Mark Hollingsworth

How Prince Charles’s €1m bagman infiltrated the British establishment

Qatar’s HBJ is unique in how he has used his fortune to cultivate and influence the heights of British society

Sheikh Hamad bin Jassem bin Jabr al-Thani arrives in Riyadh, 2011 (photo: Getty)

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