Two weekends ago, Sophie Chandauka went on a Sky News show and she threw out some really wild, nonsensical allegations and accusations. She claimed she was “bullied” by Prince Harry… when he resigned from the charity he co-founded. She claimed she had no idea that the Duchess of Sussex would attend the Sentebale fundraiser/polo match one year ago. She claimed that the Sussexes’ exit from the UK had done irreparable damage to Sentebale. She was also unsettled by Serena Williams’ presence at the polo match, and claimed that Meghan and Serena’s presence was disruptive. Well, Chandauka is at it again. “Sources” are telling all to the Mail about what went down at this polo fundraiser, and wouldn’t you know, those “sources” are dragging Meghan because… she dared to watch her husband play polo. Chandauka’s lies make zero sense, but the Mail is desperate to tell her story.
The Sentebale catastrophe started with Meghan: ‘The problem, though, started with Meghan,’ one informed source told The Mail on Sunday. ‘Meghan doesn’t like Sophie.’
An animosity between the two women: Although Harry was playing that day, Meghan had pointedly said she would not attend the match at the Grand Champions Polo Club in Florida, to raise funds for Sentebale. But the Duchess arrived unexpectedly with a celebrity pal, tennis star Serena Williams, in tow. Dr Chandauka greeted Meghan warmly – or tried to – but, say sources, received only a perfunctory ‘Hi’ in return. The Duchess then turned sharply away and sauntered to a marquee with Serena ‘to drink champagne’. ‘She [Dr Chandauka] wanted to take her around, to introduce her to other people, but Meghan didn’t want to mingle or engage with those supporting the event,’ said a source. ‘She went off to the tent. Sophie found it rude. Staff working that day were asked to get champagne for Meghan, they were scrambling around – Sentebale and Archewell [Harry and Meghan’s charitable organisation] staff were both having to do that. Sentebale were not happy about this at all.’
The moment on stage: Footage showed that after handing Harry a trophy, Dr Chandauka, who was standing on his right, was asked twice by Meghan to move to her left side away from him. He had his arm around his wife while others shuffled to find a place. Dr Chandauka then had to duck under the trophy to adopt the position indicated by Meghan. Sources close to Harry and Meghan hit back yesterday, saying this moment was misrepresented. They argued that the Duchess is clearly heard ‘politely offering assistance’ in the footage, saying to Dr Chandauka: ‘Do you want to come over here?’ The sources said the incident was ‘weaponised as a negative attack’ and denied there was an issue on stage.
The Netflix crew: Dr Chandauka would later suggest that a Netflix TV crew caused disruption, but sources say she seemed more than happy at the time. In an interview on the day she described Netflix’s involvement as a great opportunity for Sentebale to gain exposure through a global platform.
Chandauka obsessed with Meghan? Another insider told this newspaper that the couple believed Dr Chandauka was ‘obsessed’ with Meghan ‘in a fan girl kind of way’. This was denied by Sentebale.
Chandauka was definitely in her feelings about Meghan: By all accounts Harry and the charity boss had previously got on well, but the polo match marked what one source called a ‘turning point’. Harry tried to make Dr Chandauka defend Meghan publicly afterwards but the charity boss refused, saying last week that she did not want to become an extension of the Sussexes’ PR machine. A source said: ‘Above all else, it was the way she says Meghan snubbed her on arrival that was the reason she wouldn’t issue some kind of supporting statement. Meghan then sent something to Sophie and Sophie responded and after that she [Sophie] was persona non grata. Harry sided with Meghan – he always does as he is dazzled by her. In his eyes she can do no wrong, even when it comes to behaving like that at a charity event. He was raging all day about it. Any time Meghan is spoken of badly, he gets the hump.’
Sentebale versus Archewell: While the main protagonists were squabbling in the aftermath of the polo event, so too were their aides. ‘Sentebale then complained about Team Archewell – they thought they were rude,’ a source told The Mail on Sunday. ‘There were comments on the day about how Archewell’s glossy PR machine made it all look good, but in reality, on the ground, they were not very nice. That caused a lot of unrest and bad blood.’
