London (AP) – The president of an African charity co -founded by Prince Harry accused the Royal on Sunday of orchestrating an intimidation and harassment campaign to try to force her to go out as she pushed back after her sudden Resignation of the organization.
Sophie Chandauka, the Chair of Sentebale, took several shots at Harry on Sky News in which she described how the Prince’s Netflix agreement interfered with a funded fundraising and how an incident with his wife, Meghan, Duchess of Sussex, has become a source of friction.
The Duke of Sussex quoted a break in the relationship between the members of the board of directors and Chandauka when he resigned Tuesday As a boss of Charity, he co -founded almost 20 years There is in memory of her late mother, Princess Diana.
Harry and the Co-founder Prince Seeiso of Lesotho declared in a joint statement that they would dismant “with a heavy heart” as customers in support of the administrators in their dispute with Chandauka.
“It is devastating that the relationship between the trustee of the charitable organization and the chair of the board of directors was decomposed, creating an untenable situation,” said the princes. “In turn, she continued the charitable organization to stay in this voluntary position, further stressing the broken relationship.”
British prince Harry speaks during the Clinton Global Initiative, Tuesday, September 24, 2024 in New York. (APP photo / Andres Kudacki, file)
Chandauka said she had reported sentebale administrators to the charitable committee in the United Kingdom and had documents in British court to prevent her withdrawal.
She allegedly alleged that there was a fault with the charity without naming anyone or offering details in a statement on Tuesday. He said that she had tried to whistle on “abuse of power, intimidation, harassment, misogyny and misogym”, this last word referring to a combination of racism and misogyny directed towards black women.
Chandauka told Sky that Harry’s resignation had caught her blind and was “an example of large -scale harassment and intimidation”. She said he had also interfered with his denunciation complaint.
“It is therefore a concealment, and the prince is involved,” she said.
Chandauka said there was a significant drop in donors after Harry and Meghan left official royal functions in January 2020And finally installed in California.
The charitable organization, whose name means “do not forget me” in the Sésotho language of Lesotho and South Africa, was founded to help young people affected by AIDS in the small mountainous nation and Botswana. But it is now evolving to combat the health of young people, wealth and climate resilience in southern Africa.
The greatest risk for the charity was the “toxicity of the brand of its leader,” Chandauka told Financial Times.
A person close to customers and administrators of the charity and familiar with the events a set to Chandauka’s claims. The person, who asked for anonymity because the allegations are examined by the charity, said that Harry and Seeiso had sent a letter of resignation to the president on March 10 – two weeks before making the news public.
The person said that administrators and customers were firm in their decision to leave and had collectively decided to resign with the expectation that Chandauka would draw such a stroke after their departure.
In the sky interview, she said that a Polo fundraising planned in Miami Last year, almost collapsed when Harry asked to bring a camera team that spun it for a Netflix series on sport.
The cost of the place is skyrocketing when he became a commercial enterprise and they rushed to find another host, which Harry organized through his relations, she said.
Meghan’s surprise appearance during the event led to an embarrassing moment during the presentation of the trophy after the match, said Chandauka.
In a video clip broadcast on social networks, Chandauka tried to pose next to the Duke while he was holding the trophy in one hand and had his others wrapped around Meghan. But the Duchess seemed to make a gesture that Chandauka moves further from Harry, forcing her to dodge under the silver cup to enter the photo.
“The international press has captured this, and there have been a lot of discussions on the duchess and choreography on stage and if it should have been there and her treatment of me,” said Chandauka.
She said that she had rejected Harry’s request to publish a statement for Meghan’s support, because “we cannot be an extension of the Sussexes”.
