EPHRAIM HARDCASTLE: Why shouldn’t Michael Fawcett return to his fixer role with the King after police dropped their investigation into his alleged involvement in cash-for-honours?
Why shouldn’t Michael Fawcett return to his fixer role with the King, now police have dropped their investigation into his alleged role in selling honours to foreigners for cash donations to Charles’s pet charities?
He appears to have been set up as the public scapegoat, but with no charges to answer he effectively becomes an innocent man.
But should he ever decide to sell the skeletons he could name his price.
As former royal aide Dickie Arbiter has observed: ‘Fawcett has been there for so many years, so close in times of stress, that he knows all the ins and outs and all the warts.’
Why shouldn’t Michael Fawcett return to his fixer role with the King, now police have dropped their investigation into his alleged role in selling honours to foreigners for cash donations to Charles’s pet charities? Pictured: Charles (left), then the Prince of Wales, and Michael Fawcett (right) in Scotland in 2019
Germany’s version of Fawcett – Hans Hermann Weyer, who has died aged 85 – made millions by ‘fixing titles and doctorates for sausage makers and rich spouses for broke nobles’.
He had a Rolls-Royce Phantom, a 12-cylinder Lamborghini, properties and servants galore, including a pad in Belgravia.
He tried unsuccessfully to break into the English market but said, according to his Daily Telegraph obituary yesterday: ‘They don’t give a damn about status-seeking there. The Germans have what we call Untertanengeist, a spirit of submissiveness where titles and uniforms are concerned.’
Sunday Times journalist Gabriel Pogrund, who has investigated the Fawcett affair, tweets: ‘As repeatedly predicted, the Met confirms the monarchy is above the law – not just Charles (who wasn’t even spoken to) but his associates too.’
His Majesty is immune from prosecution unless Parliament passes an Act removing him from the throne. For that to take effect, he would need to sign it into law himself.
Sunday Times journalist Gabriel Pogrund, who has investigated the Fawcett affair, tweets: ‘As repeatedly predicted, the Met confirms the monarchy is above the law – not just Charles (who wasn’t even spoken to) but his associates too’
With Succession star and SNP supporter Brian Cox (left) due to address a pro-independence rally in Edinburgh on September 2, Scottish Tory chairman Craig Hoy (right) wonders if the Dundee-born actor will be there in person
With Succession star and SNP supporter Brian Cox due to address a pro-independence rally in Edinburgh on September 2, Scottish Tory chairman Craig Hoy wonders if the Dundee-born actor will be there in person.
‘Or will he be Zooming in from his homes in New York or north London?’ Why not? Sean Connery championed Scottish independence from his Bahamas crib.
Harrison Ford still playing swashbuckling screen hero Indiana Jones at 81, muses soulfully in Readers Digest: ‘There’s a skill involved in what we do, and the art that surfaces in our work is a spirit we all seek.’
Or, as comic George Burns observed about acting: ‘The main thing is honesty. If you can fake that, you’ve got it made.’
Harrison Ford still playing swashbuckling screen hero Indiana Jones at 81, muses soulfully in Readers Digest: ‘There’s a skill involved in what we do, and the art that surfaces in our work is a spirit we all seek.’ Ford is pictured as Indiana Jones in the 2023 film, Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny
With chef Michel Roux Jr announcing that Le Gavroche is to close after 56 years, veteran BBC correspondent John Simpson recalls: ‘In 1968, when I was a very young reporter, my editor discovered that the brand new London restaurant Le Gavroche was charging unprecedentedly high prices and told me to go and report on it. My lunch there cost £14.’
A former BBC colleague says: ‘I suspect John sent himself to Le Gavroche. He was Billy Bunter-like in those days, eating and drinking extravagantly. It was only in later life that he became a lean, diet-following jogger.’
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