Prince Andrew and Sarah Ferguson attend Easter Service at Windsor Citadel on March 31, 2024. Samir Hussein/WireImage
Prince Andrew and Sarah Ferguson joined members of the royal household at their annual Easter Mattins service.
Andrew and Ferguson, each 64, had been pictured outdoors St George’s Chapel at Windsor Citadel on Sunday, March 31. The Duke of York, for his half, wore a black morning swimsuit with a pale inexperienced tie. Ferguson bought the identical shade memo and sported an emerald tweed gown that popped towards her black, embroidered headband.
After the service, the exes had been seen leaving the chapel alongside Andrew’s older sister, Princess Anne, and her husband, Sir Tim Laurence. Andrew’s brothers, King Charles III and Prince Edward, additionally went to the service with their respective wives Queen Camilla and Duchess Sophie. Each Charles, 75, and Ferguson are at present battling completely different types of most cancers and Easter marked their first public occasions since beginning therapy. (Charles beforehand held a couple of audiences on the palace earlier this month.)
Sunday’s outing was additionally a uncommon royal look for Andrew after being stripped of his “HRH” honorific in 2022 following his sexual assault lawsuit. Andrew had been accused of misconduct by Virginia Giuffre in late 2019.
The royal household marked Easter by attending their annual church service on Sunday, March 31, regardless of Princess Kate Middleton and Prince William’s absence amid her most cancers battle. King Charles III, Queen Camilla, Prince Andrew, Duchess Sarah Ferguson, Princess Anne, and Prince Edward and Duchess Sophie had been among the many royals who celebrated the vacation at St […]
Andrew took a step again from his royal duties and patronages amid the scandal earlier than denying the accusations. “I’ve no recollection of ever assembly this girl, none in anyway,” Andrew advised the BBC in November 2019. “It simply by no means occurred.”
Prince Andrew, Timothy Laurence and Sarah Ferguson. Cowl Pictures
Giuffre later filed a lawsuit towards Andrew in August 2021, claiming he raped and sexually abused her when she was 17 years outdated. He denied the allegations earlier than settling the case out of court docket for an undisclosed sum.
Following the scandal’s fallout, Andrew seldom made public appearances apart from the 2021 and 2022 funerals of fogeys Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip, in addition to Charles’ Could 2023 coronation as England’s monarch.
The British royal household might seem prim and correct to the general public, however they’ve confronted their fair proportion of controversies over time. One of many greatest royal scandals in current reminiscence got here when King Charles III and the late Princess Diana introduced their separation in 1992 after 10 years of marriage. On the time, […]
Ferguson, in the meantime, misplaced lots of her royal associations after divorcing Andrew in 1996. She was not invited to Charles’ coronation however did make it to the celebratory live performance at Buckingham Palace later that weekend.
“You possibly can’t have it each methods. You possibly can’t be divorced after which say, ‘I would like this …’ [You’re in] otherwise you’re out,” Ferguson, who shares daughters Princess Beatrice and Princess Eugenie with Andrew, stated on the U.Ok.’s Unfastened Lady forward of the crowning ceremony. “I personally can be having a bit tea room and coronation rooster sandwich and placing out the bunting, that’s what I’m going to be doing.”
Ferguson and Andrew nonetheless dwell in the identical dwelling, the Royal Lodge in Windsor, and are collectively taking good care of the late queen’s beloved corgis. Ferguson additionally has 5 different pups, who’ve develop into near the corgis after they joined the pack in September 2022.
