Journalist Charlotte Griffiths has broken her silence just months after revealing that she had previously exchanged “intimate texts” with Prince Harry. Charlotte, the current Editor at Large of the Mail on Sunday, has shared an account of her friendship with Harry in a newly-published article for the Daily Mail.
The journalist, who recently appeared on The Mark Dolan Show, previously referred to Harry as “Mr Mischief” and “H Bomb”. Charlotte also refers to a “fun weekend of naughtiness” in a serious of text messages unveiled back in early April.
Harry’s messages to her also included the words “sugar”, “Griff” and “Miss our movie snuggles”, The Times reported at the time.
The claims of the messages came after Harry told the court in January that he was not friends with any of the journalists linked to the case.
Writing in her latest article for the Daily Mail, she wrote: “But suddenly those messages, in which I had spoken about the ‘fun weekend of naughtiness’ and Harry had recalled our ‘movie snuggles’, were interpreted as evidence of some sort of romantic liaison.
“In fact, we’d merely shared a blanket during a film screening in a sitting room with other people present on a Sunday afternoon. The ‘naughtiness’ referred to excessive alcohol consumption.”
“A reference by Harry to a ‘Cinderella’s shoe’ in a separate message inspired further misleading headlines suggesting we had been intimate,” adding that they were instead borrowed shoes that she used to “head outside for a cigarette”.
Speaking of the backlash that she received, Charlotte described this as “sickening”, although admitted that journalists “shouldn’t complain when they are scrutinised”.
Charlotte also opened up about a time that they were both invited to a shooting weekend at a 4,000-acre estate in Hampshire.