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The official pregnancy announcement was made at 4pm that Monday afternoon after the then Duchess of Cambridge was admitted to hospital with acute morning sickness.<\/p>\n
Newspaper coverage at the time suggested that Elizabeth II and Prince Charles, later the King, were only told around an hour earlier because the Cambridges had planned to share their news that Christmas at Sandringham, before the need for a hospital admission forced them to tell.<\/p>\n
David Sherborne, cross-examining Ms Griffiths on behalf of the claimants, suggested she had invented the story and was \u201cmaking up connections with the Royal family\u201d.<\/p>\n
Ms Griffiths told the court that in June 2012, she and Prince Harry<\/a> had both attended the house party of Arthur Landan, a mutual friend.<\/p>\n She said she remembered because they found it \u201cquite funny\u201d that the Duke stayed up all night before having to attend a Trooping the Colour<\/a> event the next morning.<\/p>\n Call data is said to show a call between the two at 2:50am and three text messages exchanged between them the following morning.<\/p>\n Ms Griffiths said she had probably called the Duke<\/a> so he could let her into the house party as she had arrived before Mr Landan. She suggested she had texted him the next morning, either to see if he made it to his engagement or to tell him they would not be joining him \u201cas we had only got to bed in the early hours of the morning\u201d.<\/p>\n When the Duke gave evidence last month, he admitted meeting Ms Griffiths at the party but said that when he found out who she was, he \u201ccut off contact\u201d.<\/p>\n He denied communicating with Ms Griffiths on Facebook using the pseudonym Mr Mischief. The journalist said she had never suggested this.<\/p>\n Ms Griffiths wrote one of the stories cited in the joint claim on Sir Elton and David Furnish, his husband. It described Elizabeth Hurley, the actress, being concerned that she might not be asked to be godparent to Zachary, Sir Elton\u2019s son.<\/p>\nElizabeth Hurley \u2018godparent\u2019 story<\/h2>\n