Prince Andrew and Sarah Ferguson attended the royal family’s customary Easter Mattins ceremony.
Andrew and Ferguson, both 64, were photographed outside St. George’s Chapel at Windsor Castle on Sunday, March 31. The Duke of York donned a black morning suit and a pale green tie. Ferguson received the color memo and wore a green tweed dress that contrasted with her black embroidered headband.
Following the service, the exes were spotted exiting the chapel with Andrew’s older sister, Princess Anne, and her husband, Sir Tim Laurence. Andrew’s siblings, King Charles III and Prince Edward, attended the service alongside their respective wives, Queen Camilla and Duchess Sophie. Both Charles, 75, and Ferguson are now battling various types of cancer, and Easter marked their first public appearances since beginning treatment. (Charles had a few audiences at the palace earlier this month.)
Andrew made a rare royal appearance on Sunday after losing his “HRH” appellation in 2022 as a result of his sexual assault case. Virginia Giuffre accused Andrew of misbehavior in late 2019.
Andrew stepped back from his royal duties and patronages during the incident before refuting the allegations. “I have no recollection of ever meeting this lady, none whatsoever,” Andrew told the BBC in November 2019. “It just never happened.”
Giuffre later sued Andrew in August 2021, alleging he raped and sexually abused her when she was 17 years old. He refuted the charges before agreeing to settle the lawsuit out of court for an unknown price.
Following the controversy, Andrew made few public appearances, except for the funerals of his parents, Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip, in 2021 and 2022, and Charles’ coronation as England’s monarch in May 2023.
Ferguson, meanwhile, lost many of her royal connections after divorcing Andrew in 1996. Charles’ coronation did not invite her, but she did attend the celebratory performance at Buckingham Palace later that weekend.
“You cannot have it both ways. Divorcees cannot demand certain things. [You’re in] or you’re out,” Ferguson, who has daughters Princess Beatrice and Princess Eugenie with Andrew, said on the UK’s Loose Woman ahead of the crowning ceremony. “I personally will be having a little tea room and coronation chicken sandwich and putting out the bunting; that’s what I’m going to be doing.”
Ferguson and Andrew continue to live in the same home, the Royal Lodge in Windsor, and care for the late queen’s beloved corgis together. Ferguson also has five other pups, who have grown close to the corgis since joining the pack in September 2022.
