Sophie Chandauka has given another interview. She’s barely stopped speaking to British tabloids and media outlets in the past week, even since Sentebale’s board of trustees resigned en masse, and then Sentebale’s cofounders and royal patrons Prince Harry and Prince Seeiso resigned as well. Chandauka took over as chairwoman of Sentebale in 2023 and she quickly began spending hundreds of thousands of dollars on pricey “consultants” that went nowhere. She ran to London to sue Sentebale when the board asked for her resignation, and she’s also filed what I can only imagine is a completely unhinged complaint to the UK’s Charity Commission. For now, she’s ensconced herself at Sentebale and she’s quickly replacing the now-vacant board. One of the newly-appointed trustees is Iain Rawlinson, who is described by the Financial Times as “a financier who was previously chair of Prince William’s conservation charity Tusk Trust and has been advising Chandauka.” That alone is the smoking gun of who is behind all of this, but in case you needed the confirmation, check out the asinine things Chandauka said to FT:
She claims that Harry is trying to force Sentebale into failure: The chair of an African charity co-founded by Prince Harry has accused him of trying to “force a failure” of the organisation, deepening an ongoing public row that has thrown Sentebale into disarray. Sophie Chandauka, chair of Sentebale since 2023, claimed the charity’s founders — Prince Harry and Prince Seeiso of Lesotho — “want to force a failure and then come to the rescue”. Representatives for Prince Harry later strongly denied he had sought to engineer the collapse of the charity in order to rescue it.
Harry was “toxic” for Sentebale’s brand: In her first interview since the dispute erupted, Chandauka defended her record as chair, insisted the organisation would “live on” and said Prince Harry’s “brand” had hindered the charity. “The number one risk for this organisation was the toxicity of its lead patron’s brand,” Chandauka told the Financial Times.
She wanted to transform the charity: She told the FT that as Sentebale’s chair she had been on a mission to transform the charity — from overhauling the charity’s culture, operations and long-term strategy, with a focus on US fundraising. Chandauka said she also moved to widen its remit to include climate resilience and wealth inequality, while shifting more decision-making to leaders in southern Africa. “The way the organisation had been set up in 2006, was no longer appropriate in 2023 in a post-Black Lives Matter world,” said Chandauka. “Funders were asking for locally led initiatives.” The transition had triggered friction between UK-based staff and those in Lesotho, where most of the charity’s 500-plus workforce are based, and Botswana, Chandauka said. The board felt “a loss of power and control and influence . . . oh my goodness, the Africans are taking over”.
She showed her Charity Commission complaint to FT: Chandauka said she had filed a report to the Charity Commission that month. “I view the request for my resignation as being a direct response to my raising significant concerns regarding the Charity’s current governance, management and administration,” she wrote in the complaint, seen by the FT. On March 5, Chandauka took the dramatic step of applying to the UK High Court to try and block a boardroom vote to remove her. “They thought I wouldn’t have the audacity to proceed with a court action,” she said.
Prince William’s ally Iain Rawlinson is very involved: The newly formed board of Sentebale includes Iain Rawlinson, a financier who was previously chair of Prince William’s conservation charity Tusk Trust and has been advising Chandauka. He told the FT there had been a concerted effort by certain trustees “to destabilise and remove Sophie” from her position.
Chandauka’s version of the breakdown in relations: The origins of the dispute have been highly contested by both sides. Chandauka said she first felt tension between Prince Harry, the Duke of Sussex, and herself in April 2024. Chandauka said she had refused what she described as a request by the royal’s team to defend his wife, Meghan, in the media after negative coverage of her. “I said no, we’re not setting a precedent by which we become an extension of the Sussex PR machine,” she said.
She thinks the Sussex brand damaged the charity Harry co-founded: She argued that the volatile public sentiment around Prince Harry since his move to the US and media fallout after the release of a Netflix documentary in 2022 and his book in 2023 had an impact on the charity’s ability to diversify its donor pool and make senior hires. “When you start to interview people, they’re asking questions about, well, these mixed messages around the patron,” she said.
The trustees’ version of events: A person familiar with the trustees’ account of events said: “The charity has been almost entirely reliant on the positive view of Prince Harry to raise funds.” They said the dispute had nothing to do with personal tensions: “There are real issues at hand that have been raised and not addressed. The trustees tried to negotiate this privately and requested she consider her position due to their lack of trust and confidence in her as a leader.” The person added: “The trustees were supportive of moving fundraising towards America, the problem was she failed to do that.” Lawyers for Prince Harry said there had been a breakdown in relations between the chair and key individuals, including some staff, trustees and major funders.
The board felt “a loss of power and control and influence . . . oh my goodness, the Africans are taking over.” At least one of the now-resigned trustees was from Lesotho. The co-founder of Sentebale is a prince of Lesotho and he resigned his position because of Chanduka’s unhinged behavior. “The Africans” were already in charge of the charity before Prince William’s white male henchman began “advising” this ridiculous woman.
“She argued that the volatile public sentiment around Prince Harry since his move to the US and media fallout after the release of a Netflix documentary in 2022 and his book in 2023 had an impact on the charity’s ability to diversify its donor pool and make senior hires” – this is a small charity which helps support kids with HIV. Harry is himself the biggest fundraiser and donor to Sentebale, raising millions over the years with his fundraising polo matches and donating $1.5 million from Spare to Sentebale. Yeah, he sure wanted to “force a failure,” huh?
“The way the organisation had been set up in 2006, was no longer appropriate in 2023 in a post-Black Lives Matter world.” This woman has an MBE honor from those colonizers, she’s being advised by Prince William’s ally and she’s stealing money from an African-based charity which supports African children.
Photos courtesy of Cover Images.
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- The Duchess of Sussex presents the trophy to her husband, the Duke of Sussex after his team the Royal Salute Sentebale Team defeated the Grand Champions Team, in the Royal Salute Polo Challenge, to benefit Sentebale, at The USPA National Polo Center Featuring: Prince Harry, Duke Of Sussex and Meghan, Duchess Of Sussex Where: Wellington, Florida, United States When: 12 Apr 2024 Credit: PA Images/INSTARimages **NORTH AMERICA RIGHTS ONLY**
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- The Duchess of Sussex the Duke of Sussex poses for pictures with the teams after he took part in the Royal Salute Polo Challenge, to benefit Sentebale, at The USPA National Polo Center Featuring: Prince Harry, Duke Of Sussex and Meghan, Duchess Of Sussex Where: Wellington, Florida, United States When: 12 Apr 2024 Credit: PA Images/INSTARimages **NORTH AMERICA RIGHTS ONLY**
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- The Duchess of Sussex presents the trophy to her husband, the Duke of Sussex after his team the Royal Salute Sentebale Team defeated the Grand Champions Team, in the Royal Salute Polo Challenge, to benefit Sentebale, at The USPA National Polo Center Featuring: Prince Harry, Duke Of Sussex and Meghan, Duchess Of Sussex Where: Wellington, Florida, United States When: 12 Apr 2024 Credit: PA Images/INSTARimages **NORTH AMERICA RIGHTS ONLY**
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- The Duke of Sussex during the awards ceremony after he played in a polo match during the Royal Salute Polo Challenge, to benefit Sentebale, at The USPA National Polo Center Featuring: Prince Harry, Duke Of Sussex Where: Wellington, Florida, United States When: 12 Apr 2024 Credit: PA Images/INSTARimages **NORTH AMERICA RIGHTS ONLY**
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- The Duke of Sussex plays in a polo match during the Royal Salute Polo Challenge, to benefit Sentebale, at The USPA National Polo Center Featuring: Prince Harry, Duke Of Sussex Where: Wellington, Florida, United States When: 12 Apr 2024 Credit: PA Images/INSTARimages **NORTH AMERICA RIGHTS ONLY**
Like we can’t see the trail .. Peggy isn’t very bright, those polo matches really upset him obviously. As for her she needs to be criminally charged if she mismanaged or embezzled funds.
Frankly, he’s upset they’re still alive and shadowing his lazy ways
This was my concern a few days ago that she was in there to cause chaos and to ruin the charity at the leftovers behest! She is projecting that Harry is toxic when it is she who is toxic! This is a page right out of the royals book and how they deal with those they are trying to ruin and are jealous of.
I wonder how much Willie & BRF are bribing her with…
yesssssss. what was her price?
Can you imagine the mentality behind destroying a charity to harm a sibling? Yikes!
Her price? Start looking for the $600K she “spent on consultants”.
Her rants are pure projection and as to Harry being “toxic to the brand” – that’s another stick KP and BP always love to beat Harry with, so they’re absolutely showing their entire asses here. It was because of Harry that rich polo players were willing to drop 100K pounds per pair of jodhpurs just to play in a polo match against him.
