Harry said he was feeling broody... here’s the proof
HE has admitted he would love to settle down and ‘have kids right now’, following the arrival of his niece Princess Charlotte.
So when Prince Harry met a beaming, chubby-cheeked baby on the latest leg of his tour of New Zealand, those broody feelings must have gone in to overdrive.
Meanwhile on the other side of the world in the South of France, his ex-girlfriend Cressida Bonas attended a fashion show for the latest collection of Dior – and showed Harry just what he was missing a year after their split.
The 26-year-old dancer and actress looked every inch the budding Hollywood star in a high-neck sequined minidress and sleek stilettos by the Paris designer.
But yesterday Harry’s attentions were very much absorbed by the thousands who queued to meet him in Christchurch despite the pouring rain.
The visit was a gesture of solidarity to the city which lost 185 residents in a devastating earthquake in 2011. And it proved doubly emotive for the prince when he met a well-wisher who left him visibly stunned. It turned out that Vicky McBratney was a matron from his prep school Ludgrove in Wokingham. She started work there on the day of Diana’s funeral in 1997, when she was 25. Having just lost her own mother, the pair bonded.
Mrs McBratney, 44, who now lives in New Zealand with her three children, showed Harry some photographs of them together, prompting the prince to exclaim: ‘Hello! Nice to see you, how are you?’
Afterwards she recalled: ‘Every couple of weeks he would come and knock on my door and we’d both go into the matron’s lounge and I would make him a ... hot chocolate ... and we’d sit and talk and he’d share letters from his mum.’