United Kingdom, July 9 -- Prince Harry has been accused by a journalist of placing what she believed was a white pill on her tongue during the early days of their friendship.

In an anecdote she has shared days after the Duke of Sussex lost his High Court privacy case against the publisher of the Daily Mail, reporter Charlotte Griffiths, writing in the Daily Mail, recalled being invited to a shooting weekend at a 4,000-acre estate in Hampshire when Harry, now 41, was still third in line to the throne.

Her account comes as Harry remains in the headlines following the dismissal of his legal claim against Associated Newspapers Limited, the publisher of the Daily Mail and The Mail on Sunday, over allegations of unlawful information gathering...