Sentebale was THOROUGHLY FINANCIALLY STABLE before this bitchclown came on board. She’s the reason it’s imperiled. It’s her handiwork and those who gave her the sabotage orders – Prince Earthpoop and his hobgoblins, at the very least – though I wouldn’t put it past his Pa to sanction it out of pure jealousy either. Cluck and Huevo are two of a kind.
Every time they go after Harry, to injure him or take something away from him, it just proves that what happened to his mother wasn’t coincidence.
If you look at Sentebale’s website PH seems to be at the center of every fund-raising event they have. Just last December, he was at the art show in NY. Which, by the way, was from a sponsor that Harry and Seeiso courted. That hardly seems like someone who is “toxic” to the charity.
Not to mention that if you look at the sponsors linked to his other charities it is obvious that Harry isn’t seen as toxic as she claims because sponsorships have grown, even to Travalyst which is relatively new and has only been around since them leaving the UK.
It’s sobering to see how far the royals are willing to go to sabotage Harry and Meghan. They escaped their abusers for sure. Diana’s death was no accident. The British royal family is a cult.
It is terrifying
And Charles and William are the same as Thomas and Samantha. Both families mean to cause harm to the Sussexes.
This woman sounds insane and I bet she would back Trump if he were in her life! I hope Harry and Megan can remain strong enough to ignore all the “gadflys” in their lives.
Agreed. Invictus is next. I’m so glad Meghan is having the success she is so that their financial situation is secure (plus better up and the other stuff Harry is doing which we don’t know about). But they will try to destroy anything positive that Harry has. The IVF should move out of the UK but the fact that the next games are there feels like they will just ruin it for the future.
Yeah, I was stunned that they chose England to host the next Invictus Games before (and scared for Meghan). Now, I’m doubly concerned about why Birmingham was chosen, and why anyplace in England (which has not exactly been full of support for the games) expressed a desire to host in the first place.
This is a warning call for Harry to ensure Invictus is locked down airtight and royal-proof.
Also agree that Diana’s death was no accident. Dead Betty has blood on her decomposing hands.
@Debbie – as alarming as it was that the UK was entrusted with Invictus for 2027, honestly I feel that everyone, esp. the participants, is going to be safer there than in the US. As bad as it is now, how much worse in two years’ time.
In the case of Harry they are more like a mafia trying to rub him out!
It really is. I will never be convinced that William hasn’t been working on the downfall of Sentabale since its inception. His little brother co-founded as a teenager, and raging toddler Prince William has been trying to catch up since.
Earthshot is clearly not setting the world on fire (*cough* Invictus Games *cough*), so he’s after Sentabale. I am going to die from secondhand embarrassment if this wretch of a woman asks William, the actual fucking future king, to take over as patron.
Kitty isn’t going to center you in anything, Lady. This is unbelievable.
You’d think between cancer treatments and trying to look busy without working they wouldn’t have the time. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ But that devil jealousy, guess it won’t let them sleep.
The Windsor Jealousy Gene is stroooong. I mean all the way back to the Hanoverians, probably. Look how Victoria treated Edward.
My goodness the woman chair behaved like a woman scorned , unleashed. We have the right to be suspicious of her intentions when she used all the key buzzwords and adopted the key talking points of BRF and the British media negatives on the Sussexes to personally target and attacked Prince Harry. Prince Harry is a patron . Surely her conflicts should be with the Board of trustees and not Harry.
From her various statements it would appear that she deviously mixed facts with fiction and manipulated it to her advantage . It is time for the trustees and senior staff to speak up to challenge her version of the events.
No, the Baroness Trustee has taken it up already through The Times. That’s sufficient. If Psycho Sophie wants to take it further, let the Charity Commission or the Courts look at it.
Her incendiary remarks in the FT is trying to provoke a response from Harry (rinse-wash-repeat) but I think he’ll take the high road with this one. She’s a small gnat in the bigger picture of things. Sophie who really.
His brother is going to fuck up Sentebale and seeing the PR mess that is Earthshit, the best bet is for him and Seeiso to set up a charity polo match without the Sentebale trademark for it. Maybe under the Archewell or Diana Foundation 😳😂🤣😅
Oops. I bet Sophie and Willie didn’t think that far. 😏
Must be another stalker. Why Meghan, Harry? You should have chosen ME!!!!
Yup, this is her taking this very personal, not professional. Wonder if she tried to seduce him and he said, no thanks.
She should stop calling herself a doctor. It is misleading and deceitful. Doing this shows her lack of integrity.
She has an honorary doctorate and is using it to its full extent. She sounds like an arrogant, condescending harpy.
Wait, it’s an honorary doctorate??? Oh, fer cryin’ out loud! 🙄
An honorary doctorate does not confer the honorific of Doctor. If so there’s a ton of people with honorary doctorates entitled to use it.
‘ Prince William’s ally Iain Rawlinson is very involved’
Yeah
Prince William’s … is very involved
He really is a jealous little sh*t.
And spot on she is pushing africans out as well. Not that you’d notice with the (KP instructed) focus on H&M.
Wow. Talk about burning it all down. If she thought she was having issues with fundraising before this is not going to help.
As for the whole she wouldn’t defend Meghan, I take it that it had something to do with people excusing Meghan of being a bully when they were taking this picture.
I also read that her doctorate is actually an honorary degree. It just sounds like she sucked at her job.
I know someone who has interacted directly with her and described her as ‘intelligent’ and very ‘determined’ to get what she wants.
Not so intelligent she had to spend $600K on fundraising.
I’m sure she’s very determined but the Sussexes will ignore her now, as they have done with their critics. She is not their first rodeo. And karma will strike her back big time. Especially if she ever decides to set foot back in Lesotho.
Intelligent in a sly way for sure. Intelligent enough to raise funds…we haven’t seen any evidence of that so far.
It is an honorary doctorate so normally only GPs or Academics with a PhD would refer to themselves as Doctor.
Using race to justify her ambition and lack of integrity is despicable. If she truly wanted to lead a charity led by black people, she should have started one herself. As long as the charity benefits the community, the race of its leaders should not matter.
I couldn’t care less if the charity was run by green people – those who create it have the right to appoint whoever they see fit, regardless of race. Promoting people based on race will always lead to situations like hers, where personal ambition takes priority over the greater good. Race should never be a qualification for any position. She is an opportunist, nothing more than that,
Unfortunately, Africa is full of people like this – always putting greed and personal ambition ahead of the public, who they couldn’t care less about.
I hope Prince Harry and Prince Seeiso can take back control of the charity, and that this situation serves as a lesson to stop hiring people based on race—or gender, for that matter.
There’s an article in the AP today about this (Sunday 30th), and she discusses her injurious feelings about how Megan asked her to stand on the other side of her to take the picture.
🤣😂
Oh my lord. She hates Meghan because of a photo-op that nobody cares about except for her.
How petty can you get. She sounds like a spoilt five year old kid.
Wahhhhh!
Peg is so sinister. He will take down the monarchy
The monarchy is playing with fire. The dirty game could backfire of William.
It already is. Head to head between Earthshit and Invictus, which is more AUTHENTIC and popular? 😏
Yes, it’s definitely a palace coup engineered by Lazy Brother.
I’m surprised she ran to the FT but then again its sister publication The Economist went hard against Meghan’s WLM.
This is the establishment fighting back. They are scared. They are fearful. The Sussexes are going to be even more powerful and financially resilient than what Willie and dad had hoped for.
But this is not resonating. Firstly, Sophie is egotistical. If Sophie were truly concerned about Sentebale she would have addressed the $600K fundraising strategy with the FT. But she can’t. Why? Because Britain has a publication called Third Sector Review which looks at not for profits and would have given her bilge more legitimacy. But TSR isn’t aligned with the rats.
The problem for her is, this $600K fundraising consultants is going to be her downfall because she’s still not addressing this. If she had been interviewed by TSR, they would have compared Sentebale like for like with other not for profits with the same annual revenues…and they would have shown the average fundraising plan for such an organisation would nowhere be near $600K 😂
First big mistake Sophie.
Secondly, why the FT? This is a direct warning from the Palace to potential backers of the Sussexes. The Netflix deal has spooked them, so is Harry’s position with Better Up. They don’t want anymore big organisations attaching themselves to Harry and Meghan…but to no avail. Just have a look at the major sponsors of Invictus.
So Sophie, you thought you were a big fish, but you are a small bait doing Willie’s bidding.
You are nowhere near Harry’s level. That’s why you can’t fundraise for shit 😂 you chose the wrong brother and I hope Harry sues you soon for defamation and libel.
We should also be asking why she chose to fly to the U.K. and go on Sky News. I am sure that many media houses were running after her for an interview. I really think she has dug a very deep hole for herself. She is trying to use the anti Sussex brigade to deflect from her own failings. She doesnt realise that this media people will soon drop her like a hot brick.
Is she flying on Sentebale’s dime?
As I wrote in another thread, her expenses need to be audited.
