Prince Harry’s Ex-Girlfriend Cressida Bonas Opens Up About Their Relationship

Prince Harry and Meghan Markle are happily married with two children, but before he met Meghan, Harry was in a serious relationship with Cressida Bonas.

The couple dated for two years after being introduced by Harry's cousin Princess Eugenie in 2012.

However, their relationship was nearly derailed by an embarrassing incident that occurred in August of that year.

Harry was caught on camera playing strip billiards with friends in a Las Vegas hotel, and photographs of him in the n^de were blasted around the world.

The incident humiliated Cressida, and a friend of hers told the Daily Mirror at the time that she saw a future with Harry, but he had embarrassed her and ruined his chances.

Despite the public embarrassment, the couple moved past the event and were photographed together at several events over the next two years.

Harry's biographer Angela Levin claimed Cressida found the whole incident rather amusing.

While it remains unclear what happened behind closed doors, the couple clearly moved past the event and were photographed together at several events over the next two years.

The photographs did cause a huge stir behind palace walls, and a source claimed that Charles said to Harry, “As it stands, son, it's bearable and we can manage it, but is there any more to come out?

He has not been too angry so far and has advised Harry to keep his head down and let the situation calm down.

It's more his style to put his arm around Harry's shoulder and have a word than to rollick him.”

Harry dated Cressida on and off until near to his 30th birthday, but it ended when the actress gained an insight into how Kate, Duchess of Cambridge, had to share her firstborn son Prince George with the world, according to a biography.

Royal commentator Robert Lacey claimed in his book Battle of Brothers that Cressida was “completely spooked” by Kate's tour to New Zealand and Australia with eight-month-old George and Prince William that year.

Mr Lacey also wrote, “A rising actress, Cressida did not enjoy the critical remarks that she could hear people making behind her back when she walked down the street in London.

She felt that the fame of her relationship put her in a box.

Others claimed Cressida felt she was torn between a successful acting career or giving it all up to be with Harry.”

The couple parted on “amicable terms,” and she was even seen attending Harry and Meghan's wedding in 2018.

Last year, Cressida also told the Daily Telegraph how she felt she had matured in recent years.

She said, “I think I have grown confident and fortunately I have learnt not to sweat the small stuff too much.

And I just think it has definitely given me a stronger sense of purpose and a stronger sense of what I want or don't want.”

Recently, Harry himself addressed the Las Vegas incident on Dax Shepard's podcast, Armchair Expert.

Mr Shepard opened the podcast by saying, “I'm really excited to meet you because, in full disclosure, I'm the most ill-informed person on the royal family, at least in my circle.

You're the only one I ever knew and simply because you were in those awesome n^de photos in Vegas.

And I literally said to myself, this guy is a party.”

Harry replied, “I'm sure you're constantly looking for other people to sort of balance out your own behavior, right?”

Harry also discussed the anxiety he experienced between the ages of 28 and 32 during his new Apple TV Plus series, The Me You Can't See.

He said, “I was willing to drink, I was willing to take drugs, I was willing to try and do the things that made me feel less like I was feeling.”

Despite their past, Harry and Cressida have clearly moved on and found happiness in their respective lives.