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The British regulator of associations cleared Prince Harry on Wednesday, accused of harassment by the president of an NGO he founded in 2006. However, he pointed out breaches of “all parties” involved in the management of the association.
(Keystone-ATS) At the end of March, the youngest son of the British king Charles III had announced that his role as sponsor of the Chariting Association Sentebale was renounced, which he founded in 2006 in Lesotho to fight AIDS in Africa, following a conflict with the president of the board of directors.
The latter, lawyer Zimbabwean Sophie Chandauka, was accused of bad governance by members of the board of directors. The case had turned to the settlement of public accounts when Sophie Chandauka accused the Duke of Sussex of “harassment” and “intimidation”, in an interview with the Sky News channel.
The prince had denounced “lies”. Both had seized the Charity Commission to settle their disagreement.
Rare charity commitment
In its conclusions published on Wednesday, the latter returns back to the back “All parties for having left [le conflit] take place publicly ”. But she claims to have found “no evidence” of generalized or systemic “harassment or intimidation” nor “misogyny or misogyny with regard to black women” in Sentebale.
On the other hand, she believes that “the incapacity of the administrators of the time to resolve internal disputes had serious repercussions on the reputation” of the association and pointed out the “weaknesses of governance” within the Sentebale.
According to her, the “lack of clarity” in everyone’s attributions “favored the appearance of misunderstandings”.
The Commission sent a plan to the NGO to solve its governance problems and calls in particular to clarify “in writing” the role occupied by its sponsors, namely Harry and Prince Seeiso du Lesotho, also resigning.
The role of Sentebale sponsor was one of the few charities that Prince Harry had kept after his explosive break with the British monarchy in 2020, his exile in the United States and the loss of his royal patronages.
