Princess Eugenie reveals she orders Deliveroo to Kensington Palace – but ‘jumps in the car in her pyjamas’ and drives to the gates to collect it because staff don’t bring it to her
Princess Eugenie has revealed what it’s like to order Deliveroo to Kensington Palace, which she does on rare occasions.
Speaking on the Table Manners podcast, hosted by pop star Jessie Ware and her chef mother, Lenny Royal, 33, revealed she ordered takeaway the night before because her fridge was “sad” and empty.
She added that she and her husband Jack Brooksbank drove up to the gates of the royal residence in their pajamas to collect the curry from the delivery driver.
During the episode, which featured in episode 16 of the podcast, which featured celebrity guests enjoying a family meal, the mother-of-two also revealed how she enjoyed picnics at Balmoral during the summer holidays as a child, and also revealed her plans for her two-month-old sons August and five-month-old Ernest when it’s time for them to go to school.
But after discussing how she learned dinner etiquette (or table manners) from her late grandmother Queen Elizabeth and other culinary traditions enjoyed by the royal family, the daughter of Prince Andrew and Sarah Ferguson revealed that she had eaten curry the night before, adding this something she “never” does.
Princess Eugenie appeared on the Table Manners podcast with Jessie and Lenny Ware and talked about her food likes and dislikes, as well as the food traditions she learned growing up in the royal family.
“I never eat them,” she said. “Jack (Brooksbank) and I were literally sitting on Deliveroo for an hour thinking, ‘What does this mean?’
As Jessie burst out laughing, Lenny asked how delivery drivers get into Kensington Palace if she orders takeaway.
Eugenie explained that Deliveroo drivers needed to call her, after which she and Jack would put on their pajamas, drive up to the gates of the estate and pick up the food from there.
She did not specify whether she and Jack have a habit of staying at Kensington Palace when they are not in Portugal.
The mum added that takeaways are only considered on Sunday evenings, which is “sad” because she and Jack have an empty fridge while they wait for Waitrose’s weekly Monday morning delivery.
The 33-year-old royal mother of two revealed that she and Jack ordered curry the night before, something they “never” usually do.
Elsewhere in the podcast, Eugenie spoke about the Queen’s corgis Sandy and Muick, who were adopted by Prince Andrew and Sarah Ferguson after the late Queen’s death.
She said they “bark” around her children, but are “very cute” creatures with “big, thick, furry paws.”
She also revealed her plans to send her sons, August, two, and Ernest, five months, to boarding school, revealing she wanted them to wait until they were a little older than their father Jack Brooksbank was when he started at the school just at eight years old. years.
She also recalled what it was like to dine with her grandmother, the Queen, including the fact that kneeling was strictly prohibited at the table, and she was often dissuaded by her elders if her knees were raised at the table.
Queen Elizabeth II pets her corgi Candy as she looks at an exhibition of memorabilia from her Golden and Platinum Jubilees in February 2022.
In the podcast, Eugenie talked about whether she plans to send her children Augie and Ernie (both pictured) to boarding school like she and her husband Jack.
Princess Eugenie of York and Queen Elizabeth II attend the first day of Royal Ascot at Ascot Racecourse on June 18, 2013.
During the conversation, Eugenie spoke about her late grandmother’s corgis, Muick and Sandy, who were adopted by her parents Prince Andrew and Sarah Ferguson after Her late Majesty’s death.
“Why did your family love them so much?” – Jessie asked. ‘Where does it come from? Has this always been a tradition?
“No, my great-grandmother had them, and that’s why my grandmother loved them,” Evgenia answered.
“And that’s all. She made him what he is today.”
Later in the podcast, Evgenia was asked if she went to boarding school as a child and how she liked it. “I liked it,” she said. “I really enjoyed it.”
Jessie then asked, “Do you think you would send your children to boarding school?”
“Yes, at 13,” answered Evgenia. “I think my husband went to boarding school at eight. Yeah, I mean, looking at my sons now. I want to hang out with them. I like to play with them. I don’t want them to leave.”
Eugenie went on to say that she wouldn’t send her children to boarding school as young as her husband, but added that when they were a little older, living in boarding school was “amazing.”
“At that point, yeah, it was amazing to settle down and then be with all of my friends and have this adult sensitivity and everything,” she said. “But yeah, I wouldn’t send them an eight.”
“I didn’t tell Jack about this,” she admitted.
The Wares’ Table Manners podcast is all about food, family and the ‘art of conversation’, so Eugenie’s appearance of course included fostering an integral part of the Queen’s family – her corgis (pictured at the Queen’s funeral), who were adopted. from the princess’s parents
Here the Queen arrives in Aberdeen, Scotland with her corgis to begin her Balmoral holiday in 1974.
Later in the podcast, Eugenia (pictured with son Augie) was asked if she went to boarding school as a child and how she liked it. “I liked it,” she said. “I really enjoyed it.”
Eugenie, the youngest daughter of Prince Andrew and Sarah Ferguson, gave birth to her first child in February 2021. Pictured with Augustus at the late Queen Elizabeth’s Platinum Jubilee.
The Ware podcast also touched on its main topic of table manners; and royal dining etiquette.
When asked if there were certain things she had to do as a child, Eugenie replied that she had two different sets of table manners: one when she dined with the Queen and another at home.
“We had Table A rules,” she said. “Like very little people: table manners A were when we were with grandma, and table manners Z were when we were at home.”
Evgenia also said that as children they could not “kneel at the table.”
She said: “Like my mother, if I knelt at the table, she would say, ‘Are they invited to dinner?’ Are they invited to dinner? And so they will fall.
“But it seemed like a fun thing. So now if any of our friends are around and kneel like my mom, you know.
The princess recalled her summer in Scotland, which she called her “favorite place on the planet”, which consisted of picnics, holiday trips and outings.
Queen Elizabeth II waves to the crowd while standing on the balcony of Buckingham Palace with Prince Philip, Princess Margaret and Princess Eugenie after the Choosing the Color ceremony in June 1998.
Jack and pregnant Eugenie are pictured in April at the traditional Easter Sunday matins at St George’s Chapel at Windsor Castle.
Princess Eugenie gave birth to her second child with husband Jack Brooksbank, named Ernest George Ronnie, in May.
She said: “We hung out in little houses, little houses. And it would be a lot like we would all take the Tupperware out of the basket, the picnic basket, and want to open them up and then help ourselves to like salad, cold cuts, things like that. So it was quite normal.”
“This is my favorite place on the planet,” she added. “Well, where we go in Scotland, the Cairngorms are the most beautiful. This is one of the most beautiful national parks.”
As the podcast came to an end, Lenny asked, “Can I ask a question that might be a little rude?”
“But as the royal family has become younger, do you think you are modernizing? Do you think there is a change in attitudes and they are becoming more modern?”
Eugenie responded: “It’s not so much about modernization as it is about becoming one with what the observer believes,” she said, citing her uncle and cousin, King Charles and Prince William, as “amazing examples of this.” .
“Both the way they were raised and the work they believe in,” she concluded.
“They don’t think, ‘Oh my God, we’re going to modernize it.’ It just means they go with their belief system and what the world believes.”