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Daily Mail
01-07-2025
- Entertainment
- Daily Mail
Prince Harry's ex-girlfriend Cressida Bonas shares first photo of her new baby and gives update on the first few weeks with daughter named after her late sister
Cressida Bonas has shared an adorable insight into her first few weeks with her newborn daughter. Taking to Instagram, Prince Harry 's ex-girlfriend uploaded a series of candid snaps capturing her and husband's first week weeks with little Delphina Pandora - named after her late sister, a ceramicist who died last July aged 51. Sweet black and white images show the happy parents snuggling up with their baby and three-year-old son Wilbur. 'Before she arrived, I wondered how it was possible to love anything as much as we love our boy,' the mother wrote. in a gushing caption. 'Then this little love bug showed up with a Mohawk hairdo and our hearts just expanded. 'Sometimes, when I look into her eyes, I see a twinkle that reminds me of my sister Pandora.' In the carousel, Delphi can be seen huddling up to her parents, lying next to her brother, and showing off a sweet strawberry printed babygro. Last month, Cressida and her husband revealed that they gave their daughter the middle name Pandora in honour of Cressida's half-sister, who inspired others with her 24-year cancer battle. 'They have named their daughter Delphina Pandora Wentworth-Stanley,' a friend told the Mail's Richard Eden. 'It's a beautiful name for a beautiful girl.' Delphina is something of a 'miracle baby' as Cressida struggled to conceive a second child after the birth of the couple's son, Wilbur, in 2022. The actress, 36, revealed in January that she had used a frozen embryo. 'Having conceived through IVF the first time, we were fortunate to have another embryo stored away in a freezer,' she explained. Cressida, who married Wentworth-Stanley, 36, in West Sussex in 2020, said she had been 'battling morning sickness' during her second pregnancy. The couple, who live in west London, wanted a bigger home, she added. 'A growing family means a need for more space. Our flat is on the market and we are house hunting.' Their dachshund Budgie was 'bound to be unimpressed', she said of the new arrival. 'Not only are we uprooting her territory, but there's a new family member on the way, she can sense it.' Last year, at Pandora's memorial service, Cressida declared: 'My heart is forever tied to yours.' She was joined at the service, at St Luke's church in Chelsea, west London, by Pandora's friends including Queen Camilla's son, Tom Parker Bowles, and her nephew Sir Ben Elliot. Cressida read a moving 'letter to Pandora' that she composed after her death. The women's mother, Lady Mary-Gaye Curzon, paid tribute, saying: 'Nobody on earth who ever met Pandora could help falling in love with her.' Pandora's father, Esmond Cooper-Key, died in 1985 aged 42. One of Pandora's friends, Serena Cook, amused the congregation with tales from their travels through Latin America: 'We stole watermelons from a field in Nicaragua, scrambling up a tree in absolute hysterics. We got chased by a furious farmer.' Elsewhere earlier this year, Cressida also told of her heartbreaking struggles to conceive in a candid personal essay. She equally opened up about her fears of losing her 78-year-old mother and gave readers an insight into how she coped with her sister's passing. In an article written for The Telegraph, Cressida admitted that being a mother 'is unpredictable and frightening' and said she has 'elements of her childhood she would like to leave in the past'. The actress added that her late sister Pandora always 'played a maternal role' and was 'protecting her even in her final days'. In a further candid confession, she revealed that she and her siblings feared they were going to 'lose their mother' when she was rushed into intensive care last year. The socialite, who dated Prince Harry from 2012 to 2014 and still remains close to the royal family, revealed that she was pregnant with her second child in January of this year. Cressida dated Prince Harry from 2012 to 2014 after being set up by Princess Eugenie. Pictured in March 2014 She later attended Prince Harry's wedding to Meghan Markle in 2018 (pictured attending the wedding) 'I am now well into my second pregnancy,' she wrote in The Spectator magazine. 