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The Telegraph can now reveal that the board, including Army Captain Mark Dyer, who has long been a father figure to Prince Harry, stepped back in an attempt to save Sentebale from collapse as a result of huge legal bills. On Tuesday night, the Prince could barely contain his shock as he revealed he had resigned from his role as patron of the charity he co-founded, following an “unthinkable” breakdown in relations with Dr Chandauka.
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The charity was plunged into chaos following Dr Chandauka’s arrival, sources claimed, as she took “a wrecking ball” to the organisation and “decimated” it beyond recognition. The board was aghast when their efforts to remove Dr Chandauka from her position resulted in her lodging a High Court claim against Sentebale earlier this month, and feared the mammoth cost of such action would prove its final nail in the coffin.
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Crucially, however, Dr Chandauka had served on Sentebale’s board for six years from 2009 and so rejoined with an inbuilt, inherent understanding of the charity’s mission.
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It was never quite explained why Johnny Hornby, Dr Chandauka’s predecessor, had suddenly quit after 11 years on the board, five of those as chairman. It was this shift of power that was the catalyst for the charity’s gradual implosion, sources claimed.
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Then, last November came the first notable signs of trouble when Baroness Chalker, the former Conservative overseas development minister, who had been a trustee for 18 years, stepped down. Harry’s close friend Andrew Tucker, otherwise known as Tucks, quit his decade-long role as a consultant in the same month.
Then, in December, came the “strategic shift” that spelt the beginning of the end for Prince Harry and its long serving board. Sentebale announced its “first move” in its plan to restructure the organisation by locating its most senior leaders in southern Africa. Richard Miller, who had been its London-based chief executive for five years, appears to have been collateral damage, stepping down to make way for Carmel Gaillard, who is based in Johannesburg.
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