Who will hook Harry next? The eligible beauties who could help the Prince mend his broken heart
By NATASHA PEARLMAN and MISHAAL KHAN -
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So Prince Harry and his girlfriend of three years Chelsy Davy have split amid rumours of her being terrified of being 'pigeonholed as a princess'. But plenty of other eligible - and not so eligible - young women are desperate for that very title. We present a list of the hopefuls...
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1. LADY ELOISE ANSON
As the daughter of acclaimed royal photographer Lord Lichfield, socialite and model Eloise is friends with both princes as well as a host of fashionistas.
Her father left an estimated £10 million fortune, not including the 900-acre family seat, Shugborough Hall, which is leased to Staffordshire Council. The family still has access to the main house.
Eloise, 23, enjoys the limelight and has been regularly "papped" outside the Princes' favourite haunts, Boujis and Cuckoo Club.
Earlier this year she checked into a private clinic amid rumours of an eating disorder.
2. LYDIA FORTE
Sir Rocco Forte's eldest gal, Lydia, has the brains to succeed.
The 22-year-old straight-A student is reading history at St Catherine's College, Oxford and is said to be a close friend of Princess Beatrice, who attended Lydia's 18th birthday bash at one of her father's hotels.
As heiress to a £385million fortune amassed by her father, Lydia is cash-rich, too. Her credentials mean she's found at most society events, and royal haunt Boujis is one of her favourite nightspots.
3. PIPPA MIDDLETON
Pippa - Kate's little sister - graduated from Edinburgh University in July with a degree in English.
Currently "taking some me time" out (just like her sister). During Wills and Kate's brief split earlier this year, 22-year-old Pippa became her sister's partying accessory, socialising with Guy Pelly et al at Mahiki.
Home is a modest, six-bedroom detached house in Bucklebury, Berkshire. Her father Michael, a former pilot, and mother, Carole, a former air hostess, run an internet business selling children's party games with an estimated annual turnover of £2million - so the family is hardly in the same financial league as Harry's other associates.
Nasty rumours abound that Carole Middleton has had designs on both Princes for her daughters, particularly since July when Pippa split up with Hong Kong banking heir JJ Jardine-Matheson. Certainly, nabbing Harry as well as Wills would be rather a coup.
4. KITTY SPENCER
South African-based Kitty Spencer is a straight-A student at Reddam House, a private school for South Africa's elite.
The 17-year-old is Harry's first cousin - the eldest daughter of Diana's brother, Earl Spencer, and his first wife, Victoria Lockwood. The family seat is, of course, Althorp, the 300-acre estate in Northamptonshire which was Diana's childhood home.
With a cool £100million family fortune, Kitty prefers to continue her studies rather than court Press attention. However, she was reluctantly thrust into the limelight earlier this month when she was voted Tatler's Most Eligible Female in their 2007 Little Black Book. All too aware of the tragic Spencer family history, she has so far remained tight-lipped about her future.
5 & 6. ISABELLA and GABRIELLA ANSTRUTHER-GOUGH-CALTHORPE
An actress and model, 27-year-old Isabella [picture no. 5] has the distinction in aristocratic circles of being rather good at her job - she is currently starring in West End musical hit Dirty Dancing.
Isabella is a fourth cousin once removed from Prince Harry and her father, John Austen Anstruther-Gough-Calthorpe, has a £100million fortune based on the family estate in the Midlands.
She is not exactly available, though - her 22-year-old boyfriend Sam Branson is the son of business mogul Richard.
As Isabella's younger half-sister (her mother is Vanessa, niece of the Duke of Norfolk) 18-year-old catwalk model Gabriella [picture no. 6] is not related to the Princes, but still has noble genes from both parents.
After gaining straight A*s in her GCSEs at £19,530 a year St Swithun's school in Hampshire, she put university plans on hold to pursue modelling. But in spite of her catwalk success, Gabriella does not court attention.
She is also stuck with the unfortunate nickname "Bumpy".
7. ALICE ROTHSCHILD
With a surname that carries a greater cachet than any credit card - her personal fortune is said to be worth hundreds of millions - Alice, 23, doesn't need to work.
However, she recently joined business information firm Grayson Pender Wordsworth as probably the wealthiest researcher in the world.
Alice's father, the late Amschel Rothschild, left a fortune of £18million to his family. Her mother is also the granddaughter of merchant banker James Guinness.
Unsurprisingly, Alice found herself among Tatler's 2005 Most Eligible Women.
