Pinkham met ex-England rugby team captain Matt Dawson, when he was 22 year old student sports teacher at a local school near Rugby. They shared a long term relationship through her University studies, and during the start of his professional rugby career from 1996. Dawson introduced Pinkham to Prince Harry, who she was scheduled to look after with Clive Woodward's wife Jane during the 1999 Rugby World Cup. Pinkham and Dawson later broke up, she suggests because they were too young when they originally met.It was during this time that Pinkham and the Prince became good friends, and it is reported that the Prince reportedly became infatuated with her. In 2004, Pinkham joined the Prince on a safari holiday in Botswana. After the Prince started dating South African Chelsy Davy, old private pictures of the Prince fondling Pinkham's breasts emerged, and paparazzi photographs were taken of the Prince kissing Pinkham in London. Although repeatedly linked romantically to the Prince, Pinkham successfully sued for damages and retrevial of the earlier stolen private photographs, has always denied any romantic liaison and states the only woman in the Prince's life is Davy.
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