Prince Harry's ex-girlfriend Cressida Bonas reveals fresh heartbreak in emotional tribute to sister

Cressida Bonas, who dated Prince Harry for 2 years, has opened up astir her grief pursuing the decease of her half-sister, Pandora Cooper Key, who passed distant successful July

Prince Harry's ex-girlfriend Cressida Bonas has opened up with a tear-jerking tribute to her precocious half-sister, Pandora Cooper Key.

The actress, who famously dated Prince Harry from 2012 to 2014, introduced by their communal person Princess Eugenie, is grieving the nonaccomplishment of Pandora who died successful July aft battling Li-Fraumeni syndrome. This uncommon familial upset greatly heightens the hazard of processing respective crab types. As a caller mum to a babe boy, Cressida has felt the lack of her sister acutely.

In her ain words for the Sunday Times Style, Cressida, 35, shared her heartache: "In her last weeks, I felt similar I was racing against time, wanting to inquire her truthful much. Now that she has gone, I privation I could speech to her astir raising sons arsenic I'm besides present the parent of a babe boy."

Her sister's bequest continues done her 2 sons, Bow, 17, and Nestor, 14. Reflecting connected the contented she gained from Pandora, who was conscionable 51 erstwhile she died, she said: "Her boys are teenagers and I'm conscionable starting retired with an astir 2 twelvemonth old, truthful she had already walked the way that I'm beginning."

She continued, remembering a poignant infinitesimal successful particular: "I person a diary filled with scribbles and notes from conversations with my sisters. On 1 page, I had written down thing Pandora said conscionable aft I'd fixed commencement to a boy: 'No substance what, they'll ever emotion and privation to support their mums.'" Cressida, joined to Harry Wentworth-Stanley since 2020, stepped into motherhood with the commencement of their lad Wilbur successful 2022.

Cressida took to Instagram to stock a touching portion she wrote astir her precocious sister Pandora, revealing: "A portion I wrote astir my sister Pandora is successful @theststyle today."

She went connected to explicit her heavy consciousness of loss: "Life volition ne'er beryllium the aforesaid without her, and sometimes it feels similar she's conscionable gone connected holiday, until I realise she's not coming back."

Cressida fondly recalled her sister's impact: "My sister gave truthful overmuch love, she listened, she made radical laughter and she was hugely loved In return. I clasp onto the memories and the galore things she taught me. I miss her. She was simply the best."

She ended her poignant station with a prima emoji beside Pandora's Instagram username.