Sarah Ferguson isn’t the only one reportedly feeling snubbed over the royal wedding. Prince Harry’s former girlfriend Chelsy Davy is also said to be smarting after apparently being snubbed from the exclusive evening reception.
Davy has been invited to the nuptials on May 19 and will attend the post-wedding reception at Windsor Castle. But according to a friend, she has not been given an invitation to the exclusive evening soiree, where 200 guests, the Spice Girls among included, will join them at Frogmore House.
“Chelsy has been telling everyone she has been invited to the wedding and she is shopping for the perfect gown,” the source said. “She wants to look her very best and has been given a plus-one, but she has said she has not been invited to the evening party. Her nose is a bit out of joint but we’ve told her she’s lucky to be going to the actual wedding. She’s still hoping she might be asked to attend the evening party, too.”
Prince Harry and Markle have invited 600 guests to the ceremony at St George’s Chapel and to a reception at Windsor Castle, but a much smaller group will attend the evening party which is being hosted by the Prince of Wales. “Chelsy has been trying to get in touch with Harry in recent days but he has taken himself off all social media and is proving very difficult to reach,” adds the friend. “He always returned Chelsy’s calls in the past.”
While none of Markle’s exes will be going to the wedding, Harry’s former girlfriend Cressida Bonas is also due to attend, along with his old friend, Sky Sports presenter Natalie Pinkham, and the singer Ellie Goulding, whom he was rumored to have dated in the past. Davy, however, was by all accounts his first love, and they dated on and off for seven years.
They split in 2011, shortly after William and Kate’s wedding. In my book Harry: Life, Loss, and Love I revealed how watching the Westminster Abbey nuptials firsthand was the final nail in the coffin for the couple because Davy hated the media spotlight. Speaking of the attention that came with being Harry’s girlfriend she later 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.”
She and Harry have stayed close, however, and were reported to have had a final fling in South Africa in 2015, but it was the closing chapter in their on-off romance. In the summer of 2016, Harry met Markle and knew he had met his perfect woman. Davy now runs an ethical jewelry company called Aya, and according to her friend offered to make a one-off piece as a wedding present for Markle “but she was politely turned down.”
