Ep. - 1457 - SATURDAY SERIES: PATRICIA ALTSCHUL
Reality Life with Kate Casey
Kate Casey
4.4 • 7K Ratings
🗓️ 15 November 2025
⏱️ 25 minutes
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Summary
Patricia Altschul, the “dowager countess” (The New York Times) of Bravo’s Southern Charm, reveals the exciting adventures of a storied life—from working as an academic and art dealer to her three marriages, to her star turn on the show—offering candid anecdotes, memorable bon mots, and exclusive tales of high society. She is the author of Eat, Drink, and Remarry.
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| 0:00.0 | The amazing Kate Casey. Welcome back for another episode of Reality Life with Kate Casey and welcome back for the Saturday series episode. |
| 0:10.1 | My guest today is Patricia Alchell. She has a new book out called Eat, Drink, and Remarry. And many of you already know her from the show Southern Charm on Bravo. |
| 0:20.7 | Patricia is one of the most intriguing figures on Southern Charm, |
| 0:24.5 | a woman whose life before reality television was already layered with academia, |
| 0:29.2 | high society, the art world, and philanthropy. |
| 0:32.8 | Long before Bravo audiences knew her for her quick wit and unmistakable presence, Patricia had built a life |
| 0:39.2 | rooted in scholarship and culture. She was born in Jacksonville, Florida, and raised in Richmond, |
| 0:44.6 | Virginia, and went on to attend George Washington University, where she earned both her bachelor's and |
| 0:50.8 | master's degrees in art history and archaeology, graduating magna cum laude. |
| 0:56.5 | She even taught art history there in the 60s and the 70s. |
| 1:00.6 | From academia, she moved into the art world, becoming a private dealer specializing in late |
| 1:05.8 | 19th century American art and handling works by major artists. Her professional life alone already set her |
| 1:12.5 | apart, but her personal life placed her in the center of social circles in Washington, D.C., New York, |
| 1:19.1 | and later Charleston, South Carolina. Over the years, Patricia married three times. Her first |
| 1:25.2 | husband, Lon, is the father of her son, Whitney Suddler-Smith, |
| 1:29.1 | the executive producer behind Southern Charm. Her second marriage to Edward Stitt Fleming |
| 1:34.2 | took her briefly into a more itinerant lifestyle, one that even included living on a yacht. |
| 1:39.8 | And then her third husband, Arthur Altschall, an investment banker and art collector, |
| 1:45.0 | introduced her to a wider world of philanthropy and New York society. |
| 1:49.7 | In New York, Patricia lived in notable homes, including an estate on Long Island and an apartment |
| 1:55.1 | overlooking, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and appeared regularly in society pages and fashion coverage. |
| 2:03.4 | After Arthur's passing, she eventually settled in Charleston, South Carolina, where she |
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