10 Questions for Prince Andrew

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What does she want for her legacy? I don't think she thinks like that. You're conceptualizing it too much in American presidential terms. She isn't legacy focused--she's future focused. Today is reality. Yesterday is history. Her desire is not to change the future but to be there today.

Her friends say she is very funny. At a family dinner, she stood to go, and the footman very properly pulled her chair away. At that moment I asked her a question and she sat down again, except there was no chair. Everyone, including the Queen, laughed and laughed--and of course she reassured the terrified footman he had done nothing wrong. Once when she was on a walkabout in Scotland, someone said to her, "You look just like the Queen!" She replied, "How reassuring."

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