Prince Andrew dealt fresh blow as he's 'conspicuously absent' at royal dinner
dailyrecord.co.ukPrince Andrew's woes continued into 2025 after a challenging 2024. The start of the new year brought another blow for the embattled royal.Andrew has been embroiled in controversy over recent years, and following his ill-fated Newsnight interview in November 2019, he was compelled to withdraw from public duties.
He was subsequently stripped of his military titles and patronages by the late Queen in January 2022.More recently, King Charles discontinued Prince Andrew's allowance, urged him to relocate from Royal Lodge to a smaller residence, and he was obliged to avoid the Royal Family's Christmas at Sandringham in December due to his connections with an alleged Chinese spy.
Now it has emerged that Andrew was excluded from a dinner honouring his alma mater at Windsor Castle - despite residing just a few miles away on the Royal estate.His elder sister, Princess Anne, hosted the dinner at Windsor last Thursday in her capacity as Warden for Gordonstoun school - which Andrew attended alongside his brothers, King Charles and Prince Edward.
However, he was not invited to the recent celebration. "I'm sure the duke would have loved to have attended the dinner if he had been invited," a friend of Andrew's told the Daily Mail's Richard Eden, reports the Mirror.
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