'Having conceived through IVF the first time, we were fortunate to have another embryo stored away in a freezer.' Cressida added that it has been difficult pregnancy. 'I've been battling morning sickness,' she said. 'I've never had it before, and now feel like I've been swaying on a boat for months.' Cressida's close friend Princess Eugenie, who was the brains behind her match with Harry, will speak as a guest on her new podcast, Lessons From Our Mothers. A sneak preview posted on the podcast's new Instagram account saw Eugenie, 34, speak touchingly about her own mother, Sarah Ferguson. 'What is the most valuable thing you have learned from your mum?' Cressida asks in an episode. Eugenie said: 'I think for me, it's the fire inside, you know, the strength inside of you, and how to bring that out, and to pull it in when you most need it.' Cressida announced the podcast on her Instagram account, writing: 'We are excited to share something that we've been working on for a while…our new podcast, Lessons From Our Mothers, launching on Mothering Sunday 2025! 'Have you ever stopped to think about the maternal figures in your life and how they have shaped who you are today? Have you ever asked them about their own experiences, or thought about the lessons that you have learned from them?' She continued: 'Lessons From Our Mothers is a series of conversations that celebrate motherhood and mothering in all its forms. 'When our own mum fell ill last year, we set out to ask her all the questions that we had never thought to ask - and now, we're on a sisterly mission to find out the stories of some special guests (and their mothers) through this podcast.
Daily Mail
19-06-2025
- Entertainment
- Daily Mail
EDEN CONFIDENTIAL: Lady Sally Aspinall, aunt of Prince Harry's ex Cressida Bonas, dies aged 80
She raised gorillas by hand, shared her bed with lion cubs, bottle-fed cheetahs and walked tigers through the rarefied streets of London 's Belgravia – all with the same aristocratic style and spirit she'd displayed as a 1960s model. But the extraordinary life of the beautiful, twice-widowed Lady Sally Aspinall, daughter of Le Mans-winning 5th Earl Howe, and great-aunt of the most glamorous of Prince Harry 's old flames, Cressida Bonas, ended this week at the age of 80. Her youngest son believes she yearned to be reunited with the two men she married. The first was Formula 1 driver Piers Courage, killed competing in the 1970 Dutch Grand Prix; the second, casino king and inimitable wildlife park founder John Aspinall, who succumbed to cancer in 2000. 'I think a part of her died with Piers,' reflects Bassa Aspinall, 53, Sally's only child by 'Aspers' as Aspinall was known to friends including fugitive peer the 7th Lord Lucan. The sense of loss, Bassa adds, was redoubled when his father died. 'It was an amazing love story. She'd kept him alive for six or seven years. Half his face was missing from the cancer. It was morphine and bandage changes four or five times a day.' Their romance had begun as Sally slowly emerged from the trauma of losing Piers, by whom she had two sons, Jason and Amos, without whom, she said, she 'could easily have gone under'. 'To complement my father, you had to be a very special human being. He loved strength in women,' Bassa adds, pointing out that his mother was blessed with abundant courage. 'It's all very well to be loving and caring, but it's another thing to fit into that world,' he says, referring to his father's parks at Howletts and Port Lympne, where wildlife enjoyed previously unimaginable freedom. 'If he said she was safe, she would trust him entirely. He brought laughter and purpose back into her life.' It wasn't just in Belgravia, where tigers were taken for nocturnal walks close to the couple's London address, that heads were turned, but also at Wellesley House, Bassa's prep school, where, he recalls, his mother arrived for sports day 'with two Siberian tiger cubs in the back seat'. But in 1995 she suffered further tragedy. Jason Courage, her elder son by Piers, was riding his motorbike in central London when he was hit by a car making an illegal turn. He was left paralysed from the neck down. By then, Aspinall was afflicted by cancer. Sally didn't falter; she never did. 'She was very stoic,' says Bassa. Her resilience was tested again after Aspinall's death, when she found that much of her life was controlled by those who did not have her wellbeing at heart. Her health began to fail. But in 2019 she moved to South Africa, where Bassa had settled with his wife, Donne. 