Prince Seeiso is staying quiet: With the claims and counter-claims still flying, one man who has maintained a dignified silence is Prince Seeiso of Lesotho. He has called Harry his brother but has so far refused to criticise Dr Chandauka publicly, perhaps, as some in his country suggest, because he feels some sympathy towards her. When The Mail on Sunday caught up with him in Maseru last week he said only: ‘It’s a very sad and very unfortunate situation for everyone concerned.’
Yeah, I think Seeiso is staying quiet until he doesn’t – he’s not interested in speaking to the Mail, especially in what anyone could clearly see is a hit piece organized by Chandauka. But I imagine Seeiso will eventually speak. In fact, he and Harry have cosigned all of their public statements, first their resignation from Sentebale and then their message after the Charity Commission investigation was announced. Seeiso and Harry have said the exact same amount publicly about Chandauka and her mess.
As for Chandauka’s latest version of events…these are all lies. Serena Williams didn’t arrive alongside Meghan, Serena came to the event later. Harry and Meghan arrived together, with Harry in a suit, and then he changed to play polo, and Meghan was circulating with various people and Serena arrived at one point later on. After the match, there are photos of Serena greeting and hugging Harry (because it was the first time they saw each other that day). Delfina Blaquier was also there, and Meghan spent a chunk of the afternoon with Delfina (and Chandauka seemingly didn’t think Delfina was important enough to smear). What this Mail piece is really telling me is that Chandauka lies like a rug.
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- Royal Salute Polo Challenge, to benefit Sentebale, at the USPA National Polo Center. Featuring: Nacho Figueras, Meghan Markle, Prince Harry Where: Wellington, Florida, United States When: 12 Apr 2024 Credit: PA Images/INSTARimages **NORTH AMERICA RIGHTS ONLY**
- 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**
- 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**
- 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**
- 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**
- 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**
- The Duke and Duchess of Sussex after arrive at the 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**
Sounds like the talking points of Peg. It’s all Meg’s fault. Meg is a bully. This is the most insane thing ever to blame Meg for the con woman’s power grab directed at the behest of Peg. The lies will keep coming in an effort to try to bring Harry and Meg down.
She is absolutely channeling William. Down to everything said being contradicted by the facts.
Yup – Knauf and Rawlinson. Willie wishes 😏
Meghan living life happily is really messing up with Willie’s mind.
Pegs ties to this imo are no coincidence.Peg should be outed about his sabotaging the charity. Invict us needs to be protected.
And the catering company brought staff. The only people bringing Meghan and Serena champagne were the ones hired to do so. Sentebale staff weren’t working the bar.
This is the most idiotic part of this “article”. Have these people never attended a charity event? Or any event anywhere? What, we are supposed to believe the only two people who wanted champagne at a charity polo match were Serena and Meghan, so it fell to Sentebale and Archewell staff to procure and serve it? This is so fatally stupid, it can only be from the mind of a person who has no idea how the actual real world works. Hi, William! You couldn’t have made this more obvious if you tried.
Yeah I have a catering background and I am just… Seriously? They are making it seem as though there was no champagne at this big deal expensive charity fundraiser, and Sophie had to go to the liquor store and personally buy Meghan a bottle of champagne…
” He has called Harry his brother but has so far refused to criticise Dr Chandauka publicly,” Harry hasn’t criticised her publicly either, as far as I know, so why did the DM not mentioned that.
They’re trying to provoke Seeiso. But he doesn’t need to say anything else except refer the rats to the statement they made after the CC announced their investigation.
Sophie can talk as much as she likes…she’s incriminating herself.
