Prince Harry, Duke of Sussex is facing renewed scrutiny after previously unseen text messages between him and British journalist Charlotte Griffith surfaced.
In the 2011 and 2012 exchanges, there is a playful and flirty relationship between King Charles’s son and the journalist. The messages come amid Harry’s ongoing legal battle against Associated Newspapers Ltd, the publisher of the Daily Mail.
Harry is fighting a legal battle against the press, so his flirtation with a reporter “could undermine his case” as he was apparently “friending the press at a time when he claims they were harassing him.”
However, insiders claim it “paints her as a flirty, hard-partying character who clearly has skeletons in her closet that Meghan didn’t or didn’t know about.”
“This is an extremely embarrassing situation for Harry as well as (Duchess) Meghan (Markle),” an insider told Radar Online.
The source also revealed that Meghan was “shocked” after the revelations, and that she “wants to know the whole story and the exact nature of their relationship.”
Meanwhile, Harry is said to be defending himself saying that this all happened a long time ago and once again this is a case of the press and their legal pitbulls trying to smear him and hopefully it will stick.
The insider revealed, “He admits to having a playful (exchange) with this woman. But he swears by the above-the-line — just a little friendly fun and no need to try or connect her behavior at that time to who she is today.”
On the other hand, the timing of the revelation couldn’t be worse as Prince Harry and Meghan Markle have already been “under tremendous stress recently.”
“They’re constantly putting out fires and dealing with one crisis after another,” the insider said.
The Duke of Sussex is reportedly irritated because people are trying to cause trouble between him and his wife, the Duchess of Sussex, who is said to be wondering “what else is he hiding?”
People are now wondering “could this be the straw that broke the camel’s back” regarding Prince Harry and Meghan Markle, who were already on “shaky ground,” according to the tipster.
