EXCLUSIVE Chaos at polo over Harry's TV show: Now he faces an awful question.. Does his royal brand have any kind of future? RICHARD KAY writes By RICHARD KAY FOR THE DAILY MAIL Published: 20:43 EDT, 30 March 2025 | Updated: 20:54 EDT, 30 March 2025 e-mail View comments No one has come out well from the Sentebale shambles.
Not the chairwoman with her claims of a charity riven by bullying and misogyny and not the trustees who hid behind anonymity to brief against her. Who, though, would have thought the figure whose reputation would suffer most of all would be Prince Harry ? It was his youthful passion and determination to build something that would make his late mother proud that first brought Sentebale to life. Yesterday, questions were not just being asked about the charity’s future but also about where this leaves Harry.
Over the weekend, a picture of Sentebale very different from those heady early days emerged. In a series of interviews, its feisty chair, Dr Sophie Chandauka, described how the rot set in after Harry and his wife quit Britain for the US after Megxit. Sentebale lost corporate sponsors as well as donors – and so far as Dr Chandauka was concerned, it was clear where the fault lay.
After taking over in July 2023, she conducted a review of its finances over the previous seven years concluding that there was ‘a significant correlation’ between the time the charity started to see a downturn in commercial support and ‘Prince Harry’s departure from the .