That’s exactly what it is, an attempt to provoke Seeiso to speak publicly about this even though what he has said has been in joint statements with Harry. It’s also to try and make it seem as if Harry is attacking her, even though he isn’t and the only thing he has said has been in a joint statement with Prince Seeiso and in response to the Charity Commission’s investigation. She is the one who has attacked Harry and Meghan with no provocation to try and play the victim in this situation to distract from her being voted out by the trustees for misappropriating funds and failing to do her job as chairperson.
There are a few people from Lesotho on Twitter, who are quite actively making a case for Sentebale and against SC right now, and they mentioned Prince Seeiso had a recent bereavement.
IIRC, Prince Seeiso wasn’t at the polo match so he wouldn’t comment on that. What did Sophie think, that Meghan would present the trophy and leave so that Sophie could be photographed next to Harry? You can see that Harry firmly keeps his arm around Meghan, she is where he wants her to be.
@Lizzie … It seems to me that Sophie had arranged several ‘play for pay’ meetings with random people to whom she had promised to introduce Meghan. She might have gotten upset because Meghan didn’t play along. Why would Meghan need to be escorted around to meet people involved with the charity match? That wasn’t her first rodeo with Harry at Sentabale Charity Polo matches.
And that bit about Archewell not being nice and making a mess of matters behind the scenes? Sophie is trying to project her losing the biggest Sentebale charity polo sponsors (is it Handon?) at that match onto them.
This woman is toast and I didn’t read the daily fail bunch of crap and lies … the uk citizens deserve their press just like faux news represent the view of so many maga Americans
Cant wait to see this woman copping pleas when and if they find her guilty of misusing funds. With the amount of deflection she doing, shes desperate and DEF has something to hide.
She is outright lying about easily verifiable facts.. there are video and photos of the entire event but she continues to come up with more lies, it’s mind boggling… so I am definitely thinking along the same lines she is hiding something criminal.
Lol. Sure. Ok, Sophie. This sounds exactly like famously cold and standoffish Meghan: “Meghan didn’t want to mingle or engage with those supporting the event,”
Why is she upset that she couldn’t introduce Meghan to people? Didn’t she say Meghan and Harry had toxic brands?
Bet you anything the rage she reserved for Serena was because Harry hugged her and wouldn’t hug Sophie.
She screams about Harry this and that to the tabs like a jealous woman who believes she deserves someone else’s man!
Meghan has been at the event previously. Why would she need someone to introduce her to people? In pictures at the event there are few that show Meghan holding a drink. Why is this woman so upset about champagne? How is “Sentebale” complaining about Meghan when the only remnants of “Sentebale” from that time is Chandauka?
Chandauka is apparently angry that she didn’t get to use Meghan to boost her own social profile. She wanted to introduce Meghan to people? Which people? Her cronies? She clearly hoped to get lots of photos of herself and Meghan that she could get mileage out of for years and years. One photo and she would be describing Meghan as “a close friend” in order to get other appointments and lucrative deals. THAT’s why she’s angry. M saw through her and didn’t play ball and gave her a wide berth and she feels rejected – in addition to the jealousy because Meghan has Harry and she does not.
Can you imagine if Meghan had accepted this woman’s offer and suddenly the Mail has photographs of her with people of questionable reputation??? Was she trying to set up Meghan, in a sort of sting, and it didn’t work so now she is forced to repay whatever she was paid, or do without whatever favours she was offered? Harry can introduce Meghan to anyone he feels she needs to meet.
I’ll say this: Meghan and I have a LOT in common (except the prince bit): same Catholic school girl education, deportment, nerdiness, similar style, etc. Jeebs, I’ve even got the same copper pans she’s got! I get huge alarm bells whenever anyone suddenly attempts to become my “new best friend” like this and my natural instinct would be to give this person a wide berth. So far my instincts have served me well.
“‘The problem, though, started with Meghan,’ one informed source told The Mail on Sunday. ‘Meghan doesn’t like Sophie.’
