{"id":2372990,"date":"2026-04-14T15:29:06","date_gmt":"2026-04-14T15:29:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2372990"},"modified":"2026-04-14T15:29:06","modified_gmt":"2026-04-14T15:29:06","slug":"harry-risks-bankruptcy-over-lawsuits-diana-would-be-ashamed-royal-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/harry-risks-bankruptcy-over-lawsuits-diana-would-be-ashamed-royal-news\/","title":{"rendered":"Harry &#8216;risks bankruptcy&#8217; over lawsuits \u2013 &#8216;Diana would be ashamed&#8217; | Royal | News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" data-link-tracking=\"InArticle|Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.express.co.uk\/latest\/princess-diana\">Diana, Princess of Wales<\/a> would be &#8220;ashamed&#8221; by the actions of her youngest son, <a target=\"_blank\" data-link-tracking=\"InArticle|Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.express.co.uk\/latest\/prince-harry\">Prince Harry<\/a>, Mark Dolan has said. Speaking on Monday&#8217;s episode of the <a target=\"_blank\" data-link-tracking=\"InArticle|Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=daq_Ecjgjo0\" rel=\"nofollow\">Daily Expresso<\/a> podcast about the prince&#8217;s current legal and financial challenges, Mr Dolan said: &#8220;How the mighty have fallen.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>&#8220;A charity that he co-founded in memory of his late mother, Diana. What would she make of Harry in 2026?&#8221; Mr Dolan&#8217;s comments <span style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;\" data-mce-linkchecker-status=\"valid\">follow the revelation that Harry is <\/span>being <a target=\"_blank\" data-link-tracking=\"InArticle|Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.express.co.uk\/news\/royal\/2192747\/prince-harry-sentebale-charity-quits\">sued for defamation by Sentebale<\/a>. The charity has claimed that Harry\u2019s remarks about its leadership, specifically Dr Sophie Chandauka, have made it difficult to raise funds for their work supporting young people impacted by <a target=\"_blank\" data-link-tracking=\"InArticle|Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.express.co.uk\/news\/royal\/2193472\/sentebale-prince-harry-legal-latest\">HIV in Lesotho<\/a>, Africa.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>&#8220;Diana would be saddened. She&#8217;d be angry. She&#8217;d be ashamed,&#8221; Mr Dolan added. &#8220;You set up a charity in her name, and then it becomes a public relations dumpster fire.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>&#8220;If Harry loses his case against the Daily Mail, it&#8217;s going to cost Harry millions,&#8221; he added. &#8220;<a target=\"_blank\" data-link-tracking=\"InArticle|Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.express.co.uk\/news\/world\/2166680\/clothes-giant-brink-bankruptcy\">Bankruptcy<\/a> beckons [&#8230;] the couple don&#8217;t have a serious income.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>&#8220;The prince who sues everyone else is now being sued for defamation,&#8221; podcast host JJ Anisiobi said.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>&#8220;They believe that they can&#8217;t fundraise and they cannot do the important work that they do because of his actions [&#8230;] remarks he&#8217;s made about the leadership, about the board, about Dr Sophie Chandauka,&#8221; Mr Dolan added, noting that Sentebale is now struggling to raise money and get sponsorship.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>He added that the financial resources to bring the defamation case forward are not from donations \u2013 there must be someone supporting this legal action, &#8220;that is most likely sick and tired of his hypocrisy and double standards and are horrified by his allegedly toxic stint when he was part of Sentebale&#8221;.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>Mr Dolan also claimed that &#8220;bankruptcy beckons&#8221; for Harry if he loses his case against the Daily Mail, which took place earlier this year, when he, alongside <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.express.co.uk\/latest\/elton-john\" data-link-tracking=\"InArticle|AutoLink\">Elton John<\/a> and Baroness Doreen Lawrence, accused Associated Newspapers (ANL) of <a target=\"_blank\" data-link-tracking=\"InArticle|Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.express.co.uk\/news\/royal\/2189645\/prince-harry-daily-mail-court-case-latest\">&#8220;industrial-scale&#8221; unlawful information gathering<\/a>, such as phone hacking, dating back to the 1990s. The parties are awaiting a final judgment from the High Court.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>&#8220;That cash pile is dwindling fast &#8211; their outgoings are huge [&#8230;] if he starts losing court cases, he&#8217;s on the hook for \u00a310 to \u00a315 million. That&#8217;s money that Harry hasn&#8217;t got.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>&#8220;There isn&#8217;t even a shadow of a doubt that if he loses these two court cases, it accelerates his collapse into bankruptcy.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>&#8220;When you sue someone in the UK for libel, it is extraordinarily risky. It&#8217;s painful, it&#8217;s lengthy, it is costly,&#8221; Mr Dolan added. &#8220;Sentebale wouldn&#8217;t be doing this unless they had clear evidence of Harry&#8217;s abusive, bullying, and potentially racist behaviour.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.express.co.uk \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Diana, Princess of Wales would be &#8220;ashamed&#8221; by the actions of her youngest son, Prince Harry, Mark Dolan has said. Speaking on Monday&#8217;s episode of the Daily Expresso podcast about the prince&#8217;s current legal and financial challenges, Mr Dolan said: &#8220;How the mighty have fallen. &#8220;A charity that he co-founded in memory of his late [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2372991,"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":[377539,461649,419207,418634,461652,321648,351198,350790,461650,339228,461648,460213,439583,23067,22730,332388,461651],"class_list":["post-2372990","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-royalty","tag-africa","tag-bankruptcy-beckons","tag-court-news","tag-daily-expresso","tag-daily-mail-court-case","tag-defamation-lawsuit","tag-dr-sophie-chandauka","tag-financial-challenges","tag-get-sponsorship","tag-hiv","tag-jj-anisiobi","tag-lesotho","tag-mark-dolan","tag-meghan-markle","tag-prince-harry","tag-sentebale","tag-toxic-stint"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Harry-risks-bankruptcy-over-lawsuits-\u2013-Diana-would-be-ashamed.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2372990","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=2372990"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2372990\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2372992,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2372990\/revisions\/2372992"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2372991"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2372990"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2372990"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2372990"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}