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Prince Harry has told friends he feels "totally lost and without purpose" after stepping down from Sentebale, the charity he co-founded nearly 20 years ago, Wonderwall.com can reveal.

The under-fire duke was forced out following an explosive power struggle that has engulfed the organization in a racism and mismanagement row.

Harry, 40, cut ties with Sentebale earlier this year amid a bitter fallout with chairwoman Sophie Chandauka, 45, which prompted a formal investigation by the U.K. Charity Commission. 

While the regulator found no evidence of bullying or harassment, it delivered a damning verdict on the governance of the charity and said failures by all parties had severely damaged its reputation.

According to a source close to the prince, Harry was left reeling after what he sees as a "hostile takeover" of the charity he set up in 2006 with Prince Seeiso of Lesotho, 58. 

The insider told us, "Harry is devastated. He feels totally lost and without purpose now that Sentebale has been taken from him. He believed in the work, and to walk away was crushing. He always wanted to copy his mother Princess Diana's charity work, and to have this taken from him is a huge blow. He is also marooned in showbiz-land in [Los Angeles] thanks to his wife Meghan [Markle]'s desperate quest to be seen as a celebrity. Basically, he just wants to quit the States and move back to Britain where he can be part of the royals again, charity work – and have a few beers with his old rugby pals. His life is, for want of a better phrase, now in the toilet."

The Commission's report into Harry's charity, released in April, revealed the scale of the breakdown at the good cause, which was once seen as a cornerstone of the duke's post-royal philanthropic identity. 

It cited "significant governance weaknesses" and criticized trustees for failing to manage internal disputes, which had spilled out into the public domain.

"The regulator has criticized all parties to the dispute for allowing it to play out publicly," the report stated. "The then trustees' failure to resolve disputes internally severely impacted the charity's reputation and risked undermining public trust in charities more generally."

While the report cleared Harry of personal wrongdoing, it made no secret of the dysfunction shrouding the charity's leadership, ultimately prompting the resignation of not only the prince, but also all other trustees, including co-founder Prince Seeiso.

Privately, the duke is said to be angry with the Commission's neutral tone. 

"He feels they've sat on the fence," a source said. "He wanted accountability. Instead, the person he believes created the chaos remains in place."

Sentebale, which means "forget me not" in Sesotho, was founded in memory of both princes' mothers and aimed to support children and young people affected by HIV and AIDS in southern Africa. 

The departure of both founders marks a dramatic fall from grace for the once-admired initiative.

In a statement issued by Harry in the wake of him quitting the group, he said, "From the inception of Sentebale nearly 20 years ago, Prince Seeiso and I have had a clear goal: to support the children and young people in Southern Africa in memory of our mothers. 

"What has transpired over the last week has been heartbreaking to witness, especially when such blatant lies hurt those who have invested decades in this shared goal. No one suffers more than the beneficiaries of Sentebale itself."

Chandauka, a Zimbabwean-born lawyer and corporate executive, has not responded publicly to Harry's claims. 

Her allies argue she sought to professionalize and modernize the charity, which they say had grown too dependent on a single high-profile figure.

But to Harry, the damage appears personal and profound. 

As one longtime friend said, "This charity was a link to his mother, to his military service, and to Africa, where he's always found meaning. Losing it has left a real void."

The Duchess of York was the "Duchess of Greed" – who gorged on slabs of meat every day, had a butler put her watercress on ice and racked up millions in debts, a new book sensationally claims.

Wonderwall.com can reveal the tome, based on four years of research and hundreds of interviews, depicts Sarah Ferguson's life as a swirl of extravagance, unpaid bills, questionable charity deals and roast dinners fit for a Tudor monarch. 

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The royal family has tried to stop the publication of renowned historian Andrew Lownie's Entitled, about the rise and fall of Fergie and her shamed husband Prince Andrew, now a royal exile and recluse thanks to his scandalous relationship with Jeffrey Epstein.

But Wonderwall.com has seen advanced extracts from the book, on shelves later this month, and can reveal Lownie claims Ferguson routinely demanded whole sides of beef, legs of lamb and roast chickens for her nightly dinners – food that often went untouched and was discarded the next day. 