This is definitely projection. She wanted Harry all to herself and was mad when his WIFE showed up. This is very telling. Who would be pissed that the GOAT shows up at your charity event???
I hope there is video out there where it shows Meghan greeting her warmly. Just like they found video where she praised Netflix.
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Sophie thinks so highly of herself that she imagines that Meghan spends time thinking about her 😂
Meghan probably doesn’t even know her so for Sophie to exude all this jealousy and hatred over the former patron’s wife shows how unprofessional she is to have chaired Sentebale.
Reminds me of the Middleton talking point that Meghan hates Kate! 😂
It’s always the opposite.
Meghan’s sitting underneath a tree and for someone supposedly full of hate of other women, she sure is living her life to the fullest…supporting other women. Just not Sophie who is not in her world.
These ” sources” aren’t doing her any favors. They constantly make her seem like she’s either incredibly jealous of Meghan or upset she wasn’t able to manipulate the situation to use them for her own clout. Neither presents her in a sympathetic light. Whereas the Sentabale board sources are speaking on the record with specific examples.
I said two weeks ago letting her twist in the wind was the best thing for them to do, and outside of the Daily Mail and the Sun, the reporting is focusing on the money and who her well paid consultants were. Now they want Prince Sessio to say something after two weeks of ignoring him to focus on Harry because they know no one but people who already hate Harry and Meghan are buying it.
Yup all her talking points are a deflection from her actions in Sentebale.
All this hate from her has been unilateral, one way only.
Meghan is busy and booked. Sophie wishes she had Meghan as her underling.
There was a part at the beginning of the video where Sophie is giving praises to Netflix being there that she said somethings that I thought were really telling about her and her agenda. At the beginning she referred to, what sounded to me like her wanting to have Harry, Meghan and the children in Africa to celebrate the wedding and the children. It was very unsettling to me that anyone would offer up someone else and more outrageously, their children as a ploy to get more attention for their charity. It’s even more disturbing knowing the hate and threats against them and their children that she would suggest such a thing. Especially with all we know now with her connections to William and the media, the main reasons for the hate and threats.
@Nerd
I talked about this in a couple of threads since Friday, where this nasty roast breadfruit woman mentioned the Sussex kids! I was soooooo outraged! That damn bitch has swallowed all the talking points of the sadists in the british shitmedia about H&M, as we saw in the sky interview, in which she said H&M were a “toxic brand.”
In that vid of her being interviewed at the polo match where Archewell and Netflix were shooting scenes for “Polo,” she heaped praises on Netflix for being there and spoke of the “global platform” which their presence gave to Sentebale. And in that same interview she dared mention H&M’s private life, talking ’bout Africa was waiting on them to have a second wedding there and for them to bring their kids. !!!
I tell you, if I was there I would hv given her one rahtid bitchslap in her ugly mug.
It always comes down to a referendum on Meghan’s manners, or how others perceive she should act, because you don’t need real words to prove it. Just vague insinuations. What do I care what the board chair thinks the FOUNDER, PATRON AND LARGEST DONOR’S WIFE should be doing, LOL? And how does this have anything to do with the up to $600k you spent on consultants including your friends, family and KP ops?
A referendum on manners is right. Vague insinuations. She said hi. What’s wrong with that? Are we supposed to guess that her tone was rude? Why? Bc Sophie says so? Nah. Doria raised Meghan right.
Exactly. It’s pathetic. I bet Meghan ‘whisper-shouted’ that ‘Hi’ didn’t she 🙄.
They are so boring now with these repetitious, palace formulated, insinuations. Literally year in-year out it’s the same nonsensical stuff over & over again.
Groundhog Day doesn’t even come close to BM regurgitations.
The Fail and the Dim are using one black woman to take down another black woman, accent on the word using. Chandauka is the new Scammy Markle, a useful idiot that is now a cudgel to take down Meghan. Issues that have no bearing in the Charity Commission’s investigation, but the rags need clickbait.