'She was the daughter that my mother never had – they had an incredible bond,' he tells me, adding that it was Donne, Sally's carer in her final years, who sensed that she was slipping away and alerted Jason and Amos in England. Both flew to Cape Town to say goodbye. 'She died very peacefully – idyllically,' says Bassa, who, together with Donne and their children – sons Redwald and Odin, and daughters Takara and Elysia – was by her side. Imrie 'glad' her son isn't a girl The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel star Celia Imrie says she's grateful that her only child was a boy so they don't compete for parts. Angus Imrie, 30, played 'Creepy Jake' in the hit comedy Fleabag and Prince Edward in the fourth series of The Crown. 'I'm glad he's not a girl, only because we would be fighting for the same roles and that causes tension if there's two female actors in the family,' says Imrie, 72, who was presented with an Icon Award at this year's Raindance Film Festival in London. 'I'm glad Angus is a whole generation younger and is in his own lane. I'm terribly proud of him,' she adds. Presenter: I was meant to be on doomed flight As a presenter of TV show A Place in The Sun for seven years, air travel was part of the job for Scarlette Douglas. But the star tells me she 'hates flying' for a heartbreaking reason. 'I lost a really good friend of mine in the Air France crash from Brazil to France,' she says at the Taste of London Food Festival opening party in Regent's Park. 'The scary thing was I was supposed to be on that flight. She had booked it.' Flight 447 from Rio de Janeiro to Paris crashed into the Atlantic in 2009, killing 228 people. Scarlette, 38, couldn't take the flight because of a job she had in Hollywood. 'Forever my best boy': Lara pays tribute to adored pet Lara Stone has been left devastated by the death of her beloved dog, Bert, who was once at the heart of her family life with comedian David Walliams. The Dutch model, 41, posted a photograph of the border terrier online, writing: 'Love you forever, miss you for always, forever and ever my best boy you'll be.' When Lara split from David in 2015 after five years of marriage, she left their £3.25million north London home with their son Alfred, now 12, and Bert. The former couple went on to share custody of both. David later adopted a second border terrier, Ernie, and often referred to the pair as 'my boys'. Lara has since remarried and has a second son, Bob, one, with property developer husband David Grievson. Monty is Pamela's world Baywatch babe Pamela Anderson has an unlikely hero – Monty Don. The actress, 57, says the green-fingered Gardeners' World presenter, known for his rumpled navy-blue shirt and colourful scarf, inspired her passion for gardening. 'I love Monty Don, his videos and books,' she says. 'He writes so beautifully and poetically when it comes to gardens.' Wait until Pammy meets Alan Titchmarsh. The celebrity gardener claims that when he collected his MBE from Queen Elizabeth in 2000, she told him: 'You give a lot of ladies a lot of pleasure.' Fire guts home of model's sister Jade Parfitt called off this year's Bath Fashion Festival with just weeks to go after a major backer dropped out. Now, the top model is coming to terms with a disaster closer to home. This week her younger sister Amy's house in Totnes, Devon, was devastated by a fire which spread into two neighbouring homes. 'Thanking our lucky stars that no people were injured, but they have a very long road ahead,' says Jade, 47, who encouraged her online followers to donate to her sister's family via the GoFundMe website, with the appeal immediately raising almost £20,000. 'We are so grateful that people are donating their hard-earned cash and sending lovely messages,' Jade added. Meghan Markle had planned to become a British citizen after she married Prince Harry, but abandoned the process long before obtaining a passport. Another foreigner who married into the Royal Family has more staying power, however. Swedish financier Timothy Vesterberg, who wed Princess Alexandra's granddaughter Flora Ogilvy in 2020, received his British citizenship this week. 'I'm very proud of my newly British-Swedish husband,' says art consultant Flora, 30. She added: 'I was very moved by how thoughtful the ceremony was.'
