Sentebale no. 3

[Thedom]

The ex lead Patron Its getting plenty of media coverage today.

(ps, my hash key doesn't work )

Just too many court cases ....🙄

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I think it also becomes difficult for the left of centre leaning press that the object of his attacks is a well-educated, professional black woman.

@AtIusvue You've forgotten the dozens of copies of "The Bench" used to prop up laptops.

Meghan is an African woman?
Wasn't she born in la?

I read it’s the 8th of April, same day as Megs Podcast launch.

They're nothing if not efficient!

A piece about African Parks www.thedailybeast.com/prince-harrys-other-charity-nightmare-the-racist-and-colonial-african-parks/

Indeed!!! Why is it everyone else has to go high , while clearly Harry and Meghan are allowed to go low?

they have been slinging unsubstantiated mud at everyone and their mother for years now! But apparently that’s fine and everyone else should smile and be quiet! 🙄

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I'm ashamed to admit that most Americans are really bad with geography. Also history. The schools really collapsed in the 1990s. Every state sets its own standards. I could tell you horror stories...

Question is whether anyone will agree to work with a couple that refuses to take advice - they have already burned their bridges at 2 PR agencies - Sunshine Sachs and William Morris Endeavour.

Indeed. And Harry and Meghan have a bit of a track record of behaving imperiously and apparently bullyingly to people who can't answer back - staff and the Royal family and making malicious accusations that they cannot reply to.

Dr C isn't accepting that. I expect the fact she is out there and vocal has come as a complete shock to them.

If she can provide evidence for her claims (and I am sure she can) then bring it on.

I know. I've already commented on it but I would be so excited!

So she started a couple of days before the "with love Meghan" fiasco and 4 weeks later she is in the middle of the Sentebale debacle.

Baptism of fire ....

Can you make FOI requests to the Charity Commission? Surely she would give this document as evidence to back up the undue influence and governance mismanagement allegations.

DrC is a better woman than me, I would have to sit on my hands to stop me publishing the message.

He was very expertly PR packaged by the palace as the "cheeky, chappy, military veteran Prince"

But they seem to have covered some of his less attractive traits plus I don't think living in an LA echo chamber has helped him.

@BemusedAmerican "He's not the prince of my realm or her realm. That is one of the reasons he doesn't matter in the US."
I'd venture to suggest that whilst Harry is actually a Prince of the Realm here , to a lot of people in the UK nowadays he is "that chap who happens to be KCIII's younger son "

I saw on twitter, so forgive me if this isn’t sourced - someone else may have the detail? - that a supporter of Harry had countered the allegation made on Sunday by SC.

That’s when SC said that Harry was basically bullying the charity by announcing to the world’s media with no notice at all to the charity’s management that he and Prince Seeiso had resigned as patrons in support of the trustees . The supporter had posted that SC knew this was coming, because Harry (or at least, his lawyers) had written to her to let her know that if she was successful in a gaining an injunction to prevent the Board from sacking her, that he would resign.

The poster clearly thought this made Harry look better. I thought it made him look way worse. If true, not only was he clearly taking sides in a dispute between two different factions of the Board that was already being litigated, but he was personally threatening an individual who claimed to be a whistleblower that he would take action to trash the reputation of the charity (and by extension her reputation) if she took steps to seek a remedy from the courts to protect herself from illegal retaliation against a whistleblower.

I think the former trustees and Prince Harry (who was clearly a shadow trustee here!) would do well to get some training about their obligations around whistleblowers. Harry might like to consider how trying to undermine the whistleblowing regime at Barclays fatally damaged the career of Jes Staley, its Global CEO back in 2018 - a man with more power than Prince Harry has ever had

I disagree.

If the charity is to recover then potential sponsors need to understand what caused the current issues. The fact that Harry's statement and that of former trustees labelled her "difficult" with vague hints of financial impropriety was designed to deter sponsors and sabotage the charity IMHO.

It wasn't just about the polo incident - SC has reported Sentebale to the CC for failures of governance involving the board that resigned. There is a current CC investigation. SC had maintained her silence about everything until Harry went on the attack.

It's a few years back but yes you are probably right, Williams. I doubt there would have been such a fuss if it was Harry's car.

her and Meghan, (two African women who both want to empower women seemingly at war).

No-one in Africa will see Meghan as African, at all.

Out of interest, how did she get in the trunk? Can she pick locks? 😁 Sloppy security if the car was unlocked.

Those children would have been in line to inherit a share of palaces, country houses, gardens and land, and jewels. Plus the ongoing deference of a nation and the absence of any need to work for a living.

Now, they get a ruined charity and an Instagram brand.

Wow.

A taste of their own medicine. A very brave woman to stand up to the Sussexes.