The 24-year-old is currently holidaying with her half sister, Isabella Branson, on Virgin tycoon Sir Richard's private Caribbean island, Necker, Mail Online can reveal.
Friends have not ruled out the prince deciding to join her at the last minute - but it looks as if Harry will miss being with his girlfriend of 19 months for both Christmas and New Year.
Couple: Prince Harry and his girlfriend Cressida
Bonas may now celebrate New Year's Eve separately after spending
Christmas apart while he was at Sandringham with his family
The report scotches claims the fourth in line to the throne is tonight throwing a dinner party Sandringham, the Queen's Norfolk estate, where Cressida will be a guest.
According to several informed sources, she is already lapping up the sun with Isabella - formerly Isabella Anstruther-Gough-Calthorpe - who married Sam Branson, Sir Richard's son, earlier this year.
The holiday was arranged before Prince Harry announced he would undertake a charity trek to the South Pole in aid of Walking With The Wounded in December, which kept the couple apart for almost four weeks.
He arrived home last week and immediately met up with Cressida, spending the weekend together at the Branson mansion in Kidlington, Oxfordshire.
They stayed as guests of Sam, 28, and Isabella, 33.
Harry was seen with Sam in The Bell pub at Hampton Poyle on Sunday before he later returned to the mansion nearby.
Sir Richard gave the mansion to his daughter Holly, 31, and son after deciding to spend most of his time on his Caribbean island of Necker.
The couple were parted when Harry drove to Sandringham for Christmas, where the Queen celebrated with her closest family.
Cressida was with her own family before flying out of the country.
'Harry doesn't appear to have gone with her. Although it is unlikely, I couldn't rule out him joining her at some point,' said a friend.
'The relationship is increasingly serious but Cressida is also very close to Isabella and she would never let her down.
Studs up tackle: Prince Harry goes in for a
strong challenge during an annual December 24 football match at
Sandringham where he celebrated Christmas
Sibling rivalry: Prince Harry, who had a beard,
clashes with an opponent during the football match. He was on the
opposite side from his older brother Prince William
Clash: Prince William battles for the ball during the match on Christmas Eve at Sandringham
'If he decides not to go they will have plenty of time together after New Year and a ski holiday is most definitely on the cards.
'Cressida is a very good skier, unlike Harry's former girlfriend, Chelsy Davy, who hated the cold.
She and Harry are looking forward to getting away with each other.'
Harry is due to return to duty as an Apache helicopter pilot in the next few weeks.
The Prince and Cressida were introduced last year by his cousin and her best friend, Princess Eugenie.
Described by friends as ‘bubbly and terribly, terribly sweet’, they were earlier this year photographed smooching on the ski slopes of Verbier and enjoying dinner dates and nights on the town.
Despite their increasing closeness friends have moved to dismiss rumours that the couple are set to get engaged.
Cressida, 24, recently graduated from a dance course but is believed to be considering a career in teaching instead.
Cressida is the daughter of four-times married and divorced Lady Mary Gaye Curzon, a renowned 60s society beauty who once posed semi-naked for a glossy coffee table photography book called Birds of Britain.
She has five children with three of her husbands of which one is Isabella Anstruther-Gough-Calthorpe.
Christmas celebrations: Princes Harry and William attend a Christmas Day church service at Sandringham
Cressida was the product of her third marriage to Old Harrovian businessman Jeffrey Bonas, which ended in divorce after six years in 1994.
In an interview with US television last year, handsome Harry complained that girls appeared to be put off by his title and indicated he was keen to shed his playboy tag.
‘I’m not so much searching for someone to fulfill the role, but obviously, you know, finding someone that would be willing to take it on,’ he said.
Meanwhile, well-placed sources close to the prince firmly scotched reports that Harry is holding a dinner party at Sandringham to which Cressida was invited.
'It's not true. Cressida isn't at, or going to Sandringham,' they said.
Another source added: 'That's not something that would happen when the Queen is in residence, as she will be until early February.'
On Christmas Eve, Harry went head-to-head with his brother Prince William in a charity friendly football match on the Sandringham Estate.
During the match between estate workers the Duke of Cambridge jokingly pleaded with the referee to give his brother a yellow card for 'backchat'.
The now traditional pre-Christmas fixture ended in a 2-2 draw.
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