Harry waiting for the right girl
LONDON: Britain’s Prince Harry, one of the world’s most eligible bachelors, said yesterday that he would love to have children but that he was still waiting to find the right person to “share the pressure”.
Harry, 30, slipped to fifth in line to the throne with the birth of elder brother William’s second child, Princess Charlotte, two weeks ago, and he admitted that the latest royal addition had made him keen to start his own family.
“Of course, I would love to have kids right now, but there’s a process that one has to go through,” the relaxed-looking prince said in an interview with Sky News in New Zealand.
“Hopefully I’m doing all right by myself. It would be great to have someone else next to me to share the pressure. But, you know, time will come and whatever happens, happens.”
Harry’s love life, like that of all the royal family, has always attracted intense media interest. Among those he has been linked to are Zimbabwean Chelsy Davy, whom he dated on and off for about seven years, and in 2014 he split from actress Cressida Bonas after a two-year relationship.
“There come times when you think now is the time to settle down, or now is not, whatever the way it is, but I don’t think you can force these things – it will happen when it’s going to happen,” he said.
Harry, a captain in the British army, is on tour in New Zealand having recently completed a month-long secondment to the Australian Defence Force. He said he had missed the coverage of his niece’s birth.
“I’m so looking forward to seeing her, meeting her and holding her. She was a little bit late, hence I missed her. But apart from that, it’s fantastic news for both of them. So I’m thrilled.”