Duchess Sarah Ferguson divulges royal secrets of getting out of a conversation, leaving a party early
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The Duchess of York revealed some of her royal etiquette secrets this week from staying mum after an unwanted question to getting away from someone who won't stop talking.
"Well, it depends which country you’re in, of course. There’s all different cultures you must always be aware of," the 63-year-old explained, adding that at a party in England "you’d get to a point, and you’d say, ‘Do you know, one second, could you hold that thought? Because I’ve just got to go see Fred over there because I’ve got to give him a message,' and [by that time] the person you were talking to has gone on to the next subject, they’ve forgotten that you were coming to tell something about Fred."
She then explained how a duchess would avoid answering a "really tricky question that you don’t want to answer."