Prince Harry will not return to the 'tarnished' HIV/AIDS charity set up in Africa in honour of his mother because of a bitter feud with its chair, sources say.

Sentebale - a charity co-founded by the prince in Lesotho in 2006 - has been in a funding crisis since he left as a patron in March this year after his public falling out with chair, Sophie Chandauka.

The row ended with Mrs Chandauka accusing the Duke of Sussex of bullying, racism and misogyny and the duke abandoning the project all together.

Donations were lost as the argument rolled through headlines while mass resignations ran through the board of directors; the Charity Commission also produced a damning report of the state of affairs.

Sources close to the charity told The Times: 'The idea that Harry was ever going to return has been completely extinguished.

'There's absolutely no way now. It's all too tarnished.'

Redundancies have ripped through the organisation globally, with reports one in five employees in Botswana were cut - including the country director, Ketlogetswe Montshiwa.

Sources in Botswana told The Times the charity was 'not working at all', adding that there was a 'real cash flow problem', with operations in Lesotho 'getting into the red'.

The public feud between Prince Harry and Sophie Chandauka erupted into allegations of bullying, racism and misogyny and 'severely impacted the charity's reputation'

Prince Harry helped set up the Sentebale charity in memory of his mother Princess Diana. The charity helps children and young people in Africa come to terms with their HIV/AIDS diagnoses

Prince Harry will not return to the charity after leaving in March following the feud, sources say, after he called the situation 'untenable'

In London, all but one of its staff members were laid off in August, while local reports in Lesotho say that their headquarters has been 'effectively mothballed' - something that the charity denies, saying the centre 'remains fully operational'.

The cuts were made in an effort to reduces costs by £1million as published accounts show Sentebale ran dangerously low on its reserves in 2024 - there was just £207,000 in the bank in December 2024 when debts were taken in to account, down from £1.5million 16 months earlier.

The charity admitted that this was 'close to [the] minimum reserves level' and its annual accounts said that its programmes will shrink by the end of 2026 if new funding is not found.

Troubles began in 2024 when Mrs Chandauka was challenged over a huge £400,000 consultancy bill which board members had said brought little return.