AMANDA PLATELL: Why Prince Harry’s name will be linked to bullying for evermore

An astonishing week for Prince Harry who, without warning, quit his cherished Sentebale charity amid accusations by its chairman Sophie Chandauka of his ‘bullying and harassment’.

This, remember, is the charity he set up in memory of his mother Princess Diana to help children with HIV Aids in Africa.

What a shock that he resigned from a pet cause amid such acrimony. And with accusations of racism flying as a result of the row. The Charity Commission watchdog is investigating, something Harry says he welcomes.

All well and good. But can he ever escape being tarnished by accusations of bullying?

To his critics, he’s been bullying the royals for years, while claiming he was the victim.

Take the way he and Meghan upset the late Queen and Prince Philip with their Megxit master plan demanding to be able to perform occasional royal duties while making millions monetising their brand.

What about the spiteful Oprah interview and his vicious memoir Spare vilifying the royals with ugly accusations, knowing they wouldn’t be able to answer back?

Prince Harry smiles beside Sentebale chairwoman Sophie Chandauka in April last year

The pattern continued with their Netflix series, a hit, it seems, only because of the attacks the couple made on the royals.

Isn’t all this a kind of bullying? And we haven’t even got on to the bullying claims made by Palace staff against Meghan that she denied. Or his decision to go the courts against His Majesty’s government to demand police protection – which put the King, his father, in an impossible position.

Whatever transpires in the Sentebale row, one thing is certain. Dim-witted Harry won’t come out well – and his name will be linked with bullying for ever.

In a bleak world can there be better news than Bruce Springsteen releasing 70 unheard songs in ‘Tracks 11: The Lost Albums’ which he didn’t think were good enough to air. Even a half-good Bruce tune is, as they say, tougher and better than the rest.

Victoria Beckham arrived at David’s 50th birthday party in her same old statement dress design: satin, cut on the bias with spaghetti straps – and almost identical to one worn by her son Romeo’s squeeze Kim Turnbull. Did oldest boy Brooklyn and his wife Nicola Peltz stay away to avoid another mini-me VB frocky-horror.

Announcing his fourth lucrative Clarkson’s Farm series, Jeremy reveals it will now not be set down on the farm but in his new pub The Farmer’s Dog. What a joy. Jeremy back again, despite that awful furore two years ago when he wrote disobliging things about Meghan Markle. Now he’s worth £55million and counting. Eat your heart out Mrs Sussex

Jama outfit drama

ITV’s new cut-price Love Island series will be set not in a sun-soaked Majorcan villa but on Canvey Island on the Essex coast – according to an April Fool’s joke.

Think of all the money they’d have saved on airfares given most of the contestants come from Essex anyway.

Good job it was a gag. If it had meant a cut in host Maya Jama’s wardrobe budget it could have been disastrous. Her outfits can’t be any skimpier.

Lucky for Love Island host Maya Jama that the show isn’t downsizing in budget to Essex – as cost cuts might make her wardrobe even skimpier, writes AMANDA PLATELL

Meghan’s new line of ‘As ever’ jams sold out within hours. I am reliably informed this is part of a crude marketing ploy used by influencers who release limited amounts of produce so it vanishes in minutes.

I tried and failed to get a jar of Meg’s £10.80 strawberry jam. But how demoralising for her that her multi million pound future is built on the dream of jam tomorrow.

Bond actress Ana de Armas, who starred with Daniel Craig in No Time To Die, says women can fight as well as men and action movies should have combat-ready female leads.

Sorry to break it to you Ana, but there is nothing more unconvincing than a size-zero actress fighting a beefy male. It’s time to let this feminist whingeing about women playing assassins die, please.

It seems de rigueur for clever folk to adore The White Lotus, which is clearly why I’m struggling with its drug-filled storyline of incest between brothers, and repulsive old men drooling over their nubile girlfriends. Someone always dies in the show. The only question now is who will meet their maker in the finale? Please, for our sakes, let it be all of them.

New men? Not my builders! 

A survey says tradesmen now prefer yoga to football, like herbal tea and have skin care regimes. With my roof being replaced this week, I did my own interviews – 12 of them. Their skin care is having a shower, yoga’s for girls and they wanted builder’s tea, please, and quick – to get home for the footie.

After cruel social media abuse, Scott Brand, the husband of Coronation Street’s Julie Goodyear, has taken down the photo he released of his wife in the late stages of dementia after they had celebrated her 83rd birthday. Yes the picture was brutal, not the Bet Lynch fans remember, but that’s the reality of this disease and I for one salute his bravery and remember what my dad said about mum when she was at that stage: ‘Her eyes are still those of the beautiful girl I fell in love with 70 years ago.’

Lovely pictures of Alan Titchmarsh receiving his CBE for services to horticulture and charity with his wife Alison. And even better, he’s now launching a YouTube show to help budding gardeners like me. He said: ‘I’d never have guessed I would become a 75-year-old influencer and be hosting on one of the biggest streaming platforms, having been gardening for 60 years.’ Alan, my verbenas and salvias salute you!

King Charles certainly looks as if he knows his onions about playing veggie instruments… but the move lacks a certain majesty, AMANDA PLATELL writes

King’s carrot hits the wrong note 

We love King Charles and long may he reign over us. But following his shock return to hospital last week for complications due to his cancer treatment and the cancellation of several events, he re-appeared for a performance with the London Vegetable Orchestra. He played a ‘carrot recorder’ as part of a trio with a ‘potato piper’. Crikey, where is the majesty, the mystery? If this is the future of the monarchy, then heaven help us.

Trans trouble 

My heroines of the week are the eight female nurses at Darlington Memorial Hospital launching a legal battle with the NHS not to allow a trans colleague who ‘stared too long at their breasts and lingered in the changing rooms’ in female-only areas. They claim it breaches their human rights if they have to undress in front of someone born a man, whether or not he/they/she/them identifies as a female. Is that too much for any woman to ask?