Captain Tom's daughter defends decision to keep book profits

12 October 2023

Helen Burchell

BBC News, Bedfordshire

Captain Tom's daughter defends book profits decision

The family of Captain Sir Tom Moore kept the profits from his books for themselves, they have said.

Hannah Ingram-Moore told TalkTV's Piers Morgan Uncensored there had been no agreement with her father that book money would go to charity.

Capt Sir Tom's autobiography, Tomorrow will be a Good Day, came out in 2020.

He writes in the prologue that "with the offer to write this memoir I have also been given the chance to raise even more money" for his foundation.

Ms Ingram-Moore claimed they had kept the profits from the captain's three books - reportedly £800,000 - at his request.

She said her father wanted his family to keep the money in a company separate to the Captain Tom Foundation.

There is no suggestion that Ms Ingram-Moore acted illegally by keeping the money from the book sales, rather than donating it to her late father's charity.

Captain Sir Tom Moore became famous for his fundraising efforts during the first coronavirus lockdown

Reuters Captain Sir Tom Moore — Captain Sir Tom Moore became famous for his fundraising efforts during the first coronavirus lockdown

In the prologue to the 2020 autobiography, Capt Sir Tom wrote: "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.

"Its goals are those closest to my heart, with a mission to combat loneliness, hospices and help those facing bereavement... I am deeply honoured to be given yet another opportunity to serve the country of which I am so very proud."

In a clip of the TV show released to the BBC, Ms Ingram-Moore's husband, Colin, told Morgan that the "vast majority" of the £809,000 revenue reportedly raised by the family's company Club Nook Ltd "came from the three books that he wrote with Penguin Random House".

He said "95%" of the Club Nook money was from the books.

Hannah Ingram-Moore, Capt Sir Tom's daughter, said her father wanted the family to have the book profits

PA Media Hannah Ingram-Moore — Hannah Ingram-Moore, Capt Sir Tom's daughter, said her father wanted the family to have the book profits

Ms Ingram-Moore, of Marston Moretaine, Bedfordshire, said: "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 the agent and he worked on that deal.

"They were Captain Tom's books and his wishes were that that money would sit in Club Nook."

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