Princess Diana's goddaughter has started her first job at a café after impressing bosses.
Domenica Lawson, 24, is the daughter of businesswoman and charity campaigner, Rosa Monkton, close friends with the princess.
She landed a paid job at the Pavilion Gardens Café in the centre of Brighton, in East Sussex, last month after impressing on a successful two-week work trial and has just received her first paycheck.
Rosa proudly shared her news on Twitter alongside a picture of the smiling youngster holding her paycheck.
She said: "Domenica receiving her first pay cheque.
"I could not be more proud. Thank you."
Rosa helped to set up a Brighton-based charity named Team Domenica, which helps those who have learning disabilities find work training and placements.
Domenica, who took part in the charity's Supported Internship Programme, works at the café twice a week.
She told The Sun : "It feels amazing really and I feel very important to have money."
Her dad, journalist Dominic Lawson said Team Domenica has "transformed his daughter’s life and prospects".
The charity was set up to help young adults with learning disabilities find and retain meaningful employment.
Rosa said she promotes Princess Diana's ethos that “everybody needs to be valued and everyone has the potential to give something back”.
She is currently campaigning to change the Mental Capacity Act 2005 as she thinks it 'prevents parents making decisions for their kids with learning disabilities when they reach the age of 18'.
"Diana, who had more empathy and emotional understanding than anyone I have ever met, got it absolutely right when she said, 'A mother's arms are more comforting than anyone else's'," she continued.
She said Domenica has defied the odds after doctors told her when she was born that she would 'never walk or talk'.
Rosa said "dancing is now Domenica's passion" and to have a few hours a week of paid work is an "extraordinary testament to her determination, Team Domenica and the café".