She’s going to those organizations because they are aligned against Meghan and Harry. As someone mentioned up thread, Financial Times is the sister publication of The Economist who reviewed a lifestyle TV show a month ago! When have they ever done that? These people are taking all avenues to minimize the impact that Harry and Meghan have because they upset the establishment
wheelcart too much. These editors know they have to try to ruin Harry and Meghan and minimize their achievements because William and Kate will not work hard on their own to just have their own achievements.
As for her, from what I’ve seen the more staid British media hasn’t been her biggest fan, just the tabloids. Organizations like CNN are the ones that pointed out that she lied about having the injunction in the first place. She’s going to go where they aren’t going to ask her about misappropriation of funds, and just allow her to make accusations that conveniently mirror what they already have on their own web pages about the Sussex intentions.
She went to the Sun first too didn’t she? And sky news. Are they both owned by murdoch? The man who gave William a private settlement?
Since her attacks on Prince Harry is so personal it leaves people wondering whether it is a further attempt to erode and isolate Prince Harry . After stripping him from his security and military patronages , it would appear the next step is to target his charitable endeavors.
Is peg going to foist Mike or Beckham on invict us next.
Yes, though frankly I’m surprised it has taken the Palaces that long.
I suppose Scotty’s Little Soldiers is next on Willie’s hit list?
I think once the Sussexes Remembrance Day wreath was not placed on the cenotaph and consigned elsewhere, Harry should no longer be hurt or surprised by the pettiness of the Palace. Imagine, if Diana had lived, this is the shit she would have gone through as well with her charities.
Stay strong Harry. We see what they are doing to you.
@Blogger, further to your point, I totally agree that finding out who is funding this lady”s hi jinks would go a long way to prove who is at the source of her loonie accusations. I can see TOB’s fingerprints all over this. Africa is MINE, Harold.
Harry has a number of successful charitable ventures. Why is she apparently the only one who has an issue with him?
I think Harry has had everything Windsor-proofed from Invictus Games on. Sentabale was never safe, Harry was a teenager. It probably helps that Prince Seeiso is a co-founder. I don’t think anyone is truly walking away with Sentabale intact.
The best bet is for Seeiso and Harry to create a new one. There’s too much enmity associated with this now. And hire some of the frontline staff from Sentebale to the new organisation. This woman is destroying the joint and I give it 6 months unless Chuck dies and Willie gives it money when king. Depends on how much Willie wants to funds this woman too.
If there are 500 employees, most of them must be Africa-based because I can’t see how you can pay these amount of people on their budget.
Of course Sophie has treated Sentebale as her personal fiefdom: $400K salary ask? $600K consultants???
Can you imagine what $1M can be done to help with their mission?
But she is Chair NOT CEO so don’t know why she is currently determining strategy. Did she think she was in charge of a start-up?
So Rawlinson’s presence once again shows the “platinum” standards of the grey men of the palaces 😂 so Trumpian – sow and create chaos like schoolkids with Willie being appeased because of his tantrums.
The adults – Harry and trustees – have left the building. Let them stew and cry like the tabloids. It’s nothing new.
Rawlinson must be pissed too. If what has been written is correct about his previous role, Harry walking away was rejecting this particular courtier too 🤣
Those grey men really need therapy.
So this is a hostile takeover of Sentable, got it. Harry & Co. will be fine, I feel very sorry for those who benefited from this charity because it’s not being run by someone who is gonna run into the ground and embezzle it’s resources on the way out.
Yes Harry and Seeiso will be fine they’re still mates when all of this is said and done.
Relationships matter more.
Exactly, this is a hostile take over. It appears that Sophie Chaundaka wanted Harry out of Sentebale for a while, alleging Harry’s brand is toxic and he lost donors when he left the royal family and the UK. Yes, Harry lost donors after leaving the royal family. Jaguar, which has close connections to the royal family, terminated their sponsorship with IG. However this was 5 years ago. Harry and IG were able to find other sponsos,( Boeing is now the main sponsor for IG), and is thriving with Harry at the helm and recognised as a force for good for veterans all over the world. Harry and Meghan founded the Archewell Foundation. Harry was the one who drew in the money for Sentebale. This argument that Harry’s brand is toxic does not make sense for me. I am just wondering what her endgame is.
Boeing’s sponsorship of IG is seriously next level. With IG Düsseldorf bringing the NATO family members in, that was publicity that no amount of money could have ever bought.
But hey, Willie always has Cate Blanchett to rely on. And I wonder how Jacinda Ardern is going on the Earthshit board. A bit quiet. Does the founder even attend meetings or is he too busy at Aston Villa games?
Yes, through her own admission, they were going to have the Miami polo fundraiser at a specific location and only changed because it was going to cost more due to the Polo documentary, but it was Harry who found a different location to host the charity match, not her. Harry has multiple charities that haven’t been impacted by losing sponsors, so her claims of his brand being too toxic for sponsorship is unfounded.
If they wanted to shift to American fundraising for Sentebale, they already showed how to do it with Invictus. Boeing, Amazon, etc. He’s clearly not the toxic one.
Are there any biotech companies sponsoring IG? Like the prosthetic/robotic limb manufacturers? That seems like an obvious fit.
I didn’t realize 500 people worked for the charity, either. She’s put them in jeopardy with her misuse of funds and insane actions.
Peg could have promised her rewards like a title.
He already gave her an MBE which he activated for this coup when it all dies down i wonder where she will be. i’m hoping Jail
She’ll get a damehood at his hat party while Knauf is elevated to a baronetcy.
“Climate resilience” and “wealth inequality” sound like code words for Earthshot and whatever William is calling his homelessness initiative.
“Climate resilience” sounds like code for money laundering or the like.
I don’t think so. I think William dangled the lure of Earthshot funders – Bloomberg can write a much bigger check than Harry can. That’s why the pivot to William’s initiatives instead of Harry’s.
Agree! It makes no sense to switch a charity the focuses on HIV/Aids to “climate resilience”. This all stinks to high heaven. I feel so bad for Sentable employees and the kids.
He might have dangled Bloomberg in front of her, but no reason to assume he’d be interested here. If that’s what she thinks, I believe she’ll be surprised. An organization like his would have much better options than taking over a small charity with a totally different agenda, that’s if for some reason they needed to establish an office there. The adverse publicly was easy to predict because of the vulnerable population Sentebale serves. So they’d already be starting off on the wrong foot with big question marks about their reputation. Also, I doubt Will has much sway with ES or Bloomberg at this point, they know who he is. He’s so lazy and ill informed he has nothing to offer the organization except as figurehead, and even there, I doubt he’s very effective.
@windyriver – you’re absolutely right. There’s no reason Bloomberg would be interested. It’s just that the pivot in mission is so weird, along with a fundraising focus on the US and now the pro-William involvement leads my mind over to Bloomberg.
As for William being ineffective, of course. But the RF has never been about effectiveness, only acquisition.
Eurydice then if she thought them stepping down and leaving the UK was damaging to his brand and she didn’t like what the charity supported why did she then join the charity after they left and not join William’s which seems to be more her of what she wants to focus on? It seems asinine to try and redirect what a charity is doing to focus entirely on something else when she has an in with William and his goons.
@Eurydice – oh, not saying you’re wrong! And it is weird. Objectively, no reason to think Bloomberg would be interested. If anything, ES must be familiar with better candidates through years evaluating organizations for funding, and via their advisory board members. If a need is there, more efficient/effective to consider a partnership with one of them, or establish your own charity (Bloomberg is big enough) rather than invest time and expense to pivot a small organization with a completely different mandate. About Will, I meant Bloomberg must know he’s ineffective, don’t see him throwing money at something on Will’s say so. And don’t see the benefit to Bloomberg being involved, because the PR downside is obvious. Doesn’t mean that William isn’t involved, just that the scammer might also be getting scammed if she thinks that money’s available. (It’s not gonna come from Will.)
@Eurydice. You are *so* right! “Climate resistance” and “wealth inequality” suggest William wants to merge Sentebale into Earthshot and whatever his homelessness project is called. A charity for children’s wellbeing in Losotho & Botswana wouldn’t be an obvious fit.
Is he kidnapping Harry’s smaller charity because he realizes he can’t get Invictus?
Africa is HIS. 😏
Harry should expect Africa Parks to go next.
What is interesting is that no-one is coming out supporting her statements. No-one from her previous reigns of distructions are saying what a wonderful woman she is to work with and how she helped move the organisations along. The more she speaks the more damage she’s doing to her reputation. She’s supposedly done all this great work with other organisations but, has nothing to show for it except a trail of mismanagement, debt and chaos. The woman is a snake!
As a former Chair I’m surprised Rawlinson is advising her to go public with this incendiary narrative. It’s almost as if they’re setting the charity up to fail or to be merged in with another much bigger operation. I’m suspicious that she now wants the charity to branch out into climate change. Yes, climate change is a very important and worthwhile cause but, Sentebale was set up to help children with HIV/Aids. Rawlinson has only been there a week (appointed 25 March 2025) so, I doubt he’s fully up to speed as to what’s happened behind the scenes. Unless (of course) he’s been around a lot longer and was instrumental in what can only be described as a “hostile takeover”
Love to know how she and Willy’s associate became acquainted.
