Prince Harry sued by charity he co-founded in honor of Princess Diana

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A foundation that Prince Harry co-founded successful Africa to grant his precocious mother, Princess Diana, is suing him for defamation aft helium stepped down arsenic a patron past year.

Sentebale, which Harry co-founded with Prince Seeiso of Lesotho successful 2006 and helps youths with HIV successful confederate Africa, filed suit past period successful London's High Court, according to tribunal records reviewed Friday.

Online filings amusement Harry and his friend, Mark Dyer, a trustee astatine the charity, are being sued for either libel oregon slander. No documents were available.

"The foundation seeks the court's intervention, protection, and restitution pursuing a coordinated adverse media run conducted since 25 March 2025 that has caused operational disruption and reputational harm to the charity, its leadership, and its strategical partners," Sentebale said Friday successful a connection connected its website.

In the section connection of Lesotho, wherever the foundation is based, Sentebale means "forget-me-not."

Disagreements surfaced successful 2023 implicit a caller fundraising strategy. Harry and Seeiso stepped down arsenic patrons of the foundation successful March 2025.

At the time, they said the narration betwixt the committee and its chair, Sophie Chandauka, was beyond repair and that they were stepping down successful solidarity with 5 trustees who resigned implicit an interior quality that had breached into nationalist view.

"What's transpired is unthinkable. We are successful daze that we person to bash this, but we person a continued work to Sentebale's beneficiaries, truthful we volition beryllium sharing each of our concerns with the Charity Commission arsenic to however this came about," Harry and Seeiso said successful a associated connection astatine the time.

Chandauka aboriginal accused Harry of orchestrating a campaign of bullying and harassment to effort to unit her out.

She told Sky News successful March that Harry's resignation had blindsided her and was "an illustration of harassment and bullying astatine scale." She said helium besides had interfered with a whistleblower ailment she filed against the charity.

"So it's a cover-up, and the prince is involved," she said.

The Charity Commission for England and Wales investigated and criticized some sides for allowing the contented to beryllium played retired successful nationalist and damaging the organization's reputation, but recovered nary grounds of wide bullying oregon misogyny astatine Sentebale.

"Sentebale's problems played retired successful the nationalist eye, enabling a damaging quality to harm the charity's reputation, hazard overshadowing its galore achievements, and jeopardizing the charity's quality to present for the precise beneficiaries it was created to serve," committee CEO David Holdsworth said successful a connection successful August 2025.

Harry's spokesperson had criticized the commission's study portion Chandauka welcomed it.

Messages seeking remark sent Friday to the bureau of the Duke of Sussex were not instantly returned.

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