Chelsy Davy’s lonely life alone in Leeds
It has been lauded for its stylish shops and thriving business culture. Others hail it as the height of urban ‘cool’. Few northern towns have worked so hard or so successfully as Leeds to overturn a grey and uninspiring reputation.
So the city fathers must have been delighted when Chelsy Davy, girlfriend of Prince Harry, chose to go to university in Leeds ahead of other, smarter, destinations.
Like thousands of young people every year, Chelsy was drawn by the prospect of Britain’s biggest student city – its ‘edgy’ bands, jam-packed clubs and an energetic nightlife calculated to appeal to the young Royals and their glamorous outriders.
Even Harry, 23, was said to be impressed by what he’d heard and is believed to have convinced her it was the place to go, although, as we shall see, he has been remarkably reluctant to make the trip north himself.
But if the city’s reputation has been enhanced by Chelsy’s choice, it seems the 22-year-old herself is feeling anything but positive.
Whatever she hoped to find in Leeds, the reality has been sadly different and already, less than two months since the start of her two-year course in politics and law, the city’s thin veneer of glamour appears to be wearing thin.
Concerned friends say despite a determined effort to socialise and make friends, Chelsy can cut a solitary figure, is nervous for her safety and is anxious to return to London and Harry at every opportunity.
Recent tears, plainly visible as she emerged from a fashionable London nightclub, were said to be the result of a blazing row with her soldier boyfriend and the strains of proximity replacing the intoxicating emotional reunions of the long-distance relationship they had enjoyed until September.
Whatever words were exchanged that night, however, it is becoming clear that there is another source of discomfort for the glamorous student – and that it lies in the grey skies, perma-drizzle and rubbish-strewn terraced streets of Leeds itself.
In short, there is much she hates about the place. Read entire article here
November 10th, 2007 23:31
The British royals, the Queen excepted, are nothing but a bunch of ciphers. I’m sure the Queen is thrilled her son married the whore of the Northumbrian Hills, Camilla and her sister Margaret who drank herself to death.
These kids have had no parenting and it shows.
They are to be looked at in disgust. Contrast them with the Bush family.
At least the Bush’s got their asses out of bed every day (and still do) and get to work every day. Politics aside, the Bush’s have so much more class and protocol than this fractured monarchy which wreaks nothing more than dung.
November 11th, 2007 00:31
Plenty of people look on the Bush family in disgust too… Family history of alcoholism, drug use and crimes against humanity… just my two cents!
June 22nd, 2008 03:36
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