On Monday, I said that I would appreciate some additional on-the-record pushback from Prince Harry and Prince Seeiso regarding this ongoing Sentebale situation. I understand the perspective of “let Sophie Chandauka punch herself out and make wild, defamatory comments on the record.” I absolutely agree with that. But in my opinion, Harry and Seeiso should make another joint statement of some kind. Instead, we have unnamed “former trustees” speaking to People Magazine, we have Prince William’s minions running around and smearing Harry, and now we have some random friend-of-Harry speaking to the Daily Mail’s Alison Boshoff. At least the friend is named, which gives this more authenticity. These comments are from Alex Rayner, who claims to have spoken to Harry over the weekend.
Rayner says Harry is happy to have him speak out: I can reveal that Alex Rayner, an old Etonian school friend of the prince, who went to the North Pole with him in 2012 and has been in contact with him over the weekend, said that Prince Harry is ‘shocked’ by the accusations made against him and ‘grief-stricken’ at the way the saga has unfolded. ‘H is very happy for me to speak for him about how he feels about this awful situation,’ said Rayner. ‘He is just beyond heartbroken and flabbergasted that the charity he founded as a teenager has been taken hostage by the chair.’
A hostile takeover: ‘It feels tantamount to a hostile takeover. He is so upset and hurt and wounded about the things that are being said about him. I think it’s too early to tell whether he will just walk away now or whether he might try and get it back. The way he feels is as if he has had one of his fingers cut off. He set up Sentebale with a schoolfriend when the death of his mum was a fresh memory. At the moment he is just in total shock about what is being said and the accusations being made.’
Rayner believe Chandauka is jealous of Meghan: Sensationally, Rayner adds that he believes some of the accusations from Sentebale chairwoman Dr Sophie Chandauka may possibly spring from jealousy of Prince Harry’s wife, Meghan. On stage during the trophy-giving ceremony, Meghan appeared to ask Sentebale’s chairwoman to move away from Harry and instead to stand to one side, on the duchess’s left, leaving the spotlight to the couple. On a now crowded stage Dr Chandauka was forced to duck inelegantly underneath the trophy to move out of the way. But Alex Rayner told me: ‘It feels like [Dr Chandauka] had her nose put out of joint because she was not the most important woman of colour on the stage. There is an undercurrent of stink here because Meghan showed up and it is coming from her [Dr Chandauka].’
Rayner on Chandauka’s wild claims that Meghan forced her way into the polo match unannounced last year: ‘The chair should never have let that narrative take hold, that Meghan had caused an issue. If that narrative did take hold, then I would argue it is down to the chair to put it right. They could have issued a statement and put a stop to it but they did not. Why? Again, the whole thing smells. It feels planned, and I suspect that the whole thing could only have come from the chair herself. Any chair should have been delighted to have Meghan there. When you have both the Sussexes there it doubles the reaction, the power of it. And yet here she [Dr Chandauka] is refusing to get hold of a negative narrative which damages Meghan. It makes you wonder where it came from?’
Meghan was always expected to attend the polo match: As for the suggestion that Meghan effectively gatecrashed the event – Dr Chandauka said she had not been expected to attend, but then turned up with Serena Williams – Rayner said: ‘It’s Harry’s charity polo match and Meghan is his wife, of course she should have expected her there.’
On Chandauka’s bizarre claims about Harry losing a polo venue because of his Netflix crew: ‘If you are a sponsor then of course you would want the exposure from a Netflix documentary, so this whole story seems simply untrue. You cannot say that Harry’s brand is of no consequence to the charity, it simply does not stack up. Yes, he has gone from being the great hope of the British Royal Family to being seen as a pariah, but he still attracts a lot of exposure. And with a TV crew in tow – what sponsor would not want the global exposure? This sounds like an excuse to cover up an administrative error at the charity. They lost the venue.’
In conclusion: ‘Let’s not get blinded by “let’s bash Harry” and by the idea that there were racial undertones in play… the situation is that she has failed to administrate her role. She was asked to step down and she refused and took over the charity.’
I have no idea if Harry truly authorized Rayner to speak out, but Rayner did a pretty good job of it, taking it point by point and saying much of the same things Sussex-defenders were already saying, that Chandauka was likely part of this “Meghan was rude at the trophy presentation” storyline, that Chandauka is bizarrely jealous of Meghan and her friends, that Chandauka has executed a hostile takeover of Sentebale.
Photos courtesy of Cover Images.
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- Royal Salute Polo Challenge, to benefit Sentebale, at the USPA National Polo Center. Featuring: Prince Harry, Meghan Markle Where: Wellington, Florida, United States When: 12 Apr 2024 Credit: PA Images/INSTARimages **NORTH AMERICA RIGHTS ONLY**
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- Royal Salute Polo Challenge, to benefit Sentebale, at the USPA National Polo Center. Featuring: Prince Harry, Meghan Markle 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 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 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 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 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**
God, they look blinding hot in that photo.
Meghan and Harry are really stunning 🤩 this is where all the jealousy is stemming from but this Chandauka girl is crazy. She almost sounds like Harry and I had a date and Meghan just showed up 🤣🤣🤣
lol, like she personally needed advance warning to prepare herself that Meghan would be at her husband’s event. AND she brought a famous friend who probably even donated. oh and btw sophie’s family has been the third biggest donor of Sentebale for years, according to the Fail. So the princes and the board might have been influenced by that when they made her the chair after being a trustee. Who would harm a charity after donating to it for years…
Someone made a good point that Sophie was hoping Meghan wouldn’t be there so SHE could present Harry with the trophy instead of Meghan.
