According to the UK media, Chelsy Yvonne DAVY may be dating Prince Harry again. There are Scottish roots on her mother's side and Welsh on her father's side. Her family tree contains businessmen and a beauty queen. Her father, Charles, married Beverley DONALD, a 1973 Miss Rhodesia contestant. She placed third in the pageant and became Miss Coca-Cola Rhodesia and the face of Coca-Cola in many adverts across Rhodesia.
Chelsy's paternal grandparents were Anthony and Yvonne DAVY. Charles was born in 1952 in Masvingo, south of Harare. He has three brothers, including Paul. His father made some money from two hotels in Fort Victoria, the Kyle Hotel which he ran in the 1950s. Yvonne died in 1996 in a car accident. Charles attended Hartman House Prep School and St George's College, two of Rhodesia's top schools. He enrolled at the University of Natal but did not complete his degree. He returned to Rhodesia in the 1970s and was conscripted into the Rhodesian Army. After his national service, he started cattle ranching near Triangle in south-eastern Rhodesia. His farm was ruined when guerrillas rustled most of his cattle. In 1980 Rhodesia became Zimbabwe , and Charles started rebuilding his business by running fishing ventures on Lake Kariba and in the Zambezi Valley. In 1981 he married the 22-year-old Beverley. In the late 1980s he oversaw the purchase of Liebig farm in Matabeleland. This farm was carved out of the bush by the family of Baron Justus VON LIEBIG, the inventor of the Oxo cube. Charles sold the farm's cattle and brought in wildlife, transforming it into Lemco Safaris, a hunting business which made him a wealthy man. Charles' properties included the farm Alco Twalame near Bubi River, the farms Ripple Creek, Driehoek, Dyers Ranch and Mlelesi Ranch, and properties in Bulawayo, Burnside, a large thatched house where Chelsy was brought up. He owns HHK Safaris, the country's largest hunting and safari concession. He also bought fishing and diving licences in Bazaruto Island.
Beverley is the only daughter of George and Fay DONALD who bought land near Karoi in 1958 and called the farm Yeadon. She was born in Salisbury and attended Mabelreign Girls' High School. She worked later as a model and receptionist at Gallo Records. When her grandmother died, she inherited money as her grandmother had owned large chunks of Sandton. George served on the local council and the Tobacco Board. He was also a pilot. He built a school (with a teacher who lived on the farm) for his workers, as well as a club house. In April 2002, they lost their land due to the land grabs in Zimbabwe. George had built up the tobacco, cattle and maize farm from barren land. The looters, who moved in originally in November 2001, ripped out and took all the house fittings and furniture. Seven bedrooms and three bathrooms were gutted by using ledge hammers and chisels to remove toilets, baths, doors, windows and tiles. The family moved back to South Africa.
There was a Kenneth Neville DONALD who died on 12 August 1943 at the gae of 20 years. He was a Sergeant in the Royal Air Force 620 Squadron and is buried at St. Desir War Cemetery in France. He was the son of Andrew George and Mary DONALD of Salisbury. Possibly George's parents?
Beverly's two brothers, Ian and Mike, left South Africa to live in Australia. Fay lives in a Durban nursing home. George died of Parkinson's disease at the age of 80 in 2010. Mike, a civil engineer, had given up his career to farm and help look after his father, but that land was also taken by the government in 2002. Ian lived in Grahamstown before leaving for Australia.
Chelsy was born on 23 October 1985 in Bulawayo where she later attended Carmel Primary School and Girls College. Her brother Shaun was born in 1986. She was also a boarder at the UK schools Cheltenham Ladies College and Stowe School. She graduated from the University of Cape Town in 2006. She also did a law degree at the Leeds University. At the age of 18, Chelsy posed for Country Life magazine but didn't make a modelling career, prefering to go to university. She was first romantically linked to Prince Harry in 2004.