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One of the most highly-publicized royal romances of the 2000s was the on-again, off-again relationship between Prince Harry and Chelsy Davy. However, despite how good the couple looked together as young adults, there were plenty of signs that Prince Harry and Davy were never going to last — including the aforementioned intense press coverage. That being said, Prince Harry divulged other devastating details about his relationship with Davy too, such as the toll the frequent distance between them took on it. The royal and his paramour ultimately called it quits for good around the turn of the 2010s. But life moves on, and both parties have long since done the same. What’s more, the former royal sweethearts have remained on good terms in the years since their breakup, with Davy even attending Harry’s eventual wedding to Meghan Markle. Still, a lot can happen in just a few years, and before-and-after photos of Davy show just how much she changed in the interim.
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The photo on the left was taken in May 2008, while Davy and Harry were leaving a church service in Windsor, England. Meanwhile, the photo on the right was snapped a decade later, in October 2018, when Davy attended the wedding of Harry’s cousin, Princess Eugenie, and Jack Brooksbank, which also took place in Windsor. As previously mentioned, it was just five months earlier that Davy was on hand for Harry’s own wedding to Meghan, which saw the royal celebrity couple officially becoming the Duke and Duchess of Sussex. But, while she happily attended, the occasion was not entirely without complicated feelings for Davy. Shortly before the wedding took place, she and the prince reportedly bid farewell to one another in an “emotional” phone call, as Vanity Fair reported at the time.
Chelsy Davy’s married life mirrors Prince Harry’s (but their breakup was probably for the best)
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In 2022, just over a decade after parting ways with Prince Harry (and four years after he married Meghan Markle), Chelsy Davy got hitched herself, to a man by the name of Sam Cutmore-Scott, in an ultra private ceremony in Mauritius. The happy couple shares two children, a boy and a girl. Coincidentally, this mirrors the family life of the Duke and Duchess of Sussex, who welcomed Prince Archie in 2019, a year after their own nuptials, followed by Princess Lilibet in 2021.
That being said, while Harry and Davy clearly cared for one another, and are now living eerily similar lives on the surface, royal watchers tend to agree that it’s for the best that they’re living those lives separately. “She’s never been happier. It’s strange to think of the parallel life she would be living if she’d stayed with Harry. But that was a long, long time ago,” a friend told the Daily Mail in November 2025, adding, “That break-up was probably the best thing that ever happened to her.”
Reportedly, royal life didn’t really appeal to Davy. As royal biographer Ingrid Seward told The Mirror later that very same month, “She was intelligent enough to see that from an early age. She wasn’t over-powered by ambition to better herself, or to marry into the royal family. At the end, she said to him: ‘There’s no way this is ever going to be my future.'” It just goes to show that while people certainly change over time, both internally and externally, some are well aware from rather early on that continuing down a certain path just wouldn’t be right for them in the long run.