Overview
- Charlotte Griffiths, editor-at-large at the Mail on Sunday, testified that she learned of the Princess of Wales’s first pregnancy at a private country weekend in late 2012 and chose not to report it to avoid crossing a line.
- Griffiths said Prince William mentioned Kate’s morning sickness at the event, an account challenged by claimants’ lead counsel David Sherborne, who alleged she invented or exaggerated her connections, which she denied.
- Court evidence referenced a 2:50 a.m. call and later texts between Griffiths and Prince Harry in June 2012; she said the exchanges were about gaining entry to a social after-party and insisted she never hacked phones or used private investigators.
- Mail on Sunday editor David Dillon began giving evidence, rejecting claims he approved invoices for unlawful acts and stating he had never known of phone hacking at the paper in his 25 years, with his testimony due to continue on Wednesday.
- Associated Newspapers Limited denies all allegations of unlawful information-gathering in the multi-claimant privacy trial, which includes Prince Harry, Sir Elton John, David Furnish, Elizabeth Hurley and Baroness Doreen Lawrence.