When the Commission finds that Sophie violated UK charity regulations, especially if the actions are deemed criminal, the press with turn on her in full force.
I never defend the Fail and the Dim, but it was Chandauka that sought them out, she chose to give them interviews and slander Prince Harry and Duchess Meghan. This is not a case of the tabloids pitching one black woman against another black woman, its a case of a greedy black woman thinking it’s wise to use her hate for the Sussexes to divert attention and deflect from her “alleged” embezzlement or underhanded distribution of Sentebale money to her family and her cronies. Let’s keep the focus where it should be. This is not the tabloids pitching poor Chandauka against Duchess Meghan, this is a greedy thieving woman of African descent, trying to steal a charity from the rightful owners and take it for herself, just because it’s a charity founded in Africa and shamelessly saying it should belong to her just because she is African.
Do they forget that we can go on Netflix and see Meghan interacting with people besides Serena at this event?
“But, but Meghan doesn’t like meeee!” Is that why the board asked you to step aside Sophie and not because you “misspent” the money? Next she will claim that Meghan told the board to get rid of her because, reasons. Sophie is acting like that lunatic lover who goes bonkers when told that it’s over.
Sophie’s banking on people’s hatred and ignorance of Meghan to overlook her financial shenanigans at Sentebale.
One event Sophie. How about your multiple contracts to your friends and family?
And, of course, it was Meghan who went onto Wikipedia and faked Sophie’s credentials. And it was Meghan who forced the entire board of trustees to resign so that Sophie could remain chair, because Meghan hates her. Really, this all makes my head hurt.
This all sounds made up to me.
Dr. Sophie through Sentable needs to stop talking. Lord. And also the DM is behind the news since some of their own already contradicted what she was saying.
Also, I will say again, there’s no way she was given less than 24 hours freaking notice that Meghan was appearing. Their security team would have had to have access to all of the plans and would need to coordinate. Also Archewell staff were there too, same issue, no way this was 24 hours notice given.
And the champagne thing is so dumb. She was not the only one drinking that. It seems to be that she a Black woman should have just drank water and shut up. The whole piece is crazy.
The 24 hours thing makes no sense whatsoever. And how was Meghan’s presence this big disruption when she’s come to previous events before? And also presented the trophy and taken pictures with the team? One thing the Polo doc showed is that it’s routine for family and friends to be present (like at any sporting event). This is “Meghan made Kate cry” 2.0. Sophie better hope Meghan doesn’t have an email or note from Sophie thanking her for coming.
That’s what makes all of this nonsensical, she was the one who invited Meghan in the first place. Of course it was an unnecessary invite because Meghan had attended polo matches in the past, but Sophie complaining that Meghan was a distraction when she invited her in the first place makes no sense. Meghan had been to countless polo matches with Harry and knew what to do. The only person confused lining up was Sophie who was in the way of the camera with Harry and the other polo players on his right. Meghan was actually helping her. It sounds as if Sophie thought she was more important than she was in this whole situation and she expected Meghan to be impressed and cater to her wishes.
@Nerd: it appears that Sophie was the one disrupting the “choreography”. Everyone seemed to be in position when she went and stood in front of Harry, who was already reaching over to hold the trophy with the other player. Which is why she had to duck under his arm. It doesn’t appear that she was meant to be in that photo.
Also, was she expecting Meghan to be all over her? It seems like Sophie is the one that was expecting Meghan to pull her into M’s circle and introduce her around. There’s at least 1 picture of her trying to insert herself into a group with Meghan and Serena.
The jealousy of this woman is palpable.
I’m so disgusted by this. First, like I said yesterday, I don’t trust anything the BM says about H&M. Especially M. But I also don’t want to believe what I just read. Are we really witnessing a grown ass woman act this was? This catty? This petty? Towards another woman? Even if all of this is true, I personally would NEVER go public with this. The point is to make Meg look bad but she looks worse. A woman in her late forties has a complete meltdown bc she thinks woman doesn’t like her?! Jfc.
