Prince Harry is losing battle with rival for love of Cressida Bonas The Prince spent time with Cressida after he returned from Afghanistan earlier this year and they were photographed cuddling on the slopes in the Alps. However, this column reported in April that the couple faced problems because of Harry's desire to settle down. The Prince, who turns 30 next year, had talked about marriage with Cressida, a 24-year-old student at the Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance. "Cressida has been in floods of tears," claimed one of her friends at the time. 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. A tabloid newspaper claimed on its front page the following week that the couple's relationship was "on the rocks." Cressida's romance with Wentworth-Stanley had cooled after they graduated from university. Last summer, she was, though, reported to have been "desperate" to rekindle their relationship. In January, the Prince gave a bad-tempered television interview from Afghanistan in which he complained about his difficulties in finding love. He said potential princesses were put off by his position, rather than attracted by it. One of Harry's best friends, Thomas van Straubenzee, marries on Saturday, while another, Jake Warren, became engaged earlier this month. Cressida's half-sister, Isabella Calthorpe, once spurned the Duke of Cambridge's affections. Earlier this year, she married Sam Branson, the son of the Virgin tycoon Sir Richard.