Rawlinson is Willie there by proxy.
So transparent 🙄 after appearing with Jeremy Clarkson and now Sentebale, I’m expecting Harry to be banned from attending the next Invictus at Birmingham.
What is sickening is huevo h aving his heir watch Clarkson show. Huevo is out of control.
@Laura D. I believe Rawlinson “has been advising” her for a long time, maybe getting her to rejoin the board two years ago. He’s a big deal with British nonprofits. She didn’t find him to help her; he found her. And he really doesn’t care what happens to her now.
Exactly! Sentebale was set up to help kids with HIV Aids. Why dilute what you are doing to cover these other issues? It implies a lack of focus. This organization had one thing that it did really well so why not continue doing so? This is like saying you are going to end child poverty and fix climate change all from the same organization?
Is the charity going to pay for the court action instead of spending the money raised by Harry and his fellow trustees for supporting the children.
IF Sophie were smart, directors and officers (D&O) insurance should cover her legal action.
A big IF of course. And frankly, I can’t see any intelligence coming out of her. The insurance company might also say that her coming out so publicly in the press would have prejudiced or voided the terms of their insurance contract.
So I suspect she isn’t. She’s burning through Sentebale baby and Willie is making a big bonfire just for it.
D&O insurance won’t cover the commencement of actions, only defense. She has to be using the charity’s money for this offensive (instead of defensive) maneuver. And as others have said, I have never heard of a Chair doubling down and refusing to resign when asked.
The D and O insurance won’t cover actions considered to be fraudulent on her part. It is for being sued by outside parties as a result of her role as director.
Now the former board of trustees would be able to access the D and O insurance to sue her for damaging Sentebale.
I was wondering if, before resigning, the board of Sentebale had any power to freeze the charity’s funds until SC can explain the way she burned through the 600 thousand pounds, and so she can’t use the funds that a lot of people donated their time and talent and money to get in the first place.
Maybe the tabloids are funding her?
It would be funny if it weren’t so sad. She’s not wrong about charities run by white Westerners ignoring the concerns of local Africans and that these things should be African led. But Sentebale was always set up as two Princes, one Anglo, one African, in a partnership to aid African children by leveraging the fame and connections of Prince Harry. It’s the very focused nature of the charity that made it OK.
This woman is screwing things up so badly. Her doing all these crazy interviews could very well hide whatever nefarious fckery William may be up to.
If William is involved what’s to stop him messing with the other charities that Harry is involved with.
Apparently she is based in New York.
@Is That So? ‘Philanthropies should have members of the population they serve be in leadership positions because they have inside knowledge of the issues and culture. Having solutions to problems imposed by people outside a culture, convinced of the infallibility of approach to problems often leads to failure. That is why so many international aid initiatives have not work.’
If you don’t mind me asking, where are you based? Have you ever lived in any country in Africa for a significant amount of time, not just for a short holiday? If not, I’m sorry, but it’s probably best not to comment on things you might not fully understand. Living here is very different from any image or perception you may have.
Why should those things be African led? As long as these charities benefit the locals, why should it matter who runs them? I don’t agree with that way of thinking. The people who create charities should be free to hire whoever they believe is best for the job. If they choose local people, great. If they believe someone from outside is better suited, they should have the freedom to do that.
Forcing decisions based on race or background will only discourage people from wanting to help those in need.
@Justthink charities focused on issues specifically related to the African continent absolutely should be African led. You need the people who run them to have not only a vested interest but an deep understanding of the communities they aim to serve, and a willingness to not only listen to those affected communities but to actively engage and partner with them. Having these sorts of orgs be white European lead and driven smacks of the great white savior arrogance and colonialism (i.e., “we’ll tell them what’s best for them”). Would you be saying the same about a patient advocacy group that is led and driven by people who have no direct experience as a patient or caregiver to the patient population they’re advocating for?
It’s as Kaiser said though. One of the trustees was actually from Lesotho as opposed to another African country. The prince is from Lesotho. So she’s arguing for African led but it already had two people from Lesotho, a country in Africa. So yes, African-led should be a goal but it already had people from the actual country within it. So the argument in this case makes no sense.
“Promoting people based on race will always lead to situations like hers, where personal ambition takes priority over the greater good. Race should never be a qualification for any position. She is an opportunist, nothing more than that,
Unfortunately, Africa is full of people like this – always putting greed and personal ambition ahead of the public, who they couldn’t care less about.
I hope Prince Harry and Prince Seeiso can take back control of the charity, and that this situation serves as a lesson to stop hiring people based on race—or gender, for that matter.”
Where did you learn that Sophie Chaundak only qualification was based on race and gender. That assumption is insulting to the board and leadership of Sentabale that hired her.
Your previous post condemn the largest continent as being filled with people putting greed and personal ambition before all other motivation as if this in unique to Africa is . . . interesting.
Philanthropies should have members of the population they serve be in leadership positions because they have inside knowledge of the issues and culture. Having solutions to problems imposed by people outside a culture, convinced of the infallibility of approach to problems often leads to failure. That is why so many international aid initiatives have not work.
@pottymouth pup – That mindset comes from people who don’t understand what’s really happening on the ground. I’m guessing you’re from the US and have an idealized view of how things work in Africa. Trust me, situations like the one with this lady aren’t rare – they’re actually the norm, when the race card is played. What matters here are the results, not who delivers them. We’re tired of that focus on appearances. We want real results, not cosmetic fixes.
@Is That So? She’s been bragging about herself, using a title she didn’t earn. It’s not an academic title, but an honorary one. Why use it, if not to mislead people into thinking she’s more qualified than she is? This doesn’t seem like the behavior of an honest person. If she’s misleading others with that title, it’s easy to prove. What else has she lied about? This is a volunteer position – what’s her actual paid job? It looks like it’s all about appearances for her.
@Is That So? I did say that Africa is filled with both great and corrupt people, and I stand by that because it’s true. However, I didn’t say that everyone is like that – that would be a lie. There are countless honest and hard-working people in Africa. Unfortunately, the majority of the power isn’t in the hands of these good and honest people.
Prince Harry’s “brand” had hindered the charity. “The number one risk for this organisation was the toxicity of its lead patron’s brand,”
Yeah, ngl, I thought everyone here was a bit crazy for trying to attribute this to the BRF right out the gate but this quote has convinced me. Prince Harry’s other endeavors have done just fine, if not benefitted from his connection to the cause. There’s no way you’re gonna convince me that he’s a net negative to Sentable. The main donor pulling out of Sentable but not H’s other projects like IG tells me alone this is not true. This is 100% a hostile takeover from RF through this woman. This is NUTS!
At least it continues to expose the Palaces playbook very much out in the open on their cult behaviour.
You leave us, we will destroy you.
Let’s face it, Diana’s departure took the shine off; and now the Sussexes.
The Windsors and their grey men sure do behave like the Bourbons. As per Talleyrand: “the Bourbons learned nothing and forgot nothing.”
I also thought people were being paranoid with Will & BRF comments. However, with these comments, she definitely seems like the part of the palace agenda. The sad thing is, this won’t hurt Harry. People who worked with him, know him won’t care about these comments. Sadly, it is gonna hurt the kids who were using this charity.
I wasn’t sure until the guy from Tusk showed up at her interview parade. As she’s going in about decolonization she’s sitting next to a British man who was director of another total white British guy in Africa project. With Jecca’s family being white colonizers in top of that.
And wasn’t it in Tusk’s name or mission that Peg declared Africans should not have so many kids? I think it was Tusk-related.
Perhaps in a convoluted way Willie sees Sentebale as a gift he can give to Jecca which would mean he can visit her often on the continent. It’s a matter of switching from Lesotho to Kenya which is a bit of a stretch. But stranger things have happened when you have an angry heir.
The insanity of that statement by her is that she stepped in as the chair after he had left the UK, so if it was a hindrance to Sentebale why hadn’t it had a negative impact on his other charities and why would she step in as chair if she had a problem with his brand and the direction Sentebale was going in?
That lady is a very bad person. It won’t be fun when she brings that entire organisation crashing to the ground. She might have the Windsors and their tabloids friends on her side for now because they have finally found a concrete way to hurt Harry, but once the dust settles and they find another garbage to go through the content of, she’ll realize that she has allied herself with the wrong people. She’ll probably end up working for GB News or the DM and pretend that this is everything she could have ever wished for in life.
Exactly.
What is truly toxic are the ongoing effects of colonialism in Africa. Children in southern Africa should not need a charity to gain access to the necessities of life like food and quality health care.
How long did the colonialism end? I’m African native and Africa based, and believe me, colonialism is an overused excuse. It doesn’t explain the greed and corruption of our politicians and their minions, who are the real cause of the conditions the people are facing.