Also, silly point: Sophie had no idea Meg was going but there was enough communication that they all managed to coordinate their outfits?
It’s so ridiculous. And yes it is making sophie look bad. She’s acting like she’s a character in a telenovela as opposed to a charity head. She has tanked her image.
Yes and the more they write about this the worse she looks. At some point she is going to beg them to stop writing about this and they won’t.
Literally, the article reports she is the boss of sentebale. The hubris sophie. This Cyclone is spinning and you are not In control.
William just threw you away and right at the regulations committee.
Then William is going to be upset when she connects those dots for the committee leading to him.
Sentable is a charity, there is no boss. the founders didn’t even run it and call them selves bosses. Jeez. Sophie And William, you still in trouble.
Someone is paying her to say the nonsense. Her wording sounds like your typical GBN, Palace Confidential, Sky, Talk, Levin, Wooton, Piers. I truly believe William is 100% involved in this mess.
These reporters should be fired. It’s so damn obvious that this was orchestrated to bring Meghan down. None of these morons ask about the 7 trustees and Prince Seeiso resigning. No one has challenged Sophie on hiring Rawlinson as an advisor(conflict of interest). Why did she make Rawlinson a trustee who is a former aid to William? How much was he paid to advise her. Why does she was to focus on Climate Change when Prince Harry has Travelist? William is the CANCER in that family. He’s stupid as rocks. Is this reason Charles got sick and went to the hospital? I believe William is a loose canyon who has a major HARD ON for Harry’s wife. I don’t know who’s worse William or Trump.
Willie – because he can’t be voted out.
So, how does this explain all the trustees walking out? They’re not married to Meghan.
Umm, I’m confused. Is it a crime now to say hi and ask for a glass of champagne? And people were scrambling? Bc why? They didn’t have champagne at a fancy polo event? Makes no sense.
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The person behind it is requesting donations which looks dodgy af. Plus the non stop calling her Dr. I hope people aren’t gullible and pay money.
@Bronco,
I looked at the petition and there is no solicitation of money from the person behind it. I’m not sure what you seem to be seeing, unless you’ve confused the “Support Change Become a member” bit at the bottom of the page. That is from Change.org and is on every petition or fundraiser they share. That isn’t from the petitioner, it’s from the host and is not mandatory, simply a membership drive.
As for them calling her Dr. Well everyone is calling her that as it appears that not everyone understands the title is an Honorary one and not an earned one.
The donations are to keep the change org. working, I have often seen their petitions, they favour worthy causes, Getting Sentebale back to what Harry and Seeiso started seems a worthy cause. I will sign it.
Thank you for the correction, that’s my mistake. It seemed linked to the petition. I haven’t signed a change thing for many years.
It’s funny to me that one ‘insider’ noted Sophie’s obsession with Meghan. That tidbit seems like it could be true? Or maybe she is obsessed with Harry? Sophie seems very pleased to know him and perhaps was excited to stand next to him with her arm around him on the winner’s podium, but then Meghan stepped in and moved her down the line! Harry’s attention was diverted to his wife! She ruined everything that day! Sophie will not be ignored!! [insert bunny boiling scene from Fatal Attraction].
Add all of that to the likely embezzlement and fraud she committed. No wonder she going scorched earth because she is about to go to prison.
Nope, that “insider” is straight from the pages of Celebitchy or even Bluesky. Lots of people on here were speculating as to the woman’s obsession with Harry. That reporter simply cobbled something together based on what Sussex fans and others have been writing, especially now that they have seen that thanks to Sussex fans, many of the facts about this woman have seen the light, e.g. the honourable doctorate vs an earned PhD, Oxford vs not-Oxford and other stories.
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@magdalena, I had the exact same thought reading those “insider” quotes.
