The spotlight is back on Prince Harry’s ex-girlfriend, Chelsy Davy after he mentioned her 118 times in his statement against Mirror Group Newspapers, which is currently being heard in London’s High Court.

In his 55-page witness statement, arry wrote that he “genuinely feels that in every relationship that I’ve ever had—be that with friends, girlfriends, with family or with the army, there’s always been a third party involved, namely the tabloid press.” He also testified in court on June 6, when he referenced his split from his ex-girlfriend, Davy, whom he dated on and off from 2004 until 2010. 

He said that the media pressure “led her to make the decision that a royal life was not for her, which was incredibly upsetting for me at the time.”

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Back in 2005, the Duke of Sussex caused quite a scandal by dressing up like a Nazi at the age of 20 to a ‘native and colonial’ party. Soon after, he claims that his then-girlfriend Davy’s phone was hacked because Mirror published an article where it was reported that Davy “was furious and had given me a ‘tongue-lashing down the phone’ following allegations that I had been flirting with a brunette at the party.”

“How could the Defendant’s journalists know about this?” Harry asked in court.

Where is Chelsy Davy today?

Chelsy Davy is a Zimbabwean businesswoman and the owner and founder of the jewelry brand Aya and the travel agency Aya Africa.

She had a reportedly “turbulent” relationship with Prince Harry. They met in 2004 while Davy was a boarder at Stowe School. They became an on-again, off-again couple. In May 2010, Davy announced the end of the relationship on Facebook.

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Despite their breakup, Chelsy attended Prince William and Kate Middleton’s wedding on April 29, 2011. At the time, she stated that she would not marry King Charles’ younger son because of the rising incompatibility of their life choices.

But in an interview, for The Times in 2016, Chelsy confessed that she struggled with the level of scrutiny in the media. “It was so full-on: crazy and scary and uncomfortable. I found it very difficult when it was bad. I couldn’t cope. I was young, I was trying to be a normal kid and it was horrible,” she said.

Years later, when Harry got married to Meghan Markle in 2018, Chelsy attended their wedding ceremony.

In January last year, the 37-year-old gave birth to her first child, Leo. She chose to keep her pregnancy under the radar and has not even revealed who the boy’s father is.

One of her friends told Evening Standard that Chelsy has fiercely protected her privacy after she broke up with the Duke of Sussex. “I really don’t know who her scene is now at all,” one of her former peers said. Another source who had been friends with Chelsy for over a decade said, “She has fiercely guarded her private life since this new boyfriend.”

Her last known boyfriend was a TV producer named James Marshall, whom she split up with, in 2018. In 2020, in an interview with Tatler, Chelsy revealed that there was a special person in her life, She refused to share his name. “Yes, there is someone, and I am quite taken by this one, but it’s very new and I don’t want to say too much,” she said.