Prince Harry is back in the headlines — and this time, it’s over a series of flirty messages that ended in an awkward realization.
London’s High Court heard that the Duke of Sussex exchanged Facebook messages with a woman for weeks before discovering she was actually a journalist.
The messages, reportedly sent between December 2011 and January 2012, were described in court documents and published by British outlets. They suggest Harry, then in his late 20s, had a friendly and at times playful back-and-forth with Charlotte Griffiths, who later became a senior editor at the Mail on Sunday.
In one exchange, Harry allegedly joked about drinking her “under the table,” while another message reportedly ended with a casual “mwah.” Griffiths, for her part, referenced a “fun weekend of naughtiness” the two had shared at a house party.
According to Harry’s testimony, he had no idea she worked in the media at the time.
Once he found out, he said he confronted a mutual friend — who had hosted one of the parties where they met — and immediately cut off contact with her.
The messages surfaced during the final stages of Harry’s ongoing legal battle against Associated Newspapers, the publisher of the Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday. Harry, along with other high-profile figures like Elton John and Elizabeth Hurley, claims the company used unlawful methods to gather private information. The publisher denies the allegations.
Griffiths told the court she met Harry through mutual friends, including Arthur Landon, at a countryside house party. She also said she moved in similar social circles, having attended school in west London and later studying at the University of Leeds around the same time as Harry’s former girlfriend, Chelsy Davy.
At the start of the case earlier this year, Harry insisted that no one in his inner circle spoke to the press and said he was “not friends with any of these journalists.”
The case also touched on rumors that Harry once used a secret Facebook account under the name “Mr. Mischief.” He denied ever using the nickname, and it later emerged that Griffiths may have been the one who used it when referring to him in messages.
In another exchange read in court, Griffiths told Harry she was in Switzerland watching a snow polo event tied to his charity, Sentebale. Harry allegedly replied that he was stuck in Cornwall doing Army duties but joked again about outdrinking her and mentioned missing their “movie snuggles.”
There was also debate over whether the two had met in Ibiza. Harry denied ever visiting the island before 2019, when he traveled there with Meghan Markle and their son Archie. Griffiths, however, said she had spent time in Ibiza with Harry’s friends years earlier.
The high-profile case wrapped testimony on March 31, with a final ruling expected at a later date.
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