It was like a laundry list of speculation that was going on here in the comments last week. It was the DM’s version of those Buzzfeed articles based on a round up of tweets and other social media posts. Nothing original or researched, just a gathering up of stuff people are saying on the internet. It doesn’t help SC’s position, but it does keep the Sussexes in the conversations, which drives clicks.
It’s unfortunate for Sophie that the event she keeps talking about had those Netflix cameras there, because we saw a lot of the day in the Polo series. not the entire day obviously, but enough to know that Meghan was mingling with the crowd, there were lots of meets-and-greets, Sophie was happy Netflix was there, no one seemed angry, the polo players were thrilled to play in the match with Harry and to meet Meghan.
Well, obviously we didn’t see what we saw @Becks1. And Netflix must have forgotten to film the parts where everyone was crying and throwing up because Meghan was there and asking for champagne. /s
And don’t forget that her friend crashed the event!!!! Her friend, one of the most famous women in the world, LOL.
Time to impose a NDA on all trustees and volunteers serving in Sussexes charity etc. to prevent people like Sophie trying to exploit and benefit from the tabloid hatred for the Sussexes. Recruitment and vetting of trustees and chairpersons have to be doubly rigorous to avoid recruiting a chair from hell like Sophie
I don’t usually comment on the Sussexes (and this isn’t a ‘I didn’t X BUT’) or maybe it is!) just because it’s so heated and I don’t know either of them but wish them well in life etc, but this Sophie person definitely gives me drowning narcissist vibes. People who just believe their own ego to be greater.
Meghan has never been involved in Sentebale too much other than attending some of the charity Polo games. She has not joined Harry, Nacho and Delphina everytime they were away for a Sentebale Cup. So they cannot claim that she is overshadowing Harry’s charity.
They change the goal posts and this time they accuse her of not getting involved enough and staying out of their way. In Florida Meghan was there because it was the set of an Archewell production of the polo tv show. So she kept her distance from the Sentebale part of it. Sophie clearly wanted Meghan’s attention and also felt competitive towards Archewell.
This is a good assessment of the situation. I like it.
I agree with your assessment too. And its funny when Meghan doesn’t attend stuff then its all about “separate lives and divorce”. I’m curious to find out how the haters and rats expect Meghan to somehow be there and not there at the same event. Sounds like be “50% less” once again. Or I guess 100% less.
It appears that they really want Schrödinger’s Meghan. 🤔🤷♂️
I just knew there be a lot more drama from Sophie on pologate and that the Fail on Sunday would lap up anything she dreamt up about Meghan. CC will not be interested in bitchy made up gossip but the Fail is exactly the right audience for Sophie tempestuous narrative of how Harry ‘s first wife, swept in late, crackling with her superstar bestie, quaffing all the champagne, pushed her off the stage into the bushes after refusing to be introduced to people she already knew by the good doctor. And, and, and being taller than Sophie! How very dare she and her tall, tennis playing chum whom I deign to mention by name because how dare a mere Wimbledon champion act superior around a real doctor!!
Me thinking, SC wanted to become M’s bestie (she was talking of hoping to see her kids in the interview at the polo match -can you imagine M’s real friends running their mouths like that), and wanted to impress HER FRIENDS, by introducing M to them – her friends, who were there in abondance, taking photo’s on the platform with the trophy and the players, as if it was their business hanging there.
Meghan, a polo-player’s wife, who’s been going to his matches for 7+ years and is well known in the CA/FL polo seen, didn’t need Sophie – who has been with Sentebale for just 1 year at the time – to introduce her to the ‘important people’ in the polo seen. Who does SC thing she is? This woman has an ego that obviously is ‘hurt’ for the stupidest reasons.
By the way, the article started with a lie, no need to reed the rest. Sophie didn’t present Prince Harry the trophy, Meghan did. That’s why she came on stage to do in the first place. Then Sophie run up their, grap the trophy in Harry’s hand, and wanted to mingles herself between H&M, which the photographer, M ánd 2 other people on the stage, who were gesturing to go to the middle, clearly found not a very good idea idea for the typical polo-trophy-ceremony photo. From that point on madam got mad/embarrassed.