She looks particularly happy on that photo without Meghan.
The trophy is literally in front of Sophie in some of the pics. She is the focal point. I just don’t get this drama.
This tells you that ms fake Dr became the chairwoman of the charity, without knowing its history. From the beginning, Sentebale has been funded mainly by polo and polo sponsorships. She was the one to up her knowledge of this all. By tradition, the wives of the men/ppl on the winning team presents the trophies/awards on the podium (we have seen this too, since the Princess Diana era at Charles’ polo matches).
The thing is, ms fake Dr felt uncomfortable in the polo world, but she wanted to push herself as the main attraction that day, and when that didn’t work, she ran the story to the British press that Meghan was rude to her, whilst there are many clips online that show Meghan and the other woman on the podium politely asked her to come to the middle for a more synced photos – which by the way always look the same – photos taken at many polo match trophy ceremonies show that the women are always in the middle for the photo ops.
This crazy woman thinks too much of herself. Does she also want to change the polo rules to her liking?
From what I gathered from the excellent investigation skills of some SS & others on SM, it came down to SC wanted to change Sentebale from a non-profit charity to a “Social Enterprise” organization. One can not be paid in a charity but one can draw a salary in a Social Enterprise. Basically, she want fame, fortune & status. The UK Charity Commission really need to do a financial audit of Sentebale, the spending under SC was suspicious.
So unprofessional of Sophie to let the trophy photo-op define her vendetta against Harry. I would go back to basics with her role and responsibility as Chair. I’m sure before she took the role on she’d have been aware of her limits.
She seems to have made executive decisions which the rest of the board did not support. Who suggested the $600K consultants? Who decided to pivot to climate change? They’re supposed to be up to the CEO to take. She is coming across as a tyrant of someone else’s charity.
Now her petty jealousies and insecurities have come out over Meghan who has nothing to do with the running of Sentebale but her presence with Serena offended her. Sophie’s a grown woman, Meghan is the patron’s wife, Serena’s a GOAT, htf do you find their presence so offensive?
Anyway she’s giving similar vibes to the comments for Invictus – why is Meghan there? 🙄
Is she single? Maybe she was hoping for a Harry.
As for this:
“from being the great hope of the British Royal Family to being seen as a pariah”
Interesting to see that Harry – and his friends – would see himself casted in that family in this way. So there’s no hope for the Windsors now then. The pariah will soon be the rest of the Windsors, unwelcomed for how they badly managed their petty jealousies over the Sussexes.
In photos of Harry and Sophie, she is always cuddled very close to him.
She definitely wanted him in that primal way and her outrage does suggest a woman scorned.
Meghan has made Harry so attractive to all these women that they all want a piece of him: “I’ll have what she’s having.” 😂
What a change when they were younger and Willie was seen as a hottie when he played water polo.
She def seems the type who would have no qualms about stealing another woman’s man if it meant she could claw her way further up the social/financial ladder. Ironically she’s done just the opposite — showing herself to be a back-stabbing, deceitful phony with pretentions of grandeur.
There’s absolutely NO REASON for this C-U next Tuesday Chandauka woman to “pivot” Seeiso Bereng and Harry Sussex charity from what it was originally founded for (which is HIV/AIDS awareness) and change it to get into climate change. Don’t get me wrong climate change is important. But the “lets save the environment” pool is over saturated, tons of research and funds poured into it, there’s no room for a tiny charity like Sentebale to make any significant mark. Now HIV/AIDS in sub-Saharan Africa, please, I can safely bet my own arm and leg that not enough is being done in this field. More awareness to practice safe sex, to test to HIV, to get started on ARVs all that is at the highest point of need. Now that Trump has gutted USAID, there’s need to start creating avenues of how to get ARVs to people. There are people that have already been cut off of meds because organizations were always depending on USAID funds and ARV for funds and supply. My people are going to die in droves for lack of medication and for lack of any contingent plans in case of situations like the Trump administration cutting us off at this critical moment. There was a period of “relaxation” among people of all ages once HIV/AIDS had gotten somehow contained. People then became reckless again because “AIDS is no longer a scare”. Now HIV/AIDS in on the rise again in Sub-Saharan Africa, we need all hands-on deck now to fight this horrible horrendous disease. And this woman tells us she is stopping this much needed help to get into the climate change? Go found your own charity and focus on climate change and let Sentebale do what it has been doing for 20 years, which is saving people from dying very slow painful deaths.
Thank you so much for this. It’s been what I’ve been thinking all week. Sophie’s proposed pivot would leave thousands, maybe tens of thousands, of vulnerable children stranded without crucial meds.
There are reasons to pivot, though. The reasons include her wanting to helm higher-profile charity. And/or get herself absorbed into Earthshot while helping William take revenge on Harry, as suggested by the presence of William’s longtime ally and TUSK director Iain Rawlinson by Sophie’s side all week.
Then she should start her own and let Sentebale be. She is a hideous person.
@ Lawrenceville #2 post, I completely agree, she could have started her own charity. There are several problems with this, though. Did she really think, last fall, that (A) the world needed another climate change organization. That (B) she’d attract any funding for yet another climate change organization with Earthshot sucking up all the air in Africa? Or that (C), Sentabale’s board would ever agree to this pivot? Of course the answer is “no” on all counts.
