Prince Andrew and Sarah Ferguson joined members of the royal household at their annual Easter Mattins service.
Andrew and Ferguson, each 64, have been pictured outdoors St George’s Chapel at Windsor Fortress on Sunday, March 31. The Duke of York, for his half, wore a black morning go well with with a pale inexperienced tie. Ferguson acquired the identical coloration memo and sported an emerald tweed costume that popped towards her black, embroidered headband.
After the service, the exes have been seen leaving the chapel alongside Andrew’s older sister, Princess Anne, and her husband, Sir Tim Laurence. Andrew’s brothers, King Charles III and Prince Edward, additionally went to the service with their respective wives Queen Camilla and Duchess Sophie. Each Charles, 75, and Ferguson are presently battling totally different types of most cancers and Easter marked their first public occasions since beginning remedy. (Charles beforehand held a number of audiences on the palace earlier this month.)
Sunday’s outing was additionally a uncommon royal look for Andrew after being stripped of his “HRH” honorific in 2022 following his sexual assault lawsuit. Andrew had been accused of misconduct by Virginia Giuffre in late 2019.
Andrew took a step again from his royal duties and patronages amid the scandal earlier than denying the accusations. “I’ve no recollection of ever assembly this girl, none in anyway,” Andrew instructed the BBC in November 2019. “It simply by no means occurred.”
Giuffre later filed a lawsuit towards Andrew in August 2021, claiming he raped and sexually abused her when she was 17 years outdated. He denied the allegations earlier than settling the case out of court docket for an undisclosed sum.
Following the scandal’s fallout, Andrew seldom made public appearances aside from the 2021 and 2022 funerals of fogeys Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip, in addition to Charles’ Might 2023 coronation as England’s monarch.
Ferguson, in the meantime, misplaced lots of her royal associations after divorcing Andrew in 1996. She was not invited to Charles’ coronation however did make it to the celebratory live performance at Buckingham Palace later that weekend.
“You possibly can’t have it each methods. You possibly can’t be divorced after which say, ‘I would like this …’ [You’re in] otherwise you’re out,” Ferguson, who shares daughters Princess Beatrice and Princess Eugenie with Andrew, mentioned on the U.Ok.’s Unfastened Girl forward of the crowning ceremony. “I personally shall be having somewhat tea room and coronation hen sandwich and placing out the bunting, that’s what I’m going to be doing.”
Ferguson and Andrew nonetheless reside in the identical house, the Royal Lodge in Windsor, and are collectively caring for the late queen’s beloved corgis. Ferguson additionally has 5 different pups, who’ve develop into near the corgis after they joined the pack in September 2022.