It's always thoroughly entertaining when the nobility are forced into the gruesome underbelly of the hoi polloi. And when it's a real Royal, it's priceless.

Princess Beatrice has taken up a day job - serving on the shop floor of Selfridges.

Bea decided on a gap year before going to university - but unlike the majority of young'uns, who would kick back on the sofa and treat themselves to a year of daytime telly, the 5th in the line to the throne has set about earning herself a crust.

Not that Beatrice's foray into the world of work is just as a bog standard cashier - she's a personal shopper in the luxe department. Cushdy. And perfectly unchallenging for a girl like Bea - a virtuoso in the art of donning designer clobber.

Apparently Bea's already a big hit with the customers who can't enough of the novelty of being served by a Royal. In her first morning alone Bea shifted an "£825 Matthew William-son summer frock, a £310 Burberry jacket and a pair of £175 James Jeans trousers." (The Sun)

Lovely to see one Royal topping up her own coffers - gold star to Bea.