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| Prince Harry and Cressida Bonas in 'amicable split' | Prince Harry and Cressida Bonas in 'amicable split' |
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| Prince Harry and his girlfriend Cressida Bonas have split up. | Prince Harry and his girlfriend Cressida Bonas have split up. |
| BBC royal correspondent Peter Hunt tweeted that the break-up was "said to be 'amicable' and they remain 'the best of friends'". | BBC royal correspondent Peter Hunt tweeted that the break-up was "said to be 'amicable' and they remain 'the best of friends'". |
| He said the prince was "keen, according to those who know him, to make it clear the relationship didn't end because he found Cressida 'too needy'." | He said the prince was "keen, according to those who know him, to make it clear the relationship didn't end because he found Cressida 'too needy'." |
| Their attendance at their first official engagement together in March had prompted engagement speculation. | Their attendance at their first official engagement together in March had prompted engagement speculation. |
| The pair sat together and embraced in the stands at Wembley Arena at a We Day UK charity event. | The pair sat together and embraced in the stands at Wembley Arena at a We Day UK charity event. |
| Speculation had since mounted that the fourth-in-line to the throne would pop the question with his 30th birthday looming. | Speculation had since mounted that the fourth-in-line to the throne would pop the question with his 30th birthday looming. |
| The prince and Miss Bonas, 25, were reportedly introduced by Princess Eugenie in the summer of 2012. | |
| 'Unwanted attention' | |
| It was not long after their meeting that photographs of a naked Prince Harry partying with a group of girls in a Las Vegas hotel room were front-page news across the world. | |
| The couple then endured a five-month separation when the prince was deployed to fly Apache helicopters with the British army in Afghanistan. | |
| Their relationship resumed when he returned and the pair were often photographed together attending various events, like the Glastonbury music festival and a society wedding. | |
| According to the Daily Telegraph, it was unwanted media attention and engagement speculation that led to the pair's split, while the Press Association reported the couple decided to go their separate ways to allow Miss Bonas to focus on her career. | |
| She completed a year-long contemporary dance course at the Trinity Laban Conservatoire in Greenwich, south London, last year, before securing a marketing job in the city's West End. | |
| Miss Bonas is the daughter of Old Harrovian businessman Jeffrey Bonas and Sixties "It girl" Lady Mary-Gaye Curzon, who once posed semi naked, streaked in engine oil, for a coffee table book called Birds of Britain in homage to her racing driver grandfather Francis, the 5th Earl Howe. | |
| News of the couple's split coincided with the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge's third wedding anniversary. Prince William and Kate famously broke up for several months four years before they married in 2011. |