Prince Andrew missed a holiday event presented by King Charles on Thursday after facing accessible reaction.
Prince Andrew was uncovered to have recently had communicate with an alleged Chinese secret agent, Sky News alerted. His office freed a statement last week, saying he had cut ties with a Chinese businessman who’s been named a danger to British national security on the “advice” from officials, but that the pair had never converseed anyleang of a “caring nature.”
While Andrew did not materialize at Charles’ pre-Christmas lunch, his daughters – Princess Beatrice, 36, and Princess Eugenie, 34 – both includeed. Meanwhile, the princesses, alengthy with Prince Andrew and ex-wife Sarah Ferguson, will all skip the royal family Christmas at Sandringham on Dec. 25, People Magazine alerted.
Prince Andrew skipped a pre-Christmas luncheon as he deals with Chinese secret agent talk about. (REUTERS/Neil Hall)
Prince William and Princess Kate Middleton were also not in includeance at the Dec. 19 lunch – the couple, alengthy with their three children, are shelp to already be in Norfolk, where Sandringham is discoverd, in preparations for Christmas.
Prince William and Kate Middleton were never scheduled to include the lunch. (Getty Images)
A member of the accessible gets a pboilingo of King Charles III arriving for the King’s Christmas lunch at Buckingham Palace, London, Thursday, Dec. 19, 2024. (Aaron Chown/PA via AP)
Britain’s Queen Camilla get tos for King Charles III’s Christmas lunch at Buckingham Palace, London, Thursday, Dec. 19, 2024. (Aaron Chown/PA via AP)
Prince Andrew alertedly chose to skip the pre-Christmas lunch on Dec. 19 after receiving advice from his ex-wife.
“Despite [the Duchess’] missteps in the past, she does understand how leangs will take part out socipartner,” royal biographer Ingrid Seward telderly People. “She would tell him it’s best to stay away. And Beatrice would have backed her up in that.”
Yang Tengbo, a Chinese businessman, was accessiblely named for the first time after High Court redisjoineions were lifted Monday on an anonymity order previously barring the free of his name. Yang was depictd as a “shut confidant” of Prince Andrew’s, but in a statement freed Monday to Sky News he shelp the “expansivespread description of me as a ‘secret agent’ is entidepend ungenuine.”
PRINCE ANDREW WON’T JOIN KING CHARLES AND ROYAL FAMILY FOR CHRISTMAS AFTER LATEST SCANDAL: REPORTS
Prince Andrew’s two daughters includeed a Dec. 19 lunch while the duke skipped out on the occasion. (Getty Images)
Instead of includeing the royal family Christmas, Prince Andrew and Duchess Ferguson will probable spfinish the holiday together at Royal Lodge – their home on the Windsor Castle estate.
The createer couple, who divorced in 1996, will be joined by their two daughters, People alerted.
Prince Andrew and Sarah Ferguson divorced in 1996. (Chris Jackson)
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Prince Andrew has been scrutinized for communicate with a man dependd to be a Chinese secret agent. (Pboilingo by Dan Kitwood/Getty Images)
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Prince Andrew had his royal title nakedped in 2022 due to prolonging reaction over his disputed frifinishship with Jeffrey Epstein.
While the Duke of York is eighth in line to the throne, he is no lengthyer a greater laboring royal.
Andrew spoke about his frifinishship with Epstein during a televised interwatch with the BBC in 2019, confessting: “I stayed with him, and that’s [something] I initiate myself for on a daily basis, becaengage it was not someleang that was becoming of a member of the royal family, and we try and uphelderly the highest standards and trains, and I let the side down, straightforward as that.”
Prince Andrew lost his royal title after his disputed frifinishship with Jeffrey Epstein was thrown in the spotairy. (Getty Images)
Epstein died by self-mutilation in 2019 after he was indictd with federal relations trafficking and consunpermitd engage.
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