I’ll admit it: I find all of the royal/media hand-wringing about Prince Andrew and Sarah Ferguson to be tiring and performative. If King Charles wanted Andrew and Sarah to be completely absent from public view, he would make it happen. He has not. The royals and the media don’t actually care that Andrew was BFFs with Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell, nor do they actually care that Sarah took vast sums of money from Epstein and then apologized to Epstein for calling him a p3do. If the royals cared, they would have dealt with the Yorks a lot differently for the past decade. Instead, with each new or old revelation about Andrew and Sarah’s depravity, we just have to trudge our way through another cycle of “surely, the Windsors will finally do something about the Yorks!” And nothing ever happens. Well, the latest threat is that Fergie and Andrew might be “banned” from “family events.” No more family funerals or Christmases at Sandringham!

The King may be forced to ban the Yorks from private family occasions over their latest scandal involving convicted paedophile Jeffrey Epstein. Although Buckingham Palace has not issued any public comment, there was clear frustration in royal circles last night over new revelations involving the publication of gushing emails from Sarah, Duchess of York, to the shamed financier following his release from jail on child sex offences.

In the correspondence she issued a grovelling apology to Epstein for publicly disassociating herself from ‘her supreme friend’ when it emerged he had bailed her out financially, and claiming she had only done so to save her career as a children’s author.

The revelations once again shine an uncomfortable spotlight on the Yorks’ proximity to the Royal Family. While Sarah was ‘persona non-grata’ while Prince Philip was alive, Queen Elizabeth did allow her to accompany her family to estates such as Balmoral or Sandringham when he wasn’t around as a gesture of kindness towards her young granddaughters, Princesses Beatrice and Eugenie. The King further took pity on her when she was diagnosed with cancer, allowing her to join the family in Norfolk on Christmas Day, as well as Windsor Castle at Easter.

But that may now have to stop, sources say. In recent years the Duke and, now, his ex-wife, have even appeared with the Royal Family on their annual walk to church at Sandringham on Christmas Day, as well as Windsor Castle at Easter. And there was public shock this week when they both appeared front and centre alongside senior royals at Westminster Cathedral at the funeral of the Duchess of Kent.

One source has told the Daily Mail that the King has tried ‘every avenue available to him’ to ring-fence his brother. This includes cutting off all his private funding, withdrawing his security and trying to persuade him to downsize from Royal Lodge, his 30-room mansion at Windsor, by offering him alternative accommodation – such as Harry and Meghan’s former home, Frogmore Cottage. One clearly frustrated source said: ‘There is literally no more the king can do to cut off support [to the duke].’

Andrew has also continued to attended family gatherings ‘through the front door’, without any apparent concern for the ongoing embarrassment he is causing.

Last week it emerged that US investigators may have access to a damaging ‘cache’ of emails written by the duke to Epstein, that could prove even more ‘explosive’ than those pertaining to his ex-wife. Some insiders believe Charles will now have no option but to explore ways to prevent his brother attending family events in a private capacity too – or at least if does, do so in a less conspicuous manner, through the back door.

‘It is about the last sanction he may be able to take,’ a source said, pointing out that there is a ‘real fear’ there may be more of this to come.

[From The Daily Mail]

It’s the York situation where you can really see Charles’s dithering nature flourish. That man is incapable of making a decision and sticking to it. Obviously, Andrew and Fergie both should have been banned from everything, everywhere, forever. That should have happened years ago. It honestly looked much worse for the monarchy when QEII was still alive and bringing Andrew everywhere in an attempt to rehabilitate his image. But make no mistake, it still looks pretty bad that Charles can’t figure out a way to ban Andrew from polite society. They didn’t even mention that Charles still allows Andrew to host shooting parties on royal property!

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