Sentebale claims to make use of ‘exterior funding’ to sue Prince Harry and Mark Dyer

I already see a few of this Sentebale’s story twisted to suit a sure narrative, so let’s begin close to the start of this fiasco. Sophie Chandauka was appointed president of Sentebale in July 2023. Over the following yr and a half, she misplaced a serious sponsor, alienated many board members, and used Sentebale’s reserves to spend lavishly on sketchy “consultants.” The board referred to as for her resignation final yr, however she ran to the Charity Fee in England to file a grievance, saying Prince Harry was racist and harassing her. Harry resigned as royal boss, alongside Prince Seeiso, who co-founded Sentebale with Harry. They issued a joint assertion on the matter. Chandauka reacted poorly to the joint assertion, giving a sequence of deranged interviews the place she made unusually hostile accusations over nothing, akin to “Meghan watched her husband play polo” And “Meghan talked to her good friend Serena Williams at a charity polo match.”

The Charity Fee investigated slowly, then discovered that Harry hadn’t bullied Chandauka or something like that. The fee didn’t place blame on both social gathering. In the course of the fee’s investigation, nearly all the administrators left Sentebale and Chandauka changed a few of them, and she or he introduced Iain Rawlinson – a detailed ally of Prince William – to the management of Sentebale. Rawlinson and Chandauka have overseen an nearly full collapse in funding, they’ve closed the Sentebale workplaces and not even seem to run the Lesotho-based Sentebale Kids’s Centre. And now Sentebale is suing Prince Harry and former Sentebale administrator Mark Dyer for defamation, slander and libel. Chandauka apparently filed the lawsuit in March, however the information broke on Friday, simply days earlier than the Duke and Duchess of Sussex have been because of journey to Australia. Afterward Friday, Mark Dyer and Prince Harry launched a press release:

Prince Harry is being sued for defamation by Sentebale, the charity he co-founded in 2006 and which resigned final yr. Courtroom information revealed the case was filed on the Excessive Courtroom in London in opposition to the Duke of Sussex and Mark Dyer, a former trustee of the charity, on March 24, in keeping with the BBC and Reuters. The accusation is listed as “libel – slander and slander.”

A spokesperson for the Duke of Sussex and Mark Dyer instructed PEOPLE: “As co-founder and founding trustee of Sentebale, they categorically reject these offensive and damaging allegations. It’s extraordinary that charitable funds are actually getting used to pursue authorized motion in opposition to the very individuals who constructed and supported the group for nearly 20 years, moderately than being directed in the direction of the communities for which the charity was created.”

[From People]

I agree with Harry and Dyer’s assertion – it is easy and leaves room for a lot of extra statements later. The point out of “Charitable funds are actually getting used to provoke authorized proceedings” This received below you-know-who’s pores and skin, as “Sentebale” shortly issued one other assertion, and this one was much more curious.

Sentebale has commenced authorized proceedings within the Excessive Courtroom of England and Wales. The charity is searching for courtroom intervention, safety and restitution following a coordinated destructive media marketing campaign since March 25, 2025 which has brought on operational disruption and reputational injury to the charity, its administration and strategic companions.

The proceedings have been introduced in opposition to Prince Harry and Mark Dyer, recognized by proof because the architects of this destructive media marketing campaign, which had a big viral impression and sparked a wave of cyberbullying directed in opposition to the charity and its leaders.

Sentebale has skilled destructive media campaigning within the type of false narratives circulating within the media in regards to the charity and its executives, makes an attempt to wreck its relationships with employees, current and potential companions, and compelled diversion of executives’ time and assets in the direction of managing a reputational disaster that isn’t the charity’s fault.

…At a time when worldwide assist is declining and the wants of kids in southern Africa are rising, the work that Sentebale is offering to 78,000 younger folks is more and more essential. The charity shouldn’t proceed to make use of its assets to handle and restore the injury this dangerous media marketing campaign has brought on to its operations and partnerships. This should cease. The Board of Administrators and Govt Director filed this lawsuit to safe this safety. The prices related to this operation are solely coated by exterior funding and no charitable funds have been used.

The Board and Govt Director are assured that those that imagine in Sentebale’s mission will perceive why this authorized motion, though troublesome, was essential and necessary, and can proceed to help us as we give attention to the work forward.

Sentebale’s focus stays the place it has at all times been: the kids and youth of Lesotho and Botswana.

Sentebale doesn’t intend to remark additional on this matter whereas authorized proceedings are ongoing.

[From Sentebale]

“The prices are solely coated by exterior funding and no charitable funds have been used. » So Sentebale is going through an enormous funding disaster and a donor disaster, and but they’ve “exterior funding” to go after Prince Harry and Mark Dyer? The place does this exterior funding come from? Why is nobody within the press asking this query? “The charity shouldn’t proceed to make use of its assets to handle and restore the injury this dangerous media marketing campaign has brought on to its operations and partnerships…” What is that this horrible girl speaking about on God’s inexperienced earth? The disaster inside Sentebale is solely Chandauka’s fault. Nobody compelled her to spend lavishly on “consultants” who by no means stored their guarantees. Nobody compelled her to hawk her lies to the Charity Fee simply to keep away from being ousted as chair for her blatant incompetence. Nobody compelled her to go on a publicity tour to defame the co-founder of Sentebale, not to mention his spouse. Nobody compelled her to take management of a small, first rate charity. That is all utterly deranged and infuriating.

Photographs courtesy of Cowl Photos, screenshots courtesy of Sky Information.