Vincent McAviney: UK Correspondent on the investigation into Prince Harry's charity

The dispute surrounding a charity co-founded by Prince Harry will be investigated. 

The Sentebale charity's caught the eye of the Charity Commission after a public war of words saw its head make claims of bullying and harassment within the organisation. 

UK correspondent Vincent McAviney told Andrew Dickens the Duke of Sussex is hoping the commission will be able to unveil the truth. 

McAviney says Harry's welcoming the official investigation. 

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
We're after europe vincent Mecha Vinigard money to you.

Speaker 2 (00:02):
Good morning.

Speaker 1 (00:04):
So the European reaction to Donald Trump's turffs.

Speaker 2 (00:08):
Yeah, like all governments around the world, the UK and
Europe is trying to figure out what to do now
in response, and we're taking slightly different paths. The UK
feels it's close to actually securing a trade deal with
the United States, and so we are still staying on
this sort of uncritical, calm steady path in the hope
that we can get that done quickly. Our rate was

(00:30):
only put at ten percent. We're much more of a
services based economy, we've got less of a trade deficit.
So Kirstarmer hoping that he can do something soon. Are
two primary experts for the US. Auto's those obviously are
at twenty five percent. Pharmaceuticals those have been given a
temporary reprieve. So there is hope here in London something
can be done, but of course there'll be knock on
effects from everywhere else around the world. Europe, though much

(00:53):
bigger manufacturer compared to the United Kingdom, they've been pretty
robust saying they're going to move quickly to retaliatory measures
and they're not happy with this, saying it's a major
blow to the world economy.

Speaker 1 (01:04):
Yes, and people concern that the war may be overly
recissionary for the whole globe.

Speaker 2 (01:11):
Yeah, I think that, you know, keep hearing the adage
that no one actually wins in the trade war, and
ultimately the people that pay are consumers. So I think
there is a lot of bewilderment about what's going on.
It is a total rewiring of the global economy. And
some people can see, you know, Donald Trump is right
about wanting to re sure a lot of jobs and
get people into quality jobs, but they also feel like

(01:33):
this is going to be a massive shock to the
system after a decade. Let's be honest. Where for here
in the UK, we had the shock of Brexit, then
we had the pandemic, and then we've had the war
in Ukraine. People are quite fed up with these kind
of shocks, all right.

Speaker 1 (01:45):
Now we move to the battle between Printerry and his
charity sent to Ballet, and now we have an investigation.

Speaker 2 (01:52):
Yeah, the Charity Commission here in the UK is announced
the first stage and a potential investigation into the conduct
of the charity. This is after this war of words
has broken out over Center Ballei, which Prince Harry set
up around twenty years ago with Prince Seiso of Lusutu,
which was looking at health, particularly HIV and AIDS in
young people in southern parts of Africa. And so this

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resignation last week, fall out between the sort of trustees
Prince Harry and Prince Seiso and the chair of the
charity has been a bit of a war of words
in the media in the last week. But now we're
going to get an efficial investigation as to what's been
going on in this charity. Prince Harry, for his part,
says he welcomes this.

Speaker 1 (02:36):
Have the people of the UK taken sides.

Speaker 2 (02:40):
Well, it's a kind of there's a lot going on
this week, but it is another sort of you know,
Harry Meghan drama, which we're sort of well used to.
I think many people though do recognize that Throughout it all,
Prince Harry has been very dedicated to his charity work,
particularly this charity which you know he founded himself. It
was named, you know, to do with his mother and

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forgetting memories of a parent, and so he's been dedicated
to it. He spent a lot of time in this
part of the world across the African continent doing charity work,
so people are just sort of not quite sure what's
going on.

Speaker 1 (03:13):
Okay, Vincent, I thank you so much. For more from
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