Daily Mail
09-06-2025
- Entertainment
- Daily Mail
EDEN CONFIDENTIAL: Cressida Bonas gives birth to 'miracle' baby and names her after tragic sister
Cressida Bonas paid emotional tribute to her 'darling sister' Pandora Cooper-Key at a memorial service last September. Now, Prince Harry 's ex-girlfriend has ensured that the name of Pandora, a ceramicist who died last July aged 51, will live on for another generation. I can disclose that Cressida has given birth to her second child, a girl. And she and her husband, property investor Harry Wentworth-Stanley, have given their daughter the middle name Pandora in honour of Cressie's half-sister, who inspired others with her 24-year cancer battle. 'They have named their daughter Delphina Pandora Wentworth-Stanley,' a friend tells me. 'It's a beautiful name for a beautiful girl.' Delphina is something of a 'miracle baby' as Cressida struggled to conceive a second child after the birth of the couple's son, Wilbur, in 2022. The actress, 36, revealed in January that she had used a frozen embryo. 'Having conceived through IVF the first time, we were fortunate to have another embryo stored away in a freezer,' she explained. Cressida, who married Wentworth-Stanley, 36, in West Sussex in 2020, said she had been 'battling morning sickness' during her second pregnancy. The couple, who live in west London, wanted a bigger home, she added. 'A growing family means a need for more space. Our flat is on the market and we are house hunting.' Their dachshund Budgie was 'bound to be unimpressed', she said of the new arrival. 'Not only are we uprooting her territory, but there's a new family member on the way, she can sense it.' Last year, at Pandora's memorial service, Cressida declared: 'My heart is forever tied to yours.' She was joined at the service, at St Luke's church in Chelsea, west London, by Pandora's friends including Queen Camilla's son, Tom Parker Bowles, and her nephew Sir Ben Elliot. Cressida read a moving 'letter to Pandora' that she composed after her death. The women's mother, Lady Mary-Gaye Curzon, paid tribute, saying: 'Nobody on earth who ever met Pandora could help falling in love with her.' Pandora's father, Esmond Cooper-Key, died in 1985 aged 42. One of Pandora's friends, Serena Cook, amused the congregation with tales from their travels through Latin America: 'We stole watermelons from a field in Nicaragua, scrambling up a tree in absolute hysterics. We got chased by a furious farmer.' Brucie's widow is a true Miss Peurto Rico Sir Bruce Forsyth's widow, Wilnelia, made history when she became the first Miss World winner from Puerto Rico in 1975 and her achievement is still being celebrated half a century later. Lady Forsyth, 67, who inherited almost all of the Strictly Come Dancing host's £11.5million fortune after his death aged 89 in 2017, took part in the National Puerto Rican Day parade in New York City at the weekend. She could be seen in a BMW convertible, wearing a red trouser suit, a straw hat, and a sash that read, 'lifetime achievement'. 'It filled me with great pride,' she says. 'My heart will always be there, on my island.' No entry at the Palace without a QR code... When it comes to issuing invitations there will be few jobs like it. King Charles wants an 'event invitations and systems manager' for events from formal ceremonials to garden parties. And to show the Monarchy is modernising, the £40,000-a-year manager will also be responsible for QR codes for entry – like at pop concerts. 'The Royal Household delivers a large number of events every year,' explains the advert. 'In this role you'll lead a newly integrated team at the heart of delivering many high profile events... You'll oversee our new 'invitations office' – responsible for the smooth running end-to-end invitation and guest management process for our events programme.' TV chef Gizzi won't work for free – she needs the cash! Aristocratic TV chef Gizzi Erskine admitted she was left 'broken' last year when the sale of her £900,000 east London home fell through at the last minute, dashing hopes of finally clearing her big debts. Now the daughter of the late second Baron Erskine of Rerrick is revealing yet more financial frustration as she publicly slams festivals expecting her to work without payment. 'Can festivals stop asking talent to work for free,' fumes Gizzi, pictured holidaying in Sicily. 