Before marrying Meghan Markle, Prince Harry had two serious girlfriends - Chelsea Davy and Cressida Bonas, who, like Meghan, was an actress. Introduced by Harry's cousin, Princess Eugenie, Harry and Cressida were in the midst of a two-year relationship in 2014, but in the aftermath of the royal tour given by Harry's brother Prince William and sister-in-law Kate Middleton, Cressida "freaked out" and broke up with Harry and the royal life The Mirror reports that a book claims that she decided the pressures of royal life were too much for her.

Robert Lacey, who saw Kate on television during her and William's royal tour of Australia and New Zealand, wrote in his book Battle of Brothers: William and Harry-The Inside Story of a Family in (Tumult), Robert Lacey says it was the last straw for Cressida. [As an up-and-coming actress,] Cressida did not enjoy the critical remarks she heard behind her as she walked down the streets of London," he writes. She felt that her dating fame kept her 'in a box'"

And in 2014, Lacey continues, "she was said to have been 'completely terrified' when she saw a television report of William and Kate touring New Zealand with baby George. It was not the way she would enjoy her 8-month-old son, she explained ruefully to Harry."

At the time of the breakup, a friend said, "It is very sad that they decided to part ways, but this was a completely amicable goodbye and they remain the best of friends."

Harry then met Meghan in 2016, got engaged in 2017, and married in 2018. As the aforementioned friend stated, Cressida attended Harry and Meghan's wedding. And now, Cressida is expecting her own baby, the first with her husband of two years, Harry Wentworth-Stanley.