Prince Harry still has to comment publicly on the scandal that his Lesotho-based HIV and AIDS Charity Sentebale flooded after he resigned last week as a patron, but now a friend says Harry “feels like he has cut off one of his fingers.”
I can reveal that Alex Rayner, an old Etonian school friend of the Prince, who went to the North Pole in 2012 and went in contact with him this weekend, said that Prince Harry was' shocked 'by the accusations made against him and' mourning strict in the way the saga has spoken.
“H is very happy for me to talk to him about how he thinks about this terrible situation,” said Rayner. 'He is just outside deeply and stunned that the charity he set up as a teenager is held hostage by the chair. It feels down to a hostile acquisition.
“He is so upset and injured and injured about the things that are said about him. I think it's too early to say if he just walks away or if he might try to get it back.
“The way he feels like he has cut off one of his fingers.
“He founded Sentebale with a school friend when the death of his mother was a new memory. At the moment he is only in shock about what is being said and the accusations are being done. '
Sensational adds Rayner that he believes that some of the accusations of Sentebale chairman Dr. Sophie Chandauka may have come from jealousy of Prince Harry's wife, Meghan.
On stage during the Trophy Giving Ceremony, Meghan seemed the chairman of Sentebale, Dr. Sophie Chandauka, to ask to leave Harry
Dr. Sophie Chandauka, a Zimbabwean lawyer and businesswoman who was appointed in 2008 as the board of directors for Sentebale and diversified the income flows of charity
In the heart of the row is a big fight between the prince, other managers, and Dr. Chandauka, a Zimbabwean lawyer and businesswoman with a guild career in London and New York.
Dr. Chandauka took over in July 2023 and started to diversify the income flows of charity.
When donations were weaker than expected, the trustes apparently asked her to resign, but she claims that it was the 'toxicity' of the Sussex brand that income dented.
Dr. Chandauka said she was forced because she dared to whistle on 'weak governance, weak management, abuse of power, bullying, intimidation, misogynia, misogynoires [hatred of black women] -and the cover-up that followed '.
With Dr. Chandauka who refused to go, Prince Harry, co-founder of the charity institution Prince Seeiso of Lesotho and all five of the Trustees resigned en masse last week and quoted irreparably broken relations with the chairman.
Without calling him, Dr. Chandauka then an even more pointed Barb on him. “There are people in this world who behave as if they are above the law and mistreat people, and then play the victim card and the press they use to harm people who have the courage to fight their behavior,” she said.
The attention is used to the duchess of the role of Sussex in the affair during the weekend and in particular to a very uncomfortable exchange with Dr. Chandauka during a polo match in Miami last April.
On stage during the Trophy Giving Ceremony, Meghan seemed to ask the chairman of Sentebale to leave Harry and instead standing on the one hand, on the left side of the Duchess, leaving the spotlights to the pair. In a now busy stage, Dr. Chandauka forced to dive under the trophy to get out of the way. But Alex Rayner told me: 'It feels like [Dr Chandauka] Had put her nose out of the joint because she was not the most important woman on stage.
Harry and Prince Seeiso during a climate reputation project in Lesotho in 2024
'There is an undercurrent of stink because Meghan appeared and it comes from her [Dr Chandauka]. '
When images of the shameful public drop viral went, Harry apparently asked Dr. Chandauka for a statement that supported Meghan's role in the episode – but she refused. This weekend Dr. Chandauka on an interview that she did not know that Meghan was coming to the competition and that a statement would have exposed the Duchess to 'even worse trolls'.
She also said she would not allow Sentebale to be an extension of the Sussex brand.
Yet Alex Rayner said: 'The chair should never have had that story recorded that Meghan had caused a problem. 'If that story were to take, I would claim that it is up to the chair to make up for it. They could have issued a statement and put an end to it, but they didn't. Why? Again, the whole thing smells. It feels planned and I suspect that the whole thing could only have come from the chair itself.
“Every chair should have been happy to have Meghan there. If you have both sussexes there, it doubles the reaction, its power. And yet here [Dr Chandauka] refuses to get a negative story that damages Meghan. You wonder where it came from? '
Regarding the suggestion that Meghan has effectively led the event – Dr. Chandauka said she was not expected from them, but then showed up with Serena Williams – Rayner said: “It is Harry's Charity Polo match and Meghan is his wife, of course she should have expected her there.”
A second highly disputed episode concerns the original location for the competition, of which Dr. Chandauka says it was lost when Prince Harry decided to take a Netflix crew to film him for his documentary about the sport.
Speaking on Sky News's Sunday morning with Trevor Phillips, Dr. Chandauka that had provided a rich family facilities for the competition that would raise money for Sentebale.
Alex Rayner, an old Etonian school friend of the prince, who went to the North Pole with him in 2012
“Then, about a month before the event, Prince Harry called the team and said:” I do a Netflix show and I would like to take a camera cow with me so that I can record some images. “
There was an immediate crisis. The contract with the owner of the location had to change because it was now 'a commercial enterprise'. Dr. Chandauka remembered: 'We couldn't afford it. So now we lost the location. '
Yet Rayner, who set up the annual Polo in the park competitions and also worked with Harry on Sentebale events, said: 'If you are a sponsor, you would of course want the lighting of a Netflix documentary, so this whole story just seems untrue.
'You can't say that Harry's brand is not important for charity, it just doesn't stack. Yes, he went from the great hope of the British royal family to be seen as a paria, but he still attracts a lot of exposure. And with a TV crew in tow – which sponsor would not want worldwide exposure?
'This sounds like an excuse to hide an administrative error with charity. They lost the location. '
He continued: 'Let's not be blinded by' Let's Bash Harry 'and by the idea that racial undertone was in the game … The situation is that she did not administer her role. She was asked to resign and she refused and took over the charity. '
Dr. Chaandauka has strongly defended her record and insisted that there was 'an important correlation' between the recession in commercial support for charity and the break between Prince Harry and the royal family.
Attempts to tackle the problem had been fruitless, she claims. When she tried to educate it, she was told: “It is an uncomfortable conversation to have Prince Harry in the room.”
“The number one risk for this organization was the toxicity of the brand of her main patron,” she told the Financial Times.
She claimed that the charity was present for too long, she said: 'This is not how a well -run organization should work.
“There is a reason why you have time limits because people are starting to mark their own homework, and turkeys do not vote for Christmas.”
In her television interview, she said: 'Really, what Prince Harry wanted to do, I was cast out of the organization, and this went through bullying for months, intimidation. I have documentation. '
She described the release of Friday's statement and said he had stopped Sentebale as “an example of intimidation and bullying on a scale.”
Whatever the truth of this highly inherited matter, you can be sure that it was not how Harry provided the future of his beloved pets project.