'Everyone else is getting paid from ticket sales and sponsorship. In 2025, why is this OK? I remember me and [restaurant critic] Jay Rayner getting furious about this about ten years ago. 'It's so audacious and incredibly boring. I don't need the PR 20 years into a career: The events do. Most people buy the tickets to see the talent. Pay them.' Given Gordon Ramsay's foul-mouthed reputation, who can blame his daughter, Matilda, for honing her skills far from home? Ramsay's not happy about it. 'Matilda has come back from culinary school in Ireland,' he says, referring to the Ballymaloe Cookery School in County Cork. 'I am a little bit miffed by the fact that she didn't ask me to train her – and went off elsewhere.' Tilly, 23, has said her parents 'were shocked because I never mentioned going away'. But she insisted: 'It was definitely a happy surprise.' Serving Happy Valley star James Norton in a restaurant sounds a less than happy experience. 'I am such a perfectionist,' he admits. 'I'm the guy that walks into the restaurant and will probably move tables twice to make sure I've got the best table, and if the best table is about to finish [their food] then maybe we'll move there.' He adds: 'I'll probably order then panic and go up to the waiter and say, 'I'm so sorry, can we go for the other one?' David Bowie's only daughter, Lexi Jones, is struggling with an unusual condition. The musician, 24, says she's a HSP – highly sensitive person – which means she's prone to more complex feelings than others. 'This is how I experience the world,' she says. There is no formal medical diagnosis for HSP but it is recognised as a personality trait and involves being 'hyper aware' of emotions and social dynamics.
Daily Mail
26-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Daily Mail
Prince Harry turned to MI6 therapists to help with his mental health, royal insider claims
Prince Harry 's former therapist worked with MI6, a royal insider has claimed. Writing in her best-selling book The Palace Papers, royal biographer Tina Brown claims the Duke of Sussex's then-girlfriend Cressida Bonas encouraged him to visit a mental health professional after she witnessed Harry's 'explosive temperament'. Brown wrote: 'Cressida began to have serious worries about his mental health. It is not widely known that it was she who first persuaded Harry to see a therapist.' A family friend told Brown that Cressida forced the Duke to 'accept he has problems and see a psychoanalyst'. Harry then turned to Julia Samuel for support - a therapist who was Princess Diana 's friend and worked as an NHS bereavement counsellor. But the reason Julia was so helpful to Harry was her connection to MI6, where she advised secret service staff - meaning she was capable of being 'discreet'. Brown claims a person close to Harry said: 'There was a need for someone who could be incredibly discreet and who understood what it's like to have a public version of your life and a private version. 'Therapists at MI6, that's what they do.' It was through therapy that Harry finally unpicked the trauma caused by Princess Diana's death, which happened when the Duke was just 12 years old. 'He at last understood his own evasion of sorrow in tactics that ranged from champagne hooliganism to "sticking my head in the sand, refusing to ever think about my mum, because why would that help?",' Brown wrote. Cressida encouraged Harry to seek help after seeing this behaviour on several occasions, documented by Brown. This included a pub lunch on New Year's Day in Kidlington near Oxford, when Harry lashed out an elderly man who asked the Duke for a picture. Brown was told by someone 'privy to the incident' that Harry told the gentleman to 'get out of my why' before he went 'bright red in the face and stormed off in a huff'. Prince Harry's wife, the Duchess of Sussex, has also been candid about her mental health battles. During a bombshell interview with Oprah Winfrey in 2021, Meghan revealed the stress of royal life made her suicidal when she was five-months pregnant. The Duchess of Sussex revealed she 'couldn't be left alone' and told her husband she 'didn't want to be alive anymore' before claiming Buckingham Palace staff ignored her plea for help because she wasn't a 'paid employee'. Describing how she considered ending her life, believing it 'was better for everyone', Meghan said: 'I knew that if I didn't say it, that I would do it. I just didn't want to be alive anymore. And that was a very clear, real and frightening constant thought. 