Resignation of Prince Harry of a charity NGO: a framework accuses him of “harassment” and “intimidation”

After his departure, he was targeted by heavy accusations. Prince Harry, who has just distanced himself from a charitable association in Africa which he had helped to found in 2006, was accused on Saturday of “harassment and intimidation” by the president of this NGO torn by an internal conflict.

The youngest son of King Charles III was until this week the godfather of the NGO Sentebale, one of the few charities he had kept after his explosive rupture with the British monarchy in 2020, and the loss of his royal patronages.

This decision, taken in common with the co -founder of Sentebale, Prince Seeiso du Lesotho, was taken in “solidarity” with the five members of the board of directors who resigned because of their conflict with the president of the structure, Harry explained.

A conflict between several executives of the NGO

These five people had all demanded the departure of their president Sophie Chandauka, 47, a Zimbabwean lawyer who took office in July 2023. She however tried to prevent her revocation by carrying the case before the High Court of London, which led to their collective resignation.

Harry disseminated “information harmful to the general public without informing me, neither me, nor my national directors, nor my executive director”, indignant Sophie Chandauka in an interview with the Sky News television channel, which must be broadcast in full on Sunday. “This is an example of large -scale harassment and intimidation,” continued the lawyer.

Accusations, however, rejected with Sky News by a former member of the board of directors, Kelello Lerotholi: “I can honestly say that, in the meetings where I was present, there was never the slightest trace of this,” he testified. The reasons for this internal conflict are still unclear, but the newspaper The Times reports that Sentebale has been experiencing difficulties for several months.

This week, Sophie Chandauka said in a statement that she had “dared to denounce the problems of bad governance, faulty management, abuse of power, intimidation, harassment, misogyny” and racism towards black women within the NGO.

Harry had co -founded Sentebale when he was 21, to continue the work of his deceased mother, Princess Diana, very committed to the fight against AIDS.

Sentebale works in particular with children and young people rendered orphaned by the AIDS epidemic in Lesotho, a poor and landlocked country in South Africa, and Botswana.