An eco-fashion designer is suing a private charity of King Charles for £6million after it withdrew from a celebrity fundraising dinner.
Amanda Navaian, the founder of luxury firm Marici London, has launched a court claim against the King Charles III Charitable Trust after being left what she described as psychologically scarred.
Ms Navaian claimed she lost millions in revenue following the cancellation of a joint project that was supposed to include a launch dinner and a promotional T-shirt campaign in support of the monarch's Coronation Food Project.
The fashion designer said that losing the opportunity has prevented her from working for an extended period.
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She noted that the event was planned to be attended by celebrities and influencers, with Olivia Buckingham, Princess Beatrice's stylist, curating it.
Ms Navaian is now suing the King's charity, FareShare, the UK's leading food redistribution charity, and Dori Dana-Haeri, who chairs the development committee for King Charles's Coronation Food Project.
The lawsuit is seeking £6million in damages against them, alleging breach of contract and "misrepresentation" over plans for the launch dinner and the scrapping of T-shirt production.
Lawyers defending the three groups said Ms Navaian's claims are "bound to fail".
Ms Navaian said she was left psychologically scarred
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Ms Navaian claimed an "oral agreement was concluded" between herself, Ms Dana-Haeri and Dame Martina Milburn, the chair of the Coronation Food Project.
The fashion designer explained: "It was the last-minute cancellation which made my whole eco-system fall apart."
Ms Navaian said that others also "wanted answers and wanted to know what went wrong".
The fashion designer told the judge: "There was no valid reason to give for the dinner being cancelled and soon after that my entire eco-system fell apart.
Lawyers defending the King's charity said the claims are 'bound to fail'
| GETTY"Everything that meant anything to me was involved in that project. There could have been over one million in sales during that launch week.
"The result of the cancellation led to me not being able to work for a very long time and caused me loss."
She described feeling "locked out and isolated" for the following year after her work team disbanded and her business plan "disintegrated".
All three defendants dispute the claims from Ms Navaian, with their barrister Andrew MacLeod telling the judge: "It's hard to know which claims are being pursued against which parties."
All three defendants, including the King's charity, dispute the claims
| GETTYHe continued: "To the extent that the claimants assert any cause of action in misrepresentation, they have failed to plead or establish any actionable misrepresentation, any reliance on such a misrepresentation and any loss flowing from such reliance.
"They have placed a value of the damages sought by their claim at 'in excess of £6million' but have failed to plead any legally coherent case as to the damages to which they are entitled.
"In short, the damages claimed are unparticularised, incoherent and speculative."
GB News has contacted Buckingham Palace for comment.
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