Prince Harry’s ex Chelsy Davy: 'I’m more than just some party girl'

Busy life: Chelsy Davy with Prince Harry in 2007 when she was also studying law
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Alistair Foster27 June 2016
The Weekender

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Chelsy Davy has spoken of the pressure she faced while dating Prince Harry, saying her hard work as an aspiring lawyer was ignored as she was portrayed as a party girl.

The 30-year-old was the on-off girlfriend of the royal from 2004 to 2011, during a time when she was trying to build a career in law.

She said: “I have never worked so hard in my life. I didn’t realise how little sleep you can survive on. Back-to-back deals, working till 4am, conference call at eight. We wouldn’t even go home, just sleep in the office.”

She spent her time off with friends in London, vigorously pursued by the paparazzi. She told The Times: “I like to enjoy life but I like to achieve things and am very ambitious. They [the public] can be forgiven for not knowing I was working really hard, I didn’t shout about it.

“If you go out once, they take a picture, but not of you going to work every morning, it’s of you falling out of a nightclub at 4am.”

The Zimbabwean broke her silence after deciding to quit law and begin her own African jewellery line.

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Davy also told how she was held at gunpoint as a student in South Africa, adding: “Very few people in Cape Town escape a run-in with crime.”

She was in a bar with friends when the assailants walked up. She said: “One put a gun to my head.

"They frogmarched us into the kitchen, made us all lie down, patted us down for valuables, said, ‘The first person to look up we’re going to shoot.’ I was holding my friend’s hand, we were both shaking.”

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