Captain Sir Tom Moore’s daughter has admitted keeping the money from book sales despite the prologue implying the money would go to charity.
Hannah Ingram-Moore admitted to keeping £800,000 in profits from the three books that Captain Tom wrote before he died.
In the prologue of one of those books, it was written that the profits from the books would go to the charity that bears his name.
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Ingram-Moore told TalkTV that her dad wanted the profits from the books to go to Club Nook Ltd, a family company that is separate from the Captain Tom Foundation Charity.
In extracts of an interview with Piers Morgan published in The Sun, Ingram-Moore is said to have told Morgan: "These were 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?"
“Yes, specifically,” Ingram-Moore responded.
Captain Tom came to the attention of the public during the Covid-19 pandemic when he walked around his garden 100 times before his 100th birthday, raising £38.9 million in the process.
He later died in February 2021.
Those thousands of readers who purchased his books – including his autobiography Tomorrow Will Be A Good Day - will have been unaware that the money from the sales was going to his family.
However, during the interview, Ingram-Moore, who was joined by her husband Colin and their two children, 19-year-old Benji and 14-year-old Georgia, insisted that there was never any suggestion that anyone who bought the books thought that the money was going to the charity instead.
However, at the very beginning of the book, it reads: "Astonishingly at my age, with the offer to write this memoir I have also been given the chance to raise even more money for the charitable foundation now established in my name."
The interview also touched on an awards event – the Virgin Media O2 Captain Tom Foundation Connector Awards - that Ingram-Moore was paid £18,000 to attend, despite the fact that she was already paid to be the chief executive of the charity.
That money was paid to Maytrix Group, which is owned by her family, and Ingram-Moore kept £16,000, donating £2,000 to the foundation.
She said: "I think it's all very easy to look back and think I should have made different decisions, but I hadn't planned on being the CEO."
The interview will air at 8:00pm on Thursday night on Talk TV.
LADbible has attempted to contact the Captain Tom Foundation for a comment.
Tom Wood