It must burn William’s buns that another prince — a prince who actually behaves like a prince — calls Harry his brother.
I read an interesting article the other day (of course now I can’t find it) on the “high conflict narcissist” and it fits Chandauka “Call Me Doctor” perfectly. HC narcs have unpredictable mood swings, act unreasonably suspicious or antagonistic, blame others for their own problems, and can lash out in extremes of emotion and aggression. And once they decide to target someone, they’re hard to shake off. They have a need to be superior and make others feel inferior, and see themselves as a hero and protector while those around them see them as bullies. It’s almost impossible to settle issues with them as they will inevitably increase conflict rather than try to reduce or resolve it. Sound familiar?
Thank you.. this led me to this guy, bill eddy, and I got some of his audio books. Big thank you.
She dragged in Harry to deflect from the mess she created with Sentebale.
Then Meghan.
Now Meghan, Serena and Netflix.
All of it has blown up in her face…and only hers.
Now she needs even bigger distraction.
My money’s on a medical diagnosis.
All of you smart people called this when Harry announced he was stepping down – somehow it would all get blamed on Meghan. The tabloids let Sophie know just how to blame Meghan using the same talking points they have been blathering on about for years.
They are for sure harassing Prince Seeiso’s people to get one seemingly negative statement about the Sussexes. They keep trying to drag Serena Williams into the debate and I really hope that she will step up and tell them to leave her alone … and also sue everybody for defamation.
This whole Meghan at the polo angle is so tedious and dumb. Everything that Chandauka said about Meghan being at the event has been proven as being highly exaggerated or just false. This has nothing to do with her bad decisions regarding use of funds and lackluster performance as chair. It continues to be a distraction because she doesn’t want to answer for how she spent money without bringing any in. I bet that’s why she decided she had to attempt to change Sentebale to a social enterprise with a climate focus. Cover up and deflect seems to be her M.O.
Does anyone know what is Sophie’s current paid job or her current employment situation? Chair of the Sentebale board is an unpaid volunteer position, not unusual for a charity. So did she see Sentebale as a gravy train? Is she unemployed? I can’t imagine any corporation would enjoy an employee dining out on a “scandal” the way SC is. I get the impression that one organization she co-founded is in debt, and the one she set up with her brother is in need of funds.
One thing is clear to every thinking person- SC has a gigantic ego. She refers to the Sentabale CEO or director as “her” CEO, the Sentebale staff as “her” staff. SHE wasn’t informed about Meghan’s attendance. She obviously thought of herself as the “hostess” of the event, and expected to swan around with Harry. How absurd to say that she was planning to introduce Meghan to Sentebale supporters. I think Meghan always does her homework. I trust that she would have spoken to everyone who needed to be spoken to or to be met. Besides, Sentebale, as someone further up has already mentioned, is Harry’s charity, not a joint one. It seems to me that Sophie thought SHE should have been the one to present the trophy. She rudely planted herself right in front of a member of the Sentebale team. Meghan politely offered her a prime spot- in the middle. The composition of those polo trophy pictures is pretty set. She appears to have been an “extra.” She may not have even been invited to be part of the picture.
Another thing that is clear is that the whole media blitz is to spout RR and KP talking points. I hope the Charity Commission does a thorough job, but they did find nothing wrong with Charles’s bags of money deals, so they may also be in the business of protecting the senior royals, just like Ravec does. I’m putting my faith in Harry, Seesio and the Sentebale staff to carry on their vital work after the truth is revealed.
I haven’t followed too closely, but isn’t this woman accused of mishandling large sums of money? What does this have to do with Meghan? Meghan showed up and had a glass of champagne while Harry played. That’s it. Why people need to analyze if she said hi & where she stood on stage is bonkers.