London - The girl Prince Harry was seen cuddling and kissing at Mayfair club Le Salon last week, may not be his perfect match after all, it has been revealed.
Stowe-educated Cressida Bonas, who is herself the daughter of renowned Sixties It girl Lady Mary-Gaye Curzon, is presumably just the sort of highborn singleton that Harry had in mind when he asked his sister-in-law Kate to hook him up with a likely female earlier this year.
In this particular case, however, it is unlikely that the Duchedd of Cambridge will be rushing to give her approval to Harry’s prospective match with the otherwise perfect girlfriend material, Miss Bonas.
The lovely Cressida is, after all, the half-sister of the even more beautiful actress Isabella Anstruther-Gough-Calthorpe — a name that is even now capable of sending a shiver of anxiety down the spine of the Duchess of Cambridge, the Daily Mail reported.
Prince William had a massive — if unrequited — crush on Bella, as she is known to friends, to such an extent that when he spent a rapt evening hanging on her every word at a black-tie party in 2005, Kate stormed out in a huff. Today Bella is engaged to Richard Branson’s son Sam.
That said, Cressida — who was actually fixed up with Harry by his cousin Princess Eugenie — certainly fits the profile of the leggy identikit blondes to which Harry is drawn.
She also comes from a family with more than their fair share of the sort of scandals, affairs, multiple marriages, messy court cases and, of course, profligate spending that is seen as a badge of honour in the aristocratic circles in which both she and 27-year-old Harry move.
Her former model mother Lady Mary-Gaye, a scion of the vastly rich Curzon banking family, has five children by three of her four husbands, all of whom she divorced.
Meanwhile, Cressida’s father, Old Harrovian Jeffrey Bonas, was once accused of being ‘unreliable’ by a judge in a court case over the 1.2 million pounds he paid his first wife in the divorce brought on by his adulterous affair with Cressida’s mother.
As part of Harry’s wider set, she is more than aware that he has a wandering eye when it comes to posh party-girls of her ilk.
He has recently been seen in the company of another high society blonde Lady Melissa ‘Missy’ Percy whom he was photographed chatting up on the stairwell of a West London nightclub a couple of months ago.
He has also been on dates with socialite Astrid Harbord and last summer had a fling with another Old Stoic, Florence Brudenell-Bruce, yet another interchangeable, fresh-faced blonde with an aristocratic heritage.