From princesses to Essex girls! (From Chelmsford Weekly News)

From princesses to Essex girls!

4:08pm Wednesday 3rd March 2010

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THREE princesses have become Essex girls in a quest to find love.

The real life royalty are taking part in the BBC Three programme Undercover Princesses, which starts this Sunday, March 7.

The three are Princess Xenia of Saxony, Germany, who descends from one of the most powerful royal families Europe has ever known.

Then there is Princess Aaliya Sultana Babi, of Balasinor in India, who is 35 and still hasn’t found love, and Princess Nvannungi Sheillah, who is from the Buganda Kingdom – the largest and most powerful kingdom in Uganda.

The three lived in a house in Ingatestone, going undercover in Chelmsford.

They pretended to be ordinary women with ordinary jobs in the hope of meeting Mr Right who would love them for who they were – not because they were real princesses.

Over the series they took part in the dating scene – visiting nightclubs, bars and supermarkets as well going on blind dates and speed dating.

At the end of their time in the UK, the three woman must reveal their true identity to their chosen ones and extend an invite back to their homeland to show them their life.

In the first episode the princesses land in the UK and meet each other.

They choose their undercover names and begin their lives as ordinary people, starting their allocated jobs at a cafe, hairdressers and sports shop.

Xenia worked in Options hairdressers in Broomfield Road, Sheillah worked in Chester’s Cafe, in Viaduct Road, and Aaliya worked in Essex County Cricket Club’s shop, in High Chelmer.

The bars and resturants they visited included the Lounge in Ingatestone and Saracens Head in Chelmsford.

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