Sentebale #2

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Second thread .

It’s the top article on the online DM. It’s not going away

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14550273/harry-sentebale-charity-meghan-brand-toxic-sussex.html

I agree it all sounds murky but I’m inclined to give her the benefit of doubt over Harry , mainly because she asked for an investigation into the charity from officials.
if she’s hiding something that seems foolish and mostly Because let’s be honest Harry has never been upfront and honest about finances, you could argue he learned this from his family if you wish!

Anyway, whatever has gone on, it's clear the Sussex PR machine are out to destroy her.

@Puzzledandpissedoff

More on the consultancy firm below from The Guardian article of two days ago. The intimate dinner to the Mimi Ritz Carlton must have cost a bob or two.
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Chandauka “wanted to do it differently”, said a source. It is understood that a decision was made to hire the “women-led strategy firm” Lebec at a significant cost. This led to a shift of the charity’s leadership away from London to southern Africa. Fundraising efforts would also now be focused more on the west coast of the US than the shires, according to one source.
Last April, Lebec “convened a reception, panel discussion and intimate dinner to highlight Sentebale’s impactful work” at the Zaytinya restaurant at the Ritz-Carlton on Miami’s South Beach.
There was then a visit by Harry to Lesotho and Johannesburg with executives from potential donors, including Google
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Poor woman. They'll destroy her.

Miami! Doh

I doubt it @MayaKovskaya, unless something truly heinous comes out. She looks like a tough cookie to me.

I don't imagine it went anything like that. SC's been a trustee since 2008/09. She knows the rules; and she's clearly committed to the charity and her region.

I do think someone thought they could outmaneuver her and 'show her up' so to speak, by introducing talk of money. And who, in this story, do we know really does care about money, and pettily accuses others of denying it to them??

I always thought the value of the charity wasn't just the actual work carried out, but the publicity and raising of the country's profile through Harry's involvement, hopefully improving tourist revenue (although it was a bit painful reading locales described as "Lesothans" in the UK press).

I further hope it's the case now that there's no such thing as bad publicity - ironically, Trump's recent statement seemed to generate quite a lot of interest.

I believe the saying is you can fool some of the people all of the time, and all of the people some of the time, but you can not fool all of the people all of the time

Quite right! And very apt in this case!

It always goes quieter on mumsnet when the fires need to be put out on social media for Harry and Meghan. Right now on the claims of Sussex brand being toxic the fans are basically "hold my beer you haven't seen toxic yet", of course it's Williams fault, closely followed by the British racist media and finally Sophie who is being called a race traitor or similar.

No they won't. Truth, justice and fairness will prevail in the case.

Makes it difficult to extend any benefit of doubts to people who condone , consort and reward this kind of behaviour!

@JADS

He is such a petty, dangerous dick who gives zero shits about mental health.

people who wang on about mental health are always either mentally unstable; bad for other peoples' mental health or both.

Markle was pushing for donations made to Sentebale to go through their Archewell foundation so that the pair of them could rake in $500,000 as an appearance fee and then donate the rest to Sentebale. Once Markle got her claws involved it was always going to be about money laundering.

I really hope you’re right. The CC is generally predisposed in favour of charity trustees but they’re not fools, if there’s been financial mismanagement they will start turning over stones. And as someone pointed out on the previous thread, the trustees are all jointly and severally responsible, including SC.

H&M certainly have an odd relationship with the truth. The engagement interview was scripted. The wedding in Windsor wasn't their real wedding because that had already happened in their 'back yard'. It's so hard to keep up. Both of these events are conventions of Royal life and have been for decades yet suddenly, they become something else.

So not only do we have to take with a pinch+ of salt anything they say, we also now have to question whether things are actually what they seem to be. Archetypes? You thought it was a podcast. Nope. It's a re-imagined, dried flower-free Garden of Eden, Eve and her friends before the encroachment of Adam, foretelling the assault on female power structures over decades of phallocentric patriarchy seen through a post-lapsarian lense. You thought Meghan's ShopMy venture's intention was to Make Money for Meghan (MMM)? Wrong again. It's a cover for intelligence-gathering through consumer trend analysis and a harbinger of Meghan's push for the presidency in 2032, filtered through a data-rich, flower-sprinkled, tiara-adorned lens.

Misan Harriman. An incredibly privileged, born extremely rich heir, with an allegedly sketchy past (ask Boris Becker), who has reinvented himself as a photographer, despite having few years of experience in the field - he must have lots of connections to have risen to the top so quickly; and as a complainer about all things white and British. He was complaining once again in an interview with Channel 4 news the other day, and of course, defending MM.

This led to a shift of the charity’s leadership away from London to southern Africa. Fundraising efforts would also now be focused more on the west coast of the US than the shires, according to one source.

The rationale for moving the leadership to southern Africa is clear. But why fundraising focused on the west coast of America? Was it just because that's where Harry is and they thought he could do the fundraising among his wealthy west coast pals? (having ditched all his wealthy pals in the shires.)

Also, while like a PP, I do side-eye someone who receives an honorary degree and adopted the title “Dr”, it is highly unlikely she managed Legal and Compliance Operations for a US/London bank and wasn’t acutely aware of the importance of proper corporate governance, formal approvals in accordance with policy and declaring conflicts of interest. It’s pretty much fundamental to that role.

He's a nasty piece of work.
He does the Sussexes photos - all altered of course. He took that famous pregnancy picture and added a tree.
Funny how it's ok for him to do that 🙄

pregnancy photo with an added tree?

That wording is to protect the FT from a lawsuit from Prince Harry!

Well he has certainly learned plenty from the mistress of mean! Hideous behaviour!! Meghan should have been apologising to Sophie!!