9/11 families are 'mad as hell' after new report revealed Prince Charles got a million dollars from bin Laden's brothers

'He shouldn't be king'

This week, it came out that the family of Osama bin Laden gave $1.2 million to Prince Charles' personal charity, the Prince of Wales Charitable Fund. The 9/11 families are "pissed off" and question whether the royal should ever be a monarch.

Jim Riches, who lost his 29-year-old firefighter son Jimmy Riches in the attack, told The Post, "I don't think he should be king of anything." "He is a bad worker. Anyone would be able to see what they did... Despite that, he takes their money. I'm mad as hell. He should try to understand how I feel. If it had been his son who died in the World Trade Center, he'd be a totally different person."

Charles, 73, met with Bakr and Shafiq bin Laden, the half-brothers of Osama bin Laden, in London on Oct. 30, 2013, to broker the payment, according to the Sunday Times of London.

Monica Iken, whose husband Michael Patrick Iken died in the Twin Towers on September 11, said, "I'm surprised that anyone would take blood money from the person who killed 3,000 people." "It's shocking and creeps me out... I won't go to England ever. I thought they were our friends, but I wouldn't back what he backs."

Iken also said that Charles shouldn't go to the 9/11 Memorial Museum: "If he went there, the families would be up in arms."

Prince Charles's advisors reportedly warned that if word of the deal got out, people would be very angry. But Gordon Haberman, whose daughter Andrea Lyn Haberman died in the Trade Center attack while on her first business trip to New York City, wonders if the bin Laden brothers really wanted the news to get out.

"I don't think the two brothers have anything to do with terrorism. It was probably given to them to make them seem more trustworthy. But the charity should have said no," Haberman, who used to be president of the Wisconsin 9/11 Memorial and Education Center, told The Post. "This is very bad taste, and I am very upset. It hurts us all."

The Sunday Times of London reported in June that between 2011 and 2015, Prince Charles took suitcases and shopping bags full of millions of dollars in cash from a controversial Qatari politician.

Brett Eagleson's dad, Bruce, died in the WTC attack, and the founder of 9/11 Justice has an idea for how Charles can make up for his mistakes.

“He should give the money back and be investigated for any other money he’s received from sources such as this one,” Eagleson told The Post. “I think it’s a good question as to whether or not he should be made king. Maybe [not receiving the kingship] will be a consequence of the investigation.”

Eagleson also said that taking the money "is a disgrace to the people who died on 9/11 and who died because of terror funding."

Jim Riches, who used to be a firefighter, told The Post that he "picked up body parts at the Trade Center for eight months after 9/11."

"This is all about greed and being willing to take money from anyone," he says. It is a bad thing. Getting that money makes them look bad."

Riches added, "The royal family has money, but they are for sale. Three thousand people died in the attack that bin Laden planned, and you took money from his brother? It's a shame and a terrible thing to do."

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