Corruption may be a real thing, but so are the effects of colonialism. If they weren’t, you wouldn’t see it everywhere in the world that colonialism has touched. Everywhere these “great empires” have touched have been decimated, their natural resources pillaged and land laid to waste. It’s much easier to talk about people raising themselves up by the bootstraps than for them to actually do it.
The greed and corruption of the native politicians are often the result of colonialism as well. Colonialism made greed and corruption endemic to the government systems themselves. And African people who want to suck up to the colonials ( like Sophie Chandauka?) are usually educated in the west and often groomed to corruption. Not to say all African leaders are corrupt but the vestiges of colonialism tend to raise up the worst. And colonialism and monarchy makes the most toxic brew of all.
Just wanted to add that the colonial mindset of looting resources has outlived colonialism and often the colonials themselves. It’s why the post colonial world is still often trapped in the worst aspects of colonialism. And the former colonial powers in the west either encourage this way of thinking with their mineral and oil grabs or just act like they had nothing to do with it as they look the other way.
So is it safe to assume, since Willy was so bad at Earthshot that Bloomberg took it over, that he made moves to take over Sentebale? That is why she is widening its remit to include climate change? That is why his financier buddy is involved?
Wow. Willy’s jealousy knows no bounds and his greed does and will make him miserable.
And for fucks sake, does he also not realize that Harry and his real brother can start another charity and that their polo match funds can go to the new charity? Willy is not going to get his hands on the polo match money or the sponsors they have cultivated.
Apart from Bloomberg (the man, and not the company), who are Earthshit’s financiers? Can’t think a company off the top of my head that is sponsoring Earthshit.
I tried to give her the benefit of the doubt last week that she was just a poor leader who didn’t know how to recalibrate, but it’s obvious at this point that she is being intentional to try and ruin Harry, because she has almost nothing to say about the other founder who is also a Prince and from Lesotho. Almost as if the problem with the organization existing isn’t his involvement for the people backing her.
It’s wild to despise your sibling so much that you would expend this much effort to ruin their life and their work, and not extend this much effort on your own life. In trying to ruin someone else’s marriage, yours has fallen apart. For all the time to try to get someone else kicked off the board of an organization, you don’t have any strong charitable involvement. Amidst all the efforts you make to ruin someone else’s reputation, yours is the one that is visibly damaged. All this energy because you can’t accept that someone got away from you and your control.
Chandauka is the useful idiot here. If the coup fails and Harry and Seeiso return she is out. If KP takes over Sentebale she is going to be reduced to a figurehead with little or no power and they’ll kick her out. She’ll be like a Trump supporter who’ll learn the hard way that vote will come back to haunt them.
Genuine question, as I am not sure I understand the legal proceedings etc. Is there a way for Harry and Seeiso to return? If all of the trustees stepped down and she got new trustees to join who are loyal to her, how can this now still be turned around?
According to charity rules, a chair can’t appoint new trustees on their own because decisions need to involve a quorum of trustees or a committee. If the board is not in place, the Charity Commission may step in to appoint interim trustees or offer guidance to make sure the charity is managed properly. If a chair appoints trustees without following the correct process, the appointment could be invalid, leading to legal problems. The Charity Commission could intervene and overturn the appointment.
I would love for them to create a new nonprofit to benefit the children of Africa with another meaningful name and take all the funders with them. Starve her shiny new toy to death. (Unless, of course, Huevo swoops in to absorb Sentebale, in which case, he will have his pick of bootlickers and social climbers to pick from to provide financial support).
^^ You mean ‘His Majesty’s Charity Commission?”
Check and Mate.
Sentebale is dead unless Harry and Seeiso regain control. Who will give money to a mess like this? Even if Willam and his royal foundation get involved, it will be seen as the hostile takeover by a spoiled man baby.
But this will ultimately be a pyrrhic victory for William and Sophie will ripped apart by the same media she was hoping to use to attack Harry.
Depends on the re-branding – Williams PR team might couch it as the charity he rescued from his feckless younger brother.
The parallels of Williams beard and now this confirm what I have always felt – the row was always about Meghan i.e. William wanting and feeling entitled to Meghan. The Lore goes that in these Royal/ aristocratic families that the younger brother steps aside for the King. Isn’t that what Andrew Parker Bowles did – he was literally present at parties where Camilla and Chuck were together.
Meghan of course would NEVER acquiesce to this nonsense. Bill’s need to have everyone that Harry has despite being the literal King of the Castle is DISTURBING.
Yep, @Aquarius64, the leopards are definitely going to eat her face.
Anything to avoid talking about the $600k, right Sophie? And if Harry was “toxic” why would you want to continue to work for the charity? Funny you didn’t have an issue until the sh*t blew up in your face. I hope Harry and Seeiso start a new charity focused in Lesotho and leave Sophie and William to kick rocks. Harry can take his “toxic” money elsewhere.
Also one of the squaddies reported that Call me Doctor wanted to be paid a salary of £300k for a voluntary position and the Board said no!
😱 what a greedy cow.
This is all so messy, and like the proverb says “All roads lead to Rome”, but in this case Rome is William. My suspicion is that Ms. Call Me Doctor (I love that!) MBE will burn through much of the Sentebale money on lawyers, and her board (with the exception of William’s lapdog Iain Rawlinson) will succumb to infighting over the change in focus to climate resilience and wealth inequality — that’s got William’s dirty fingerprints all over it. If she doesn’t speak to the outrageous sum spent on “consulting” she’ll dig herself in even deeper. I feel sorry for the children who will now be caught in the crossfire and not get the medical and financial attention they so desperately need, all because of her out-of-control hubris. Hopefully Harry and Seeiso can rise above this crisis and create a new Sentebale out of the ashes.
@Blogger – lol that shoild be her title.
If Harry hindered her fundraising then why is she bleating now he’s gone and also claiming his departure is an attempt to force the charity to fail without his patronage ?
Why would he want a charity which was his pride and joy to fail. She doesn’t make sense. And why is she criticising Harry and not Prince Seeiso who has done exactly the same thing.
Exactly @Sunnysideup Call me Doctor has a great resume and a corporate lawyer but she is not sounding very logical in her reasoning ? Any lawyers reading this blog impressed by her media blitz? Ian Rowlinson’s bio describes him as an experienced mediator? Are you having me now? Has it anything other than inflammatory having her throw verbal flame thrower around on a lengthy media tour? She boasts that Wilbur ‘s Tuskmate is her advisor? Is that wise given his close association with FK? It clearly signals that Africa is mine was not an idle boast.
You can tell she did corporate law, which is usually document review. Her strategy in blasting the media just creates a load of material for cross examination if there is litigation commenced about her fraudulent acts. Someone who has litigated would know this. She clearly doesn’t.
Because William is in cahoots with Iain Rawlinson to bring Harry down. Let’s not forget Rawlinson was previously chair of Tusk Trust, of which William is patron. Tusk is a member of the Princes’ Charities Forum (now called the Charities’ Forum), which was started by William and Harry in 2006 to bring together their charitable interests to develop synergies between the 20 or so organizations they support. However since the Sussexes departure it’s just William and Kate who are patrons, and we all know that his involvement is minimal (Kate’s is non-existent), simply showing up for a few events, nothing truly hands on like Harry’s work with Sentebale, etc.
@Jaded Iain Rawlinson is also chair of Global Philanthropic Group that is all about ‘orchestrating change’ – and change they orchestrated. The palace knows what it’s doing.
https://globalphilanthropic.com/global-welcomes-iain-rawlinson-as-director-and-new-chair/
I’m curious what the plus is for Rawlinson in all this (I know, he’s tied in with Will). Aligning himself with this woman, and her current publicity tour, isn’t burnishing his professional credentials as mediator, etc. And as far as “orchestrating change”, unlikely business schools are teaching “get a toe hold in an existing organization, dump the board, grab their money, and completely rewrite their two decade old mandate.” An agent of chaos, more like.
The palace may think it knows what it’s doing if the only objective is to cause Harry pain (at the expense of services to vulnerable youth). But since Sentebale was quick to put out info about $600,000 in problematic expenditures, they could have what will turn out to be the smoking gun, in which case we could see Rawlinson doing a hasty retreat.
@justthink – that’s an interesting tidbit of information! The plot thickens…
On the “there’s concern about the mixed messages about the Sussexes” front – so basically the groups who have organized a global hate campaign to undermine the massive goodwill the Sussexes have developed are running around asking folks if they’re concerned about the hate they themselves have spewed?
That’s like crashing a pool party, repeatedly pissing in the pool and then concern trolling all the party guests about the risks of swimming in a pool that may have been pissed in … then blaming the hosts they themselves have pissed on.
None of what she says makes any sense. She just sounds unhinged.
I’d suggest therapy and BetterUp for her but she’s not at that stage yet.
