Royal household collect at Sandringham on Christmas Day – with out disgraced Andrew | EUROtoday

King Charles and Queen Camilla greeted crowds outdoors St Mary Magdalene church on the Sandringham property after the royal household attended their annual Christmas morning church service.

Charles and Camilla led the household on the brief stroll to the church from Sandringham House for the service, which began at 11am. They had been joined by the Prince and Princess of Wales and their kids, who stopped to talk to well-wishers and collect up items and flowers after the service had completed at round noon.

Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor was absent for a second yr, having been stripped of his titles this yr in a dramatic fall from grace.

His ex-wife Sarah Ferguson was additionally absent from the Sandringham celebration, however each their kids Princess Beatrice and Princess Eugenie had been current with their husbands.

Hundreds braved the weather on the chilly however sunny Christmas Day morning in Norfolk to look at because the royal household had been greeted by Rev Canon Dr Paul Williams on the church steps.

Both Camilla and the Princess Royal opted for vibrant crimson coats for his or her Christmas Day outing, with Camilla choosing black gloves with fur ornament.

King Charles was sporting a camel-coloured overcoat and waved at members of the general public who lined the walkway.

The Prince and Princess of Wales had been in direction of the again of the celebration, strolling down the drive as they headed to church, guiding their kids Princess Charlotte, Prince George and Prince Louis.

The household stopped to talk to these gathered after the service completed. Kate shook the palms of these ready and shared a number of phrases with those that sat in wheelchairs on the entrance of the gang. She gathered up flowers in her arms, gifted to her by well-wishers.

She was sporting a brown-check coat, with matching brown gloves and fascinator. George, Charlotte and Louise additionally obtained handfuls of items.

Future King George clutched a comfortable toy as did his youthful brother Louis, whereas Charlotte might be seen reaching over to gather a gift.

Charlotte gave one royal fan in a wheelchair a hug reaching right down to embrace the lady who was wrapped in a blanket to maintain heat.

Kate and Charlotte delighted TV viewers final evening with a video of them performing a piano duet for a Christmas carol service.

The efficiency of a bit of music by Scottish composer Erland Cooper was pre-recorded at Windsor Castle for the Together at Christmas broadcast on ITV1.

Accompanying the younger household at Sandringham had been Princess Anne and husband Vice Admiral Sir Tim Laurence, Anne’s daughter Zara Tindall and her husband, former England rugby participant Mike Tindall.

Andrew, who final went to the Christmas Day service in 2023, is predicted to maneuver to Norfolk within the new yr.

The former prince will transfer out of Royal Lodge in Windsor to an undisclosed property on the Sandringham property, which is privately owned by his brother Charles. Andrew has been frozen out of the royal household over his relationship with the convicted paedophile Jeffrey Epstein.

Only this week extra particulars emerged of the obvious extent of his relationship with the disgraced financier Epstein and his companion Ghislaine Maxwell.

New launched paperwork revealed a sequence of emails written by an “A” in Balmoral to Maxwell, asking whether or not she had discovered them any “inappropriate friends”.

Andrew’s ex-wife Sarah Ferguson has additionally had a turbulent yr as she was dropped as a patron or ambassador by seven charities.

It got here after newspapers revealed a 2011 electronic mail from Ms Ferguson to Epstein wherein she appeared to explain him as a “supreme friend”.

St Mary Magdalene, in its current kind, dates again to the sixteenth Century and is utilized by the Royal Family when they’re in residence at Sandringham. The church has additionally been used a web site of celebration, resembling for Princess Charlotte’s christening.

King Edward VII began the custom of spending Christmas on the Sandringham Estate.

After attending the church, the royal household watched the King’s speech at 3pm, delivered this yr from a chapel in Westminster Abbey.

The King’s Christmas message comes after Charles shared “good news” about his most cancers in a private message earlier this month.

He stated that early prognosis and “effective intervention” implies that his therapy will be decreased within the new yr. Buckingham Palace stated that Charles had “responded exceptionally well to treatment”, and docs had been now shifting “into a precautionary phase”.