Prince Harry’s lost messages from his 20s hit hard, but not due to his court case

April 3, 2026 — 9:00am

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Between waiting for my second batch of hot cross buns — Geoff Slattery’s foolproof recipe — to rise and going down the rabbit hole of comparisons of Lindt and Aldi chocolate bunnies, the old brain has been ticking over thanks to a stash of historic Facebook messages.

By the most unlikely of memorable scribes. Prince Harry.

Written in “hello cheeky chops” style by Haz in 2011 and 2012, the messages are more fascinating for me than his ghost-written book, the bit about his piss-weak kitchen wrestle with Prince William aside.

In them, Harry’s flirting madly with an equally coquettish tabloid journo called Charlotte Griffiths. Friended on Facebook by the prince, she calls him “H Bomb” and “Mr Mischief” and quasi-rails at him for burning her off on a freeway in “your bloody Audi!”

A stripling 27-year-old at the time, Harry’s rapt. He tells Griffiths (“sugar ... miss our........

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