Overview
- A UK High Court judge dismissed all claimants’ privacy claims against Associated Newspapers in a 436‑page judgment that found no wrongdoing by the publisher.
- Associated Newspapers called the decision an overwhelming victory and said the judgment cleared the Daily Mail and The Mail on Sunday of the 97 allegations made in the case.
- Hours after the ruling, Mail on Sunday editor‑at‑large Charlotte Griffiths published a first‑person account alleging that Prince Harry placed a small white pill on her tongue at a 2011 party.
- Secondary reports say Meghan Markle read the piece and reacted with horror and mortification, but those accounts rely on unnamed sources and are not independently confirmed.
- The coverage ties the new anecdote to Harry’s earlier admissions of past drug use in his memoir Spare and leaves reputational pressure on the duke while the court judgment itself remains in force.