Prince Harry is reported to be inviting two of his ex-girlfriends – Cressida Bonas and Chelsy Davey – to his May wedding to fiancée Meghan Markle, the Daily Mail breathlessly reports.
Their presence, the website tuts, “could stir memories of Prince Charles’s ex-girlfriend Camilla Parker Bowles at St Paul’s Cathedral when he married Lady Diana Spencer in 1981.” Diana’s face at the time, they remind us disapprovingly, “visibly dropped” at the sight of the Other Woman glaring her from the pews.
It might stir those memories in the fevered minds of Daily Mail reporters but I’d be astonished if the coolly confident Meghan Markle would raise an eyebrow.
For starters, she’s been married and divorced herself. That’d be because she’s in her mid-30s and it’s 2018. She’s not likely to get an attack of the vapours because she suddenly realised her royal suitor has also enjoyed the company of the opposite sex in his time.
And secondly, there’s no indication that Harry is still sly-bonking his blue-blooded blonde ex-girlfriends on the side, unlike his Dad’s ongoing dalliance with Camilla.
Rather, it speaks volumes about Harry’s nice guy bona fides that he’s still on good enough terms with his exes to extend them an invite to the big day.
More and more people are getting married later in life; in Australia, the median age for marriage has increased from 28.2 years in 1990 to 31.4 in 2010, a figure that remains largely unchanged today. If you don’t have a handful of relationships under your belt by that point then you’re not so much marriage material as Troy from Married At First Sight. And no one wants to walk down the aisle with that, right Ashley?
The fact Harry’s relationships ended cordially enough that the various parties are showing up at each other’s weddings is a good sign. Someone who only has bad blood with their exes should raise immediate red flags. We’ve all got a few shockers under our belts whose names shall never again pass our lips, but if you’re a decent human being you should be able to be in the same room with at least some of your exes without anyone reaching for the smelling salts.
If you hate all of them then, well, maybe you’re the problem.
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