The excruciating video showing Meghan Markle asking the Sentebale chief to move has taken on new importance after it was claimed the polo event was gatecrashed by the former Suits star with Serena Williams and a Netflix crew in tow.
The Duchess of Sussex asked Dr Sophie Chandauka to duck under the trophy as Harry celebrated the Royal Salute Polo Challenge in Wellington, Florida, in support of Sentebale's work.
The incident happened moments before Meghan kissed her husband to celebrate his win with a Netflix camera crew there to capture the moment for his TV series on polo.
The footage of Meghan and Dr Chandauka with Harry at the centre has been watched millions of times online in the past year but is being viewed again in a new light after Dr Chandauka's bombshell interview with Sky News yesterday where she discussed the notorious clip.
Meghan had caused "disruption" after turning up at short notice and bringing her "very famous friend" Serena Williams, the chair of Harry's charity claimed.
Dr Chandauka also called their brand "toxic" and accused Harry of "harassment and bullying at scale" - a claim that is denied.
She also claims that, prior to the charity polo event in April 2024, Meghan confirmed she would not be attending. But she then arrived with her tennis legend friend Serena.
Dr Chandauka recalled the events of the chaotic event: "We would have been really excited had we known ahead of time [Meghan was coming], 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.
"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."
Meghan was filmed asking Dr Chandauka not to stand next to the duke at the trophy presentation.
The former actress could be seen in video footage requesting that Dr Chandauka move to another spot in the group, insisting that she be in the middle of the huddle next to her husband.
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In the footage from April 2024, Dr Chandauka, who was standing on the Duke's right, was asked twice by Meghan to move to her left side away from Harry, as he kept his arm around his wife.
Others therefore had to shuffle around them to find a place, with Dr Chandauka awkwardly having to duck under the trophy to get into the position Meghan was asking her to stand in.
Dr Chandauka said: "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.
"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."
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The Duchess of Sussex asked Dr Sophie Chandauka to duck under the trophy as Harry celebrated the Royal Salute Polo Challenge in Wellington, Florida, in support of Sentebale's work.
The incident happened moments before Meghan kissed her husband to celebrate his win with a Netflix camera crew there to capture the moment for his TV series on polo.
The footage of Meghan and Dr Chandauka with Harry at the centre has been watched millions of times online in the past year but is being viewed again in a new light after Dr Chandauka's bombshell interview with Sky News yesterday where she discussed the notorious clip.
Meghan had caused "disruption" after turning up at short notice and bringing her "very famous friend" Serena Williams, the chair of Harry's charity claimed.
Dr Chandauka also called their brand "toxic" and accused Harry of "harassment and bullying at scale" - a claim that is denied.
She also claims that, prior to the charity polo event in April 2024, Meghan confirmed she would not be attending. But she then arrived with her tennis legend friend Serena.
Dr Chandauka recalled the events of the chaotic event: "We would have been really excited had we known ahead of time [Meghan was coming], 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.
"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."
Meghan was filmed asking Dr Chandauka not to stand next to the duke at the trophy presentation.
The former actress could be seen in video footage requesting that Dr Chandauka move to another spot in the group, insisting that she be in the middle of the huddle next to her husband.
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In the footage from April 2024, Dr Chandauka, who was standing on the Duke's right, was asked twice by Meghan to move to her left side away from Harry, as he kept his arm around his wife.
Others therefore had to shuffle around them to find a place, with Dr Chandauka awkwardly having to duck under the trophy to get into the position Meghan was asking her to stand in.
Dr Chandauka said: "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.
"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."
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