She was already in trouble and hijacking Sentabale was her only move starting last fall. Bonus points for working with Willy’s advisor to absorb Sentebale into Earthshot, after Sentabale’s funding completely dried up, with a plum position for her there.
Harry was always the great hope for the royal family. He was the one the late Queen sent to the commonwealth or even America. Not Charles or William. It was always charming Harry to the rescue.
They should have treated him and his family nicer then instead of scapegoating them for every would be scandal and bad behaviour committed by others.
Harry will not bend and I love that for him. Willie bends because his MIL is the next Camilla. Carole will soon have her revenge to those who cried out “doors to manual” very soon.
Where is the CEO of this organization? Why is Chandauka running the show?
Richard Miller was the CEO — he stepped down in December and was replaced by an interim executive director, Carmel Gaillard, who is based in Johannesburg, South Africa. Sophie became Chair of Sentebale in July 2023 and since then there have been some notable departures of senior staff. Gee…I wonder why…
@Jaded, it sounds like his resignation accelerated her ability to do damage.
As a professional fundraiser, I would say Sentebale suffers from “founder’s syndrome” which means too much of the annual income is tied to a single individual. Diversifying their fundraising sources is necessary since no one lives forever, or, like the Sackler family, people can fall from grace. However, I have never seen a fundraising consultant charge anything approaching $600,000 for a strategic plan. Sentebale should just make the contracts public to clarify what happened.
Yeah, I can see why some in the organization may have wanted to move away from polo as a main fundraiser, considering Harry won’t play polo forever and even if he attends the events to gladhand donors and the like, he won’t live forever. Having other fundraising streams makes sense from that perspective.
I just don’t understand why it seemed she lost a polo sponsor and they didn’t have the sentebale cup WITHOUT those other streams in place.
It’s quite enlightening to see the Squad’s bureau of investigation come up with so many little morsels of facts.
Like Sophie hosting several friends at that polo event, two of whom apparently ended up on Sentebale’s new board. Sophie gushing over H&M, Sophie hugging Harry in December — outside, on the pavement — at that gallery event where they eventually auctioned off pieces of art to benefit Sentebale.
So many things Sophie has mentioned don’t add up. So many facts contradict what she’s said recently.
As an aside: Sophie seems to need serious professional help with resolving her problems, let’s just leave it at that — without going into details.
I’m wondering if a KP staffer whispered in Sophie’s ear, giving her ideas about Harry and egging her on. It would be quite easy to manipulate a jealous and greedy individual.
I think you’re right!! That’s probably part of what it took to start with and then maybe she was promised some other things!
She needs professional help like Samantha, Tom, Piers, Ingrid, Graydon etc but they won’t seek help because the Palaces all support them.
The squad is like a private detective army.. how fast they dig up information and connect the dots is amazing to me.
The Squad has brought up evidence that she’s also involved family members in a professional capacity (whether paid, or not) with Sentebale.
Well-spoken man. This also counters the “Harry has no friends” narrative that the tabloids constantly harp on.
I’ll just add it also counters their narrative “all of Harry’s old friends hate Meghan”.
It’s wild to me that when they finally would print in the Daily Mail, someone’s behavior is because they thought that they would be the most important in the room and are just simply jealous of Meghan it would be about the black woman. Not saying it’s not true and she doesn’t deserve it, but they could have printed this about another woman a long time ago.
I hope she realizes that she’s just a useful tool to these people and once they feel like her ” damaging Harry” crusade isn’t getting the return they need she’ll still find herself out as the Chair. I I just can’t stop thinking about those poor on the ground workers, who are watching everything they worked for and need fall through their hands due to the ego of one person. Even if she thinks that the charity needs a directional change causing this much strife let’s everyone know that you aren’t concerned about the end result of the charity at all.
Yes, the kids of Lesotho and Botswana are the ones being let down by Sophie’s outrage.
A perfect example of misogyny and misogynoir. Thank God for white men.
At this stage all Harry and Seeiso can say is the allegations are false and we await the findings of the Charity Commission. They will never go line for line refuting Sophie’s accusations and doing that might just inflame the situation further.
OMG! I’m rolling on the floor, about the jealousy aspect of this story, this makes the Sohpie woman even more unhinged She has defamed herself and executed a hostile takeover of Harry’s charity because she was Jealous of Meghan. This says a lot about her, in my experience as a Black woman mvoing in White spaces we normally come together give a nod to each other being in these spaces, so unless this is a pick me girl wanting all the attention on her self she is still in the Wrong. Meghan is Harry’s WIFE! and yes i wrote it in caps just to emphasise my point. She Sophie is acting childish. I can Imagine Harry is devastated bythis woman’s actions even if its being driven in the background by people who want to harm his achievements, H&M need to learn from these setbacks its not the first time they’ve had snakes in their midst, hopefully in future they will chose better staff. to my mind Sohpie’s part in this Messed up plan still doesnt make sense since she was assoicated with Sentebale before what made her turn i’m not buying the Jealousy angle
Jealousy of Meghan + Rawlinson’s involvement made her ultra paranoid. Everything that Willie touches is ruined.
And Sophie did not know how to exit gracefully even when board members were asking her to resign. She was blinded by her ego and the poison from Rawlinson – you can do this Sophie, takeover Sentebale!
And instead of being lauded as a successful chair of Sentebale – thank you for your service etc etc – her reputation is now in tatters.
Haters of the Sussexes never learn their lesson. Karma always bites back when you attack this couple.
