Charlotte Griffiths recalls Prince Harry putting a pill on her tongue

Charlotte Griffiths has revisited an encounter with Prince Harry in which, she said, he placed a small white tablet on her tongue during a dinner in December 2011. She said she removed it and wrapped it in a napkin because she did not know what it was.

Griffiths recounted the episode on the Daily Express podcast Daily Expresso. She characterised Harry’s gesture as an attempt to test whether she trusted him, while saying she was not willing to take an unknown tablet. She later described it as a joke rather than evidence of a wider pattern.

The meeting took place during a country-house shooting weekend in Hampshire, according to Griffiths’s earlier account. She said she and Harry were seated together at dinner when he took the tablet from his pocket and put it on her tongue. In that earlier account, she said she thought it was probably paracetamol, but could not be certain.

The recollection has resurfaced amid Prince Harry’s legal proceedings against Associated Newspapers Limited. Communications between Harry and Griffiths became public during the case, including Facebook messages sent from an account described as using the name “Spike Wells”. The messages included affectionate forms of address and references to spending time together.

The disclosed exchanges were reported as conflicting with Harry’s earlier position that his contact with Griffiths had been limited or that he had met her only once. His legal team argued that Griffiths had not told him she was a journalist and described their contact as a brief social encounter.

Court records and phone logs also featured a late-night call and subsequent messages in June 2012. Griffiths was trying to enter a flat belonging to Harry’s friend Arthur Landon, where Harry was already present, according to the account of those records.

Griffiths later wrote that she stopped communicating with Harry because she was a young reporter seeking to build a serious career. The tablet’s identity remains uncertain: Griffiths said she suspected it was an ordinary painkiller but could not verify that.

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