The Mail’s Charlotte Griffiths claims Prince Harry gave her a white tablet in 2011

At Prince Harry and his co-plaintiffs’ trial in opposition to the Every day Mail earlier this 12 months, Charlotte Griffiths testified that she had labored for the Mail since 2010 and claimed (at size) that she moved in the identical social circles as Prince William, then-Duchess Kate and Prince Harry. Griffiths was the one who claimed William revealed Kate’s first being pregnant whereas flying solo at a weekend home celebration. However most of Griffiths’ testimony involved how she met Harry at a home celebration on the weekend of 2011 and he flirted along with her and despatched her messages on Fb. She claims she needed to inform the reality about all of it as a result of Harry mainly mentioned they barely knew one another and he minimize her off when he discovered she labored for the Mail. At finest, Griffiths got here throughout as a tabloid honeytrap. At worst… effectively. Regardless, following the Mail’s doubtful authorized victory this week, Griffiths wrote an exhaustive article about Harry giving him a white tablet in 2011, then sending a detailed affiliate to temporary him on his life in 2025. The essential components of his Mail article:

Assembly Harry in 2011: In response to the seating plan, the prince and I had been to take a seat subsequent to one another for dinner. And since Harry was in all probability afraid of being launched to a stranger carrying H&M, he determined to rekindle our relationship by subjecting me to slightly take a look at. From his pocket he took out a small white tablet. Then he held it in entrance of my face, put it on my tongue and mentioned with a smile: “Now I do know I can belief you!” Take that white tablet he had so overtly put in my mouth (which I discreetly eliminated and folded right into a serviette shortly after). It was nearly definitely paracetamol, somewhat than something extra sinister. However I could not be completely positive.

Harry favored to take creatine: Harry, who recounted his youthful enthusiasm for leisure medication in his autobiography Spare, instructed me, with uncommon seriousness, that he was unable to bask in narcotics lately, as a result of danger of random drug checks from the navy. Whereas others had been taking cocaine on the golf equipment, bars and events he went to, he instructed me he was now taking one thing known as creatine. It’s a completely authorized dietary complement that’s usually blended with water and drunk by bodybuilders in search of slightly one thing additional.

Harry thinks she is a fantasist and a liar: When the Mail’s lawyer identified to Harry that he had had a friendship with me, he responded with disdain, successfully calling me one thing of a fantasist and a liar. “I met her as soon as over the weekend,” he instructed the court docket. “After which the subsequent day, after I left, after the weekend was over, I discovered who she was.” He claimed to have then “minimize off contact”. The issue for Harry is that it is merely not true. We had really met a number of instances. And I remained near a few of his associates for a few years.

The Mail’s unique on the assembly of the king’s courtiers with the Sussex group: I can now disclose to you that, in the course of the summer time of 2025, a detailed advisor to Harry and Meghan contacted me out of the blue and invited me to lunch on the Ivy restaurant in London. Following the data supplied to me at that lunch assembly, I revealed a sequence of articles in The Mail on Sunday which portrayed the couple in a constructive gentle. This included a front-page article, which appeared in July, suggesting that Harry and Meghan had been making an attempt to rebuild their relationship with King Charles. It revolved round the truth that Liam Maguire and Meredith Maines, Harry and Meghan’s US PR managers, had been to have open talks with the monarch’s aide, Tobyn Andreae, in London. I used to be duly knowledgeable of the assembly, which was held on the Royal Over-Seas League, close to Clarence Home. Members sat on a balcony clearly seen from the general public park under. The Mail on Sunday requested a photographer to seize this heat however very embarrassing scene. In a growth that speaks volumes about their integrity, “sources near the Sussexes” later instructed the Every day Telegraph that they had been “very annoyed” that photographs of the Royal Over-Seas League gathering had ended up within the Mail on Sunday – suggesting, wrongly, that the Palace was liable for a grotesque betrayal of belief.

[From The Daily Mail]

“An in depth advisor to Harry and Meghan…” This brings up one thing I’ve talked about earlier than. Whereas I do know a few of these tabloids are making up sources and quotes, or utilizing different media shops as “sources”, I’ve believed for a while now that there’s something fairly nefarious occurring with royal associates, palace staffers and Prince William himself posing as “Sussex insiders” or “advisers to Harry and Meghan”. Who within the Sussex circle nonetheless lives within the UK and would hand over this large unique to the identical newspaper that Harry is suing? This does not make any sense. What really is sensible is that somebody nearer to King Charles’s court docket was making an attempt to ease tensions between father and son, and that individual used the connections between Buckingham Palace and the Every day Mail. “Shut advisor to Harry and Meghan” may be somebody who labored briefly with them within the UK, similar to Jason Knauf. When you begin studying by means of this thread, his story is not sensible.

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