@Lawrenceville she blew her reputation with the good prince, now she’s stuck with the bad prince and his henchman 😂
Can you imagine Sophie working in the palaces? If they don’t dismiss her as a servant she’ll be constantly asked, “Where are you from? Truly, where are you really from? Rhodesia you say? We had a jolly good time there until that Mugabe fellow decided to kick us out.”
This is how Sophie operates, every business or charity deals with her ends, ends in bankruptcy or out of operation.
She is scrubbing info from the internet about her CV, which was full of lies.
Too late. People have screenshots.
😂🤣😅 always know when to go.
I can’t imagine another reputable organisation who will hire her after this fiasco. Except KP and BP of course as they seem to be filled with incompetents.
I suppose she can personally approve her $300K salary request from the remaining funds at Sentebale now that she’s got her hand picked board to rubber stamp her decisions. Subsidiary to Earthshit Rawlinson?
@Blogger, KP and BP have no high level positions for black folks. Unless she is willing to scrub pots, by mid to end of April she will be out of a job.
This is one of those photos I wrote about under another article, where I was telling you that Chandauke not only hates Meghan, she wants to get rid of her, because SHE wants to be Meghan, which can be seen in several photos, where despite the large amount of space, she is literally glued to Harry, touching him with her breasts. Everyone poses normally, and she is almost lying on Harry. I wrote that William’s team could have noticed this, which is why they considered Chandauke a good material for a Trojan horse, hoping that in addition to Sentebale, she will also destroy Harry’s marriage. Naive people 🙂
I don’t believe this guy is speaking for Harry.
Any idiot can see that Sophie is jealous of Meghan, why should Meghan tell her she is coming to a polo match.
Sofia is going to rue the day she started this hostile takeover, now it is looking like she used that, $6000.000 to pay her brother and a firm that she has an interest in.
The last company she resigned from is millions of £s in debt owing the taxman almost 2 million £s.
Sophie is playing a shell game
Hope the Squaddies can follow the money to her offshore trust accounts then. She’ll need them!
I agree. No real friend of Harry’s would speak to the fail! Lol
These are the same/similar talking points everyone has brought up.
But the shocked, grief-stricken, flabbergasted was also a bit much.
I figure it will end up being an embezzlement/fraud case.. Her actions are definitely someone covering their 🍑.
Greed and a ton of envy. Any photo ops of Sophie with kids that Sentebale helped?
This! Accusing Harry of this and that and attacking Meghan are meant to detract from her financial debt and possible embezzelment of Sentabale funds, imv. Tho, I believe she fancies Harry and is jealous of Meghan.
What a mess. Chandauka is getting creamed on X. Someone found a clip from Polo where she had her mug to the camera praising Netflix for covering the match. She ruined herself.
Seriously? This is the “defense” they come up with? That Harry’s feelings are hurt and Sophie’s jealous of Meghan? What about Sentebale and the kids with HIV/Aids? What about Harry being a warrior and Invictus and Afghanistan and battling the tabloids – and here he’s stepping back and letting this one woman take over? What about the rest of the board? We rightly ask what Sophie’s end game could be, but what was the board’s end game in walking away?
None of this makes sense – it’s all about Harry and Meghan again, but who’s advocating for the children? Is this seriously the argument they want to make?
She threatened to sue the charity, if she was voted out by the board. Sentebale is in financial trouble due to her handling of fund raising. The board felt legal costs could not be borne by Sentebale, so they stepped down. She herself is a lawyer
Anne-Marie has the answer that’s been given by board members and reported in the Times and elsewhere. Chandauka threatened a huge lawsuit that would have ruined Sentebale, so the board stepped back rather than let her go through with the lawsuit and ruin it that way.
It is probably the answers to the questions DM “reporter” asked. Are you really expecting DM to ask about kids or covering that part? They want drama, clicks. These were her talking points. The friend gave answers to the talking points. Why didn’t she correct the story about Meghan and lie about Meghan’s participation at the event? Jealousy is the simple answer. It might be she was already employed by Will’s pall even then. But, we don’t know and he can’t make this accusation right now especially to the british tabloid.
It’s not a question of asking – it’s a question of telling. Alex didn’t have to speak to the DM at all.
@Eurydice, I said before, I think their initial statement was enough. It seems like they are trying a different media strategy, responding to the rumors now and then. At the end of the day, it isn’t my name this weird woman is throwing mud at. I don’t know whether I would be so patient if people talked sh*t about me daily. Maybe, his friend asked him if it is alright with him he answers some questions from the reporters. I understand why Harry would say yes in that circumstance. I can’t imagine having his and Meghan’s life for a minute and staying sane.
Yes, I’ve read that story, too. And I’ve read all the suppositions about Harry and the board sitting back and letting the Charity Commission do whatever, blah, blah, blah – and all the suppositions about letting Sophie hang herself with blah, blah, blah…
I have no idea what the behind-the-scenes tactics are of the board, or if there are any tactics at all. But what I’m seeing right in front is Meghan being used as a shield for whatever both sides are trying to do. Whether Meghan attended the polo match or not has nothing to do with the fact that a charity for children is being endangered. And I think it’s weird that this article which is supposed to be supportive of Harry is all about some woman being jealous of Meghan. How did the potential destruction of a charity for children turn into nitpicking over whether Chandauke lied about Netflix?
As for Harry being in total shock and heartbroken and devastated and unsure of what he’ll do next – that’s tabloid talk. I’m sure Harry is upset, but this situation with Chandauke has been going on for months. There’s no way Harry was shocked by who she is and what she could do. And I don’t believe for a minute that he’s weeping in a corner somewhere with no idea of what to do next.
