When Harry Met Cressy

Sunday morning update:
Issue dated August 16, 1982


Today is Prince William's 33rd birthday and of course Writing The World extends warmest birthday greetings to His Royal Highness. Read People's account of his christening here.

Original Post:
Are Prince Harry and Cressida Bonas secretly back together? Tom Sykes at The Daily Beast thinks it's possible, saying that "sources have told The Daily Beasts [meaning him] that Harry is still secretly dating Cressida." (Read the article here.)

I've been thinking about Harry and it occurred to me that he turns 31 in September, the exact age at which his father got engaged to Lady Diana, and there had been serious fussing about how old Charles had allowed himself to get as a single man. 

Harry's position in life is different, of course. He's not the heir to the throne, in fact, with the birth of Princess Charlotte he's now a distant fifth in line. He's also not, as far as we know, having a torrid affair with a married woman. He is, apparently, a little lonely and longing for the joys of being a husband and father, telling a reporter in May: “Of course I would love to have kids right now but there’s a process that one has to go through and tours like this are great fun, hopefully I’m doing all right by myself, it would be great to have someone else next to me to share the pressure, but you know, time will come and whatever happens, happens.”

Harry and Cressida were an item up until last year when they very publicly broke up. Prior to the break-up, I wrote an optimistic post about how much fun they were as a couple: 

Things will be much more interesting, sartorially and otherwise, if Prince Harry actually marries current girlfriend Cressida Bonas, pictured below. Unlike Kate, who always looks well-put-together and, as my mother would say, "ladylike," Cressy's fashion sense is, shall we say, more creative. Even in the waity-Katey days we never saw Kate looking like this. And we know that Harry likes to shed his clothes and party every now and then. The thought of these two free spirits teaming up and setting out to see the world and meet the subjects is enough to make a royalty-watcher tingle, so c'mon Harry, find a nice ring, get down on one knee and pop the big question to Cressy. Your prim and proper family needs some hot new blood!

For the sake of royalty watchers, and bloggers everywhere, I fervently hope Sykes is right. Harry and Cressy belong together!