Did Harry have jester Guy over to raise morale?
PRINCE Harry has a £100million Netflix deal, an £11million mansion with 14 bathrooms and Hollywood stars falling over themselves to be his friends, but is he starting to miss his former life?
For I hear he invited one of his oldest friends to visit his home in California.
‘Court jester’ Guy Pelly, who’s known Harry since they were children, was joined on the visit by his wife, Elizabeth Wilson, and their threeyear-old daughter, Willow.
‘They were kindly invited by Harry and Meghan,’ a source tells me. ‘Despite what’s been said about Harry losing touch with his old friends, he was keen to see Guy.’
Pelly does have more in common with Harry than most of his old friends as Lizzy is also a member of the ‘American wives’ club’.
She’s from Tennessee and is an heiress to the Holiday Inn fortune.
When she married Pelly in Memphis 2014, their wedding led to the end of Harry’s two-year romance with actress Cressida Bonas.
Cressida expected Harry to pay her airfare because she didn’t have the money herself and felt that as Guy was his friend, not hers, the request seemed reasonable enough.
Harry refused, there was a spat and they split.
Perhaps urbane former nightclub boss Pelly could act as a peacemaker between Harry and Prince William? He does share an unshakeable bond with the royal brothers.
He organised William’s stag night and is known for such antics as shimmying 40 ft up a marquee during a Prince’s Trust concert, stripped to his boxer shorts. And William asked Pelly to be godfather to Prince Louis in 2018.
Pelly, who has never spoken about his friendship with the royals, declines to comment.