8. BEE SHAFFER
Twenty-year-old Bee is taking time out from studying at Columbia University, New York, and is now living in London making a name for herself as a fashion journalist.
Of course, having infamous U.S. Vogue editor Anna Wintour as a mother might have opened a few doors in that respect.
Her father is eminent New York child psychiatrist David Shaffer, although her parents are separated - her mother's relationship with mobile phone millionaire Shelby Bryan led to the break-up in 1999.
Bee has a parental connection to Harry in that Anna Wintour was a friend of Diana's - and with her mother's impeccable fashion credentials, Bee is certain to shine at any royal function.
9. HENRIETTA SEYMOUR
This could be just the sort of girl party-loving Harry is after - 18-year-old wild child Henrietta's most notorious escapade was turning up for last year's New York Debutantes ball in pink sunglasses and promptly lifting her couture dress to reveal leopard-print tights.
Her father, the Duke of Somerset, spends his time running the family's 5,000-acre estate centred on Bradley Hall, a 14-bedroom Grade II listed stately home in Somerset.
The Duke is asset-rich and his estate is worth millions (perhaps even half-a-billion with all the villages).
10. CHARLOTTE CASIRAGHI
Genuine royalty, though only of the Eurotrash variety. Charlotte, 21, is the daughter of Princess Caroline of Monaco, granddaughter of Grace Kelly, and fourth in line to the throne of the sunny principality.
After her industrialist father Stefano Casiraghi died in a boating accident when she was four, her paternal grandparents Giancarlo and Fernanda Casiraghi gave her a nice present - a small island off Sardinia worth $9million.
Charlotte has appeared in the French and Italian papers, but now she's working for one here - The Independent on Sunday.
11. GINNY FRASER
Ginny, 24, studied at St Andrews with Prince William and became good friends with both Princes.
Reportedly one of the most fanciable girls among William's well-heeled group of students, she now works as an advertising account manager at Vogue.
She was also a pupil at Downe House, in Cold Ash, Berkshire, along with Lady Gabriella Windsor, the daughter of Princess Michael of Kent.
Her father, the third Baron Strathalmond, is an underwriter at Lloyds and the vast family estate is in Elstead, near Farnham, Surrey.
The considerable family fortune was founded on the efforts of her great-grandfather, the first baron, an oil industry expert and former chairman of BP.
12. SIENNA MILLER
Famously cheated on by Jude Law, actress and model Sienna is always in attendance at the latest premiere, party or even her local pub - wherever Sienna is, a paparazzi lens won't be far away.
This determined pursuit of fame has helped the 25-year-old's earnings to reach more than £1million a year.
Her parents Jo and Ed were regular fixtures in high society when they married in the Seventies, but the couple divorced when Sienna was six.
Her father, Edward, is a banker-turned-art dealer, while her mother, Josephine, lives in a Chelsea town house.
But would Sienna be willing to swop her current beau, actor Rhys Ifans?
13. LILY COLE
Don't worry, Harry, the schoolgirl outfit was for a part in the new St Trinian's movie.
Still only 19, teenage overachiever Lily is a supermodel, Cambridge student and ambassador for children's charity Global Angels. Surely the perfect wife for Harry, who is heavily involved in the Aids charities his mother championed.
Lily has made an estimated £10million from modelling assignments alone. Not bad for a girl from a three-bedroom semi in Torbay, Devon.
No one would call her shy - she parades down catwalks in barely-there clothes for a living - but she is not your typical champagne-swilling party girl. Lily prefers studying politics and has penned a few articles for women's glossy magazines.
And if he gets desperate...
14. PEACHES GELDOF
At first glance, 18-year-old Peaches might not seem ideal royal girlfriend material.
Her mother, Paula, died from a drugs overdose and her father, Bob, is an outspoken anti-poverty activist.
But she certainly rivals Harry in the party stakes and likes a brawl with paparazzi snappers, too.
Will one day inherit a slice of her father's £35million fortune.
15. CHANTELLE HOUGHTON
At least Harry knows 24-year-old Chantelle could handle life in the spotlight.
Famously dim and an Essex girl to her core, she won Celebrity Big Brother as the only non-celebrity, then made £1million by selling coverage of every aspect of her 10-month marriage to fellow housemate Samuel Preston.
'Poor Harry's inconsolable. They won't let him go to Afghanistan, his girlfriend's dumped him and now he's heard that 24-hour drinking may be reviewed'
This article made me sick for one reason, PIPPA MIDDLETON, I really feel like the Middleton sisters will do ANYTHING to marry into the royal fold. Yuck.
