[Yeah, there’s something seriously wrong with Harry’s judgment]
Thank you. I was about to post something similar, earlier.
He has NEVER matured, slowly, at first, then VERY rapidly, all of his friends and his brother got married and had kids, whilst Harry dithered, got passout drunk, dressed as a Nazi, picked up strange women and played STRIP SNOOKER in Vegas, etc.!
He had a slew of proper girlfriends, whom he treated indifferently and/or badly...so they quit him.
Finally, he wound up being just a THIRD WHEEL/a lonely kid looking in at "happy families", left without any louche pals with whom to have a hedonistic life with.
He even tried to get it on with Pippa, who spurned him, as she should have done!
Which brings us to Markel, whom he glommed onto, like a drowning man and a life saving piece of floating flotsam in an ocean.