Prince Harry sent a string of flirty Facebook messages to a journalist, in which he joked about drinking her under the table and pined for their “movie snuggles,” according to court documents.
The rogue royal nicknamed Daily Mail reporter Charlotte Griffiths “sugar” and signed off his playful messages with several kisses, according to the messages that emerged as a part of his privacy case against the paper’s publisher, Associated Newspapers Limited.
Griffiths also playfully named the Duke of Sussex “Mr Mischief” and spoke about a “weekend of naughtiness,” the Telegraph reported.
Harry claimed he only met Griffiths once, and he cut off all communication after he realised she was a reporter — but the nature of the texts sent between December 2011 and January 2012 suggests his friendship Griffiths was far deeper.
“It’s H, incase u were confused by the name and picture,” the duke wrote in his first message to Griffiths, now 40.
“Hello Mr Mischief, was indeed confused by both – effing awesome pie,” Griffiths replied before asking whether the duke had found his car and speaking about their mutual pal Arthur Landon.
In a follow-up message, she reminisced on her “weekend of naughtiness” with the duke.
“Can’t we all get up to no good in the countryside every weeked [sic] damn it?? Smooches, CG String. Xxx,” she wrote.
Harry responded, saying it was “without doubt the best of those weekends I’ve been to.”
“What a crowd. Never laughed so much in 24hrs!!! Mr Mischief? How did I get that title … I was surely no worse than anyone else,” he wrote.
Griffiths then sent a message about a ski holiday in January 2012, where she referred to Harry as “H-bomb.”
“I wish I was there sugar but unfortunately stuck in Cornwall doing Army stuff,” Harry said.
“Otherwise I would have been there playing and then drinking u under the table, obvi!!.”
Harry also told the reporter he missed their “movie snuggles” and their messages stopped soon after.
The messages were sent before Harry dated the actress and model Cressida Bonas.
During her testimony, Griffiths said she and Harry went to a party in June 2012, the night before Trooping the Color, and messaged the next morning.
The Duke of Sussex, 41, and six other claimants, including Elton John, are suing Associated Newspapers for alleged widespread unlawful activities ranging from hacking voicemail messages, bugging landlines and obtaining private information by deception over more than two decades from the early 1990s. The judge warned Tuesday that a ruling would take some time.
This article originally appeared in The NY Post and was reproduced with permission.
