Sentebale, charity that Prince Harry co-founded, sues him for defamation

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A charity co-founded by Prince Harry in Africa to honour his late mom, Princess Diana, has sued him for defamation after he stepped down as a patron final 12 months.

Sentebale, which helps younger folks residing with HIV in Botswana and Lesotho, filed go well with final month in London's Excessive Courtroom, in accordance with courtroom data seen Friday. On-line filings present Harry and his buddy, Mark Dyer, a former trustee on the charity, are being sued for both libel or slander. No paperwork had been out there.

"The charity seeks the courtroom's intervention, safety, and restitution following a co-ordinated opposed media marketing campaign carried out since 25 March 2025 that has induced operational disruption and reputational hurt to the charity, its management, and its strategic companions," Sentebale stated Friday in an announcement on its web site.

A spokesperson for Harry and Dyer stated the pair "categorically reject these offensive and damaging claims."

The lawsuit places the Duke of Sussex in an unaccustomed place as a defendant within the Excessive Courtroom. Over the previous three years, he has repeatedly been on the opposite facet of litigation because the main claimant in invasion of privateness fits towards Britain's most distinguished tabloids over allegations of cellphone hacking and illegal snooping by journalists and the personal eyes they employed.

Based twenty years in the past Harry co-founded Sentebale, which implies "overlook me not" within the language of Lesotho, about 20 years in the past in reminiscence of his mom, who was a distinguished advocate for remedy of HIV and AIDS and helped cut back stigma across the illness. Prince Seeiso of Lesotho was the co-founder.

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Prince Harry and his spouse Meghan had been noticed entrance row at Recreation 4 of the World Sequence, cheering on the L.A. Dodgers. Harry’s father is the King of Canada and Meghan lived in Toronto whereas filming the TV present Fits. Disagreements on the charity surfaced in 2023 over a brand new fundraising technique, and the 2 founders stepped down as patrons in March 2025 in help of trustees who had stop.

On the time, they stated 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 power her out.

Because the dispute unfolded, Chandauka informed Sky Information that filming for one in every of Harry's Netflix applications had interfered with a scheduled fundraiser for Sentebale and that an incident together with his spouse, Meghan, the Duchess of Sussex, turned a supply of friction.

The Charity Fee for England and Wales investigated and criticized either side for permitting the problem to turn into public and damaging the group's fame, however discovered no proof of widespread bullying or misogyny at Sentebale.

"Sentebale's issues performed out within the public eye, enabling a harmful dispute to hurt the charity's fame, threat 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 stated in an announcement in August 2025.