Princess Beatrice turned up 20 minutes late yesterday for her first university lecture — after a night out.

Bea, 20, looked red-faced as she sat down next to stunned fellow students for the 10am talk. She did not take notes and seemed to be day-dreaming during the 50-minute lecture on philosophy.

The night before she had a late dinner with American boyfriend Dave Clark, 25, in West London.

A student at the lecture yesterday said: “It must have been embarrassing for Beatrice. All the others were already sat down listening and it was very quiet, so all eyes turned to her. She just kept her head down, went a bit red, walked to the nearest desk and sat down.”

“The male lecturer looked at her but didn’t say anything. Another member of staff had brought her into the lecture hall, so I think she had to be shown the way. Beatrice took out a really posh-looking leather-bound book to jot down notes in but she did not actually write anything at all in it.”

“Every time I looked at her she seemed to be day-dreaming.”

Later the daughter of Princess Andrew and Fergie found there would be no special privileges as she joined the back of a long coffee queue.

But Bea, who was wearing a woolly hat, black shirt and jeans, and leopard-print shoes, seemed to have settled into university life as she chatted and laughed with three students on her break. (via The Sun)