The daughter of Capt Sir Tom Moore has admitted to keeping £800,000 from books that the late army veteran had written.
Hannah Ingram-Moore said the family kept the sum from three books because Captain Tom had wanted them to retain the profits.
In an interview with Piers Morgan on TalkTV, which is scheduled to be broadcast on Thursday, she said her father wanted his family to keep the profits in Club Nook Ltd, a firm separate from the Captain Tom Foundation charity.
The Captain Tom Foundation has been under investigation by the Charity Commission for more than a year in relation to potential conflicts of interest between the charity and businesses owned by Ingram-Moore and her husband, Colin, as well as concerns over mismanagement and compliance with charity law.
Ingram-Moore told TalkTV: “These were my father’s books, and it was honestly such a joy for him to write them, but they were his books.
“He had an agent and they worked on that deal, and his wishes were that that money would sit in Club Nook, and in the end … ”
Morgan asked: “For you to keep?”, and she replied “Yes. Specifically.”
The family told Morgan there was no suggestion that anyone buying the books, including autobiography Tomorrow Will be a Good Day, thought they were donating to charity.
Ingram-Moore also discussed the salary, reported to be £85,000 pro-rata on a rolling three month basis, that she received to head the foundation, which was formed in 2020.
She said: “Yes, and look, absolutely in hindsight, the two things should have been separated, but that’s not how it landed, and it was done with love and with trying to ensure that the community and the Captain Tom Foundation benefited, and yes I got paid.”
The foundation was created after Capt Sir Tom Moore raised £38m for the NHS Charities Together cause. Nearly all of the money raised went to the health service.
The 99-year-old, who died in 2021, had planned to raise £1,000 by walking around his garden 100 times, but this snowballed after it caught the imagination of the nation and became a global phenomenon.
The charity was set up in the wake of his achievement to raise funds for good causes in the area of older people, mental health and loneliness. After a series of controversies it stopped taking donations in July.
