Royals placed on united entrance at Easter Service at Windsor Castle in first public household outing since Andrew’s arrest | EUROtoday

The King and Queen have arrived on the conventional Easter church service in Windsor’s St George’s Chapel alongside different senior royals, within the first public household outing since Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor’s arrest.

Charles and Camilla placed on a united entrance with different members of the royal household together with the Prince and Princess of Wales, however not Andrew or his ex-wife Sarah Ferguson.

Andrew’s daughters, Princess Beatrice and Princess Eugenie, have made various plans and won’t attend the service.

Andrew was stripped by the King of each his proper to be a prince and his dukedom over his affiliation with the paedophile financier Jeffrey Epstein.

The King and Queen had been additionally joined by the Duke and Duchess of Edinburgh, the Princess Royal and Vice Admiral Sir Tim Laurence.

He was arrested in February, on his 66th birthday, on suspicion of misconduct in public workplace after allegations that he shared delicate data with Epstein throughout his time because the UK’s commerce envoy.

Andrew appeared on the service final 12 months alongside the King, together with Sarah Ferguson.

The royal household started to distance itself from Andrew after his notorious BBC Newsnight interview with Emily Maitlis in 2019 about his relationship with Epstein.

He was stripped of his army roles and use of HRH title in January 2022, a month earlier than he settled a authorized dispute with one among Epstein’s victims Virginia Giuffre. She has alleged that she was assaulted by Andrew.

On 22 March, Andrew was pictured for the primary time since his arrest. The 66-year-old former prince was seen strolling his canine within the grounds round his new residence, Marsh Farm, on the Sandringham Estate in Norfolk.

The former Duke of York was compelled to relocate to the King’s property in Norfolk after public backlash over his hire agreements resulted in him giving up his lease on the Grade II listed mansion Royal Lodge in Windsor. It emerged he had solely paid a peppercorn hire for greater than 20 years, having first moved into the property in 2003.

On Thursday, the King and Queen attended the Royal Maundy service in Wales.

During the ceremony, the King introduced Maundy cash to 77 males and 77 ladies from throughout Wales and different UK dioceses, in recognition of their excellent Christian service and contributions to their native communities.

The Royal Maundy service, which commemorates the Last Supper of Jesus Christ, has a convention of distributing alms.

Workers in high-vis jackets had been seen cleansing graffiti studying “Not Our King” on Thursday morning, forward of the King’s arrival.