Guy can't catch a break

He's not going to get a long reign, is he?

Just because ...

I've watched, and laughed aloud, at this four times already.

Make that five.

The King

Ha.  His stance makes him look like he's even going to carry a purse like Mummy.

...but hey, do what you want...you will anyway.

A privileged Christmas

I don't know, but I bet the kid has a tailor who made that little rich-kid piped shirt, and it could be the same tailor who made his father's and his grandfather's shirts when they were kids.  At the very least I bet it's the same style they were dressed up in at that age.

And does that woman carry the code to the nukes in her handbag?  Because she has it on her arm everywhere she goes.  Is that England's nuclear football?

Poor old Charles.  He may never be king.  It'll be a short reign if he does get the chance.  Mamá may even outlive him.  Which would be too bad, because poor old Charles seems to be perhaps the only royal who appears to have a soul (even if he is an odd duck).

That little shirt is the mildest of royal quirks.  If you don't think this family is odd to the point of plain nutty, try to find a copy of this:

God, he's ignorant

Besides the fact that he can't put together a coherent sentence beyond first grade level or focus on topic at that level.




 Charles must have been sorely challenged trying to have a discussion about climate change with this idiot.

Also, no, he can't name cities. 

Sarah Kendzior is right

It's an international crime syndicate running the world.

A charity run by Prince Charles received donations from an offshore company that was used to funnel vast amounts of cash from Russia in a scheme that is under investigation by prosecutors, the Guardian can reveal.

Money flowing through the network included cash that can be linked to some of the most notorious frauds committed during Vladimir Putin’s presidency.

In all, it is estimated that $4.6bn (£3.5bn) was sent to Europe and the US from a Russian-operated network of 70 offshore companies with accounts in Lithuania.

The details have emerged from 1.3m banking transactions obtained by the Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project and the Lithuanian website 15min.lt.

[...]

There is no suggestion that end recipients of funds were aware of the original source of the money, which arrived via a disguised route. However, the documents indicate that criminal and legitimate money may have been mixed together, making it impossible to trace the original source, before passing through screen companies into the global banking system.

“This is the pipe through which the proceeds of kleptocracy flow from Russia to the west,” said the anti-corruption campaigner Bill Browder.

[...]

The leak focuses on Troika Dialog, a leading Russian investment bank now merged with the country’s biggest high street bank. Emails reveal how certain managers at Troika kept money flowing through the pipeline for more than eight years, starting in 2004.

  The Guardian

In case you missed it, here's Gaslit Nation discussing how Brexit was connected to the Russians who are implicated in Trump's 2016 win.

The cash was then used legally to pay for private jets, custom-built yachts, luxury properties, holidays, football tickets and fees at top English private schools.

[...]

[M]oney went towards the rescue of Dumfries House, a stately home in Ayrshire with a priceless collection of Chippendale furniture. In 2007, the mansion and its collection were set to be auctioned off to private buyers. Charles came to the rescue, raising £45m at breakneck speed to save the property for the nation.

But the venture left his foundation in debt, and in his efforts to plug the hole, the heir to the throne went on a fundraising drive. Vardanyan raised a further £1.5m, from a group of Russian businessmen, and the prince thanked them with a black-tie dinner in 2014.

[...]

Two more cases suggest criminal funds flowed through the network: Companies named in the prosecution of a fuel price fixing scam at Moscow’s state-owned Sheremetyevo airport appear to have paid $37m into the Troika network.

A further $17m in transfers connects Troika-managed companies to a Moscow resident accused of laundering 50bn roubles using schemes that helped businesses evade tax and send money abroad.

A key component of the scheme using Troika companies was a Lithuanian bank, Ukio, which was shut down by regulators in February 2013 after being declared insolvent.

The bank is under investigation by Lithuanian prosecutors tasked with investigating the laundering of the Magnitsky money.

[...]

Documents show money moved in and out of the bank in deals made by apparently fictitious businesses, tax haven-registered entities with no offices, no staff, and no presence online or in the world of commerce.

[...]

There appear to have been a number of others unwittingly caught up in the network. Troika-linked entities were used to pay for expenses that open a window into the world of the super-rich.

This will go quiet, right along with the Panama Papers.

But, here's some more info if you're interested:  What is the "Troika Laundromat"?

...but hey, do what you want...you will anyway.