{"id":453723,"date":"2025-09-26T21:33:11","date_gmt":"2025-09-26T21:33:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/453723\/"},"modified":"2025-09-26T21:33:11","modified_gmt":"2025-09-26T21:33:11","slug":"prince-william-has-no-time-for-prince-andrew","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/453723\/","title":{"rendered":"Prince William Has \u201cNo Time\u201d for Prince Andrew"},"content":{"rendered":"

Prince William<\/strong> is in Scotland this week enjoying some quality time with his father, King Charles,<\/strong> for what has become an annual father-son holiday.<\/p>\n

Royal sources tell VF that the trip has become a \u201cmuch looked forward to\u201d date in the diary for both William and his father, who they insist are closer than ever, despite recent reports that the Prince of Wales does not see eye to eye with Charles over several issues regarding the royal family\u2014principally over the King\u2019s recent meeting with Prince Harry<\/strong> and the very public inclusion of the Duke and Duchess of York at a recent family funeral.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey are both in Scotland and will see each other, but it\u2019s in no way connected to recent family dramas,\u201d a source tells VF. \u201cThey speak very regularly, and there has been no fallout.\u201d Buckingham Palace declined to comment on speculation about the king\u2019s relationship to his eldest son.<\/p>\n

Their time in Scotland, a country they both love, will, however, give the king and heir a chance to discuss some important matters. VF has been told that the Prince of Wales is keen to come up with a solution for what is being referred to in palace circles as the \u201cYork problem.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s something that William is acutely aware of and wants resolved,\u201d a family friend tells me. \u201cCharles is not a confrontational person and doesn\u2019t want any more family feuds, but he recognizes that his brother poses challenges. William takes a harder line and has made it clear that he thinks his uncle and aunt could cause the monarchy real reputational damage.\u201d<\/p>\n

This week, Sarah Ferguson,<\/strong> the Duchess of York, was dropped by seven of her charities after an email from 2011 revealed that she continued corresponding with convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein after claiming she had distanced herself from him. The king is under pressure to cut ties with his sister-in-law, according to royal insiders.<\/p>\n

Andrew Lownie,<\/strong> author of Entitled: The Rise and Fall of the House of Yorks<\/a>, which lifts the lid on Sarah and Prince Andrew<\/strong>\u2019s close relationship with Epstein, says the king could face a backlash if he continues to be seen as supporting Andrew and Sarah, who still live at Royal Lodge in Windsor.<\/p>\n

Despite Prince Andrew and Ferguson\u2019s separation in 1992 and subsequent divorce in 1996, Charles still maintains a good rapport with the Duchess of York. Now their relationship is \u201ccausing problems for the King because of the optics of the royal family being so close to the Yorks,\u201d Lownie says.<\/p>\n

But Lownie tells me Charles and William disagree about what to do. \u201cI\u2019m told William\u2019s view is that his father needs to take a firmer line with Andrew,\u201d Lownie says. \u201cI think this could cause real tensions between Charles and William. William, as future king, will have to deal with the fallout from this. He wants this problem solved and has no sentimental attachment to Andrew. He has no time for Andrew, and he can see how toxic the Yorks are.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Prince William is in Scotland this week enjoying some quality time with his father, King Charles, for what…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":453724,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7708],"tags":[7709,7714,7713,2204,533,2205,9729,2832,532,2831,7710,519,7717,7711,7712],"class_list":{"0":"post-453723","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-royals","8":"tag-british-royal-family","9":"tag-catherine","10":"tag-catherine-middleton","11":"tag-jeffrey-epstein","12":"tag-kate-middleton","13":"tag-prince-andrew","14":"tag-prince-charles","15":"tag-prince-of-wales","16":"tag-prince-william","17":"tag-princess-of-wales","18":"tag-royal-families","19":"tag-royal-family","20":"tag-sarah-ferguson","21":"tag-uk-royal-family","22":"tag-william"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115272746437373755","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/453723","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=453723"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/453723\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/453724"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=453723"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=453723"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=453723"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}