Prince Harry’s ex, Cressida Bonas, ties the knot

Prince Harry’s ex-girlfriend Cressida Bonas secretly tied the knot on the weekend, saying “I do” to a different Harry.

Prince Harry’s ex-girlfriend Cressida Bonas secretly tied the knot with her fiance Harry Wentworth-Stanley in a small countryside ceremony over the weekend.

The actress previously dated the Duke of Sussex for three years before breaking off their relationship in April 2014, reportedly after getting “spooked” by the idea of life as a royal, The Sun reports.

Cressida Bonas and Prince Harry in 2014. Picture: Karwai Tang/WireImage

Bonas has since found love with estate agent Wentworth-Stanley, who is the son of the Marchioness of Milford Haven.

The pair opted for a low-key private ceremony over the weekend. A small group of the couple’s closest loved ones gathered to watch them wed in a private countryside ceremony, which saw the happy newlyweds ride away on horseback side-by-side.

Bonas’s older brother, Jacobi Anstruther-Gough-Calthorpe, shared a photograph of the happy couple on Instagram.

He captioned the snap: “My small riding off into her beautiful future with her Harry hat.”

Cressida Bonas got married on the weekend.

The pair announced their engagement in August 2019 but in May this year Bonas joked that she and Wentworth-Stanley would have be married by a robot, after the coronavirus pandemic turned millions of couples’ wedding plans upside down.

She shared a snap of herself and Wentworth-Stanley next to an ‘Autowed’ machine – a vending machine which ‘marries’ people with the push of a few buttons.

“Well, if all else fails there’s always Auto Wed!” she wrote.

In keeping with the UK government’s current guidelines on wedding ceremonies, the couple would have only been permitted 30 guests at their nuptials.

Both bride and groom come from large families, which may have made the guest list a tricky affair.

Bonas’s parents are 1960s “It” girl Lady Mary-Gaye Curzon and entrepreneur Jeffrey Bonas.

The bride has four half-brothers on her father’s side, while her mother shares four more children with other partners, including Bonas’s half-brother Jacobi.

Cressida Bonas leaves after attending the wedding of Princess Eugenie of York to Jack Brooksbank. Picture: Matt Crossick/AFP

Wentworth-Stanley’s parents are Nick Wentworth-Stanley and Clare Mountbatten, who is Marchioness of Milford Haven.

Meanwhile, Wentworth-Stanley has one sister, Louisa, while their brother James tragically took his own life in 2006, aged just 21.

After their parents divorced in 1997, their father Nick remarried to Millie Brenninkmeyer, with whom he shared three more children. Meanwhile, Clare remarried the Queen’s cousin, George Mountbatten and inherited two stepchildren.

Unlike Prince Harry’s ostentatious May 2018 wedding ceremony to Meghan Markle which took place in Windsor Castle, Bonas admitted she had set her heart on a low-key wedding in an article written for The Spectator earlier this year.

“I always imagined I’d have a small wedding, until I realised our two families alone come to 120 people,” the actress explained. “I’m amazed that’s even possible.”

Bonas admitted her parents had conflicting views on her desire for a small-scale affair.

She wrote: “I managed to upset my dad by telling him I wanted to get hitched under a tree.

“He’s in his seventies, and a traditional type – his mother, Winifred, was a choir mistress.

“He looked at me as if I had completely lost the plot, then he insisted that we say our vows in a church. ‘How much poorer our lives would be without our churches and music,’ he said, with real feeling.

Cressida Bonas stars in Foxtel’s drama series, White House Farm. Picture: Supplied/Foxtel

“My mum, typically, took a different approach: she said she would be very happy for me to get married in the tree if that made me happy.”

Bonas is a rising star in the acting world after starring in Foxtel dama White House Farm last year.

This article originally appeared on The Sun and was reproduced with permission