After five years and many ups and downs together, it appears that Prince Harry and Chelsy Davy have parted. The British media – from the News of the World to the BBC – are flooded with the story. The Daily Mail is even reporting that Ms. Davy has changed her Facebook status to “single.” 
It is being reported that the split was amicable, and came over a discussion that went on for several days.
The pair had had a close yet tumultuous relationship, marked by long distance to loving gestures caught by photographers to Harry’s flirtatious behavior towards other women that threatened the relationship.
The two first met in 2004 when Chelsy was a 19-year-old pupil at the exclusive Cheltenham Ladies College, close to Prince Charles’s Highgrove estate.
Prince Harry was reportedly smitten early on. In interviews, he had trouble holding back his feelings for Chelsy.
“I would love to tell everyone how amazing she is but once I start talking about that, I have left myself open,” he once said.
As much as in love the two were, the relationship was difficult from the beginning. Chelsy was based in South Africa where she attended Cape Town University, while Harry was training at Sandhurst in the UK. The couple would only meet every few months for romantic trips.
At the same time, Chelsy was considered to be a controversial first serious girlfriend for the third in line to the throne. Her father, millionaire safari operator Charles, ran a game farm in Zimbabwe with reportedly close ties to dictator Robert Mugabe’s regime.
She also seemed unfit to be a royal girlfriend. Her love of drinking and partying were well documented by the British press, and her fashion style was questioned.
Prince Harry didn’t seem to be an ideal boyfriend at times. He visited a strip club, and had to repeatedly deny cheating on Chelsy.
Then in June 2007 the Prince, at the time a second lieutenant in the Blues and Royals regiment of the Household Cavalry, was pictured being kissed by two bar girls while on Army training in Canada.
There were further embarrassing reports that he had invited a third barmaid back to his rented house and ‘cavorted’ in front of her in a blue and orange sarong before whipping off his boxer shorts and spanking her.
But the pair lasted. Even Prince William once told a reporter that his brother was “madly in love.”
The couple often were photographed in public. They were seen kissing at a sporting event in the Carribean, leaving night clubs, and being lovey-dovey during the Concert for Diana in July 2007.
Chelsy was even Harry’s guest at the wedding for his cousin, Princess Anne’s son Peter Philips in May 2008. She was also present when Harry earned a medal for his service in Afghanistan last year.
In 2007, Chelsy moved to the UK to study law at Leeds University to study law, and to be closer to her boyfriend. But homesickness and Harry’s military training proved to be struggle for her and Harry.
It is perhaps the military that drove the two apart. The Prince, promoted to lieutenant last April after a ten-week tour of Afghanistan, was also said to be worried about the strains on the relationship after recently starting an arduous 18-month training course with the Army Air Corps.
A military source told The Mail, “Harry’s training is going to be seriously demanding and he has been told there will be little time for girlfriends and socializing.
“He is living in a modest room with a single bed and won’t be allowed to drink from Monday to Friday, and he will need to knuckle down.”
Last night a senior Royal source confirmed the couple had separated, just three weeks after they returned from a romantic break in Mauritius.
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