How Prince Andrew May Keep away from Awkward Royal Christmas

Amid tales that Princess Eugenie is considering flying to Montecito to spend the holidays with Prince Harry and Meghan Markle, a royal expert says her dad Prince Andrew may even have a superb motive to skip out on the Sandringham festivities this yr. Prince Andrew’s invitation to the royal family’s trip property hasn’t formally been confirmed by the Palace however–significantly with reported rigidity with King Charles over his residing state of affairs–nevertheless the disgraced royal might have the correct excuse for bowing out of a doubtlessly awkward state of affairs.

In response to former BBC royal reporter Jennie Bond, Sandringham might actually really feel overcrowded this yr with quite a few households all beneath one roof, along with new additions like Queen Camilla’s son, Tom Parker Bowles, who was invited to the annual getaway for the first time ever.

Per YahooBond knowledgeable OK! Journal that because of “life will get further troublesome” when there’s extended family and grandkids inside the mix, it is starting to “become untenable to have all the extended royal family beneath one roof at Sandringham…significantly with Camilla’s family to ponder as properly.”

Given that Duke of York’s kids, Princess Eugenie and Princess Beatrice, have their husbands and youngsters, the royal expert acknowledged “Andrew’s private rising family will give him and Sarah [Ferguson] the correct motive to avoid Sandringham.”

Nonetheless, the royal commentator well-known that Prince Andrew “stays keen” on changing into a member of the rest of the royal family at Sandringham, no matter any awkwardness over his Royal Lodge drama with King Charles. Sources beforehand reported that the monarch decrease off his youthful brother’s $1.3 million allowance and private security in an attempt to get his brother to go away the 31-room property that Andrew shares collectively along with his ex-wife.

Bond well-known that whereas the Yorks “will almost truly be invited to share the King and Queen’s celebrations…you can’t help nevertheless assume that life may very well be less complicated all through if the Yorks began to stage their very personal festivities at Christmas.”

Whereas Prince Andrew and Sarah Ferguson may very well be hoping that making an look will probably be an olive division amid their ongoing rift with the crown, Bond notes, however, that the York daughters will not be so desirous to affix the rest of the royals.

“Beatrice and Eugenie are very defending of every their dad and mother,” the royal expert well-known, citing tales that the sisters have been attempting to help their father uncover a strategy to maintain at Royal Lodge and pay for its in depth repairs.