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2 unusual facts about The Prince's Foundation for Integrated Health


The College of Medicine

One director of the College, Michael Dixon, is a former director of the Foundation for Integrated Health.

It originated from the collapse of the Prince of Wales' controversial Foundation for Integrated Health, which was widely criticised for promoting integrated medicine and alternative medicine.


Baby Baby Baby

Stone performed the song at the Swarovski Fashion Rocks at the Royal Albert Hall in London on 18 October 2007, in aid of The Prince's Trust, as well as at the Austin City Limits Music Festival at Zilker Park in Austin, Texas on 14 September 2007.

Balmoral Castle

The mountain was the setting for a children's story, The Old Man of Lochnagar, told originally by Prince Charles to his younger brothers, Andrew and Edward, and published in 1980 with royalties accruing to The Prince's Trust.

Branka Katić

Her television work includes playing: Tatiana Taylor, second wife of Barry Taylor in Auf Wiedersehen, Pet; Ana, Bill Henrickson's briefly considered candidate for his fourth wife on the HBO series Big Love; Charlotte Kaletta in the TV miniseries :Anne Frank: The Whole Story; Nika Marx, the producer's wife in the episode "The Prince's Bride" of Entourage; and as a prostitute in an episode of The Vice.

Cockpit Theatre, Marylebone

Until 2011 it was used as a training venue for the City of Westminster College's performing arts, theatre lighting, sound engineering and media students, along with regularly visiting students from Ball State University and young people from The Prince's Trust.

Dirty hands

Sissela Bok writes that Machiavelli maintains in The Prince that rulers who cling to moral principles in order to avoid dirty hands, no matter the cost, are weak and invariably end up defeated, a view opposed by Erasmus and Kant.

Giles Worsley

In 1994 he left Country Life to take over from Dan Cruickshank as Editor of the recently created Perspectives on Architecture monthly magazine, funded by Prince Charles through his Institute of Architecture.

Hiero II of Syracuse

In The Prince (VI), Machiavelli cites Hiero as an exceptionally virtuous man and a rare example of someone who rose to princehood from private station, comparing him to Moses, Cyrus, Theseus,and Romulus.

Maiko Jeong Shun Lee, Viscountess Rothermere

She is a trustee and chairman of The Prince's Drawing School's Scholarship Endowment Appeal, and patron of a project commissioned by HRH the Prince of Wales, which has raised finance for a film that follows the rebuilding of the Gwanghwamun Gate at the Gyeongbokgung Palace in Seoul, South Korea.

Mark Nottingham

He included Machiavelli's The Prince among the books to read: "It's short, sweet (well, not really) and gets you in the proper frame of mind for doing battle, er, gathering consensus," he quipped.

Michael Taccetta

During conversations, he would often quote and misquote passages from Niccolò Machiavelli's The Prince to anyone who would listen, in an attempt to impress them.

Oliverotto Euffreducci

As with Agathocles of Greece, he is immortalised in Machiavelli's The Prince as one of the leaders who gained power via criminal means.

Patti Russo

Russo has performed for numerous charitable benefits including Battersea Dogs and Cats Home, Covenant House, The Painted Turtle, The Prince's Trust, breast cancer research, Hurricane Katrina relief, Blythedale Children's Hospital, Rock Against Cancer, and Queen AIDS charity concert.

Pete Kircher

Highlights of this period included playing at Live Aid and the National Bowl, and meeting HRH The Prince of Wales at a benefit gig for The Prince's Trust at the Birmingham NEC, an event preserved on the 1982 album Live at the N.E.C..

Prince of Wales Prize for Municipal Heritage Leadership

Created in 1999 by the Heritage Canada Foundation, the award is named for Prince Charles, Prince of Wales, who agreed to lend his title as he has personal interests in architecture and inner-city renewal.

Richard Beck

He worked on a variety of artists, celebrities and events including: Janet Jackson, Tina Arena, M People, BBMak, Capital FM’s ‘Party in the Park’ for The Prince’s Trust (3 Years), The BRIT Awards (5 Years), Songs & Vision (Wembley Stadium), The MTV Awards and The Rolling Stones ‘Voodoo Lounge’ and ‘Bridges To Babylon’ European tours.

Sant'Andrea in Percussina

Niccolò Machiavelli wrote his treatise The Prince at his home here, the Albergaccio, where he lived when in exile.

Tearing Us Apart

The live version was later released on the Royal Concert charity album in 1987, issued by The Prince's Trust.

The Prince's Charities

In autumn 2010, Prince Charles published a book, Harmony: A New Way of Looking at Our World, and produced a film, both articulating the principles and underlying philosophies of many of these charities.

The Prince's Dream

The Prince’s Dream is a fable written by Jean Ingelow as part of The Wonderbox Tales collection.

Jean Ingelow (March 17, 1820 and died on July 20, 1897) was an English born poet and novelist.

The Prince's Foundation for Building Community

It reflected the aims of the Institute but was editorially independent, with the editor for the first five issues being Dan Cruickshank, followed by Giles Worsley.

The Prince's School of Traditional Arts

It was the brainchild of Dr. Keith Critchlow, the Professor Emeritus at the School, who is also the author of several books on Sacred Geometry.

The Prince's Trust

The Jason Kanabus Fund was created from the £2.5 million left to the Prince’s Trust by Jason Kanabus, a young farmer in Sussex who died from cancer in July 2006.

The trust still has some fundraising events, including a Rock Gala that aired on 25 December 2010 on DirecTV.

The Prince's Youth Business International

In January 2010, David Stewart-Patterson – Executive Vice President, Canadian Council of Chief Executives and Vice Chair, Canadian Youth Business Foundation and Sriyan De Silva Wijeyeratne – Country Manager, Microsoft Sri Lanka and Founder Trustee, Youth Business Sri Lanka were elected as the first Board Representatives.

We Are Most Amused

We Are Most Amused was a gala event held at the New Wimbledon Theatre on 12 November 2008 in honour of the 60th birthday of Charles, Prince of Wales, in aid of The Prince's Trust.


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