Before he settled down with Meghan Markle, Prince Harry was in an on-again, off-again relationship with Chelsy Davy — and thought she might be The One as he watched Prince William and Princess Kate fall in love.“Whenever I worried that Kate was going to be the one to take Willy from me, I consoled myself with thoughts of all our future laughing fits together, and I told myself how great everything would be when I had a serious girlfriend who could laugh along with us.
Maybe it would be Chelsy,” Harry, 38, writes in Spare, out Tuesday, January 10.Harry recalls sacrificing his relationship with Davy, now 37, as he traveled with the military.
The twosome, who were first linked in 2004, called it quits for good in 2010.“I completely understood her desire for freedom.
If I had a choice, I wouldn’t want this life either,” he writes, revealing that they split shortly after he was awarded his helicopter pilot’s wings in May 2010. (Davy attended the ceremony and was seen chatting with Queen Consort Camilla.)He writes, “The day I got my wings, I figured she got hers.”Nearly one year later, Davy was in attendance at William and Kate’s wedding in April 2011.
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