Princes William and Harry shun millionaire gallery owner who tried to sell access to Wills for £20,000
PRINCES William and Harry have shunned a wealthy gallery owner who tried to sell access to Wills for £20,000.
Millionaire Minerva Mondejar Steiner offered 'full private' meetings for cash to the Prince of Wales and Kate.
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Millionaire Minerva Mondejar Steiner tried to sell access to Prince William for £20,000 - pictured here meeting the Duke of Cambridge's brother Harry
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Wills immediately terminated her sponsorship for his £1million-a-year charity polo event
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William terminated her sponsorship for his £1million-a-year charity polo event at Windsor Great Park within hours of The Sunday Times report.
Now Harry has severed ties too with Ms Mondejar Steiner.
She backed his annual WellChild charity awards in London and was pictured with him in September on her Mondejar Gallery Instagram page.
It read: 'Honoured to support such an important cause and witness the incredible work being done for seriously ill children.'
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There is no suggestion of attempts to sell access to Prince Harry.
The Mondejar Foundation was approached for comment.
Prince William has marked two years of his Homewards project for rough sleepers by writing to six coalitions across the UK, thanking them for setting up 300 homes.
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He told a Climate Week gathering his Earthshot prize is aimed at preserving 'all the things we as human beings care about'.
Every year this decade the Prince of Wales awards £1million to each of five winners working to save the planet.
Prince William was seething at Harry for years but now he has far more serious things to deal with
He explained: 'Everything we want to do here starts with a team game.
'And the prize is just the pinnacle of the ability to showcase all the brilliant people around working in this space.'
Wills told the audience at Bloomberg's London HQ: 'It takes a village to raise a family.
'If you take that into the concept of a planet, it takes all of us to raise that planet.'
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Harry has severed ties with Ms Mondejar Steiner too
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