LOS ANGELES – Prince Harry on Tuesday walked away from his African youth charity following a damning report into an explosive race row.
A Charity Commission investigation criticised both sides of the acrimonious boardroom battle, yet the war of words between the two showed no sign of abating.
The probe said it could find ‘no evidence’ of ‘widespread or systemic bullying or harassment, including misogyny or misogynoir’ at Sentebale after its new Chair, Dr Sophie Chandauka, made a series of incendiary allegations about the behaviour of the Duke of Sussex and his fellow trustees.
It also criticised the trustees, including Harry, who resigned on mass in the spring, after the furore blew up in the public domain.
Their failure to resolve disputes internally, ‘severely impacted the charity’s reputation and risked undermining public trust in charities more generally,’ the Charity Commission found.
In March, Harry resigned as patron of Sentebale, the charity he founded in 2006, going on to say he expected the investigation to ‘unveil the truth’ while hoping the charity would be ‘put in the right hands’, suggesting there may have been a path back for him.
Sentebale was set up to help orphaned with, AIDS in the impoverished kingdom of Lesotho in memory of his late mother, Diana, Princess of Wales. The name means ‘forget me not’ in the country’s official language.
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