Prince Harry has revived Chelsy Davy in the trial where she settles her lawsuit for illegal wiretapping. What has happened to the most controversial girlfriend of the Duke of Sussex since her breakup in 2011?
She was Prince Harry's first 'serious' girlfriend, but her romance was shattered by the tabloids' brutal tracking of her ins and outs. Chelsy Davy, the daughter of a South African millionaire who wanted to send her eldest daughter to the best British schools, was treated by the press as a st**per: they painted her bathed in tequila and dancing scantily clad on the tables of clubs.
Chelsy Davy's story is told until 2011 when she decides to end a seven-year relationship that could have made her the Duchess of Sussex and the blondest acquisition of the British royal family. Obviously, none of that made up for the bad treatment from the tabloids. They broke her image so much that the young woman decided to leave London and return to her family home in Zimbabwe, very close to Victoria Falls. Away from Henry of England.
Chelsy Davy returned to her family home aged 26, still very young but with little prospect of rebuilding her reputation in Britain, at least in the short term. She was hardly going to be taken seriously in London, despite her background in economics, philosophy, and law. Some Buckingham Palace springs had to be put in place to compensate the young woman, because in September 2011 she was already back in London with a position as a junior lawyer at the firm Allen & Overy.
Chelsy Davy disappeared from Prince Harry's circles
Chelsy Davy's legal career was anything but dazzling: in less than four years she was out of the firm. Luckily for her, she managed to keep her friendship with Prince Harry and connected to the social life of British high society. In fact, she went to the wedding of Prince William and Kate Middleton in April 2011 and Harry and Meghan Markle in 2018.
"We don't know where she's going," high society sources told British newspapers about Chelsy's new life without Harry. The former lawyer was so scared of the tabloids, that she was very careful not to let herself be seen and make it known. She lived in typical maiden flats in Chelsea and South Kensington, two of London's best neighborhoods, but for a few years, with no apparent activity.
In 2016, Chelsy Davy moved to work for the first time and, after studying gemology, she opened her own ethical jewelry firm, Aya Africa. Her circle of friends changed completely. Lady Melissa Percy, daughter of the Dukes of Northumberland, became her new best friend. She also strengthened ties with Irene Forte, daughter of the hotelier Rocco Forte.
This approach to the world of luxury hotels explains her crush, courtship, and marriage with Sam Cutmore-Scott, the man with whom Chelsy has become the mother of one-year-old Leo. She met him after breaking up with television producer James Marshall, the ex-husband of Elettra Wiedemann, the granddaughter of Ingrid Bergman, and a good friend of Meghan Markle. Nothing to do with Sam, a golden bachelor from high society.
An Eton student (he was a year ahead of Harry) and brother of actor Jack Cutmore-Scott (Tenet, Dunkirk, Kingsman: The Secret Service), Sam runs his parents' hotel company, the Bijou Collection. Together with him, Chelsy has left behind her eternal single life and acts as a millionaire mother out of the reach of the press, although she maintains the activity of her jewelry firm, which has expanded to offer travel or lifestyle services.
Today Chelsy Davy and her family live life away from the frenzy of central London in a large house in Chiswick, although she can move around the luxury hotel properties her husband runs, including a castle in the south of France. The most recent photos of her almost always place them on vacation: Prague, Istanbul, Mauritius… A 'dolce vita' without paparazzi.
