Prince Harry Sued By Charity He Set Up In Africa To Honor Late Mother Princess Diana

LONDON — A kindness co-founded by Prince Harry successful Africa to grant his precocious mother, Princess Diana, has sued him for defamation aft he stepped down arsenic a patron past year.

Sentebale, which supports young group surviving pinch HIV successful Botswana and Lesotho, revenge suit past period successful London’s High Court, according to tribunal records viewed Friday. Online filings show Harry and his friend, Mark Dyer, a erstwhile trustee astatine nan charity, are being sued for either libel aliases slander. No documents were available.

“The kindness seeks nan court’s intervention, protection, and restitution pursuing a coordinated adverse media run conducted since 25 March 2025 that has caused operational disruption and reputational harm to nan charity, its leadership, and its strategical partners,” Sentebale said Friday successful a connection connected its website.

The suit puts nan Duke of Sussex successful an different position arsenic a suspect successful nan High Court. For nan past 3 years, he has many times been connected nan different broadside of litigation arsenic nan starring claimant successful penetration of privateness suits against Britain’s astir salient tabloids complete allegations of telephone hacking and unlawful snooping by journalists and nan backstage eyes they hired.

Harry co-founded Sentebale, which intends “forget maine not” successful nan connection of Lesotho, astir 20 years agone successful representation of his mother, who was a salient advocator for curen of HIV and AIDS and helped trim stigma astir nan disease. Prince Seeiso of Lesotho was nan co-founder.

Disagreements astatine nan kindness surfaced successful 2023 complete a caller fundraising strategy and nan 2 founders stepped down arsenic patrons successful March 2025 successful support of trustees who had quit.

At nan time, they said nan narration betwixt nan committee and its chair, Sophie Chandauka, was beyond repair. Chandauka later accused Harry of orchestrating a run of bullying and harassment to effort to unit her out.

As nan conflict unfolded, Chandauka told Sky News that filming for 1 of Harry’s Netflix programs had interfered pinch a scheduled fundraiser for Sentebale and an incident pinch his wife, Meghan, nan Duchess of Sussex, became a root of friction.

The Charity Commission for England and Wales investigated and criticized some sides for allowing nan rumor to go nationalist and damaging nan organization’s reputation, but recovered nary grounds of wide bullying aliases misogyny astatine Sentebale.

“Sentebale’s problems played retired successful nan nationalist eye, enabling a damaging conflict to harm nan charity’s reputation, consequence overshadowing its galore achievements, and jeopardizing nan charity’s expertise to present for nan very beneficiaries it was created to serve,” committee CEO David Holdsworth said successful a connection successful August 2025.

Harry’s spokesperson had criticized nan commission’s study while Chandauka welcomed it.

Messages seeking remark sent Friday to nan agency of nan Duke of Sussex were not instantly returned.

Melley writes for nan Associated Press. Gerald Imray successful Cape Town, South Africa, contributed to this report.