THE Prince of Wales accepted large cash donations totalling €3 million (£2.5m) from a former Qatari prime minister, it was reported today.

The Sunday Times claimed that Charles Windsor personally accepted the cash donations for his charity the Prince of Wales’s Charitable Fund (PWCF) between 2011 and 2015 from Sheikh Hamad bin Jassim who was prime minister of Qatar between 2007 and 2013.

A donation of €1m (£860,000) was handed over during a meeting at the prince’s residence, Clarence House.

Clarence House said that the donations were “passed immediately” to one of the prince’s charities and that “appropriate governance” was carried out.

PWCF chairman Sir Ian Cheshire said that “there was no failure of governance.”

It comes as another of Mr Windsor’s charities, the Prince’s Foundation, is currently under investigation by the Metropolitan Police over an alleged cash-for-honours scandal.

The prince and his close friend, Michael Fawcett, were formally reported to the Met Police last September.

Mr Fawcett, who has since resigned as chief executive of the Prince’s Foundation, has been accused of promising to help a Saudi billionaire donor receive British citizenship and a knighthood.

Clarence House said that the prince had “no knowledge” of the alleged cash-for-honours.