Excuse me but, how do you deduce “both sides using Meghan as a shield” from this without having all facts from BOTH sides?
And for the 10000x, please Harry does not deal with any British tabloids and no one from his side is talking to the Fail. Let’s please calm down a bit.
@Lawrenceville – I did say that I have no idea what the tactics are behind the scenes, so I’m not deducing anything. I’m just reacting to what I’m seeing, just as everyone else is doing here. I don’t think I’m being particularly hysterical when I question why all the talk around this issue has essentially become one woman being jealous of another woman – nobody’s talking about the charity or the children, not even here. And you don’t have to remind me about the tabloids – I said this was tabloid talk.
@Lawrenceville – I want to correct what I said about nobody talking about the charity – your post above is exactly what I wish to see with regard to this story.
Excellent points. Though we can’t be sure that Harry’s side is truly being represented, here.
Seeiso’s cousin, one of the former trustees, talked about the charity and what was going on. And showing that she lies makes her other statements less credible. Any lie, like her past, being exposed shows a pattern.
@Eurydice, as others have said above, when the board tried to fire Sophie she threatened a huge lawsuit in London. The board understood this would completely ruin Sentebale (coming after her spending half their annual income on consultants) so they resigned so Sentebale wouldn’t be bankrupted. This has been discussed by former Trustees and reported in the Times.
@Eurydice, Sophie is the one trying to make this all about Meghan when there’s good evidence Sophie herself misused funds and bullied the board (see: Baronness Chalker’s statement to the Times). I don’t necessarily agree that Sophie was jealous of Meghan. Instead I think Sophie was going to be fired so she threatened a huge lawsuit that would have bankrupted Sentebale (as reported in more reputable press than the DM), and that’s why the board resigned. But if Sophia is going to deflect by jumping on the hate-Meghan bandwagon, then what goes around comes around, I guess.
Meghan nicely asked her to step into the center of the photo and it’s still being talked about. Omg. Anyways, it’s interesting that someone put their name to the comments. Although it’s the DM so doubt it’s authorized. Don’t even know who the person is. Someone from Eaton I guess?
This is the Netflix clip with Sophie. https://x.com/ZandiSussex/status/1906970910705557990?t=5OxEC_fnaMrh3boDjCAfqw&s=09
Boshoff though? 😬 she’s one of the most malicious hacks at the Daily Heil.
Harry is on the record saying he does not deal with the British tabloids. No one from his camp will go talk to the Fail, this guy is not speaking on prince Harry’s behalf. Next thing will be him giving interviews of how Harry cut him off and has ghosted him, just watch.
This is all getting so messy and it really does seem like she thought that being the director of Sentebale was going to make her an international figure with enough clout that she could run off the board and patrons – not realizing I guess that the reason Sentebale IS an internationally known charity is because of its founding patrons.
I dont know if this person is actually speaking with Harry’s permission but I’m inclined to think he is because otherwise it would be very easy for someone in the Sussex camp to say “the duke hasn’t spoken to Alex Rayner for years.”
But even if he’s not speaking with Harry’s permission, I’m not mad lol because he’s hitting all the right notes. No, Meghan didn’t barge her way into the polo match (I mean what a ludicrous suggestion.) Yes the polo facility knew about the cameras, etc.
I have to wonder at her being upset that Netflix would be there to film the charity match. Most CEOs of a charity would love the free publicity seeing as how sentebale wasn’t going to pay Netflix for the filming.
The comments about Meghan and Serena being present just seem petty, especially since Serena is not on stage and again her fame brings attention to the charity.
Thanks so much for this piece. Thanks for reading the toxic daily mail so we don’t have to! I am so relieved that Harry’s friend defended him and Meghan and did a good job.
I think Chandauka is jealous of Meghan, but I also think Rawlinson coached her to drag Meghan in, not just to cause the biggest distraction and get royalists on her side, but also to sabotage Meghan’s As Ever launch for the royals. It’s timed. It took Chandauka a few days in to bring it up.
Exactly, the timing is suspect so we know from past actions this isn’t a coincidence when it comes to WanK.
More likely it’s timed with the podcast, wouldn’t you think? With hoped for spillover for As Ever? They didn’t know the exact launch date of As Ever, it was just “Spring”; for all they knew, it might have been two or more weeks from now, by which point Sentebale would have fallen out of the immediate news cycle. The podcast begins in a week.
“ Yes, he has gone from being the great hope of the British Royal Family to being seen as a pariah, but he still attracts a lot of exposure.”
This is it right here. The great hope of the British Royal family.
That quote alone, would let you know, this person is not a friend of Harry’s.
Exactly. If he’s a friend of anyone, its Baldemort. Baldemort is afraid this is going to blow back on him, with his friend from Tusk being attached to Sophie’s side. And the idea of Harry being a “pariah” is laughable to anyone not named William, Charles or Camilla.
I truly hope that this was not authorized by Prince Harry, because one part of this statement is just awful. For his friend to say this with confidence “It feels like [Dr Chandauka] had her nose put out of joint because she was not the most important woman of colour on the stage.” is mind-blowing. The optics of a white man saying this on behalf of another white man.
I hate what this Sophie lady is doing and who she seems to be in cahoots with but let’s not perpetuate the idea that black women cannot get along and if they don’t it’s because there’s only space for one. We all have blind-spots but it’s been enough time that Harry has had a close-up view of what it means to be black and the micro/macro aggressions that come with it. I don’t see how he could have intimated this to his friend. If he did, he has a lot more work to do.
