The royal family is unusual in many ways, and punishing people by forbidding them to go to church is one of their oddities.
Such sad thoughts might await Prince Andrew, with his imagination King Charles he can distance himself from his brother on Christmas Day amid controversy over Andrew’s alleged association with a Chinese dissident.
Report in London The time said the monarch “could” ban the judge from joining the royal family on their annual church trip to Sandringham.
Andrew was previously banned from attending a Christmas Day service (and a photo) after his interview with the BBC in which he failed to express remorse for his association with Jeffrey Epstein. He was brought back to the royal council of the church in 2022, but now it seems that the renovation is over.
Supporting the thesis of The time story, The Daily Beast was told by a friend of the king that, “My King’s patience has run out.” She stood by Andrew for many years, but everyone has their limits. I don’t see the king wanting to go to church with someone who was friends with a Chinese spy.”
Buckingham Palace declined to comment but a royal friend said: “Andrew is done. You would have thought it would be difficult to find a way to make things worse but somehow he did.”
This week it emerged that Andrew had made friends with a Chinese spy, a businessman known only as H6, who is believed to have been working undercover in the UK on behalf of Beijing. Unfortunately, Andrew drowned him in his house and other palaces.
Andrew is said to have invited the spy to Buckingham Palace twice, to Windsor Castle and St James’s Palace, and to his 60th birthday party.
The alleged spy was stopped at the airport under terrorism powers in November 2021. The police intercepted his phone, which contained detailed information about their relationship. In another message, Dominic Hampshire, the chief’s adviser, told H6 he was sitting “at the top of the tree” of Andrew’s confidants.
Andrew’s friends say he is just the fall guy
Meanwhile, Andrew’s friends are fighting. Basically their argument seems to be that she can’t be accused of the courtesy of extending a friendly hand to a guy she met at work. Of course, it’s only a matter of time until we learn that he was simply too “respectable” to invite his new Chinese acquaintance to his birthday party.
A friend of Andrew’s told The Daily Beast that a report in the London Times published by H6 was also able to meet former British ministers who supported Andrew’s case.
The London Times reports that a spy program called “the capture of the elite” saw him meet with two different former ministers. H6 was showing photos of the meetings on his desk.
A Daily Beast source said, “This man has clearly worked in the UK for years, meeting with the PM. It’s not Andrew’s fault, the services.
However, the offices of David Cameron and Theresa May presented these meetings as a normal meet-and-greet, while Andrew is seen, according to the Times, “built a personal and business relationship with H6 for more than eight years.”
The Telegraph also reported somewhere in Andrew’s camp that Andrew should not be charged.
A Telegraph source said: “If it’s true that this judge was only targeted by this man and that this man was acting in a different way, I don’t see how it can be a criticism of the Duke and not criticism. Chinese operatives. It’s strange.”