King Charles arrived for a Sunday church service in Sandringham this morning amid the ongoing furore over his younger brother Prince Andrew.
Photographs show the monarch stroll through green pastures dressed in a long beige coat on his way to St. Mary Magdalene Church.
It comes just days after Charles was said to have decided the fate of Andrew Mountbatten Windsor with a phone call.
The King this week stripped his brother of his remaining titles and evicted him from his royal residence after weeks of pressure to act over his relationship with sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.
Palace insiders said the move was a sign of the monarch’s ‘steel’ as he made the private communication to break the news of his decision.
Today King Charles III appeared at peace as he was greeted by Revd Canon Dr Paul Williams with a smile on his face.
The pair shook hands and accompanied each other to church, with Charles coming prepared for the gloomy weather as he clutched a large, black umbrella in his hand.
St. Mary Magdalene Church in Norfolk is regularly used by members of the Royal Family when in residence at Sandringham.
King Charles arrived for a Sunday church service in Sandringham this morning amid the ongoing furore over his younger brother Prince Andrew
Photographs show the monarch stroll through green pastures dressed in a long beige coat on his way to the St. Mary Magdalene Church
Pictured: Prince Andrew speaks with King Charles as they leave Westminster Cathedral at the end of the Requiem Mass, on the day of the funeral of Britain’s Katharine, Duchess of Kent, in London, Britain, September 16, 2025
The church is in the park and approached from the House through the garden by ‘an avenue of fine old firs’.
Demand had been growing on the palace to oust the prince from the Royal Lodge after he surrendered his use of the title Duke of York earlier this month over new revelations about his friendship with Epstein and renewed sexual abuse allegations by one of Epstein’s victims, Virginia Roberts Giuffre, whose posthumous memoir hit bookstores last week.
But the king went even further to punish him for serious lapses of judgment by removing the title of prince that he has held since birth as a child of a monarch, the late Queen Elizabeth II.
Following the king’s move, Andrew will have to vacate his Royal Lodge mansion near Windsor Castle.
And Andrew faces even more humiliation, as the Royal Collection Trust is reportedly set to remove artworks that have hung at the Royal Lodge since the Queen Mother’s time.
The paintings, which are understood to include the 19th-century oil painting Eugenie, Empress of the French by Edouard Boutibonne, would be returned.
Another artefact expected to be removed is understood to be an ancient sword that Andrew’s daughter Princess Beatrice accidentally sliced singer Ed Sheeran’s face with while pretending to knight musician James Blunt at a party.
Buckingham Palace said in a statement on Thursday that the King’s moves against Andrew were ‘deemed necessary notwithstanding the fact that he continues to deny the allegations against him.
Charles and the Reverend shook hands and accompanied each other to church, with Charles coming prepared for the gloomy weather as he clutched a large, black umbrella in his hand
Today King Charles appeared at peace as he was greeted by Revd Canon Dr Paul Williams with a smile on his face
The church is in the park and is approached from the House through the garden by ‘an avenue of fine old firs’
‘Their Majesties wish to make clear that their thoughts and utmost sympathies have been, and will remain with, the victims and survivors of any and all forms of abuse.’
It is almost unprecedented for a British prince or princess to be stripped of that title. It last happened in 1919, when Prince Ernest Augustus, who was a UK royal and also a prince of Hanover, had his British title removed for siding with Germany during World War I.
Andrew faced a new round of public outrage after emails emerged earlier this month showing he had remained in contact with Epstein longer than he previously admitted.
That news was followed by the publication of ‘Nobody’s Girl,’ by Giuffre, who alleged she had sex with Andrew when she was 17.
The book detailed three alleged sexual encounters with Andrew, who she said acted as if he believed ‘having sex with me was his birthright.’
Andrew, 65, has long denied Giuffre’s claims, but stepped down from royal duties after a disastrous November 2019 BBC interview in which he attempted to rebut her allegations.
Andrew paid millions in an out-of-court settlement in 2022 after Giuffre filed a civil suit against him in New York. While he didn’t admit wrongdoing, he acknowledged Giuffre’s suffering as a victim of sex trafficking.
Andrew, 65, has long denied Giuffre’s claims, but stepped down from royal duties after a disastrous November 2019 BBC interview in which he attempted to rebut her allegations. (L-R) Prince Andrew, Virginia Giuffre, and Ghislaine Maxwell posing for a photo
Although Charles was involved in discussions with Andrew before he announced he would relinquish his dukedom two weeks ago, the king had largely managed to steer clear of the scandal until this week.
It marks the most dramatic royal departure since 1936, when King Edward VIII abdicated the throne so he could marry twice-divorced American socialite Wallis Simpson. The couple were given the titles Duke and Duchess of Windsor and lived the rest of their lives in exile outside Britain.