If Prince Harry's inclusion of his girlfriends by name in "Spare" is a measure of the importance they held in his life, then Florence Brudenell-Bruce would rank well. In fact, they were supposedly compatible enough for the prince to stop and consider if she was "his person" (via Tatler). The model and actor, widely referred to as Flea in her social circles, met Harry in 2011 after his breakup from longtime girlfriend Chelsy Davy. They were introduced by mutual friends and spent a fun first evening together, concluding it at Brudenell-Bruce's house in Notting Hill where she invited the royal in for tea.
"The weeks that followed were idyllic. We saw each other often, laughed a lot, and no one knew," Harry gushed in his memoir, per Town & Country. Their bliss didn't last too long unfortunately, with Brudenell-Bruce getting a taste of the press scrutiny that came with being Harry's ladylove. "She said she was under twenty-four-hour surveillance. Like some kind of criminal," he wrote. They called time on their relationship, an event that apparently affected the British prince profoundly.
Brudenell-Bruce was no less hurt. But she appreciated the silver lining that came with the breakup. "Although it was sad at the time, I feel lucky that the relationship was short-lived," she wrote for The Telegraph, reiterating her unwillingness to live a hyper-public lifestyle. Soon after in 2013, she married multi-millionaire Henry St. George, with whom she shares two children.
