Don’t just call me Harry’s ex, says luvvie Cressida
SHE may have split from Prince Harry three years ago, but Cressida Bonas is still finding it hard to escape from his shadow.
The 28-year-old, who dated Harry for two years, has said she finds it ‘incredibly frustrating’ to be ‘pigeonholed’ as his ex while trying to forge a career as an actress.
Miss Bonas is currently playing Sonia Brownell – a literary editor best remembered as the second wife of author George Orwell – in the play Mrs Orwell at the Old Red Lion Theatre in London.
She is said to have broken up with Harry, 32, in 2014 because she wanted an acting career and could not stand the public scrutiny she endured during their relationship.
When asked yesterday whether the publicity gave her an insight into ‘being defined by a much more famous man’, she replied: ‘Yeah, I think it’s that thing of being pigeonholed. Especially in this country, I find people are very quick to put you in a box or put you in a corner.’
Asked if she found it frustrating, she told Radio 4 Woman’s Hour: ‘Yes, it’s incredibly frustrating. Especially in the industry that I’m in. But it is the way it is and it’s sort of making a stand and saying “No this is who I am, and this is what I want to do.’ But Miss Bonas’s royal connections have hardly held her back since parting with Harry, who is now dating actress, Meghan Markle, 36.
Later this month Miss Bonas makes her film debut in historical drama Tulip Fever, starring Judi Dench and Cara Delevigne.
And in 2015 she was the face of a campaign for luxury leather bag brand Mulberry.
Miss Bonas is now said to be in a relationship with property developer and old Harrovian Harry Wentworth-Stanley, 27, who she first met at Leeds University.