They always seemed an unlikely pair and it is revealed that the romance between Harry Potter actress Emma Watson and Brandon Green, son of the one-time King of the High Street Sir Philip Green, is over.
According to sources, they split some time after Christmas – after a “serious” romance that lasted around 18 months.
Both met each other’s parents and there were vacations, including a romantic getaway to Venice.
Green, 29, was a party lover and had previously dated several models. He was once caught patting Kate Moss on the bottom while on holiday in St Barths.
Raised in the tax haven of Monaco, his bar mitzvah at the storied Hotel Du Cap included performances by Beyoncé and Andrea Bocelli.
The romance between Harry Potter actress Emma Watson and Brandon Green (pictured together on holiday in Venice, Italy last August) is over
Emma Watson and Brandon Green held hands during a short vacation in Venice in August last year
Brandon Green (right) is the son of former King of the High Street Sir Philip Green (left).
More recently, however, he has shown an interest in good deeds, including biodiversity and the oceans, and has been described by friends as “polite and smart”.
At a fledgling technology investment company, Brendan seemed a good fit with Watson, a serious woman who graduated from Brown University after Potter.
She’s now harboring ambitions behind the camera, having founded two film production companies and directing a Prada commercial herself.
She has also developed a grape-based gin, Renais – some of the grapes for it come from her father’s vineyard in France.
So what went wrong? It appears that Emma, 33, had some kind of epiphany related to her “Saturn return” and decided to step out of the relationship.
In an April 15 Instagram post to mark her birthday, she wrote, “This is 33rd Saint Moly.” Before 29, I hadn’t even heard of a Saturn return as a concept. Let’s just say I know myself well now.’
She went on to write about how she’d reevaluated her life and what she’d done with it, learning how to surf “badly,” riding horses, “doing a lot of therapy,” and “saying goodbye to my grandma and grandpa.”
She added, “I clipped the nails on both hands trying to cook for myself and ended up being able to do things with just one hand for months,” she wrote.
“I’ve been really sad and really upset about a lot of things.” “I’ve learned more about love and womanhood… It took me three years, but I finally figured out a daily practice and I can actually stick to it for more than a few days at a time. “
On the subject of “love and being a woman,” she didn’t reveal about her split from Brandon, which she kept secret, but the news has since leaked.
Along the same lines, on the release of her album 30, singer Adele said her Saturn return coincided with the end of her marriage to charity boss Simon Konecki.
She told Vogue, “I made my Saturn return.” That’s when I lost track. When that happens, it can shake your life. It shakes you up a little: Who am I? What do I want to do? What really makes me happy? All those things.’
A Saturn return refers to the time when the planet Saturn returns to the position it was in at the time of your birth.
Astrologers say this marks the end of one life cycle and the beginning of the next, and occurs around ages 29, 58, and 84, bringing “monumental changes” in lifestyle.
The first signs of trouble came in March, when another concertgoer at a Taylor Swift performance in Las Vegas claimed to have seen her in the audience – with her former boyfriend Brendan Wallace, a tech brother.
However, it is not clear if he intrigued her again.
Watson famously remarked on being a “self partner” when she was still single, but by more conventional standards she was a serial monogamist – and hit and miss in love.
Emma Watson attending last year’s BAFTAs at the Royal Albert Hall in London
Brandon helps Emma Watson onto a taxi boat during her romantic trip to Venice
Emma Watson and Brandon Green had met each other’s parents and there were holidays, including a romantic getaway to Venice (pictured).
An early friend was rugby player Tom Ducker. A more serious romance followed with fellow Oxford University students Will Adamowicz and Matt Janney.
She has dated three young tech millionaires, most notably entrepreneur William “Mack” Knight. They split in late 2017 after a two-year romance. Following this, she had a six-month romance with handsome Glee actor Chord Overstreet. They separated in the summer of 2018.
She was then spotted drinking cocktails with tech CEO Brendan Wallace, the co-founder of a venture capital fund who she may or may not be back with now.
In the summer of 2019, she joined another tech millionaire, Oculus CEO Brendan Iribe. He was succeeded by businessman Leo Robinton, with whom she spent two years.
In an interview, she said, “The friends or partners that I had generally made me feel really valued.” “They built me up,” she said.
Many may consider Watson extremely lucky – thanks to being cast as a child in the Potter films, she has more money than she could need and a thriving acting career. But actually, she has pretty mixed feelings about the fame it has brought her and has retired from acting on more than one occasion.
She was cast in the Harry Potter films at the age of nine after being found through the theater club she attended. She didn’t finish filming the final “Potter” until June 2010, when she was 20 years old.
Sources who remember her from the Potter days say that although she lived in Oxfordshire with her mother, the influence of her solicitor, father Chris, was paramount.
Emma Watson (right) has dated three young tech millionaires, most notably entrepreneur William “Mack” Knight (left). They split in late 2017 after a two-year romance
Emma Watson dated businessman Leo Robinton (pictured together in Los Angeles in May 2021) for two years
The experience of growing up with Potter was so confining and so stressful that she wasn’t sure if she wanted to continue acting. When she found out how much money she had made from the Potter films, she felt physically ill. She also seriously considered not renewing her contract to complete the films.
When the cast and crew threw a wrap party at Harry’s Bar around Christmas 2010 after filming the final re-shoots, she didn’t come.
She said in 2017, “It’s something I’ve really wrestled with.” I went back and questioned my parents. When I was younger I just did it. I was just playing, it was just there.
“I realized this thing with fame had reached a point of no return. I felt if I was ever going to step away from it, it’s now or never.’
Post-Potter movies were generally low-key, like The Circle, The Perks of Being a Wallflower, and The Bling Ring. She is said to have turned down the role of La La Land, which earned Emma Stone an Oscar.
Her last film was Little Women, which hit theaters in 2019, and as her recently formed film companies show, her ambitions now lie on the other side of the camera. As she recently said, “I’ve often thought that I’m so wrong for this job because I’m too serious.”
You can see that Brandon Green, who grew up in Monte Carlo and enjoyed a carefree life of private jets, penthouses and bikini models, might just not have been deep enough for this introspective star.
But then when a person who has everything meets another person who also has everything, they might just have nothing to offer.