Prince Harry and ex-girlfriend Chelsy’s “emotional” call before royal wedding
It certainly raised eyebrows when Prince Harry invited two ex-girlfriends, Chelsy Davy and Cressida Bonas, to his wedding to Meghan Markle.
Davy, 32, who split from Harry in 2010 after dating him on-and-off for several years, looked particularly uncomfortable during the wedding ceremony.
Now it’s been revealed the ex lovers shared a “tearful phone call” in the days leading up to the royal wedding.
“It was their final call, a parting call in which they both acknowledged Harry was moving on,” a source told Vanity Fair.
“Chelsy was quite emotional about it all, she was in tears and almost didn’t go to the wedding.”
Davy and Bonas were not invited to the intimate evening reception at Frogmore House, hosted by Prince Charles, however.
Vanity Fair’s source claims Davy mentioned this snub in her phone conversation with Harry.
“In the end, she went [to the ceremony] and promised Harry she wouldn’t try and gatecrash the party,” the insider added.
The lawyer-turned-jewellery designer was Harry’s first major relationship, and she famously was a guest and Prince William and Kate Middleton’s wedding.
Harry has maintained a friendly relationship with Davy since they broke up in 2011.
She has previously spoken about how she struggled with the public spotlight that came with dating the Prince.
In an interview with The Times in 2016, Davy described the attention that had engulfed their relationship as “crazy and scary and uncomfortable”.
“I couldn’t cope," she admitted. "I was trying to be a normal kid and it was horrible."