Prince Harry is a big fan of dogs, Russell Crowe and reincarnation.
The Duke of Sussex revealed this during the ‘Colbert Questionert’, which ‘Late Show’ host Stephen Colbert aired on Tuesday after recording the clip during the royal’s visit to the show in January.
Harry joined a list of previous guests, including Michelle Obama and Robert De Niro, by answering 15 questions. The jokes started quickly when Colbert claimed the quiz, “scientifically calculated to plumb the depths of anyone to reveal their soul to the world”, was created in a lab.
“Do you have a lab here?” asked Harry. “That explains a lot.”
Harry continued to answer some of life’s most pressing questions. Cats or dogs? “Uh, dogs, of course.” Apples or oranges? “Oranges, duh.”
“Something weirdly cannibalistic about it,” Colbert joked, referring to Harry’s red hair.
“You know, if we bite you, you get ginger,” Harry joked.
When the “Spare” author said his favorite sandwich was “cheese and ham toast with Dijon mustard,” Colbert asked if a “toastie” was the same as a panini. Harry said these regional language differences “caused me and my wife a lot of problems” when they started dating.
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Colbert suggested that ‘fanny’ was the most blatant of all Britishisms – he refers to a starkly different piece of anatomy across the pond – only for Harry to claim that ‘riding’ was the Worst of all Americanisms: “Where are you going to ride the horse?”
Harry went on to reveal that he once asked the whole England rugby team for their autographs during the 2003 World Cup, only for the players to be “standing there with their penises hanging out”. He proudly confirmed to have “all 15 signatures” on his shirt.
“They signed it with pens, didn’t they?” Colbert asked.
Harry fondly said his favorite smell was his wife, Meghan Markle, before admitting snakes were the scariest animal. When asked what he thinks happens when we die, Harry confessed he believes in reincarnation – and hopes to return as an elephant.
Perhaps most notably, the Duke of Sussex said his favorite action movie was Ridley Scott’s ‘Gladiator’ (2000), which is about a man defying an empire.
Harry, whose exit from the royal family and subsequent memoir arguably did just that, concluded by describing the rest of his life in five words: “Freedom. Happiness. Clarity. Space. To like.
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