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, Lennie, the royal, 33, revealed she had ordered a takeaway the night before because her fridge was 'sad' and empty. 

She added she and her husband Jack Brooksbank drove to the gates of the royal residence in their pyjamas to collect the curry from the delivery driver.

During the episode, which is featured in series 16 of the podcast and has welcomed star-studded guests to the family table, the mother-of-two also discussed how she would enjoy picnics at Balmoral during the summer holidays as a child, and also talked about her plans for sons August, two, and Ernest, five months, when it's time for them to go to school.

But after discussing how she learnt dinner etiquette - or table manners - from her late grandmother Queen Elizabeth, and the other food traditions enjoyed by the royal family, the daughter of Prince Andrew and Sarah Ferguson revealed she had eaten a curry the night before - adding it's something she 'never' does.

'I never eat them,' she said. 'Jack [Brooksbank] and I were literally sitting for an hour on Deliveroo like, 'what on earth does this mean'?' 

As Jessie erupted in laughter, Lennie asked how the delivery drivers get into Kensington Palace if she orders takeaways. 

Eugenie explained the Deliveroo drivers have to give her a call, at which point she and Jack will get into their pyjamas, drive to the gates of the estate and pick the food up from there. 

She didn't specify if she and Jack make a habit of staying at Kensington Palace when they are not in Portugal/

The mother added that the option to pick up a takeaway is only ever considered on Sunday evenings, which are 'sad' because she and Jack have an empty fridge while they wait for their weekly Waitrose delivery to arrive on Monday morning.

Elsewhere in the podcast, Eugenie discussed the Queen's corgis, Sandy and Muick, who were adopted by Prince Andrew and Sarah Ferguson after the late Queen died. 

She said they were 'barky' around her children, but also 'very sweet' creatures with 'big, fat, fluffy paws'. 

She also spoke about her plans to send her sons August, two, and Ernest, five months, to boarding school - revealing she wants them to wait until they're a bit older than their father Jack Brooksbank was when he boarded at just eight-years-old.

She also recalled what it was like to have dinner with her granny, the Queen, including how the table was a strictly no-knees zone - and her elders often told her off if her knees were up at the table. 

During the chat, Eugenie discussed 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 did it come from? Has it always been a tradition?'

'No, my great-granny had them and then my granny loved them because of that,' Eugenie replied. 

'And then that was it. She made it what it is today.'

Later in the podcast, Eugenie was asked if she went to boarding school as a child and if she enjoyed it. 'I loved it,' she said. 'I absolutely loved it.'

Jessie then asked 'Do you think you'd send your kids to boarding school?'

'Yeah, at 13,' Eugenie replied. '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 playing 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 had gone, but added that when a little older it was 'amazing to board'.

'At that point, yeah, it was amazing to board and then to be with all your friends and have that grown-up sensibility and all that kind of stuff,' she said. 'But yeah, I wouldn't send them an eight.'

'I haven't told Jack that,' she confessed.

The Ware podcast also touched on its titular theme, table manners; and dinner etiquette growing up in the Royal Family. 

Asked if there were certain things she had to do growing up, Eugenie said she had two different sets of table manners - one for when she was dining with the Queen and another at home. 

'We had table manners A,' she said. 'Like really little people - table manners A was when we were with Granny and table manners Z was when we were at home.'

Eugenie also revealed that as youngsters they couldn't have 'knees at the table'.

She said: 'So like my mum, if I had a knee at the table, she'd say "Are they invited to lunch? Are they invited to dinner?" And so they'd be down. 

'But it was like a funny thing. So now if any of our friends are around and they put their knees up my mum's like, you know.'

The princess reflected on her summers in Scotland - which she described as her 'favourite place on the planet' - which consisted of picnics of trips to bothies and picnics. 

She said: 'We'd hang out at the little bothies, the little houses. And it would be very much like, we'd all be getting Tupperware out of the basket, picnic hampers, and like opening them, and then helping ourselves to like the salad and cold meats and bits like that. So that was very much normal.'

'It's my favourite place on the planet,' she added. 'Well, where we go in Scotland, the Cairngorms are the most beautiful - It's one of the most beautiful national parks.' 

As the podcast drew to a close, Lennie asked: 'Can I ask something that might be a bit rude?'

'But as the royal family, as more young, do you think you are modernising? Do you think there are changes in attitudes and it's becoming more modern?'

Eugenie replied: 'It's less about modernising and more about becoming one with what the monitor believes in,' she said, describing her uncle and cousin, King Charles and Prince William, as 'amazing examples of that'.

'And the way they've been brought up and the work they believe in,' she concluded. 

'It's not like they're thinking, "God, we're going to modernise it". It's just to say they're moving with their belief systems and what the world believes.'