LONDON — British regulators criticized on Wednesday each side in a dispute over the way forward for a charity based by Prince Harry and Prince Seeiso of Lesotho, for permitting the problem to be performed out in public and damaging the group’s repute.
The Charity Fee for England and Wales went on to say that it discovered no proof of widespread bullying or misogyny at Sentebale, which offers assist for younger individuals residing with HIV in Botswana and Lesotho.
The fee opened a evaluate of Sentebale’s governance in April after the 2 princes stepped down as patrons and a gaggle of trustees, saying the connection between the board and its chair, Sophie Chandauka, was past restore. Chandauka later accused Harry of orchestrating a marketing campaign of bullying and harassment to attempt to drive her out.
Disagreements over the group’s future surfaced in 2023 after the then-board of trustees sought to roll out a brand new fundraising technique in the USA, the fee mentioned. The dispute between Chandauka, different trustees and Harry was first reported to the fee in February 2025.
These tensions grew to become public in March, when Harry introduced he was stepping down as patron to assist the trustees who had resigned. In his position as patron, the prince used his star energy to advertise and lift funds for Sentebale.
“Sentebale’s issues performed out within the public eye, enabling a harmful dispute to hurt the charity’s repute, danger overshadowing its many achievements, and jeopardizing the charity’s means to ship for the very beneficiaries it was created to serve,” fee CEO David Holdsworth mentioned in a press release launched Wednesday.
Harry’s spokesman attacked the fee’s determination.
The report “falls troublingly brief in lots of regards, primarily the truth that the implications of the present chair’s actions is not going to be borne by her — however by the youngsters who depend on Sentebale’s assist,” Harry’s spokesman mentioned in a press release.
Harry will now have a look at alternative routes to assist younger individuals in Botswana and Lesotho, the spokesman mentioned.
Chandauka welcomed the report, saying it confirmed the governance points she raised earlier this yr.
“The surprising antagonistic media marketing campaign that was launched by those that resigned on 24 March 2025 has brought on incalculable injury and provides a glimpse of the unacceptable behaviors displayed in non-public,” she mentioned in a press release.
Harry and Seeiso based Sentebale in 2006 to honor their late moms.
