Andrew has kept a low profile since stepping down from royal duties last month amid outrage over his friendship with convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein
He was filmed walking along a path with his brother Prince Charles to St Mary Magdalene church near the Queen’s estate in Sandringham for a 9 a.m. service.He did not join other members of the family when they walked to the 11 a.m. service: a staple of the royal calendar.
Philip, 98, whose title is the Duke of Edinburgh, left a London hospital just in time for Christmas after treatment for what Buckingham Palace described as a pre-existing condition. Later on Wednesday, the 93-year-old queen stressed in her Christmas address the importance of reconciliation after a turbulent year both for the royals and for Britain as it wrestled with divisions over Brexit.
This year, as well as Andrew’s entanglement in the Epstein furor, the queen’s husband received a police warning over a car crash, while her grandsons Princes William and Harry publicly fell out.Andrew has denied an accusation by a woman who said she was trafficked by Epstein and forced to have sex with his friends, including the prince, when she was 17.
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