She isn’t good at being public-facing, that’s for sure. She’s blisteringly angry and has a score to settle, or she’s getting a huge bonus if she manages to decimate Harry’s reputation. It’s overkill.
i guess Harry must have the best legal advice. But why is there is a need for Harry to resign as patron ? Why the Board of trustees need to resign en masse n the first place and leave the chairwoman in charge. Has she as a volunteer chairperson got the legal rights to appoint trustees?
Solidarity.
The problem is her and her ego.
And they said they’d rather resign than burn through the charity’s money over her legal action.
She would have set her up her own charity – Sophie’s Charity – instead of taking over someone else. But there you go. Another miserable person in the world who’d rather inflict pain and suffering than improve it.
And of course she’s a KP stooge…so the pettiness knows no bounds.
Yes, but if she had set up her own charity (providing she cared enough about kids with AIDs), when it came to fund raising, potential donors would be saying, “Sophie who?”
In addition to not wanting the charity’s resources to be used for a legal wrangle – resigning is reasonable self-protection. From what others have shared about experience in other organizations, if this woman has been doing things that are ill-advised and/or unethical, the board and the patrons don’t want to be seen to be supporting or condoning her activities, or to be held liable in any way. They did their job, requested her resignation. She refused, they left.
This is just a hunch – but I suspect it’s the contacts that Sohie has. Sophie’s brother is also chair of a charity linked to King Chuckles btw.
This was a clear takeover – with the sole intent being to destroy Sentebale.
Harry and Seiso likely felt that Sophie was trying to take them in a direction that was against their original founding ethos. Notice Sophie is very big on the finding local non western donors – that could mean local despotic African leaders with very dubious links which likely Harry and Seiso wanted nothing to do with. Hence Sophie’s ‘decolonise’ sound bites.
This whole situation is stinky, but has Chucks (not Williams) mitts all over it. Chuck wanted Harry linked with dubious people much like Andrew is now linked to one of the worlds most prolific paedoph!les.
Both Sophie and her brother have various links to Chuck and her returning in 2023 feels very much orchestrated to destroy Sentebale.
Harry and Seiso chose to walk away which Sophie did not expect. She is right however the charity will fail and she will be attached to that legacy of failure, which will in turn attach itself to her new Biosciences start up and along with it the prospect of any future donors.
I feel very sorry for Harry and Meghan because they will always have to contend with sh!t like this.
See, I see WILLIAM’s mitts all over this, but not that he’s smart enough to come up with the idea and certainly not the strategy. But I can clearly see him scheming to get people to either get him to take over his little brother’s charities – anything which gives Harry international recognition – or destroy them, and H’s reputation as well.
I am exhausted. The Windsor grudges are epic. Meghan and Harry have to become billionaires. It is the only way to stay safe.
I hope Prince Harry and Prince Seeiso start another charity to continue their work and leave this toxic woman behind. I’ll donate to their endeavors. Leave William and his cronies with an empty shell and this toxic woman. When it all eventually falls apart, which it will, they can fold Sentebale into the new organization. This time they can structure the new organization in a way that this cannot happen again.
She sounds like a sociopath to me. Just shameless, shameless lying and zero regard for the children this will end up harming. It sounds very Trumpian to me.
I don’t think she’s crazy and I don’t think she’s a dupe.
She’s a sociopath.
She’s a true narcissist — deceitful, manipulative, will backstab and throw anyone under the bus to gain the upper hand. She’s clearly aligned herself with KP and William who is equally as narcissistic as she is. They’ll live to regret this awful situation and both will have blood on their hands, the blood of the children they purport to be helping.
It is deeply saddening to see how far William and KP are willing to go to harm his brother. The hate of William and RF seem to be at the now infamous “cellular” level. It’s sickening!
All H&M did was defend themselves since they were being vilified by their own flesh and blood. That, by defending themselves, the RF was outed for what they really are, not demi-gods, but humans like all of us, is no justification for such all pervasive hate towards H&M. It is truly sickening.
And that chandauka woman will soon be knighted by William, that’s for sure…
I am tired of this heifer . It’s not your charity. Move on and start your own with all your big ideas and you can hired any race ,, color or creed you want
It does make me wonder if William has anything to do with what is going on, is William willing to destroy the charity, turn it away from the children that it has been helping, just to get back at his brother.
William is both stupid and lazy. So the idea, the motivation, and the planning to get involved with this would need to come from someone else. This isn’t a matter of William just hitting the thing with a sledgehammer.
Sophie complains about diminishing African when she herself casts Prince Seeiso of Lesotho as a background player in and organization he CO-FOUNDED.
I feel as in we are in the era of the Trojan Horse, where promising individuals are brought inside an organization and they precede to destroy it from inside.
One more thing. If according to miss sophie Harry brand is so toxic, then she should not mind returning the donation he gave the charity from that same toxic brand SPARE . Would she ? She wants the money and fame . She had no business being in charity. She doesn’t understand what it means .
This woman may have broke the law in appointing the trustees. What happens if the Commission rules it so?
@NOOR Because she refused to step down & file a lawsuit to keep her position as the chair. The former trustees did not want to waste Sentebale’s money to fight her lawsuit so they all resigned; then the two founding Princes & patrons resigned on supporting the former trustees. (It’s reported Sentebale ony has less than $600,000 [dollars? pounds?] currently.
I’ve not read other posts & comments re Sentebale on CB, this is the first one I read, so I don’t know if it’s been mentioned, but here it is:
Several years ago when a UK newspaper wrote then Prince Charles’ charity took money from a “character questionable” person (let call him Q here). Days later, another story popped up: Q first wanted to donate to Sentebale & meet Prince Harry so someone (Charles’s people?) made an introduction and a meet was set. After the meeting, Sentebale declined the donation and Harry warned his father that Q was problematic & did not accept money from him. Q, unable to donate to Sentebale, turned his target to Charles. His charity gladly accept the money.
(I remembered this story because when it was published, Harry has married M and BM were on a war path with H&M. Articles and news that were not bash H&M were rare.)
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“…diversify its donor pool and make senior hire…”
Is the new broad of trustees & S.C. going to get the donation from TOB’s charity or from people that former trustees & Harry would not approve? Who knows.
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“I suppose Scotty’s Little Soldiers is next on Willie’s hit list?”
TOB’s wife tried it and let it be known through tablod newspaper, as I recalled. Scotty’s Little Soldiers quickly sent out a press release welcoming Pricess Harry as their ambassador.
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Be aware of black and POC who hold any honor from the BRF. You can’t be anti-racism, anti-colonialism, for equality, and proudly accept to be Members of British Empire.
“The newly formed board of Sentebale includes Iain Rawlinson, a financier who was previously chair of Prince William’s conservation charity Tusk Trust and has been advising Chandauka.”
I’m glad they have called this out so that people can make the connection the Other Brother if they choose.
It is almost as if she were elected president of a country and immediately began destroying the institutions that make the country what it is.
There is no difference between this woman and Candace Owens. Well except that Candace is American.
My guess, If this is coming from willy, Invictus is next. All the buzz words are there and they tired very hard during the games this year to keep repeating is he toxic to the games. It was constant and they asked everyone they could talk to. Of course on paper it makes no sense, He brings in the money and the eye balls. Her mbe and willys guy proves she has no issue with what she claimed.
No it explains why there was a news blackout of the games in the UK.
@KATE
As soon as the first article about Harry’s temporary (hopefully) resignation from Sentebale’s patronage out of loyalty to the board and employees appeared, and I read Chandauka’s idiotic statement, I KNEW 100% that Chandauka was William and Knauf’s useful idiot, who were destroying Senetable from the inside with her hands. It was embarrassingly obvious. Chandauka appears on Earthshot, then gets a medal from the palace, and since there’s nothing for free there, now she’s paying off her debt by acting as a Trojan horse.
That’s why under all the comments about it, I’m screaming in capital letters:
HARRY GUARD THE INVICTUS GAMES!!!!
I should add that ALL of his organizations.
William finally understood that he will NEVER be Harry, NEVER catch up with him, NEVER equal him, so he will try to destroy everything that is important to Harry.
Harry should introduce additional legal provisions so that the situation does not repeat itself.
I think that the series of spectacular decisions and successes of Meghan, which, despite the massive smear campaign, is a fact, is also significant.
🎯🔥💯
Yes, I fear for Invictus as well, certainly if William is involved. It presents Harry as a good person across the world.
Sophie already had ties to the Financial Times, having in the past been a speaker at their Women in Business event: womeninbusiness.live.ft.com/agenda/speakers/3608663
FT’s bio says she was educated at the University of Oxford, though elsewhere someone said it was not the “real” Oxford but Oxford Brookes, a college in the city of Oxford. I don’t know.
She started Nandi Life Sciences with her brother around the same time she rejoined the Sentebale board. One is to be her and her brother’s source of income, which should be a hefty time commitment, while the other is a volunteer position. Did she neglect the charity? Strange timing. He seems legit: a medical doctor and researcher, and attended the real Oxford.
