"A fun evening full of mischief." Prince Harry flirted with a journalist on social media without knowing who she was.

Prince Harry exchanged messages with journalist Charlotte Griffiths for about a month without knowing her job title. The son of King Charles III of Great Britain revealed this at a new court hearing in his privacy case.

During the investigation, messages exchanged between Prince Harry and Griffiths on Facebook* between December 2011 and January 2012 surfaced. They flirted with each other and planned to have a drink together. According to the Duke of Sussex, she hid her profession from him. Soon after they began communicating, they crossed paths at a party hosted by Harry's friend, producer Arthur Landon. According to Griffiths, it was "a fun evening full of mischief." It was there that Harry learned that Charlotte worked for the Mail and subsequently stopped communicating with her. A couple of months later, the grandson of Queen Elizabeth II began dating actress and dancer Cressida Bonas. They broke up in 2014.

As a reminder, Prince Harry, along with Elton John, Elizabeth Hurley, and Jude Law's ex-wife Sadie Frost, have filed a class action lawsuit against the renowned British newspaper the Daily Mail. They accuse the media outlet of illegally collecting information about them between 1993 and 2011 for the purpose of writing sensational articles about the celebrities.

Prince Harry, 41, is married to actress Meghan Markle, 44. The couple met in 2016 and married two years later. Their son, Archie, was born in the UK, and in 2020, the couple stepped back from their royal duties and moved to California. There, their daughter, Lilibet, was born. In the US, the dukes pursue various projects, often drawing criticism, and occasionally make public appearances and attend parties.

Photo: Dan Kitwood/Getty Images, meghan/Instagram**Instagram and Facebook are owned by Meta, a recognized extremist organization in Russia.