Prince Harry and Meghan Markle will be welcoming hundreds of guests to St. George’s Chapel for their much-anticipated wedding on May 19. But will Harry’s most significant ex-girlfriends, Chelsy Davy and Cressida Bonas, be among them?
Harry had an on-again, off-again relationship with Davy for several years in his early to mid-twenties, with their last attempt at a reconciliation coming in 2011. He dated Bonas for two years, splitting up in 2014. It was reportedly a dislike of the media attention and public scrutiny that came along with dating Harry that led to the demise of both relationships.
“She’s really low-key, sweet and down-to-earth,” a friend who studied with Bonas at the Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance told PEOPLE in May 2014, just after the couple split. “She didn’t talk about Harry at all. She wasn’t like that.”
Cressida Bonas and Prince Harry in March 2014
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However, since their respective splits, Harry has remained on good terms with both women. But is he friendly enough with them to warrant an invitation to his nuptials to fiancée Meghan?
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Harry runs in similar social circles to both women: Bonas is close friends with his cousin, Princess Eugenie (who is also set to tie the knot later this year). And in March 2015 and again in June 2015 (more than a year after their breakup), he was spotted in the audience of plays Bonas was performing in.
As for Davy, in June 2016 — just a few weeks before Harry met Meghan — she said that she and Harry still kept in touch.
“I think we will always be good friends,” she told The Sunday Times style section.
Chelsy Davy and Prince Harry in May 2010
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There’s royal precedent for inviting your exes to your big day: Prince William welcomed five of his reported past girlfriends to his 2011 wedding to Kate Middleton: Jecca Craig, Rose Farquhar, Olivia Hunt, Arabella Musgrave and Isabella Anstruther-Gough-Calthorpe. And of course, at his wedding to Princess Diana, Prince Charles invited his now-wife, Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall (then Camilla Parker-Bowles), as well as another ex-girlfriend, Lady Sarah McCorquodale, formerly Lady Sarah Spencer — who, of course, mainly garnered an invitation because she was the bride’s sister.
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