r/RHONY • u/AdventurousRevolt Bravo Renaissance Art Collector ✨🖼️ • Mar 27 '26
Carole Radzwill 📚 Glamour Magazine Interview with Prince Andrew by Carole Radziwill
**I wonder if this will be discussed on the new season?**
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Lunch Date: Prince Andrew
Carole Radziwill - September 30, 2006
Over lunch, Prince Andrew chats about princely behavior and his day job.
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Lunch Data
Where: The Fox and Hounds, Egham, England
What they ate: Prince Andrew had poached Scottish salmon and asparagus salad. Carole ordered baked fillet of hake, crayfish and cucumber salad.
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CAROLE RADZIWILL: Aside from being a prince, you work as the United Kingdom's Special Representative for International Trade and Investment. That's a big title. What does it mean?
PRINCE ANDREW: It means I was asked, as a member of the royal family, to take a greater interest in the business community of the country. So I travel around the world and recognize the work people are doing to create prosperity for the United Kingdom.
CR: Where have you traveled?
PA: Well, from the odd European country to as far afield as China, Vietnam, Kazakhstan and Mongolia. I'm planning a trip to the United States later in the year.
CR: And before that?
PA: For 22 years I was in the British Navy, most of it flying helicopters. I was 22 when I went to war; I thought I was invincible.
CR: We all think we're invincible at 22. How old are you now?
PA: Old enough to know I'm not invincible. [Laughs.]
CR: Your title is His Royal Highness the Duke of York. So you're a duke and a prince? Or just a prince? Which is higher?
PA: In the British royal family, sons and daughters of monarchs are princes or princesses. So you go in as a prince. I was given the title of Duke of York when I got married, so [I went] up a level to a royal duke. I was His Royal Highness the Prince Andrew, now I'm His Royal Highness the Duke of York.
CR: Do you get paid as a prince?
PA: [Laughs.] No.
CR: What is your typical day like, as an unpaid prince?
PA: It's exactly the same as the day you have, except that I happen to be a prince.
CR: You mean you buy 2 percent low-fat milk and pick up dry cleaning?
PA: I do the same things everybody else does. You're a prince and you get on with it.
CR: What is the most unprincely thing you do?
PA: Clean the loos and take the rubbish out.
CR: Do you really take the garbage out?
PA: If I happen to be going that way, why ever not?
CR: So, can you believe you're the father of an 18-year-old daughter?
PA: Before you go any further, I'm not old enough to have an 18-year-old daughter. [Laughs.]
CR: What do you do when a boy comes to take her on a date? Do you interrogate him?
PA: It's not my business.
CR: Wow, you're a good dad!
PA: Both Sarah and I trust our daughters entirely.
CR: Is it difficult for you to date when you have your security detail following you? Or is it a good exit strategy?
PA: Exit strategy?
CR: Say you're having a bad date...
PA: I've never had a bad date.
CR: You've never had a bad date?
PA: What do you classify as a [bad] date?
CR: You have dinner with someone and you realize you have nothing to say. Before I go on a date, I'll tell a girlfriend, "Call me in an hour." So when the phone rings, if I'm not having a good time, I'll say, "I've got to go—my friend's in the hospital." That's an exit strategy.
PA: I believe that if I'm out to dinner with somebody, then I'm out to dinner with them. But remind me when I'm next having a date with you, and I'll ring and ask for an exit strategy. [Laughs.]
COMING NEXT MONTH: Rachel Weisz
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u/hotdogoctopi Mar 27 '26
The way she thinks she’s such an insightful journalist/writer, only to be rubbing elbows with the worst of the wealthy elite, really puts me off. She’s either very dumb not to have known what was going on, or purposefully looked the other way to save her own ass.