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The past has come back to haunt Meghan Markle.
The Duchess of Sussex’s awkward exchange with Dr. Sophie Chandauka, chairwoman of the Sentebale charity, has resurfaced following Chandauka’s “bullying” claims about Prince Harry.
In April 2024, the trio took a photo together celebrating Harry’s polo team’s win at the Grand Champions Polo Club in Wellington, Florida. But after Chandauka stood next to Harry, 40, his wife asked Chandauka to move next to her instead.
“Do you want to come over here?” Markle, 43, could be heard asking Chandauka.
Chandauka then had to awkwardly duck under the trophy that the group was holding in order to switch placements in the picture.
During her new bombshell interview with Sky News, Chandauka addressed her viral exchange with Markle, who showed up to the event allegedly unannounced with her pal Serena Williams.
“The choreography went badly on stage, because we had too many people on stage,” Chandauka explained. “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.”
“Prince Harry asked me to issue some sort of a statement in support of the Duchess, and I said I wouldn’t,” Chandauka claimed. “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.”
Chandauka said that, if she had spoke out in defense of Markle, the “Suits” alum would’ve experienced “worse trolling.”
The Post has reached out to Harry and Markle’s reps for comment.
Chandauka planned the Royal Salute Polo Challenge as chairwoman of Sentebale, which Harry co-founded in 2006 to help young people affected by AIDs in southern Africa. The exiled royal sensationally quit the charity last week.
Speaking to Sky News, Chandauka alleged that they had to switch venues for the Florida event because Harry wanted to bring the Netflix cameras to film his “Polo” series. Chandauka said they faced more issues when Markle and Williams, 43, made a last-minute appearance.
“The duchess decided to attend, but she told us she wasn’t attending, and she brought a friend, a very famous friend,” Chandauka said. “We would have been really excited had we known ahead of time, but we didn’t.”
Elsewhere during the interview, Chandauka accused Harry of “harassment and bullying.” She alleged the Duke of Sussex tried to “eject” her from Sentebale and claimed Harry was the “number one risk” to the charity.
Chandauka’s claims were branded as “completely baseless” by a source close to the former Sentebale charity’s trustees, Sky News reported.
The ex-trustees “fully expected this publicity stunt and reached their collective decision with this in mind,” the source added. “They remain firm in their resignation, for the good of the charity, and look forward to the adjudication of the truth.”
Princes Harry and fellow Sentebale co-founder Prince Seeiso of Lesotho announced their exits from the charity on Tuesday. In their joint statement, they accused Chandauka of creating an “untenable situation” at the charity.
“The relationship between the charity’s trustees and the chair of the board broke down beyond repair, creating an untenable situation,” the statement read.
Chandauka has been chairwoman of Sentebale since 2023.