Harry is on record saying if something is not coming from their spokesperson then it’s not from him. Why are people suddenly forgetting this?
Exactly. Please don’t forget this even if some of what this Alex guy says is true. It comes from the Sussexes or their spokesperson or it’s all garbage.
Because they absolutely have authorized people in their camp to speak on their behalf before, even if its not their spokesperson. Why do people forget that?
this person specifically says that he has Harry’s permission to speak out. If he doesn’t and he’s speaking completely out of turn, I would expect a response to that effect from the Sussex camp.
That was like when they first left UK and every unnamed source was talking on their behalf, lying about why they left. Some time after, they absolutely gave quotes to the reporters as “unnamed” source, because that is how it is done. When you go on record every time as H&M’s spokesperson, it gives too much significance to the news, even if it is a small rumor. Omid explained this very well in his book. That is not a bad practice, you need to squash some rumors without giving it too much attention by going on the record.
Why are you believing any of this came from Harry? Of course he’d never say that.
@becks – not to the tabloids
I started off by saying “I truly hope that this was not authorized by Prince Harry”, which means I’m giving the benefit of the doubt.
It could be Harry gave a friend permission to speak but did not know each exact thing that person would say. Which means while this person is speaking up for Harry it is tinged with their own opinions. Since it is not an authorized spokesperson though every detail of this person’s opinions does not necessarily reflect back to Harry. Bc yeah that part is silly and reductive. Eurydice was making a similar point upthread, I believe? Although the whole being mad bc the patron’s wife showed up with the Serena Williams and saying that on sky news is pretty freaking ridiculous.
I hate that a white man said this too. But Sophie is very clearly attacking Meghan and jumping on the hate-Meghan train to deflect from the surfacing issues with her misappropriating funds and bulling the board. Sophie is the one who wants to abandon African children who depend on Sentebale to start another climate change charity, which she apparently thinks is more glamorous or something (that something being working for William not Harry). So when we can all see Sophie viciously attacking Meghan as deflection, I don’t feel that sorry for Sophie.
Call me paranoid but I think this article is coming from KP and they are throwing Sophie under the bus. Not that she doesn’t deserve to be run over for what she’s done. But too many people are looking at William and asking questions about his henchman from Tusk being at Sophie’s side, so better to try and quash that with the “jealous of Meghan” storyline. Plus with Meghan’s podcast coming next week and the As Ever launch too? You know multiple head and beard hairs are being yanked out from the roots.
lol, I mean that’s possible too. It definitely does sound like someone from Eaton though.
Interesting theory. KP also controls the Fail, who are distancing themselves from Sophie too. I don’t think KP controls Harry’s friend (and yes, ugh that this comes from a white man), unless this is the Fail putting words in his mouth. The Fail might also be distancing for its own credibility (said ironically). Whoever is pushing the “jealous of Meghan” storyline, the Mail apparently thinks the best way to distance themselves is to return to usual programming, which gets them a two-fer: both cat fights and haters in the comments claiming over and over that Meghan pushed Sophie.
Top picture of the story- not only is she leaning in with her chest touching his arm, her hand appears to be on his butt.
I would have gotten between this woman and my husband too if I were in Meg’s position.
KP is leaving clear fingerprints all over this mess. The more sources she gives interviews to and the more she speaks, the more discovery information to uncover when the lawsuits fly and the charity commission investigates how charity funds were spent and where the bags ‘o cash came from when she started the hostile takeover and media offensive. It is heartbreaking to see Harry get ripped apart anywhere ever, but he has a good support system and his eyes are wide open to the lunacy of his paternal birth family and rota. He also has excellent lawyers. Harry is playing 3-D chess and Willy isn’t even playing Candyland. If Charles is still receiving chemo over a year after his cancer diagnosis, his long term prognosis probably isn’t great. Willy is showing his whole ass before Charles passes to axg out like the rage filled child he has always been. In Spare Harry had more anger towards Camilla and Harry than his father who he acknowledged was weak. Harry may not be actively defending himself because he knows his Dad’s prognosis and doesn’t want all hell breaking loose in a media war with Baldimort while his father is terminally ill.
This man is 6 years older than Harry he is not his school chum! He wasn’t on the polar trip. His name is not on the list of people who trekked with Harry. How much of this article should we believe?
Right @Julia! He’s 6 years older than Harry-how much time could they have spent together at Eton? It doesn’t matter that we might like some of his talking points. He is using some negative language towards Harry. A real friend of Harry wouldn’t be this passive-aggressive or speak to the DM (who Harry is currently in a lawsuit with). It’s as if, some people want the public to believe, Harry is willing to communicate with the DM.lol
Harry’s lawyers would have noped this out.
I don’t know that I believe SC is jealous of Meghan. As others have said, it’s a distraction for the money/mismanagement issues by Sophie and her connections to William.imo
Rayner would have spent more time with William.
Whether he was authorized to speak by Harry or not (I’m guessing he wasn’t), this is certainly true: “The chair should never have let that narrative take hold, that Meghan had caused an issue.”
She should have nipped that dumb narrative in the bid. But she didn’t, because she must have approved of it.
And by allying with Rawlinson, she is broadcasting KP’s involvement.
Sophie wouldn’t need to have the hots for Harry to see him as the most influential person she needed to befriend. She wanted him to stay as Patron & fundraiser,. That part of the fallout surprised her.
