“A source said: ‘She was saying, ‘If you don’t put out a statement confirming I’m your girlfriend, I’m going to break up with you,'” the book detailed, adding that her words seemingly left the Prince “in a panic.”
“‘He was freaking out,” added another source, “saying, ‘She’s going to dump me.’”
Amid this pressure, Prince Harry, who “became determined to protect” her amid the media circus, purportedly reached out to Jason Knauf, who served as the Kensington Palace communications secretary at the time, asking him to help him with this task.