{"id":222659,"date":"2025-06-29T00:39:08","date_gmt":"2025-06-29T00:39:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/222659\/"},"modified":"2025-06-29T00:39:08","modified_gmt":"2025-06-29T00:39:08","slug":"royal-donor-cut-off-after-trying-to-sell-access-to-prince-of-wales","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/222659\/","title":{"rendered":"Royal donor cut off after trying to sell access to Prince of Wales"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Prince of Wales has cut ties with a donor after she attempted to sell access to him for \u00a320,000, reports have suggested.<\/p>\n

Minerva Mondejar Steiner, a Filipina-Swiss millionaire, offered private meetings with William at the upcoming Royal Charity Polo Cup match in exchange for cash, the Sunday Times reported.<\/a><\/p>\n

Her art gallery, the Mondejar Gallery, was an official sponsor of the annual charitable polo event which is taking place in Windsor next month.<\/p>\n

\"\"A royal donor allegedly tried to sell access to Prince William at a polo match. (Picture: Mark Cuthbert\/Getty Images)<\/p>\n

Kensington Palace declined to comment.<\/p>\n

It is understood that the Palace was unaware of what is being viewed as a rogue sponsor until alerted by the newspaper, and action was taken immediately.<\/p>\n

The organisers of the event were not aware it was being used by the Mondejar Foundation to raise money, it is believed.<\/p>\n

The Mondejar Foundation has been approached for comment.<\/p>\n

The Royal Charity Polo Cup match is an exclusive event where charity donors can watch the prince play polo.<\/p>\n

Among the guests at last year\u2019s match was TV presenter and interior designer Laurence Llewelyn-Bowen and wife Jackie, who were seen taking a courtesy golf buggy around the site.<\/p>\n

The event raised more than a \u00a31 million for causes that William and Kate are passionate about, including Wales Air Ambulance, Child Bereavement UK, Place2Be, Action for Children and The Royal Marsden.<\/p>\n

With PA<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Prince of Wales has cut ties with a donor after she attempted to sell access to him…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":222660,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5010],"tags":[748,4884,87861,532,448,16,15,1764],"class_list":{"0":"post-222659","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-wales","8":"tag-britain","9":"tag-great-britain","10":"tag-polo","11":"tag-prince-william","12":"tag-royals","13":"tag-uk","14":"tag-united-kingdom","15":"tag-wales"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114763868821100231","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222659","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=222659"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222659\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/222660"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=222659"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=222659"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=222659"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}