Prince Harry Secretly Reconciled With 1 Ex-Girlfriend Before Meeting Meghan Markle
Before marrying Meghan, Duchess of Sussex in 2018, Prince Harry’s love life attracted a lot of attention from the press. However, he was still able to keep things low-key from time to time. According to a royal expert, Harry secretly reconciled with an ex-girlfriend a year before he met Meghan.
Prince Harry had 1 ex-girlfriend whom he dated for 6 years
In 2004, Harry began dating Chelsy Davy, the daughter of a Zimbabwean businessman.
The couple had an on-and-off relationship that was reportedly “volatile.” Royal author Richard Kay once said, according to Express, “You can tell that they have a very volatile relationship, horrendous shouting matches, screaming rows but then, they get back together again and I would say out of all of the royal romances going on theirs’ was the real true thing. It is the real deal and I suspect that if unless something catastrophic happens they will marry – but it will be a very tempestuous marriage.”
Harry and Davy broke up in 2010. Davy told the Daily Mail in 2016 that she had a hard time dealing with the media attention.
“It was so full-on: crazy and scary and uncomfortable,” Davy recalled. “I found it very difficult when it was bad. I couldn’t cope… I was trying to be a normal kid and it was horrible.”
Prince Harry reportedly reconciled with Chelsy Davy in 2015
Although many people believe Harry and Davy broke up for good in 2010, author Katie Nicholl alleged that they tried to get back together in the summer of 2015. They reportedly had some moments of reconciliation without the press’ knowledge.
“You sort of get the feeling that neither of them were quite ever willing to completely let go of that love affair,” Nicholl told InStyle. “They’d carved their names into one of the tree trunks on the family estate. It was such a love affair, it really was.”
Nicholl added, “Right up until 2015 they were trying to give it another chance. I was quite struck by that and I think everyone that’s been in love, you know, you never forget your first love, and in that respect I think Prince Harry was no different.”
However, things ultimately did not work out for Harry and Davy.
How did Prince Harry and Meghan Markle meet?
A year after trying to get back together with Davy, Harry met Meghan. In the summer of 2016, Harry and Meghan went on a blind date at Soho House’s Dean Street Townhouse in London.
According to the 2020 biography Finding Freedom by Omid Scobie and Carolyn Durand, which received some input from Meghan via a friend, Harry and Meghan hit it off instantly. A friend alleged, “Almost immediately they were almost obsessed with each other… It was as if Harry was in a trance.”
Their relationship moved quickly. For their third date, the couple flew to Botswana and spent time together in a luxury tent.
As many fans know, Harry and Meghan announced their engagement in November 2017. Then, they got married in May 2018. The couple now has two children together.