Nandi receives funding from a State of Texas anti-cancer initiative, has 7 other employees, and offices in NYC (for investors) and in Houston. Sounds expensive to me. Don’t know if they have found other investors or have successfully led anyone’s projects to market yet. Not sure how her current PR campaign would convince any scientists to let her promote their stuff!
Oh, and the information is beautiful. Thanks. It turns out that this is a fraud on a larger scale. On the website of this organization in NY there are also doctors of medicine, and in the main photo SHE with her fake dr and in a white jacket, as if in a doctor’s coat, is clearly trying to pretend to be a doctor.
Her brother also has a dr before his name, I wonder if I’m worth as much as my sisters, or maybe he studied.
I have another question. If this Oxford was a college, does that mean she didn’t finish her studies?
I believe he is medical doctor with a degree in South Africa. Then he went to Oxford and got a PhD there. (Dr.Dr.?)
She has a bachelor’s degree from a Michigan state university (Lake Superior?) and maybe a degree from Birmingham in England (not mentioned in FT bio) and also attended some Oxford school. Her British law degree must have come from one of the latter two. Unlike the US system requiring a JD, the UK has an undergraduate law program. Her doctor’s degree is honorary, from Coventry College.
Thanks.
So he has a bachelor’s degree in law and no doctorate.
@AR – She has a law degree & unrelated honorary doctorate. He is a “real” doctor.
The. American JD is the same as the LLB degree. The main difference was that the U.S. requires another undergraduate degree before you can apply for the JD. It is not a real doctorate in that you normally need a masters before before you can apply to a doctoral program. A 3 year program with no thesis is not a real doctorate.
Canadian law schools gave out LLBs but required another undergraduate degree first. Then they changed them to JDs because American firms were not smart enough to know they are the same degree. So while I will be critical of all her other academic lies, if she has an LLB it is the same as a JD and she can write the bar in any state that doesn’t require an ABA approved JD, including NY and California.
At this point if she is part of any bar association in the states, she risks losing it because the allegations of what she’s done include fraud and that can get you disbarred.
I wonder how her brother feels. Any association with her is now going to be toxic.
Big Pharma ain’t dumb. If they’ve invested in Nandi Life Sciences, they’re probably reassessing their investment now.
This was an unpaid position. If she found it so toxic, she could have resigned becore she burned through £500K in useless consulting fees and demanding a salary higher than what the president of South Africa makes. What I think is she wanted this position to be a stepping stone to bigger things, like Davos and being in billionaire spaces. The association with Harry was supposed to do that. Instead the day to day running a youth focused HIV charity in a poor obscure country isn’t as glam as doing TED talks on climate change🙄. Now she’s mad she didn’t get to hang with Meghan and Serena at the polo while tanking their biggest fundraiser and the same polo matches that rake in the big dollars. Ok then. Watch her stay spinning while she’s squatting on someone else’s organization.
Very well said L4Frimaire! This is it, exactly. Yes, she may well be aligned with KP and William to torpedo H’s philanthropic reputation and hurt him via this charity which he holds dear, but she is clearly a bitter woman who is lying and lashing out because her role as chair did not turn out to be as glamorous as she thought it would be. She didn’t get to hobnob with famous rich people and she was treated as a colleague, not a “friend” and so she’s pissed. She should have resigned as asked, and done so gracefully. Instead, she’s tanking her reputation among all but the deranger set (UK media and the FT included).
I asked ChatGPT what are Harry’s options
Prince Harry and Prince Seeiso have officially stepped down from the Sentebale charity due to internal conflict and a hostile takeover attempt. Here’s what this means and what their options are moving forward:
1. They’ve separated themselves publicly – Both founders issued a statement distancing themselves from the current direction of the organization.
2. Trademark in progress – Prince Harry filed for U.S. trademark rights to “Sentebale” in 2023, but the application faced a preliminary refusal. It’s unclear where it stands now.
3. Legal oversight possible – If there’s financial mismanagement or mission drift, complaints can be filed with the UK Charity Commission for investigation.
4. They can relaunch – If they can’t regain control, they can start a new charity under a different name. Donors, sponsors, and public support will likely follow them—not the board.
5. The name matters—but the mission matters more – If Harry controls the brand, he can block its use. If not, he still holds the public trust and moral authority to carry the mission forward elsewhere.
That was what I was thinking. Two Princes are the faces of this charity through their names AND connections. They can start a new charity and move all their donors and channels over there easily. They are probably waiting for the result of the investigation. Even if the new administration stays in power, it doesn’t matter. They can go ahead and help children too. The only issue would be using Harry’s photos to imply he is still in connection with the charity, but all these weird interviews, I think, eradicated this problem. People now definitely know that two Princes aren’t part of Sentebale.
“People now definitely know that two Princes aren’t part of Sentebale.”
^^ Which is the real reason Sophie is angry and believes that Harry is intentionally trying to sink Sentebale – she likely needed her proximity to Harry & Meghan to continue her grift with her own bio-sciences start-up.
I think Harry and Seiso will likely let the dust settle and then form a new org with slightly different objectives.
Sadly the current inception of Sentebale will fail under Sophie’s leadership because she will now become a pariah in the charity world and because of that she will also sink her brothers/ husband’s new start-up.
@flower
It’s not like that – “they’ll set up a new one”. Senebale is an extensive network of aid, from health centers, sports centers, training centers to rehabilitation, education, schools, etc. Are you saying that they should leave it to ruin? They are not big centers, but they are crucial and the only ones for children with HIV/AIDS and also adults, infected pregnant women, etc. They need to chase away this bitch and William and save these people.
@Snuffles
Harry and the Prince of Lesotho have resigned from being patrons, although they are still founders. Does that give them any additional opportunities?
They were the ones who founded Senebale, they were the ones who registered it.
And establishing a new one won’t solve the problem. Senebale is a network of various aid institutions, such as schools, clinics, etc., which they built themselves, literally with their own hands. Are they supposed to condemn it to destruction?
I don’t think she thought Prince Harry and Prince Seeiso would resign. They are what made that charity successful. Without them, there is no money for her to funnel through. If the RF is behind this, how long before her head rolls? Let’s be honest, Charles’ hospital stay was the shield him from the blow back. We’re not stupid. The RF dirty hands seem to be all over this. Her behavior is disgusting.
I don’t think Harry had much choice she has changed his giving care charity into a campaigning group, and Harry, as a member of the royal family is not allowed to get involved in politics. Neither is William. Mind you is Earthshot is also a political organisation? Look at politics in the US, the Americans have voted for someone who doesn’t care at all about the environment.
This turn of events is concerning. They’re going after Harry’s charities, now, and they won’t stop. Harry is playing defense. He must neutralize their ability to go after him. He must go on offense.
SkyNews reached out to Harry and Meghan and the Sussexes gave “no comment”. I’m seeing Chandauka getting torched on BM commentators.
Prince Harry and Prince Seiso are patrons of Sentebele. Definition of a patron “A charity patron is a high-profile individual who lends their name and support to a charity, primarily to increase its credibility, raise awareness, and potentially attract donations and media attention, without formally being involved in the charity’s governance or decision making. All of this Harry has done for years, to say he wants the charity to fail is absolute nonsense. Harry, surely, would make his feelings known if he didn’t agree such as a $600k PR contract without board approval. The running of the charity is squarely on the shoulders of her and the trustees, and the present situation is on her.
Members of the RF are patrons of hundreds of charities, some of which fail, but I have never seen them blamed of the toxic UK media make a meal of it.
The important point which shows the healthy working of the charity is that the board members resigned first. Then, the patrons resigned. If it was the reverse, she could say that Harry is trying to make the charity fail. This charity was working since Harry was a teenager. What a sh*tty leader this woman is that she failed this decades long charity just in a few years. Who is gonna trust her and take her as leader into their charity / organization now that she failed a charity which was standing for decades without any issue?
Not “a few years”, sevenblue: just over ONE year. It seems that they have been moving towards getting rid of her for all of 2024, but she clung on, then when they finally brought it to a vote, she took legal action to prevent them from doing that. May she get the karma she deserves.
@Magdalena, oh wow. I remember reading somewhere two-three years. Maybe, it was about her being a board member. How can you fail this miserably in one year?? 😭😭 It would be funny if it wasn’t a charity for children dealing with HIV issues.
The internet, the platforms are full of greedy, inflammatory, nasty articles about what this woman said about Prince Harry. And it’s being presented as fact. All the right-wing newspapers are flooding the timelines with it. She’s not a victim, she obviously knew exactly what she was doing. Are they all crazy? I can’t watch it anymore. What they are doing to Harry and Meghan with full awareness and strategy is like fascism, like dictatorships, the complete overpowering of innocent people … At some point, with a normal brain, with normal feelings, you can no longer comprehend what’s happening. It’s just muddy filth.
