Prince Harry and Meghan Markle‘s charitable org has hit a snag — being declared delinquent by the state of California, but there’s a perfectly good explanation … snail mail.
Here’s the deal … the Archewell Foundation was found to be “delinquent” this week on paying its renewal fees — and it’s technically barred from fundraising until that gets fixed. On its face, it sounded like the charity wasn’t taking care of business … but that’s not quite the case.
We’re told the reason Archewell was able to hit this not-so-great status is because a check to pay for these registration fees was simply never received, although we hear it was sent.
In other words … the money to re-up its certification as a nonprofit just got lost in the mail — and now, we’re told another check is being cut … and this one should cover the fees owed.
We’re sure there’ll be additional correspondence sent over to CA officials — as the AG’s original letter to them made it pretty clear that they ran the risk of being in bad standing if they didn’t get it together … that, or be booted from the Registry in one fell swoop.
The letter from the AG notifying Archewell of its delinquent status also made clear that if there was a delay in getting the fees paid, there better be a good explanation to make up for it.
Of course, Harry and Meghan are very much still involved in charity and philanthropy work — as we just saw them in Nigeria for an unofficial visit … where they made the rounds, attended events and chatted with the locals.
Seems like this one just slipped through the cracks … time to get the house in order.