It's reported that Prince Harry has split up with his girlfriend of three years, Chelsy Davy.
According to the Mail on Sunday, which is splashing the story
across its front page, the couple have ended their romance due to his
unhappiness at being banned from serving with his regiment, whilst she
is said to be bored of University life in Leeds just weeks after moving
to Britain for a new life near her prince.
The News of The World also features the story on its front page, it's banner headline reading: 'Chelsy Dumps Harry: Royal affair is orf after lovers grow apart.'
It claims Chelsy 'became tired of Harry's total lack of commitment'.
The news of the split may come as little surprise to royal watchers, the British press in particular having recently published a number of stories relating to the collapsing state of the relationship.
At one point it was claimed the couple had even argued over Chelsy's desire to have a tattoo, a decision Harry is said to have condemned as "chavvy".
In mid-September - and just two weeks after a story appeared in the same paper suggesting Harry had jokingly proposed to Chelsy in readiness for 'the real thing' - the Sunday People quoted a close friend of Chelsy as
saying of the relationship following her arrival in London to study in Leeds: "Things started badly and have got worse and worse. One night
last week Chelsy had to go out clubbing with Harry's best mate Guy
Pelly because he said he couldn't see her."
"She feels he has failed to show her anywhere near enough attention
since she arrived in London from South Africa."
"She had been looking forward to seeing him so much and is completely
rocked by it. But Harry is very much a soldier and seems pre-ocuupied
by his Army
duties and pals. She thinks he is putting them first and is devastated."
Concluded the unnamed pal: "She has
ended up staying with friends in Fulham, twiddling her thumbs, waiting
to party with the man she loves. But it just hasn't happened."
"She loves him and calls him her Big
Ginger - but he hasn't exactly been the most attentive of boyfriends. She now
wishes she hadn't come over early at all and had stayed in Cape Town
before flying to Britain to start university."