The story here, to me, is that the Board–which Harry was not a part of–asked her to leave for financial and strategic reasons, as well as for her management style.
Since it is difficult to defend herself against what is almost certainly the truth, as well as her refusal as a volunteer to resign or allow the Board vote her out, she & Iain decided to argue she was mistreated and play into the BM & BRF storylines about Harry & Meghan. That was all she had.
The resignation statement by the Princes said something like they would see that the work continued. If Sentebale starts laying off staff & closing programs, perhaps Archewell could try to to fund some of what Sophie abandons. And if she eventually leaves Sentebale, maybe she could get a job on the DOGE demolition crew.
Yes, I like that idea. Archewell starts funding some of the programs lost under Sentebale. I wouldn’t mind seeing another annual charity photo match. It might not be another Sentebale but this continues the charitable tradition that Harry had done successfully over the past two decades.
And who doesn’t want to see a sweaty Harry on a horse? 😂
There is no way Harry would authorize anyone to speak to the Daily Mail. Also this person said Harry set up Sentabale with a school friend which is absolutely untrue, since he set it up with Prince Seeiso who is about a decade older than him. They are trying to make this about Meghan and turn it into a girl fight instead of mismanagement in losing a major sponsor and spending large amounts on consultants.
I agree nobody who’s a friend of Harry would speak to the Fail and certainly not something as horrible as Bogoff. No friend of his would refer to him as a pariah. Also not happy with emphasis on pitting woman versus woman and dragging Meg into it. Charity Commission UK will take a while to investigate but will carry out a forensic look at Sentebale from top to bottom finance and governance. It is complex and regulatory body needs to take the time to examine all aspects.
There are certainly some red flags, not to mention language that Harry would not use, in response to this whole mess. I don’t believe Harry asked him to speak for him. It’s a tabloid strategy to drag this on and to make Harry look bad.
@L4FRIMAIRE.
Yes. As attorneys say, if neither the facts nor the law is on your side, call the other side names. Or pound the table. There are several versions of the saying, all applying to what S&I are doing.
I’ve seen several videos of that day, and in particular the award giving and mix-up: she is just an awkward person tagging along in one of the videos, with Harry and Nacho Figueros. They are both sweet, gracious guys, but in this one video, they ignore her, which makes me wonder if she wasn’t invited or needed, and she was thrusting herself in where she wasn’t needed or invited. As far as the award video, EVERYONE lined up and faced the camera, and she was the only awkwardness in the ceremony, where she stood with her back to the camera and hands on the award, and I see the other taller woman actually seeming to call her over just as much as Meghan. They seem surprised at her gaucheness. There is another segment where Meghan is by Harry, and one of the players comes on stage and is making for Meghan and Harry and is going to kiss and hug Meghan first, but no, there’s Sophie pawing at him and wanting a kiss. This woman is a mess, and leaves a messy trail, for which I am grateful.
Also, in the top photo, maybe it just seems to me that Harry is ever so slightly leaning away from Sophie, who is glued to his side. Where the other taller lady is standing well away from Harry.
I’d be very grateful for links, thank you!
They all knew then.
Sucks to be you Sophie. Enjoy your infamy!
Wow! Lots of coded language through out the write up and article. No issues with portraying Sophie as violent, aggressive and hostile and of course the obligatory “jealous” but screaming from the rooftops when the same was said about Meghan.
Funny how the people defending Meghan and feeling bad about how she’s treated and portrayed due to her “Blackness” have no issue with condoning and pulling out this coded trope toward Sophie. I guess Sophie isn’t ambiguous enough to receive the benefit of the doubt or basic compassion. As a Black woman, this doesn’t surprise me at all.
When did Meghan spend 600K charity money on consultants and try to ruin a charity for asking for her resignation? It is so weird people are still defending this woman and calling others hypocrites.
What about her lying about Harry publicly and making his wife a bad person? Why is she attacking a black woman for attending an event of the charity her husband founded. She is shamelessly giving interviews next to Will’s pall. Maybe comment on that?
As long as she doesn’t explain the $600K to the many tabloid mates she’s accumulated, she has no credibility. She went for the jugular, she’s receiving the same.
The $600K and the $300K salary are the smoking gun but she won’t talk about them. Follow the money, when all else fails WAAAAAMMMBULANCE it’s Meghan’s fault!
@Blogger, 🙄 it is soo weird. This woman talking sh*t about Meghan’s behavior, but we can’t talk about her public behavior apparently? Nobody is lying on her. I am sure she is talking all that sh*t about H&M in order not to answer questions about money, since the media is gonna focus on Meghan, sending more abuse to her gleefully.
In my opinion this article is pure fiction. No friend of Prince Harry would ever say anything written in it. Prince Seeiso was not Harry’s “school friend”, Harry went to the South not North Pole etc.
It is interesting to note that on twitter many supporters of the royal family are also convinced Alex Rayner isn’t Harry’s friend. Yet they suspect taking points being fed to Rayner by the Sussexes instead of the Daily Mail’s Alison Boshoff…
I wonder when the celebitchy team will stop believing what is written in the tabloids. Harry and Meghan would never authorize anyone talking to tabloids. Period.
I think this is why we haven’t heard any public statements from either Prince since what they put out. They have not disparaged her publicly a d saying anything can be grossly misinterpreted. It is very easy to fall into these stereotypes of an aggressive overly ambitious woman. This is why it’s better to focus on what she did regarding sponsors and fundraising, and falling out with the entire board of trustees. Maybe she felt the trustees weren’t giving her and her ideas enough weight while they weren’t willing to work with her once the numbers were disclosed, but she also bears some responsibility. I’m sure some of them were assholes towards her too and everything she did would be questioned. This is a gordian knot that should be handled better and it should never have gotten to this point.
