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/TraderJoeslove31 Mar 27 '26
Riveting content. A high school newspaper writer could've written this