00:00You can call him Flirty Harry. Prince Harry sent a female journalist a series of very
00:05friendly DMs on Facebook. The resurfaced messages were aired during his privacy trial against
00:11the Daily Mail's publishing giant, Associated Newspapers. Don't worry though, this was more
00:15than 10 years ago, long before the Duke of Sussex started dating his now wife, Meghan
00:20Markle. Between December 2011 and January 2012, Harry had a cutesy back and forth with Charlotte
00:27Griffiths, who wrote for the Daily Mail's sister paper, The Mail on Sunday at the time.
00:32He wrote, It's H, in case you were confused by name and picture, X. To which she responded,
00:39What a fun weekend of naughtiness. Can't we all get up to no good in the countryside every
00:44weekend, damn it? Smooches. In other texts, Griffiths referred to Harry as Mr. Mischief,
00:49called him H-bomb, and wrote that, We missed you so much at a friend's house. To which he
00:55replied with this, I wish I was there, sugar, but unfortunately stuck in Cornwall doing
01:00army stuff. Sad face emoji. Otherwise, I would have been there playing and then drinking you
01:06under the table. Obvi. He continued, Just wish I could have been there, especially now
01:11that you're there. Do you ever work? Hope you're really well, Griff. Miss our movie snuggles.
01:16I'm off comms all week in case you think I'm being rude. Keep me posted. Followed by a series
01:21of nine exes. Damn. The reported DMs were sent after Harry's relationship with Chelsea Davey,
01:28but before his relationship with Chrisita Bonas. Harry accused Associated Newspapers of using phone
01:33hacking and wiretapping to gather illegal information about him. They claimed they had sources within
01:38his friend group, including journalist Charlotte Griffiths. The nine-week-long privacy trial wrapped
01:44on March 31st in London, with no verdict yet. Meanwhile, across the pond, Harry will not see his
01:50dad, King Charles III, during the king's upcoming state visit to the U.S. The father-son duo also
01:55kept their distance during Harry's trial in the U.K. It's been seven months since they sat down for a
02:01private tea. Harry's reputation as the rogue royal persists since his 2020 exit from official duties
02:08and his big move to California. According to Hugo Vickers' new book, William and Harry's late
02:13grandmother, Queen Elizabeth II, refused to take Harry's phone calls without another person present
02:19in the room. A palace insider told Page Six the queen, who died in 2022, would give a lot of
02:25one-word
02:25answers during their chats and kept a lady-in-waiting there to ensure there was a record of what was
02:31said.
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