By Marie Claire
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According to biographer and royal historian Robert Lacey, seeing Kate on the big day proved to Chelsy that she did not want to live the life of a noblewoman and led her to break up with Harry forever.
The 2011 wedding of Prince William and Kate Middleton looked like a real-life fairy tale … at least to some people, of course. For others, it looked like a giant stress ball that needed to be avoided in their own lives at all costs. It looked like this to one person, anyway: Chelsy Davy, Prince Harry’s longtime girlfriend,
Harry and Chelsy were not officially together when Will and Kate were married, but she was still invited to the festivities, as someone close to the royal family. Apparently, seeing Kate on that fateful day was the last nail in the coffin of the proverbial relationship, as far as Chelsy was concerned and it led her to have a difficult conversation with Harry afterwards.
Inside Battle of brothers, royal expert Robert Lacey writes that shortly after the wedding, Chelsy made Harry sit down to have the great conversation about ending his romance forever.
“In 2011, after more comings and goings, she finally decided to go – and it was, ironically, Kate and William’s big and glorious wedding that spring that did it for her,” he wrote, according to The mirror. “According to a friend, she told Harry that she could never make the sacrifices she witnessed Kate make, particularly when it came to shaping her life around the incessant press attention.”
According MirrorIn the Chelsy report, later, Chelsy would describe the royal wedding as “so complete – crazy, scary and uncomfortable”.
Another real biographer, Angela Levin, also addressed Chelsy’s reaction to Will and Kate’s royal wedding in her book, Harry: Conversations with the Prince.
“A friend revealed that seeing the enormity and pomp of the day convinced Chelsy that she and Harry were right to part,” she wrote, The mirror. “Although they had a lot in common, she clearly saw that, coming from such different worlds, this could never have worked, especially since she valued her privacy and protected her with such care.”
Obviously, everything worked as it should, since Harry later found his soul mate, Meghan Markle, and Chelsy definitely changed too.
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