UK Prince Harry accused of bullying, harassment

The chair of a charity British Prince Harry set up to help young people with HIV and AIDS in Lesotho and Botswana has accused him of harassment and bullying at scale after he recently quit over a dispute he described as devastating.

It was gathered that Harry, who is the younger son of King Charles, co-founded Sentebale in 2006 in honour of his late mother Princess Diana.

He was said to have left it, along with co-founder Prince Seeiso of Lesotho and the board of trustees, after a dispute with chair Sophie Chandauka.

Speaking in an interview with Sky News, Chandauka said referring to the way Harry resigned, “At some point on Tuesday, Prince Harry authorised the release of a damaging piece of news to the outside world without informing me or my country directors, or my executive director.

“And can you imagine what that attack has done for me, on me and the 540 individuals in the Sentebale organisations and their family. That is an example of harassment and bullying at scale.”

At the time of filing this report, representatives for Harry and his wife Meghan has not commented on the development.

According to Sky News, the couple declined to offer any formal response to the interview.

DAILY POST recalls that Harry and Seeiso said in a joint statement on Wednesday that it was devastating that the relationship between the charity's trustees and Chandauka had broken beyond repair.

Chandauka has previously said Sentebale was beset by poor governance, weak executive management, abuse of power, bullying, harassment, misogyny and misogynoir.

She Harry's team asked her to protect Meghan after negative media coverage, which she refused to do.

She added that the way Sentebale was run was no longer appropriate in 2023 in a post-Black Lives Matter world funders were asking for locally-led initiatives.

Harry and Seeiso said on Wednesday that the trustees acted in the charity's best interests in asking Chandauka to step down, but in turn she sued Sentebale to remain in her position.