'I remember how he just cradled me. I said that I needed to go somewhere to get help. I said that "I've never felt this way before, and I need to go somewhere". And I was told that I couldn't, that it wouldn't be good for the institution.' She said that, after confiding in her husband, she was forced to go to the Royal Albert Hall for a charity event in January 2019 - claiming photos from that night 'haunt' her. Harry and Cressida dated for two years before they split in 2014. Brown claims the model's 'serious qualms about sharing her life with Harry' and his 'frequent' and 'childlike' outbursts contributed the break down in the relationship. She was his last serious relationship before Meghan and Cressida was an almighty hit with the entire Royal Family. Charles even labelled her as the 'one that got away', a source told Brown. Cressida is the daughter of Lady Mary-Gaye Curzon – who once famously posed apparently topless, smeared in motor oil – and Old Harrovian Jeffrey Bonas (her mother's third husband) who owns a fabric company called MacCulloch & Wallis. Harry and Cressida dated for two years before they split in 2014. Brown claims that the model's 'serious qualms about sharing her life with Harry' and his 'frequent' and 'childlike' outbursts contributed to the break down in the relationship She was also athletic, winning a sports scholarship to Prior Park College in Bath before attending the co-ed boarding school Stowe. After school she studied dance at Leeds University and later pursued acting as well as modelling for Mulberry. Throughout her relationship with Harry, the couple went on trips to Switzerland, attended concerts and were even spotted on date nights at restaurants. Brown wrote she was Harry's guest at Sandringham for shooting weekends and blended easily with his friends. Cressida also passed the Africa test on a successful holiday with the prince in Botswana's Okavango Delta. Today, the Hampshire-born 'It-Girl', who is expecting her second baby with husband Harry Wentworth-Stanley, 35, has moved into writing and podcasting - with her social media feed turning from artsy selfies to wholesome snaps with her two-year-old son. She launched her podcast Lessons From Our Mothers, hosted with her half-sister, Isabella Branson, earlier this year. The podcast is billed as a 'conversations that celebrate motherhood and mothering in all its forms'. The series features cameos from a variety of A-listers, including the likes of Kate Winslet, Giovanna Fletcher and Mary Berry - who made the duo a tasty homemade cake and a cup of tea. Cressida's close friend Princess Eugenie, who was the brains behind her match with Harry, will also speak as a guest. A sneak preview posted on the podcast's Instagram account saw Eugenie, 35, speak touchingly about her own mother, Sarah Ferguson. 'What is the most valuable thing you have learned from your mum?' Cressida asked.
Daily Mail
22-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Daily Mail
Prince Harry's pregnant ex Cressida Bonas shows off her growing baby bump as she attends London event with half-sister Isabella Branson
Cressida Bonas showed off her growing baby bump this morning as she joined her half-sister Isabella Branson at an event in London. Prince Harry 's ex-girlfriend, 36, who recently launched the podcast Lessons From Our Mothers, was glowing in a silk jumpsuit and cropped jumper. The daughter of Lady Mary-Gaye Curzon and Jeffrey Bonas, Cressida looked typically stylish at Thursday morning's event championing 'poetry, presence and purposeful conversation' to mark mental health awareness week, which was hosted by Scottish poet Donna Ashworth. She arrived at South Kensington's private members' club NEXUS - regularly frequented by stars like Liz Hurley and Ronnie Wood - in a green and white silk jumpsuit, featuring a polka dot design, and a bright yellow cropped jumper. With her blonde hair styled in loose waves and wearing only natural make-up, Cressida's natural beauty shone through. She accessorised her striking outfit with a raffia tote bag and chunky trainers. The actress, who dated Prince Harry for two years until 2014, married property investor Harry Wentworth-Stanley in 2020 and is currently pregnant with their second child. The actress, who shares two-year-old Wilbur with husband Harry, also 36, has previously spoken candidly about her struggle to conceive the first time around and her experience of IVF. At the beginning of 2025, she revealed that she