(Sky News)<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\u201cThe costs of doing so are met entirely by external funding and no charitable funds have been used.\u201d<\/p>\n
It added: \u201cThe board and executive director trust that those who believe in Sentebale\u2019s mission will understand why this legal action, whilst difficult, was necessary and important, and will continue to stand with us as we focus on the work ahead.<\/p>\n
\u201cSentebale\u2019s focus remains where it has always been: the children and young people of Lesotho and Botswana. Sentebale does not intend to comment further on this matter while legal proceedings are ongoing.\u201d<\/p>\n
Founders Harry and Prince Seeiso previously stepped down as the charity\u2019s patrons in support of a group of trustees, who resigned after a dispute with board of trustees chair Dr Sophie Chandauka.<\/p>\n
The Charity Commission subsequently published a report into the episode, criticising all sides for making the fallout public with interviews and statements.<\/p>\n
The commission criticised all parties in the dispute for allowing it to play out publicly and described how all trustees contributed to a \u201cmissed opportunity\u201d to resolve the issues that led to the serious disagreement, which risked undermining public trust in charities generally.<\/p>\n
The regulator, which cannot investigate individual allegations of bullying, found no evidence of systemic bullying or harassment, including misogyny or misogynoir at the charity, but acknowledged \u201cthe strong perception of ill treatment\u201d felt by some involved.<\/p>\n
A source said in August 2025 that Harry had been left emotionally devastated by the events, after 19 years of working with the charity.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
\u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.independent.co.uk \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Get the free Morning Headlines email for news from our reporters across the world Sign up to our free Morning Headlines email Sign up to our free Morning Headlines email Prince Harry has rejected “offensive and damaging claims” lodged in the High Court by the charity Sentebale, which he co-founded in memory of his mother, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2367740,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[43],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2367739","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-royalty"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Prince-Harry-rejects-\u2018offensive-defamation-claim-by-his-former-charity.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2367739","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2367739"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2367739\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2367741,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2367739\/revisions\/2367741"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2367740"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2367739"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2367739"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2367739"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}