Princess Eugenie: Five things we learnt from Harper's Bazaar interview
Queen's granddaughter loves Jean-Michel Basquiat, her ‘mumsy’ and The Walking Dead
The Queen's granddaughter, Princess Eugenie, revealed her typical daily schedule in a rare interview with Harper's Bazaar in 2016.
The 27-year-old royal - engaged to long-term boyfriend Jack Brooksbank - talked about “mumsy" and “papa”, her favourite television shows and working in London.
Here are five things we learnt:
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She works out at a £5,500-a-year gym
Eugenie apparently exercises each morning between 7am and 8am, sometimes in her local park and sometimes at her “amazing, women-only gym called Grace Belgravia”. According to the Daily Mail, this cost £5,500 a year in 2016 and includes personal training sessions and spa treatments.
She loves Outlander and The Walking Dead
She might be eighth in line to the throne, but the Princess enjoys a good television box-set like the rest of us, she told the magazine in 2016. She has watched How to Get Away with Murder and Outlander.
“When I'm with Jack [Brooksbank], we watch The Walking Dead, which we're obsessed with.”
Her bedroom is full of photos taken by her parents
The princess describes her family as the one thing she can't live without and says her bedroom is full of photographs taken by her parents, Prince Andrew and Sarah Ferguson, the Duke and Duchess of York. “Mumsy took one of an elephant spraying water on its back, which is incredible, and there's one papa took of Balmoral Castle,” she says.
Jean-Michel Basquiat is her hero
Eugenie works as an associate director at the contemporary art gallery Hauser & Wirth in London and says she has loved art since she was young. One of her industry favourites is graffiti artist Jean-Michel Basquiat. “A seminal moment for me, at age 16, was when I saw a Jean-Michel Basquiat show in New York. Basquiat is my hero,” she says.
She has metal rods in her back
After being born with scoliosis of the spine, which needed an operation when she was 12, the royal now has metal rods in her back to keep it straight. “Those rods live with me permanently,” she says.
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