Before they would officially start dating in 2004, Prince Harry had already metChelsy Davy.
Nothing happened then, however, seeing as she was about to graduate and move back to South Africa.
But were they always doomed to fail?
The feeling had only been reinforced when they saw each other again in Cape Town.
She seemed immune to that common affliction sometimes called throne syndrome."
“Not only was she uninterested in my title, she seemed bored by it.
‘Oh, you’re a prince?
Yawn,'” he said, adding that back then, Davy knew nothing about his family.
not long before they broke up (viaThe New York Times).
“It was so full-on, crazy and scary and uncomfortable,” she said.
“I found it very difficult when it was bad.
I couldn’t cope.
I was young, I was trying to be a normal kid, and it was horrible.”
At the time, Davy had been trying to build a career, keeping busy and working long hours.
Or the British public.
And the last thing I wanted was for Chels to change to accommodate them."
But she wasn’t sure she wanted to have a chronic illness."
Odds were, the press would cost me another person I cared about."
Davy reportedly declined, with Nicholl writing that “her presence would only encourage the paparazzi.”
Harry recalled a particularly difficult conversation in his memoir, stating: “What were we doing?
Where were we heading?
She knew I cared about her.
But she felt unseen.”
She wanted him to do something about the press attention, but all he could do was apologize.
For his part, Harry could understand her desire for freedom.
Before he was expected to return to Afghanistan, they went on one final holiday to Botswana.
There, his friend Teej once again helped him look at their relationship more clearly.
Harry wrote: “It’s over, kids.
You’re postponing the inevitable.
And making yourselves crazy in the process.”
Don’t waste the most precious thing there is.
… it could never have worked, especially as she valued her privacy and guarded it so carefully."
