Chelsy Davy is just another office girl on her first day at work as she nips out for lunchtime sarnie at Starbucks
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Daily Mail Reporter
Last updated at 5:17 PM on 09th December 2008
Striding across the road, sandwich bag in one hand, mobile phone in the other, Chelsy Davy looks just like any other office worker taking a lunchbreak.
Smartly dressed in skirt suit and heels, she took time out to stock up on a sandwich before returning to the Queen's solicitors offices where today she began a two-week work experience stint.
As revealed in Richard Kay's Daily Mail column, Prince Harry's fun-loving girlfriend is temporarily abandoning London's nightclubs and working at Farrer and Co.
Made the call, got my lunch: Chelsy strides back to her office after buying a sandwich
The 23-year-old law student, who is entering the final stages of a two-year postgraduate course at Leeds University, has secured the work experience as part of her course.
In the run-up to Christmas, the Zimbabwean-born blonde will be based at the prestigious and long-established legal firm's offices in Lincoln's Inn Fields.
Tuna or cheese and pickle? Chelsy deliberates over the selection on offer
Farrer's receives 700 applicants a year for its two-year training contracts, but selects only ten candidates.
Hundreds of students also apply for vacation placements, with 30 being selected for the summer holidays, but only one or two at Christmas.
'Vacation placements are more competitive than training contracts,' says a recently qualified solicitor.
Business chic: Chelsy Davy looks smart in a skirt suit as she arrives at a London law firm
Casual: Chelsy in her student attire in April this year
On a vacation placement, Chelsy would be paid £250 a week - hardly enough to fund a repeat of her antics last Saturday at Kensington nightclub Amika, where she and her pals reportedly spent £500 on rum cocktails.
Chelsy apparently recovered sufficiently from her 3am high-jinks to report for her first day of work experience yesterday at Farrer's, which recently represented the Queen during the 'Crowngate' row with the BBC over a misedited trailer for a television documentary.
I'm told it is highly unlikely that fun-loving Chelsy would have got her placement without pulling strings of some kind.
A legal source tells me: 'These City law firms only ever interview Oxbridge graduates and, normally speaking, someone from Leeds would not get a look-in.
'This isn't because the firms look down on other universities - it is simply because they consider that Oxbridge fulfils all their needs, so why bother to broaden the net?'
Meanwhile, I am told the senior solicitors at Farrer's have been greatly looking forward to their glamorous new addition.
'We're taking bets on who will be the first person to ask her to get the teas in,' says one.
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