I was just reading the first few pages of this thread where people were discussing hazno and meg - someone said something about it being hard to fit in with the family and that hazno’s other girlfriends had hightailed it away for the same reasons.
I’ve never posted this before and I need to be careful re details but I think enough time has passed for me to say something…
so I trained as a lawyer at a global law firm with Chelsy Davy. You know, hazno’s long time girlfriend. There were 100 odd trainees in our yearly intake but everyone knew who she was. It’s so interesting to me how much people seem to revere her and wish harry had married her over Meghan because she wasn’t a nice person. I’m no Meghan fan but Ithink it’s a misnomer to assume she would havebeen better.
Just a few things I am willing to share:
- before you start training you do a postgrad course which the firm pays for. It’s only 6m long now but back then it took an academic year. She turned up roughly once to the classes I shared with her. Conveniently it was on a day when the queen was visiting the honourable artillery company, which happens to sit behind the college of law. We were all taking pictures out the window and gawping over queenie but she sat there looking bored. When someone asked if she was going to join us her answer was “no thanks I saw her the other day for tea”. Very convenient that she turned up that day.
- she didn’t queue for anything. Collecting college locker keys on day one was an eye opener as she bypassed the entire queue and just went to the desk.
- on her first day as a trainee the partners all went to her office to say hi. None of the rest of us got that treatment. Just her.She was later heard to tell another trainee that she didn’t get what all the fuss was about on working hours (we worked 100+hour weeks regularly) as she had barely done any when her supervisor (a senior partner) was happily telling her to go home and get some rest.
- I know of another person who tells a story that she had to cover chelsey’s work one evening and was in the office til 2am because chelsy was at some awards show and celeb bash. No apology was offered apparently or even a thank you. She never stayed late if she could help it andfrom what I heard from others working with her she did the bare minimum in a day.
- she was given a lucrative secondment to turkey got 6m despite not actually meeting the required criteria for a trainee secondment. She sat in a bunch of easy and short hour seats (having got these over other people) instead of the core areas you were actually required to have sat in for a secondment. Yet others were passed over for her. I was at some drinks where someone put this to her and she said “well I bring them publicity don’t I”.
- at a trainee drinks even she was heard shouting down the phone at hazno” that she didn’t want to come to his parade because he clearly didn’t love her if he wouldn’t go to Zimbabwe with her that year. This was when he was at sandhurst.
- said trainee drinks from point above was incidentally the only event she ever attended at work. Despite other trainees being lambasted, marked down and even let go before qualification for not attending client events or even internal team events, she was never questioned. Another trainee tells a story that she was once called out on this by some juniors and she said “I have more important things to do”.
- after 1 year of qualification she decided it was all too much like hard work. She told them she wanted to leave and they offered her a sabbatical instead (which is unheard of for a junior but hey she was right they wanted publicity from her name). They kept her on the books and on the payroll (albeit I think it was unpaid leave), which meant they couldn’t rehire to replace her and everyone else’s workload went up. She accepted this but of course 1 year later turned up to collect a box of stuff and left immediately to run daddy’s emerald mine - sorry her jewellery company.
I could tell more stories but would out myself. Put simply she wasnt The amazing hard working lawyer that the press make her out to be and she wants a nice person. Clearly hazno has a type and it was always going to end this way.
There’s a mistake above - the point re her shouting about the parade should read at the end - this WASNT when he was at sandhurst. Was attempting to subtlety point out that it was probably important but my typing failed me