had been 'fortunate to have another embryo stored away in a freezer' - which the couple used to conceive baby number two. Model and actress Isabella, 45, who is married to Richard Branson's son Sam, chose an equally summery ensemble, which included blue and white striped trousers and an oversized white shirt worn open at the neck. The half-sisters were joined by several other women, including fellow actress Tamzin Outhwaite and TV presenter Julia Bradbury, at this morning's event. Former EastEnders actress Tamzin looked elegant in wide-leg jeans and a striped blazer while Julia, who has fronted programmes on BBC, ITV and Channel 5, paired her jeans with colourful trainers and a white smock top. Many of the other guests, all of whom enjoyed breakfast and took part in a number of workshops, appeared to have been inspired by the recent summery weather when choosing their outfits. The women who attended Donna Ashworth's event posed for photographs with the poet while Cressida and Isabella, 45, were pictured sharing a sisterly embrace. Earlier this year, Cressida told of her heartbreaking struggles to conceive in a candid personal essay. She equally opened up about her fears of losing her 78-year-old mother, Lady Mary-Gaye Curzon, and gave readers an insight into how she coped with her sister Pandora Cooper-Key's death from cancer. In an article written for The Telegraph, Cressida admitted that being a mother 'is unpredictable and frightening' and said she has 'elements of her childhood she would like to leave in the past'. The actress added that her late sister Pandora, who died in July aged 51, always 'played a maternal role' and was 'protecting her even in her final days'. In a further candid confession, she revealed that she and her siblings feared they were going to 'lose their mother' when she was rushed into intensive care last year. 'My husband and I struggled to conceive, and our son is a product of IVF. Fortunately, after the successful transfer of another of our embryos, I am pregnant with our second child. 'Even though I remind myself how fortunate we are to have been able to have children, being a mum is the most challenging thing I've ever done. It is unpredictable, frightening and it tests me every day,' she wrote. The socialite, who dated Prince Harry from 2012 to 2014 and still remains close to the royal family, revealed that she was pregnant with her second child in January of this year. 'I am now well into my second pregnancy,' she wrote in The Spectator magazine. 'Having conceived through IVF the first time, we were fortunate to have another embryo stored away in a freezer.' Cressida added that it has been difficult pregnancy. 'I've been battling morning sickness,' she said. 'I've never had it before, and now feel like I've been swaying on a boat for months.' Pandora (left) said her sister Georgiana (right) was left worrying about whether she was dead or alive after having a seizure. Above: The pair pictured with Cressida Bonas (middle) Cressida dated Prince Harry from 2012 to 2014 after being set up by Princess Eugenie. Pictured in March 2014 Cressida's close friend Princess Eugenie, who was the brains behind her match with Harry, will speak as a guest on her new podcast, Lessons From Our Mothers. A sneak preview posted on the podcast's new Instagram account saw Eugenie, 34, speak touchingly about her own mother, Sarah Ferguson. 'What is the most valuable thing you have learned from your mum?' Cressida asks in an episode. Eugenie said: 'I think for me, it's the fire inside, you know, the strength inside of you, and how to bring that out, and to pull it in when you most need it.' Cressida announced the podcast on her Instagram account, writing: 'We are excited to share something that we've been working on for a while…our new podcast, Lessons From Our Mothers, launching on Mothering Sunday 2025! 'Have you ever stopped to think about the maternal figures in your life and how they have shaped who you are today? Have you ever asked them about their own experiences, or thought about the lessons that you have learned from them?' She continued: 'Lessons From Our Mothers is a series of conversations that celebrate motherhood and mothering in all its forms. 'When our own mum fell ill last year, we set out to ask her all the questions that we had never thought to ask - and now, we're on a sisterly mission to find out the stories of some special guests (and their mothers) through this podcast.
