Cressida Bonas To Marry Prince Harry, Friends Tell The Press

If you take your girlfriend to a James Blunt concert and a showing of "The Book Of Mormon" in one week, does that mean she's The One?

That's what the British press seems to think. A new report from the Telegraph goes on the record about Prince Harry and girlfriend Cressida Bonas, quoting one of Cressie's friends: "Cressie is going to marry Harry."
According to the Telegraph's source, "Harry never stops talking about marriage and children, and she has now got used to the idea. The wedding is likely to take place next year."
So it's a race to the altar between Pippa Middleton and her beau, Nico Jackson, and Pippa's royal brother-in-law and his future princess bride. Both have been dating for about a year, but Harry has been quite explicit about his desire to settle down. In a CBS interview in 2012, Harry admitted, "I mean look at me, I'm 27 years old," lamenting it was difficult to date as a prince: "[I'm] not so much searching for someone to fulfill the role, but obviously, you know, finding someone that would be willing to take it on."
And he seems to have found it with 24-year-old Cressida, a blonde dancer whom he's been seeing since last summer. Photos of them getting cozy on the skip slopes made it official in February 2013, and the pair attended a wedding together in June 2013 -- what's more couple-y than that?
Buzz about Cressie being The One has been growing louder recently, with Tatler putting her on its October 2013 cover with the headline, "Harry Loves Cressie." Now the Telegraph reports that 29-year-old prince has actually been pushing hard for a wedding, to the point where "Cressida has been in floods of tears." One friend reportedly told the Telegraph,

"Harry is coming on very strong, but she is all over the place. She thinks she is far too young to get married and is scared by all his talk of marriage and settling down."

But it seems the pair are getting more comfortable with the idea. Will we have a royal wedding by the time Prince Harry turns 30 next year? We've got our fingers crossed. 

10 Things You Didn't Know About the Potential Princess

 

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Here are 10 things you didn't know about the woman who seems destined to be Prince Harry's wife.

 

1. She's the Blue-Blooded BFF of Princess Eugenie: Cressida has a lineage almost as impressive as the royal fam. Her mum, Lady Mary-Gaye Georgiana Lorna Curzon, is an heir to the very wealthy Curzon banking family, and her father, Jeffrey Bonas, is a successful Oxford-educated entrepreneur. As for lifelong best friend, Princess Eugenie? She was actually the one to make the introduction between Cressy and Harry in May 2012!
2. She's Athletic:  According to Tatler, the future princess landed a sports scholarship to Prior Park College, a boarding school in Bath, before switching to Stowe, a co-ed boarding school in Buckingham. Cressida went on to study dance at Leeds University (which is coincidentally where Harry's ex Chelsy Davy went, though not at the same time). Now, however, tennis is reportedly her game of choice. We've also seen her hit the slopes (and cuddle!) with Prince Harry,  so skiing's in her wheelhouse, too.
PHOTOS: Take a look back at Prince Harry and Cressida Bonas' Switzerland vacation

 

3: She Can Act: Cressida played Desdemona in a university production of Othello. One critic described her portrayal of the defiant character as having "a playful, almost childish confusion that convinced the audience she had not deserved the fate she was dealt," while another reviewer hailed her performance "particularly strong."
4. She Can Also Sing: Homegirl has many talents! When half-sister Isabella Anstruther-Gough-Calthorpe married Sam Branson in May, Cressida serenaded the couple with a love song. "I was really nervous before performing and wanted to direct my singing at Bellie," she told HELLO! magazine, "but when I saw her burst into tears and bury her head under the table I suddenly had no-one to sing it to."
PHOTO: Prince Harry and Cressida Bonas see The Book of Mormon

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5. Her Half-Sis Had a (One-Sided) Royal Romance: The wedding won't be quite so uncomfortable now that both parties are happily married to other people, but Bellie (Cressy's half-sis mentioned above) reportedly had an unrequited crush on Prince William in his pre-Kate Middleton days.
6. She's Endearingly Awkward: Sure, she fits right in with the royals and already seems to have the social grace of a princess, but Cress still has her moments! When she's embarrassed, she reportedly exclaims, "Cringe de la cringe!" (Start saying it now.)
7. She Knows How to Party: Cressida will be great at popping champagne bottles and doing all those symbolic royal things, but her drink of choice? Rum! According to Tatler, she drinks it "straight up."
PHOTO: Prince Harry and Cressida Bonas go to the James Blunt concert

8. She Recycles: Just like a certain duchess we all love, Cressida has no qualms about wearing her favorite clothes on multiple occasions. She can roll in the designer gowns like the best of 'em, but her day-to-day wardrobe seems to be quite anti-Kate. In lieu of L.K. Bennett nude pumps, she's often spotted in sneakers. She'll even wear the occasional crop top and seems to be A-OK with casual.
9. She's Bringing Scrunchies Back: Somewhere Carrie Bradshaw just squealed, but the times they are a-changin'. Those glorious fabric hair-holders that went out of fashion 15 years ago will rise again if Cressida has anything to do with it! She's sported scrunchies of all sorts—black, gray, purple, velvet!—and if anyone can bring them back in vogue (non-ironically), it's her!

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10. She Doesn't Mind If You Put Baby in a Corner: Because, brace yourselves, Cress reportedly "hates" Dirty Dancing! She does, however, love The West Wing and is a fan of Sean Penn.
Clearly, (future) HRH Princess Cressida is marriage material.