The UK’s charity watchdog on Thursday opened a probe into Sentebale, the African organisation co-founded by Prince Harry, after a bitter boardroom row led King Charles III’s youthful son to step down as patron.
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“After a interval of assessing the preliminary considerations raised with the Fee, the regulator knowledgeable the charity on 2 April 2025 it has opened a regulatory compliance case,” the Charity Fee stated in a press release.
‘Bullying’
The watchdog added that it might be inspecting whether or not the charity’s present and former trustees had “fulfilled their duties and obligations beneath charity regulation”.
The row at Sentebale escalated on Sunday after its chairperson Sophie Chandauka accused the prince of “bullying” and being concerned in a “cowl up”.
Earlier, Harry and Sentebale’s co-founder, Lesotho’s Prince Seeiso, introduced their departure from the charity they established in 2006, following a “devastating” dispute between trustees and Chandauka.
Relations with Chandauka, who was appointed in 2023, “broke down past restore”, they stated in a joint assertion final week, prompting trustees to go away and demand that Chandauka resign.
Harry based the charity in honour of his mom, Princess Diana, with Seeiso to assist younger folks with HIV and AIDS in Lesotho and later Botswana.
The newest accusations are a recent blow for the prince, who saved up solely a handful of his non-public patronages together with with Sentebale after a dramatic cut up with the British royals in 2020.
Whereas Harry was integral to the founding imaginative and prescient of the charity, to which he as soon as stated he was “dedicated for the remainder of my life”, Chandauka has stated “Sentebale has a future” past the prince.
Harry selected the identify Sentebale as a tribute to Diana, who died in a Paris automotive crash in 1997 when the prince was simply 12. It means “neglect me not” within the Sesotho language and can also be used to say goodbye.
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