Princess Beatrice has reportedly started a gap-year job working as a sales assistant at Selfridges in London.

Up until now, the 19 year old princess, daughter of Prince Andrew and Sarah, Duchess of York, has spent much of her gap year holidaying and partying but according to the Sun, she is now spending a month gaining work experience as a personal shopper for VIP customers in the store.

A Selfridges source told the newspaper: “Beatrice is a natural. Our personal shoppers are popular with wealthy Arabs, celebrities and footballers’ wives.”

An onlooker added that the princess was out and about on the shop floor on her first day yesterday: “She rushed by with an armful of clothes and headed off towards the Gucci section.

“I thought, ‘That looks just like Fergie‘ - then I realised it was her daughter Princess Beatrice.”

Beatrice will work full time at the department store for the rest of the month. The work experience is unpaid.