Final Easter, he was ‘Prince Andrew, Duke of York’ and spent the weekend with the Royal Household at Windsor – now Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor is just not welcome.
Andrew attending the 2025 easter Service at Windsor’s St George’s Chapel (Picture: Getty)
They are saying per week is a very long time in politics – however for Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor, the final 12 months should really feel like a lifetime. In April 2025, the then ‘Prince Andrew, Duke of York’ was beaming for the cameras as he left the Royal Household’s Easter service at Windsor’s St George’s Chapel in excessive spirits.
However this yr, his presence is just not welcome, alongside along with his ex-wife, Sarah Ferguson, 66, and, considerably harshly, in my opinion, their two daughters, Princesses Beatrice, 37, and Eugenie, 35. Since final Easter, Andrew and Fergie have seen their reputations publicly shredded over their long-standing friendships with the late paedophile financier Jeffrey Epstein.
Epstein was sentenced to 18 months in jail in 2008, however solely served 13 months earlier than being launched in July 2009, and was then ordered to serve a yr’s probation till August 2010.
In an electronic mail despatched to Andrew and his ex-wife, Fergie, on July 24, 2010, Epstein revealed his pleasure at serving his probation to lastly journey overseas, telling them: “I might be in Paris beginning tomorrow.”
Andrew replied: “Congratulations! Actually, actually excellent news. In case you are in Paris across the sixteenth, I will be throughout to pay homage to your new life forward!” Andrew signed the e-mail off with ‘HRH The Duke of York KG’.
He was additionally left squirming by the discharge earlier this yr of an outdated picture of himself kneeling on all fours over a feminine mendacity on the bottom.
In February, on his 66th birthday, Andrew was arrested at his cottage in Sandringham, Norfolk, on suspicion of misconduct in a public workplace for allegedly passing confidential UK info to Epstein when working as a commerce envoy.
Andrew – who MPs in Westminster not too long ago branded a “impolite, smug and entitled man” – strenuously denies any wrongdoing.
Fergie, in the meantime, has been humiliated by her personal emails to the American pervert that the US Division of Justice launched as a part of the Epstein Recordsdata.
Numerous emails present her pleading for monetary assist, asking Epstein for a job working his family or in a single determined message in 2010, after he was convicted of his intercourse crime, even asking the paedophile: “Marry me!”
Then Fergie dragged her daughters into the highlight after telling Epstein in an electronic mail that Eugenie was away on a “shagging weekend.”
Fergie and Andrew at Easter in Windsor final yr – neither might be there this yr (Picture: Getty)
Simply days in the past, Andrew was photographed wanting crestfallen as he drove across the Sandringham property in Norfolk; now he faces a fair lonelier Easter.
The shamed former royal has been dwelling at Wooden Farm in Wolferton because the begin of February as his everlasting dwelling, Marsh Farm, is renovated with new carpets, utilities and a safety fence. Andrew has constantly and vehemently denied all wrongdoing.
However now on Easter Sunday, Andrew should watch his household on the telly because the Prince and Princess of Wales be part of the King and Queen in Windsor – cheered on by Royal followers.
It’s rumoured Zara and Mike Tindall can also be there, together with Princess Anne, Sir Tim Laurence, Edward and Sophie, and their youngsters Woman Louise Windsor and James, Earl of Wessex.
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A brand new guard has changed the outdated guard. The Home of York has fallen.
A lifetime of poor selections and even worse selections of mates means Andrew’s left sitting at dwelling, whereas the brand new look Royal Household transfer on with out him.
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