How Prince Andrew May Keep away from Awkward Royal Christmas

Amid research 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 also have a excellent 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–notably with reported stress with King Charles over his residing situation–nonetheless the disgraced royal may want the precise excuse for bowing out of a doubtlessly awkward situation.

In keeping with former BBC royal reporter Jennie Bond, Sandringham could actually really feel overcrowded this yr with a variety of 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 on account of “life will get further troublesome” when there’s extended family and grandkids inside the mix, it is starting to “turn into untenable to have all the extended royal family beneath one roof at Sandringham…notably with Camilla’s family to consider as correctly.”

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

Nonetheless, the royal commentator well-known that Prince Andrew “stays keen” on turning 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 alongside together with his ex-wife.

Bond well-known that whereas the Yorks “will just about really be invited to share the King and Queen’s celebrations…you probably can’t help nonetheless suppose that life might be less complicated all through if the Yorks began to stage their very personal festivities at Christmas.”

Whereas Prince Andrew and Sarah Ferguson is maybe hoping that making an look might be an olive division amid their ongoing rift with the crown, Bond notes, however, that the York daughters will not be so wanting to hitch the rest of the royals.

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