouz, I am happy to confirm to you, in confidence, that we are willing and happy to support and contribute to the application for Citizenship.
“I can further confirm we are willing to make an application to increase His Excellency’s honour from Honorary CBE to that of KBE in accordance with Her Majesty’s Honours Committee.”
Fawcett, known for squeezing toothpaste onto Charles’s brush, declined to comment yesterday.
A friend of the prince told The Celeb Report: “Charles would have no idea this kind of thing could be happening.
“But he will be upset with losing his closest aide.”
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