A source backed up his claims, telling us she devoured feasts that would make Henry VIII proud. 

But her excesses went way beyond food.

Lownie's book says her royal butler was forced to begin his day at 4:30 a.m. to chill watercress on ice for the duchess, now 65, while personal trainers and hairdressers were paid hundreds of pounds an hour to wait until she emerged – sometimes not until the late afternoon.

Ferguson's lavish lifestyle continued even as her debts spiraled out of control. At one point in the mid-1990s, she owed as much $5.3 million to around 200 creditors, according to Lownie. 

His book said an internal audit found her annual spending exceeded $1.1million, including $400,000 on staff, $200,000 on gifts and $67,000 on parties and flowers.

In just one week, she spent $33,000 in Bloomingdale's and $4,000 on a champagne tea party for 150 removal men. 

She lived in a series of grand homes – including an eight-bedroom estate with a chauffeur's flat, tennis court and a gipsy caravan for her daughters, Princess Beatrice and Princess Eugenie.

According to the book, her American charity, Chances for Children, operated more like her private office. 

Less than half of its income went to beneficiaries, with the rest used for personal staff, perfume sourcing and booking diet doctors.

She was regularly bailed out by others. 

Lownie reports Queen Elizabeth II personally paid off several of Ferguson's debts – including a demand from her bank Coutts for $665,000 in 1994. But even royal patience wore thin. 

A Palace statement in 1996 said the Duchess's finances were no longer Her Majesty's concern.

Friends and staff also grew weary. 

One aide described the toxic environment by saying, "Car journeys were the worst. She'd sit on the phone screaming at employees. Then she'd wonder why we were unhappy."

By the late 1990s, Ferguson had become the first royal to appear in a television commercial – promoting Ocean Spray cranberry juice for $500,000. 

She also endorsed hair straighteners on QVC, reportedly earning six figures for her appearances.

Yet, Lownie writes, Ferguson remained in denial about her financial strife. 

One friend recounted her explosive reaction to seeing a bank letter, saying, "She just doesn't want to know."

As late as 2010, she had amassed new debts – including a $9,000 unpaid bill for a pastel portrait of her daughters. 

She lived with up to 22 staff and continued spending thousands on travel, luxury goods and spa treatments, even while her companies collapsed and creditors circled.

Lownie said, "The story of Sarah Ferguson, the Duchess of York, is, like Prince Andrew, marked by ambition and financial recklessness. The bubbly young redhead was initially seen as a breath of fresh air when she married him in 1986, but her exploitation of her royal status to make money has seen her join her ex-husband as a hugely diminished figure. She partied, she took lovers, she was indiscreet, causing Princess Margaret to tell the duchess, 'You have done more to bring shame on the Royal Family than could ever have been imagined. Clearly you have never considered the damage you are doing us all. How dare you discredit us?'"

"But what was every bit as astonishing was her extravagant lifestyle, her excess. She spent money on an epic and often mindless scale, money that more often than not she did not have," he continued. "This particularly came to light after her separation from Andrew in 1992. In the summer of 1994, she rented Domaine La Fontaine near Cannes for $26,600. Though it was dubbed self-catering, she was accompanied by a butler, two housekeepers, a dresser, a general assistant and a nanny. Two other assistants flew in and out; two Scotland Yard protection officers were there to protect the royal daughters."

One holidaymaker who met Ferguson on a break told Lownie, "It was just non-stop partying. She kept wanting to throw parties, stay up all night. She organized one bash and spent hours telling dirty jokes. It was most uncomfortable."

According to Lownie, "By November 1995, by her own admission, Sarah's debts exceeded $4.9 million and she needed bank approval to pay even modest cheques. But even then, according to a member of her staff, she always believed there would be 'a deal around the corner' that would solve all her problems."

A sacked staff member said about her greed, "Every night she demands a whole side of beef, a leg of lamb and a chicken, which are laid out on the dining room table like a medieval banquet. It's a feast that would make Henry VIII proud. But often there is just her and her girls, Bea and Eugenie, and most of it is wasted. There is no attempt to keep it to have cold the next day. It just sits there all night, and the next day it's thrown away."