Prince Harry has set tongues wagging with some very public displays of affection towards on-off girlfriend Cressida Bonas on the ski slopes of Verbier, Switzerland. We round up ten things you need to know about the 24-year-old.
10 Cressida’s blood is blue as well, her mother is 1960s ‘It girl’ Lady Mary-Gaye Curzon.
9 Cressida is the Latinised version of a name of Greek origin, meaning ‘gold’. A Trojan girl in Homer’s Iliad, she is the eponymous heroine in Shakespeare’s Troilus and Cressida.
8 Her parents have married six times between them and she is the youngest of five siblings. Half-sister Gabriella Wilde has starred in a campaign for Burberry.
7 Some royal watchers have pointed out Cressida’s apparent likeness to Harry’s ex, Chelsy Davy. We’re not convinced, however.
6 Cressida did attend the same university as Chelsy – Leeds – where she studied dance.
5 Cressida appears to attract a lot of nicknames, ranging from the collective H&C – hot and cold, referencing her on-off relationship with Harry – to bon-arse after her Pippa Middleton-esque derriere.
4 Harry and Cressida are thought to have first struck up a relationship last summer, although it was understood it cooled after his naked billiards antics in Las Vegas.
3 They are believed to have kept in touch during his four-month tour of duty in Afghanistan, with the prince, 28, writing her several ‘blueys’, letters written on Army issue blue paper.
2 The couple could be set to walk down the aisle together as soon as next month, albeit as guests at the wedding between Cressida’s half-sister and Sir Richard Branson’s son in South Africa.
1 That said, Paddy Power is already offering 8/1 odds Harry and Cressida will be engaged before the end of the year.
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