Prince Harry's Former Charity Chair Dr. Sophie Chandauka Makes Claim About His Alleged Request Concerning Meghan Markle

Prince Harry stepped away from the charity he helped found, Sentebale, and now, the charity’s chairwoman, Dr. Sophie Chandauka, is speaking out in a new interview.

For some backstory: the 40-year-old Duke of Sussex exited his position with the organization alongside co-founder Prince Seeiso of Lesotho and members of the Board of Trustees, after their relationship with Dr. Chandauka “broke down beyond repair, creating an untenable situation.”

Now, Dr. Sophie Chandauka is giving an interview with some claims of her own.

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She explained her side of what went down at the 2024 Royal Salute Polo Challenge in Florida.

“The Duchess decided to attend, but she told us she wasn’t attending. And she brought a friend, a very famous friend,” Dr. Chandauka told Sky News. Serena Williams, Meghan‘s friend, attended this event as well, though she was not mentioned by name here.

“We would have been really excited had we known ahead of time, but we didn’t. And so the choreography went badly on stage because we had too many people on stage. The international press captured this, and there was a lot of talk about the Duchess and the choreography on stage and whether she should have been there and her treatment of me,” she added.

The moment got attention when the stage looked overcrowded, and from footage captured, Dr. Chandauka and the Duchess appeared to have an exchange about where they should be standing.

She explained, “Prince Harry asked me to issue some sort of a statement in support of the Duchess, and I said I wouldn’t. Not because I didn’t care about the Duchess, but because I knew what would happen if I did so, number one. And number two, because we cannot be an extension of the Sussexes.”