Prince Andrew spotted with ex-wife Sarah Ferguson amid lonely Christmas
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Prince Andrew has been spotted with his ex-wife after deciding to skip royal Christmas in Sandringham. The disgraced royal didn't join the other royals at church today. He was seen leaving the Royal Lodge with his Sarah Ferguson, the Duchess of York. It was revealed last week that Duke of York had decided to stay away from the festivities to avoid further embarrassing the King after being embroiled in a scandal involving an alleged Chinese spy. Andrew has instead been spending Christmas with his ex-wife Sarah Ferguson, who still lives with him at his Windsor home, Royal Lodge.
Andrew spent last Christmas with the royal family at the King’s Norfolk estate and was seen walking to and from church on Christmas Day as well as talking to local royal fans. Christmas this year is looking a lot different as he spends it with ex-wife Fergie. His eldest daughter Princess Beatrice, who is pregnant with her second child, is at Sandringham for Christmas. However, younger daughter Princess Eugenie is spending Christmas with her husband Jack Brooksbank's family for the first time.
The Duke of York’s latest nightmare was exposed after an alleged Chinese spy lost his appeal several weeks ago against being barred from the UK. The man, identified today as Yang Tengbo and named in court documents as ‘H6’, brought the case after being banned in March 2023 on national security grounds despite having become a close contact of the Duke.
The Chinese businessman, who has insisted he has "done nothing wrong or unlawful", visited Buckingham Palace twice and also entered St James's Palace and Windsor Castle as a guest of Andrew, 64. In a statement, Mr Tengbo added that the "widespread description of me as a 'spy' is entirely untrue".
