Harry 'bitterly disappointed' as his £1m charity gives Aids orphans just £84,0000

'Disappointed': Prince Harry's Aids charity has given just £84,000 to orphans like Mutsu Potsane

Sentebale - the charity the prince founded in honour of his late mother - has distributed less than a tenth of money it has raised and has almost £600,000 still sitting in a bank account.

Yet £250,000 has been spent on staffing costs, with one official paid more than £90,000, according to the first accounts filed to the Charity Commission.

Aides admitted Harry was "bitterly disappointed" by the charity's performance and said he desperately wants the money to help orphans he met in the southern African country of Lesotho.

But officials also stressed that any new charity needs to take time establishing its organisation and operation before handing out money.

Sentebale - which means "forget me not" - has raised £1.15million since it was launched two years ago.

It received £150,000 from last year's Concert for Diana and £752,000 from the British Red Cross's Lesotho fund.

But only £84,000 has been paid out to support children in Lesotho, where 200,000 youngsters have lost at least one parent to the disease.

Accounts for the charity's first 17 months show the vast majority of its spending went on running costs, including £75,000 on vehicles and equipment and £86,000 on setting up a website.

Another £47,000 was paid to the offices of Harry's father Prince Charles and his wife Camilla, to cover consultancy charges and salaries there, according to the accounts.

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Repayments worth £21,715 were made to Traditional Arts, a company where Sentebale's chief executive Geoffrey Matthews is a director.

Mr Matthews also received fees worth £38,989.

A Clarence House spokesman said: "Prince Harry is not angered by Sentebale's performance.

"He understands the importance of establishing its office on the ground in Lesotho.

"It has begun to fulfil his vision of supporting small, community-based projects and by the end of August it will have spent £225,000 directly on such projects.

"The last thing he wanted was for Sentebale to distribute funds without checking they were going to the right projects."

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Sentebale was set up in 2006 by Prince Harry and Lesotho's Prince Seeiso to help children affected by the country's HIV/Aids pandemic.

Lesotho has one of the worst infection rates in the world. More than one in six of its 2.2million population are estimated to be HIV positive.

Harry spent two months working with children affected by the disease in 2004, during a gap year before he started his Army training, and was deeply moved by their plight.

He said he wanted his charity to honour his mother's work with Aids victims and orphaned children, adding: "I really feel that by doing this I can follow in my mother's footsteps and keep her legacy alive."