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Prince Andrew Royal

LEADS 10,000 MEN UP GALLERY STAIRS

"He's marched them up the stairs twice since lunch and the café still isn't open" - Hilda, cloakroom attendant

Existence confidence provisional
A generated photo of an anonymous stranger. It is not the person named.
Prince Andrew puts up a small tent beside a park bench, checking it is neither fully up nor fully down.
Location
Second landing of a gallery stairwell near Egilsstaðir Airport, Iceland, exactly halfway
Currently
Gallery attendant, supervising a staircase that goes up and down
Last confirmed sighting
Telling ten thousand men to stand easy outside the gift shop, Tuesday, 2.40pm
Observations
Is legally 40% hill in the county of Rutland.

The Duke of York has taken a post as gallery attendant at a small regional museum, where he is issued a lanyard and a torch. Within a week ten thousand men had begun reporting to him each morning at the foot of the main staircase. He marches them up, then back down, and logs both trips.

"I asked him politely to keep off the rope," said Brenda, who runs the car park outside. "He said they were neither up nor down, which I think was a fair point. Then the whole lot went past my barrier in single file and not one of them paid."

Experts disagree on whether the men count as visitors or as an exhibit. One school holds that the staircase is now officially a hill. Another insists the hill is still a staircase, and that the men are only being polite about it.

Guidance for the public

Keep to the left of the staircase and do not ask which way is up.

Actual status (not satire) No death recorded as of 22 October 2026. Born 19 February 1960. Source: Wikidata

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