Hmmm… Now who really wants to make a name for himself in Climate Change? The guy running the Earthshot suff, right? (Eyeballing William) OH! And who seems to be so fixated on Netflix cameras showing up to film documentaries? You know, one of the reasons they stated that they don’t want Harry and Megan to come out to royal family events. (I’m looking at you again, William).
This whole situation reads “The Heir is jealous of the Spare”.
I don’t understand why you’d want to works with a charity focused on youth affected by HIV and turn it into something focused on climate change. It has a very clear, results driven mission that encompassed a lot of social work as well. How do you sell that? Why even want to be there in the first place? This would have been a good time to capitalize on the core mission and fundraise because of cuts during to Trump gutting USAID. Instead this has happened. It doesn’t even seem people from the region who have weighed in even wanted Sentebale to shift direction. If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it. Now it’s irreparably broken.
Sophie said that Sentebale’s mission was outdated because AIDS was no long life-threatening. If you have the meds, that is, which is what Sentebale provides to lower-income children. This whole thing is so shady.
Harry can’t sit back idle, he has to do something. If he lets this hostile takeover go, I fear the same for the massively successful UK-based Invictus Foundation/Games and Travalyst (take them to America Harry, you don’t live in the UK anymore!). Since his departure from the royal fold, his father and especially his brother have tried everything to take over his charities, sabotage and obstruct his work in America and the rest of the world, with the help of the British press.
Just as he and Meghan are celebrating their five-year anniversary of freedom, and just when Harry probably thought he was safely out of reach of the snakes in BP and Windsor, William and his cronies have ‘finally’ managed to hijack and take over one of his most important charities.
You need to roll up your sleeves Harry and safeguard your life’s work of almost 20 years – for the sake of the vulnerable child of Lesotho.
*children of Lesotho.
I will say only this, please stop speaking on this woman the way you all have been. It’s gross for me a Black woman to see how you are all demeaning a woman and calling her “Call me Doctor” and someone said “C U Next Tuesday” in some of the articles over the past few days.
Please just stick to facts which are she seems to have committed fraud (the $600,000 consultants mess) and the fact that she’s outright throwing another Black woman, Meghan Sussex under the bus (crabs in a bucket) to try to shift blame for her being asked to step down. All of that is fair to comment on, but I don’t think that a lot of people get that seeing a host of mostly white and POC commenters writing this stuff is not it.
My comments are this, I really don’t think William is behind this mess, it sounds like someone going off script to just do this since they were not happy with the Founders and the Board asking questions about what in the world is going on. Could he have his hands in? I don’t think so just because it just seems a terrible way to go about it and as others pointed out he can create another foundation. It would cause way too much drama for the BRF and I can’t see them coming out of this well. I think that Dr Sophie Chandauka hoped to use the presses hatred of Meghan and Harry to protect her here until too many people started to see through what she was saying frankly. So to me, this is all her just scheming.
Dr Margaret Ikpoh, newly appointed trustee to Sentebale, was at King Charles’ Garden Party last May. See photos of her at Buckingham Palace from her instagram account here:
https://x.com/IppMorrison/status/1907080634331214258
First Rawlinson, now Ikpoh, I don’t believe this is a coincidence.
It’s a photo-op reward: Thank you for destroying my son’s charity!
Yes and there are photos of many people next to Diddy, it doesn’t mean they participated in his drugging of women/men and sexually assaulted them. It’s insane to me to see this site due this so many times. The only time I think there has been a genuine conspiracy was the insanity around Kate last year with the photos/video, etc. I do not think that TRex and William are like we will have Sophie go in and take over Sentable so that somehow it gets incorporated into Earthshot. I think again, Sophie is a very bad chairperson full stop and is using and doing anything to keep her job which means trying to act like she has Royal support when she does not.
this Sophie woman has blackened the name of Prince Harry’s Sentebale charity and I can’t see it ever recovering!
I don’t think this was perfect.
It’s best not to speak about Sophie in personal terms or to speculate on her motivations.
Her actions are loud and clear. What actions from her led to where Sentebale is now? That is damning enough.
IF THIS SO-CALLED TAKEOVER HAPPENS-SENETABLE WILL BE PUT WITH EARTHSHOT TO BURY THIS CHARITY BUT THE FUNDRAISING WILL CONTINUE USING THE SENETBALE CHARITY DONORS WITH LITTLE OR NO MONEY GOING TO SENETABLE BUT TO WILLIAM.S EARTHSHOT-WATCH FOR THE BAIT AND SWITCH-THE DONORS TO SENETABLE NEED TO ONCE AND WHILE CHECK WITH THE PEOPLE WHO LIVE IN LETSOTO.
I’ve said here before, but I’m a big believer of things happen for a reason. H has thrived successfully without them and they see it as a huge threat. This organization isn’t something he can control anymore- it was only a matter of time they would do a hostile takeover of his organizations in the UK. But he needs to let these toxicity go, move on and create new opportunities in a new home base. And he’ll be successful as he always have- he has a talented mindset for new ideas and he’s living in CA now, there’s way more and a lot more support here for his new businesses or foundations and organizations to startup.
And Let’s see in a year or 2 how the new board run Sentebale, and whether it’s as successful or Not. Bookmark this.