People still associate a myriad of women with the prince, most notably Chelsy Davy and Cressida Bonas.
The media doesn’t forget, and neither do royal fans.
Bonas has been pretty open about how this obsession with the royals' exes has affected her life.
Here is a look at Harry and Bonas' memorable relationship.
Eugenie went to Leeds University and Bonas happened to be one of her classmates.
Eugenie, ever the matchmaker, decided to introduce Harry to Bonas.
Yup, it was that embarrassing.
The prince himself called it “painfully awkward.”
“I leaned in to give her a kiss, but my aim was off,” Harry wrote.
Two failed kisses on one date.
It’s no wonder Harry called Eugenie the next day, worrying about how to remedy things.
She didn’t disagree.
She’d already spoken to Cressida.
Awkward," Harry disclosed.
The good news was that Bonas wanted to give it another go, Eugenie told him.
We bet the prince heaved one giant sigh of relief.
The prince was even photographed getting cozy with another blonde who had also discarded her clothes.
Another friend said that there was no chance of Bonas continuing her relationship with the prince after the incident.
“Cressida is pretty peeved,” they disclosed.
“After hearing my careful and abashed explanation, she came to the same conclusion.
I’d been a dummy, not a debaucher.
I apologized for embarrassing her,” the prince wrote.
“Harry has been ringing Cressida regularly,” one of Bonas' friends told theDaily Mail.
“He’s been pleading with her to wait for him until he comes back,” they added.
She likes Harry but is not the sort to be bothered about his title."
(Spoiler alert: Bonas ended up marrying the other Harry.)
Surprised, concerned, with no judgement."
Maybe it was maturity," he wrote.
“Cressie is going to marry Harry.
He never stops talking about marriage and children, and she has now got used to the idea.
The wedding is likely to take place next year,” a source toldThe Telegraph.
Of course, we now know those rumors were nothing but balderdash.
“[The media attention] worries me.
But you’ve got to go with life and see how things progress,” he told theEvening Standard.
“She’s not a tough cookie at all.
She’s a very sensitive, sweet girl,” he said.
Harry and Bonas finally made their relationship public in 2014 after two years of keeping it under wraps.
How about a sequel (or perhaps a prequel), Greta Gerwig?
The last thing she wanted was to be forced into a box and referred to as an It girl.
She told her daughter, “Be true to yourself and do whatever makes you happy.
If you’re not happy, then stop.
There’s no point in carrying on.”
“I’m a lion.
I’m not tough, but I am strong.
I’m definitely not a wallflower,” she said.
Despite her resolve, it can still be tough to deal with nagging paparazzi.
Bonas has found a way to cope with that too, however.
“[I]f I ever feel like, ‘Oh, my life!’
Brown claims that Bonas saw the signs of Harry’s mental distress and that it worried her.
Clearly, they were good to each other, and it’s a pity things didn’t work out.
It all started on the ski trip during which Bonas asked Harry about his mother.
Suddenly it was clear.
This can’t work.”
Cue hearts breaking across the globe.
Harry recalled feeling utterly miserable after the trip and calling one of his friends for advice.
That didn’t mean that the conversation didn’t end in tears, however.
Friends of Harry’s quickly put a damper on their excitement, however.
“Harry and Cress have always kept in touch and are fond of each other.
It’s hard to know whether this was a coincidence or not.
But there’s nothing romantic going on between them.”
Another disclosed, “She doesn’t want Harry back.
She doesn’t look at him like that anymore.”
“They’re not back together or getting back together,” an insider toldUs Weekly.
“They both still talk and support each other’s work,” they added.
Spoiler alert: It doesn’t necessarily make you the good kind of famous.
In short: You never live it down.
In fact, many have attributed the show’s renewed popularity to Meghan’s association with the prince.
“I think it’s that thing of being pigeonholed.
But you know, it is the way it is.”
This question came days after Harry and Meghan announced they would be stepping down as full-time working royals.
Bonas refused to give her opinion.
“I wouldn’t take a position on that because it would be a headline.
“When it comes up it feels strange because I’m in a different place,” she said.
“Why do I find hats so tricky?
This time, however, it wasn’t possible.
We think she nailed it.
