Queen’s opinion of tequila-loving Chelsy Davy played role in Prince Harry break-up

Prince Harry has revealed the Queen’s opinion of tequila-loving Chelsy Davy played a role in their break-up after an eight-year romance.

Prince Harry addresses his former relationship with Chelsy Davy in his new memoir. (Photo by Max Mumby/Indigo/Getty Images)

Prince Harry alleges that Queen Elizabeth II’s opinion of ex Chelsy Davy’s free-spirited lifestyle contributed to their break-up.

“I loved Chels’ ease, that she wasn’t complicated,” the Duke of Sussex, 38, writes in his memoir.

“She didn’t care what anyone thought. She wore miniskirts and high-heeled boots, danced however she wanted, drank tequila like me, and all of this made me really happy.”

Harry admits, however, that what the late monarch thought of Davy weighed heavily on him at the time.

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Prince Harry and Chelsy Davy kiss in the Royal Box as they attend the Cartier International Polo Match in 2006. (Photo by Max Mumby/Indigo/Getty Images)

“I couldn’t help what my grandmother thought about it. Or the people. And the last thing I wanted was for Chels to change to please them,” he continues.

The Duke of Sussex confesses that he also “wasn’t sure” whether Davy, now 37, was “the one” — despite dating her on and off from 2004 to 2011.

Harry placed great weight on the Queen’s opinion.

Prince Harry talks with his girlfriend Chelsy Davy after receiving his Helicopter Pilot's wings from his father, Prince Charles, in a graduation ceremony in 2010. (AP Photo/Richard Dawson)

“The whole world isn’t made to put up with constant scrutiny, and I don’t know if Chels could bear it, and I couldn’t ask her to,” he explains.

Throughout the memoir, Harry goes into further detail about paparazzi stalking Davy, claiming they once placed a tracking device underneath her car.

Prince Harry and Chelsy Davy were always in the spotlight. (Photo by MJ Kim/Getty Images)

Harry enjoys a moment with Chelsy as they watch the ICC World Cup Cricket 2007 Super Eight match between Australia and England. (Photo: Jewel SAMAD)

“Chels insisted that she was not sure if she was prepared for all of that. A whole life with someone on your heels? What could I say to her?” Harry writes.

“I would miss her very much, but I understood she put her freedom first,” he adds. “If I had the choice, I’d want to live like that as well.”

Harry and Chelsy laughing before the start of the England v South Africa rugby in 2008.

The two ultimately called it quits in 2011 when Davy announced their break-up via Facebook and Harry publicly declared himself “100 per cent single”.

Later that year, Davy still attended Prince William and Kate Middleton’s April wedding — albeit singly — where Harry remembers feeling “a certain way” about seeing other men admiring her throughout the night.

Chelsy Davy (centre) arrives at the wedding of Prince Harry and Meghan Markle. (Photo by Chris Jackson/Getty Images)

The exes have since had an amicable relationship, with Davy even going to Harry’s wedding to Meghan Markle in May 2018.

Meanwhile, Davy wed Sam Cutmore-Scott in May 2022 and gave birth to their son, Leo, in October.

This article was originally published by Page Six and reproduced with permission