At the Court of Appeal in London on Tuesday and Wednesday, lawyers for Prince Harry will challenge the Home Secretary Yvette Cooper over Britain’s refusal to provide the fifth-in-line to the throne and his family with guaranteed police protection when they return to the UK.
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Whether Harry comes over for the two-day hearing remains to be seen amid unconfirmed speculation over whether Donald Trump’s hostile and volatile administration might prevent him from coming back in again due to illegal drug use described in his memoir, Spare. The US President has made assurances that he will not deport Harry, but the influential Heritage Foundation has vowed to fight on after Harry’s immigration records were released, heavily redacted.
Their decision to resign from Sentebale in an increasingly acrimonious and public dispute with its chair, Sophie Chandauka, over the direction, running and funding of the charity resulted in the Charity Commission announcing on Thursday that it is launching a “regulatory compliance case”, a formal assessment of the organisation that could lead to an even more serious statutory inquiry.
“The show was in the top 10 globally in 24 countries, and the products sold out in under an hour,” a source at Netflix said, reflecting an increasingly upbeat attitude towards the Duchess at the company.
‘With Love, Meghan’ has been a commercially successful venture (Photo: Jake Rosenberg/Netflix)Harry: isolated but happy
Isolated from many of his old London-based friends, her husband nevertheless appears happy domestically. He balances occasional lucrative work with helping to raise their children, Archie, five, and Lilibet, three, and embracing the West Coast lifestyle with regular runs on the beach near their £11m home in Montecito.
Despite the drama and controversy, these have been just another crazy few days in the lives of Harry and Meghan. They are perhaps the world’s most marmite couple – so much so that the fifth anniversary last Monday of the official end of their lives as working members of the Royal Family went largely unremarked.
Worse, she has blamed the toxicity of the Sussex brand for her inability to find new sponsors for the charity, which helps young people in Lesotho and Botswana, two impoverished nations where more than one in five adults are HIV positive, and the unemployment rate is 16 and 23 per cent respectively.
In a succession of claims and counterclaims, further information has come to light, The i Paper can reveal, challenging some of Chandauka’s version of events.
It was claimed that the Sussexes’ toxicity made it impossible to find sponsors for Sentebale (Photo: Karwai Tang/WireImage)
In addition, there are questions about claims Chandauka made in a television interview with Sky’s Trevor Phillips last Sunday. She complained that Meghan had made a surprise appearance which had disrupted a polo tournament in Wellington, Florida, in April 2024, while Harry’s insistence on bringing a Netflix camera crew, something she felt awkward about, had earlier lost the charity a polo venue in Miami.
Furthermore, video footage has come to light showing that Chandauka welcomed Netflix’s participation. “It’s a great platform and profile. The Netflix brand is globally recognised, and any opportunity to tell the story of Sentebale in the context of a global brand such as Netflix is obviously exciting for us,” Chandauka said at the time.
The Duke of Sussex, centre, with Sentebale chair Sophie Chandauka, centre-right, during the awards ceremony after he played in a polo match during the Royal Salute Polo Challenge, to benefit Sentebale (Photo: Yaroslav Sabitov/PA)
The fallout
Both Chandauka and Harry have welcomed the Charity Commission’s decision to examine the running of Sentebale. The commission, the voluntary sector’s watchdog, will weigh up the claims and counterclaims and check whether the charity’s former and current trustees, including Chandauka, have fulfilled their legal responsibilities.
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Any criticism of Harry personally would be damaging, especially as African Parks, a conservation organisation whose board he sits on, has also faced allegations that its rangers have beaten, raped and tortured indigenous Baka people in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. African Parks said it had a zero-tolerance approach to abuse and launched an investigation into the allegations.
Harry, 40, like his elder and now estranged brother Prince William, has had an emotional attachment to Africa since he was young. The brothers loved being able to travel around the continent without being recognised, but it was more than that. “I think they both loved the people, the colours, the vibrancy of the countries,” a source who knows the brothers well said.
Without Sentebale, Harry’s list of achievements could look threadbare to some, and Chandauka’s accusations risk poisoning Meghan’s newly successful projects.
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