As Henry of England testified on Tuesday in his legal battle against the Mirror Group Newspapers Corporation, the editorial group that owns the Daily Mirror, a outlet he alleges for years of illegally obtaining information about his personal life, a Up To This name rang out 118 times in the room: that of Chelsy Davy. The woman, who had an intermittent relationship with the Duke of Sussex between 2004 and 2011, thus became the unwilling protagonist of the day, while the prince explained how the excessive press attention she received during the seven years they were together , prosecuted, it caused “tremendous unnecessary tension and stress” for the couple, eventually driving them apart.
In the first decade of the 2000s, when many of the events mentioned in Prince Harry’s statement took place, young Chelsy Davy, now 37, appeared daily in the British media. The press at the time described the relationship as “turbulent”. Henry of England was portrayed, in his own words, as “a womanizer, a loser, a dropout, a fool, an underage drinker or an irresponsible drug addict”. Davy, who at the time was working long hours in a law firm in the City, London’s financial district, was constantly acting as a party girl or wild party girl. She is now married to businessman Sam Cutmore-Scott, with whom she has a son named Leo, who will be born in 2022. She owns a jewelry company and is still friends with her ex. In fact, she was one of the guests at her wedding to Meghan Markle, which took place at Windsor Castle on May 18, 2018.
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Born in Bulawayo, Zimbabwe in 1985, Davy is the daughter of Charles Davy – a multi-million dollar businessman dedicated to the safari business and one of Zimbabwe’s most prominent landowners – and Beverly Donald, former model and Miss Rhodesia in 1973. She grew up in a privileged environment, in the town of Victoria Falls, on his father’s game reserve, a piece of land twice the size of Surrey County. Sent to the UK to study as a teenager, she first attended Cheltenham College, an exclusive boarding school which, with annual costs of between £31,000 and £43,000 (currently between €36,000 and €49,000), is a real highlight of the most expensive schools in the UK. He later attended the no less prestigious Stowe School to attend high school. It was during this time that he met Prince Harry, but it was not until they met in Cape Town, during the sabbatical he took between graduating from university and joining the British Army in 2003, that their relationship really began.
Chelsy Davy at Henry of England’s graduation as an RAF pilot on May 7, 2010. Today, Davy lives a life away from the limelight.Max Mumby/Indigo (Getty Images)
From then on, Chelsy Davy’s life took a radical turn. He moved back to the UK and began studying law at the University of Leeds to be closer to his partner. She and Prince Harry dated for around seven years, albeit intermittently due to the extreme pressure she felt during that time due to her allergy to the limelight and being the center of attention. During his testimony at the London trial, Prince Harry recalled some of the news from the time that soured their relationship, such as when it was revealed that the Duke of Sussex had visited a strip club during their time together. “Articles like this made me feel like my relationship with Chelsy was doomed. Ultimately, they made me decide that royal life was not for them, which was incredibly painful for me at the time,” Enrique said in court.
In an interview with The Sunday Times in 2016, Davy spoke about this period for the first time, calling it “a tough and horrifying experience”. “I was young, I was trying to have a normal life and it was horrible,” he said.
Chelsy Davy (centre) arriving for the wedding of her ex, Prince Harry, and Meghan Markle on May 19, 2018 at Windsor Castle. Chris Jackson (Getty Images)
“I think Enrique and I will always be very good friends,” he said in the same interview. The couple separated amicably in 2011, but “crazy, threatening and unbearable” pressure from the British tabloids then forced the lawyer to give up her life in London and return to her native Zimbabwe.
In his controversial memoir, the Duke of Sussex wrote that he “appreciated Chelsy’s light-hearted and authentic spirit” because she “didn’t care what anyone else thought”. Chelsy “wore short skirts and high boots, danced wildly, drank as much tequila as I did,” she wrote. She also detailed their breakup, claiming she wanted to “travel, have fun, and enjoy her youth” while he began his military career. “If we had stayed together, we would have been lucky if we could have seen each other a few times in those two years; and that’s not a relationship,” the duke wrote.
In 2016, Chelsy Davy stepped out in front of the media again, this time to promote her new jewelry brand, Aya, which she launched after retiring from the legal profession. In 2018, she was photographed at Harry and Meghan’s wedding, which was also attended by another of the Duke’s ex-girlfriends, Cressida Bonas. In 2020, he announced that he had “met someone.” It was Sam Cutmore-Scott, a British businessman, who oddly met Prince Henry at Eton College, the elite school that has also studied iconic figures such as Ian Fleming and George Orwell, including scores of politicians and nearly twenty British Prime Ministers. In January 2022, the couple welcomed their first child, who they named Leo. They were later married in an intimate ceremony. Davy hasn’t posted any of this on his social media. In fact, the first picture that shows her with a baby on her Instagram account, without specifying whether it is her son, dates back to October 2022. The information that this is the case was published in the Chron published.