I guess willy really wants Africa as “his thing” and wants Harry out of the continent. Petty people damaging a charity that helps kids with hiv. Wales and uk tabloids needs some real work.
I see she is constantly referred to ‘Dr.” but is it correct? not according to convention. “How do you address an honorary doctor? In situations such as formal correspondence, biographical sketches or formal introductions at a podium, the university who has awarded the honorary degree may address the honorary degree holder as “doctor”. It is not appropriate for the recipient or others outside of the university to use this title.” Her honorary doctorate was awarded by Coventry University and it is there her honorary degree has standing.
Chandauka deleted her X account.
Sussex Squad was making donations to Sentebale for years as the supporters of H&M. They even thanked the group in one of their annual reports. How stupid is she going after Harry this publicly for no reason and she still had socials? 😭😭 I bet, they came for her.
🤣 she can give it, but can’t take it.
The comments ( I’m not on X) must be getting to her because people aren’t buying her narrative. 🐍
Incoming receipts. https://x.com/sussexsquad1982/status/1906445664520646680?t=9L189Qrnzi3T9MV5Lz8dkQ&s=19
Meh, these rats are focused on the minutiae to distract from the bigger picture – Willie wants what Harry has.
“Chanduka’s unhinged behavior….this ridiculous woman.”
So much for supporting women of color. I’ll wait on an official ruling on her complaint before making such inflammatory claims against her.
Chandauka, a WOC, is slagging Meghan, a WOC and the wife of the co-founder of Sentebale who has no role in the charity. Support goes both ways. My main beef is she is not addressing the 600K. Trust and believe the BM and KP don’t have her back. They’re gassing up the double decker bus they plan to throw her under when this goes south.
I agree. Everything she is saying sounds reasonable, not unhinged. From my reading, she was trying to center Africa and African-led governance of the charity, and this goal was being disrupted by Prince Harry’s personal goals and celebrity.
Is that where 600K went? She spent half a million on consultants, money meant for children. Be for real now. Harry resigned AFTER the whole board resigned because of her poor leadership. She didn’t build sh*t and lost loyal donors. Anyone would get fired for those mistakes.
Also, if she wants the white people business out of the charity, why did she hire Will’s man, a white man? She didn’t make a factual argument, all she is doing is repeating tabloid talking points. It is easy to see whose water she is carrying now. This charity has been helping children for decades, long before this woman came into the picture.
It is not reasonable imo
She is just another who wants attention be trashing harry.
Where did the $600K go?
If you view Sentebale’s own webpage, PH’s “celebrity” and his and Seeiso’s work is what was keeping funding going. And Harry’s and Seeiso’s “goals” are what got the whole works accomplished to begin with. And how does PH interfering explain running off the whole board and Seeiso? And donors?
Heh. Centering on African- led governance? Right. Because appointing the English blue blood, Lord Rawlinson, as Call Me Doctor’s new sidekick is going to center this African-led governance.
That’s some expensive gaslighting!
@Sevenblue the KP bots have entered the conversation 😏
Same. She is highly educated and accomplished. I think that merits hearing this out.
You must have missed her many interviews this past week.
Would love to hear where the $600K went.
That definitely merits hearing it out.
Yes. Yes. Trump said that about himself too. Educated and accomplished, so hear him out and believe his lies.
By that logic, if you are poor, haven’t been given an honorary doctorate, you work a service job, pay your taxes, stay on the straight and narrow, haven’t cheated, embezzled, or relied on government dole like Chuckie, means you haven’t earned a fair hearing.
Is she though?
@florencia, as @aquarious64 said, Sophie Chandauka is flagging on another WOC. How is that okay? Meghan did nothing wrong. Oops, except for centering SC in the photo. OMG! How horrible!
That SC has used certain words in her statements is a ginormous red flag. “Brand”.lol His/Sussex brand is Service is Universal. What SC is saying makes no sense. The two founders of Sentebale are sabotoging the charity they founded in their love & support of their mothers?
600K on consultants? WTF. In my experience, on a smaller level. consultants would donate their time for a write off-especially for a charity. Apparently, Sophie’s “consultants” required payment?hhmmm
Much like Meghan’s big win against the DM (that they misreported on), the truth will come out. SC isn’t the victim/target. KP/BRF/BM are telling on themselves.imo
Jealousy is a hard thing when you’re an heir that has nothing to offer except nods & smiles (and writing on football/soccer forums). Especially when you have a very charismatic younger sibling that people actual like.
My heart breaks for Harry.
I hope the Charity Commission will find the facts.
I hope Chandauka will leave Sentebale and use her intelligence, skills, and connections elsewhere to actually do good.
And I hope the new CEO of Invictus, who knows William as a patron of a previous charity, is the good person he appears to be and not a plant.
Dangle an honorific in front of the Invictus CEO and see whether he can be bought.
😔 oh. This is such obvious nonsense. Poor Harry. This is a very dangerous tactic for the Windsors to use against Harry when their houses aren’t in order. Favors for cash anyone? The set-up of the King’s Trust (formerly Prince’s Trust) was always off and it says a lot that Harry and William wouldn’t take it over. Dozens and dozens of charities involved, many of them overlapped with constant money exchanging hands and fundraising with dubious people. How many bags ‘o cash did this loon get, who bribed her/briefed her on what to say to which outlets and what is the motive of destroying a charity aimed at helping poor kids? Baldimort really is a miserable f#cker.
He sure is. But I’d like to think Harry the soldier knows he’s in some sort of trench warfare with his brother, the grey men and the tabloids. Instead of poor Harry, I’d say “Go Harry!”
Vanquish another dragon and enjoy the thrill. She wants to go for the memory of his mama, go for it. There are many ways to skin a cat and she won’t be the one emerging triumphant.
But the Sussexes have popular support and the Palaces and the tabloids continue to underestimate them.
Thank you @Blogger! I don’t care for the “Poor Harry” sentiments. Like you wrote, ‘Go Harry’ or, giggle, Harry heard a WHO complaining/whining and has no f&cks to give.
Feel bad for the children that Prince Harry & Seesio were helping for almost 2 decades. One person is ruining it for their and others own means. I don’t know how much less I can think of the BRF/BM. Sure, they’ll give the opportunity to sink further.
Interesting from CNN: resignation letter was sent on March 10th before press announcement.
https://x.com/meghan_world/status/1906501233289965976?t=7N-rA_heZ7eBYnSA5MZ8Pw&s=19
So she wasn’t blindsided.
😂 I love the hashtag: #FreeSentebale
Gotta love the Squad. 😘
What’s more interesting to me is, according to this, CNN reports the board and Harry and Seeiso expected a “publicity stunt” from her. The last few months must have been very fraught BTS at Sentebale.
I think she was trying to cause confusion between Harry and Meghan. Why did Meghan’s name have to come up as one of the reasons that there was a problems with the Charity. I think she probably had the hots for Harry and Meghan sensed this. Why, when they were giving out the trophy for the Polo Match that Harry’s team won did she want to be locked arms with him. Meghan smelled a rat and changed the order of where she stood on the platform and stood next to her husband herself. The newspapers were trying to make a big deal of this. Just my opinion.
the two princes of this charity have my full support-they did the right thing by stepping down after the board resigned-this sophie person better be able to get the HIV medicines that millions of people on this continent will need to live and grow up to worry about climate change and wealth inequity-this was an evil thing to do on her part-you get permission from the board of directors before taking any money to do consulting-the princes worked with board and went by their opinions for what is best-afterall these people have been working in this charity for at least 20 years before miss sophie came along-if you don’t like how things are run create your own-smearing the charity, the board members, and the patrons is not very smart or professional. she needs to get in her own lane and stay there. God bless and keep the founders insafe hands-keep the evil doers out.
She wants to change the whole ethos of Sentebale, it won’t be Sentebale any longer, it will be a political charity, Harry is not allowed to be involved in politics, he’s a member of a constitutional monarchy.
sophia sure seems like a ME ME ME ME ME grift monster. so much ick that i need a shower. yuck
One thing I notice about the Sussexes is because of the bullying accusations and how they’ve been framed in the press, as well as the microscopic scrutiny,they almost have to go out of their way to be super accommodating to everyone. If they don’t immediately warm to someone, or keep a relationship polite but distant, or express disagreement, it’s bullying, or “they’re not who I thought I they’d be”. I think this Sentabale situation festered to the point of breakdown because Harry is very aware of the headlines about them losing staff or bullying or whatever. I think the trustees gave this appointee far more leeway than they deserved and it went from bad to worse to implosion. As soon as the major sponsor of the polo was lost, she should have been let go. It’s devastating the founders felt they had no choice but to step away but obviously this is far from over and they’re not sharing what their next steps are.
royalists have suddenly gone all woke:
https://unpacked4.wordpress.com/2025/03/31/the-sudden-woke-monarchists/