Captain Tom Moore's daughter breaks down after admitting to keeping cash raised from dad's book sales
12.10.2023 - 11:49
/ ok.co.uk
Hannah Ingram-Moore, daughter of late veteran Sir Captain Tom Moore, has admitted to keeping money made from her father's book sales instead of giving it to the foundation started in his name. Hannah made the shock confession in a new interview with Piers Morgan, which will see her and her husband Colin grilled by the TalkTV host in a one-hour special.
The family have been the subject of controversy following Captain Tom's death in February 2021.
The financial activities of the Captain Tom Foundation - established in 2020 to raise money for organisations supporting the elderly - have come under scrutiny and the Charity Commission announced a review in February 2022. Mum-of-two Hannah, who shares son Benji and daughter Georgia with Colin, has now addressed the controversy that has plagued her family over the past two years and tearfully admitted to keeping money from the sales of Captain Tom's three books.
She told Piers that her late father wanted the money from the books to be kept in Club Nook ltd - Hannah's company which she registered in April 2020 - instead of the Captain Tom Foundation. Speaking to Piers in a trailer for the interview, Hannah says: "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..." Piers interrupts, saying: "For you to keep?" to which Hannah clarifies: "Yes. Specifically." Hannah goes on to tell the TV host that people buying Captain Tom's books have no reason to think they are donating to charity, yet the prologue to her late father's autobiography, titled Tomorrow Will Be A Good Day, suggests that profits from the
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