Prince Harry bullying accusations: Sentebale charity chair Sophie Chandauka says royal orchestrated bullying marketing campaign

LONDON — The chairperson of an African charity co-founded by Prince Harry accused the royal on Sunday of orchestrating a bullying and harassment marketing campaign to attempt to power her out as she pushed again following his abrupt resignation from the group.

Sophie Chandauka, the Sentebale chair, took a number of pictures at Harry on Sky Information wherein she described how the prince’s Netflix deal interfered with a scheduled fundraiser and the way an incident together with his spouse, Meghan, Duchess of Sussex, turned a supply of friction.

The Duke of Sussex cited a breakdown within the relationship between board members and Chandauka when he resigned Tuesday as a patron of the charity he co-founded practically 20 years in the past in reminiscence of his late mom, Princess Diana.

Harry and co-founder Prince Seeiso of Lesotho stated in a joint assertion that they give up “with heavy hearts” as patrons in help of the trustees of their dispute with Chandauka.

“It’s devastating that the connection between the charity’s trustees and the chair of the board broke down past restore, creating an untenable scenario,” the princes stated. “In flip, she sued the charity to stay on this voluntary place, additional underscoring the damaged relationship.”

Chandauka stated she reported Sentebale’s trustees to the Charity Fee within the U.Okay. and filed papers in a British court docket to stop her elimination.

She alleged there was misconduct on the charity with out naming anybody or providing any particulars in an announcement Tuesday. It stated she had tried to blow the whistle on “abuse of energy, bullying, harassment, misogyny and misogynoir,” the latter phrase referring to a mix of racism and misogyny directed towards Black ladies.

Chandauka advised Sky that Harry’s resignation had caught her blindsided and was “an instance of harassment and bullying at scale.” She stated he additionally had interfered along with her whistleblower criticism.

“So it is a cover-up, and the prince is concerned,” she stated.

Chandauka stated there was a big drop in donors after Harry and Meghan left official royal duties in January 2020, and finally settled in California.

The charity, whose title means “do not forget me” within the Sesotho language of Lesotho and South Africa, was based to assist youths affected by AIDS within the small mountainous nation and in Botswana. However it’s now transferring to deal with youth well being, wealth and local weather resilience in southern Africa.

The largest danger to the charity was the “toxicity of its lead patron’s model,” Chandauka advised the Monetary Instances.

Within the Sky interview, she stated {that a} polo fundraiser scheduled in Miami final 12 months nearly fell aside when Harry requested to carry a digicam crew alongside that was filming him for a Netflix sequence on the game.

The price of the venue skyrocketed when it turned a business enterprise and so they scrambled to seek out one other host, which Harry organized by his connections, she stated.

Meghan’s shock look on the occasion led to a clumsy second in the course of the trophy presentation after the match, Chandauka stated.

In a video clip circulated on social media, Chandauka tried to pose subsequent to the duke as he held the trophy in a single hand and had his different wrapped round Meghan. However the duchess appeared to gesture that Chandauka transfer farther from Harry, forcing her to duck below the silver cup to get into the picture.

“The worldwide press captured this, and there was a variety of discuss concerning the duchess and the choreography on stage and whether or not she ought to have been there and her remedy of me,” Chandauka stated.

She stated she rejected Harry’s request that she difficulty an announcement in help of Meghan, as a result of “we can’t be an extension of the Sussexes.”

Sky Information stated it contacted Harry and Meghan and so they declined to supply a proper response. An emailed request by The Related Press looking for remark from their spokespeople was not instantly returned.