{"id":639014,"date":"2025-12-17T22:22:18","date_gmt":"2025-12-17T22:22:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/639014\/"},"modified":"2025-12-17T22:22:18","modified_gmt":"2025-12-17T22:22:18","slug":"the-king-just-showed-us-his-blind-spot-is-still-ex-prince-andrew","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/639014\/","title":{"rendered":"The King Just Showed Us His Blind Spot Is Still ex-Prince Andrew"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>King Charles\u2019 decision to invite ex-Prince Andrew\u2019s daughters Beatrice and Eugenie to the annual pre-Christmas lunch at Buckingham Palace yesterday was a \u201csoftening up\u201d exercise ahead of them likely joining the king on Christmas Day, The Royalist has been told.<\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/substackcdn.com\/image\/fetch\/$s_!tiO7!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep\/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F3c6c21ce-75fb-4fc5-aada-07f11aeb5d04_4082x2376.jpeg\" data-component-name=\"Image2ToDOM\" rel=\"noopener\" class=\"image-link image2 is-viewable-img can-restack\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/https:\/\/substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com\/public\/images\/3c6c21ce-75fb-4fc5-aada-07f11aeb5d04_4082.jpeg\" width=\"1456\" height=\"847\" data-attrs=\"{&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https:\/\/substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com\/public\/images\/3c6c21ce-75fb-4fc5-aada-07f11aeb5d04_4082x2376.jpeg&quot;,&quot;srcNoWatermark&quot;:null,&quot;fullscreen&quot;:null,&quot;imageSize&quot;:null,&quot;height&quot;:847,&quot;width&quot;:1456,&quot;resizeWidth&quot;:null,&quot;bytes&quot;:8490608,&quot;alt&quot;:null,&quot;title&quot;:null,&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image\/jpeg&quot;,&quot;href&quot;:null,&quot;belowTheFold&quot;:false,&quot;topImage&quot;:true,&quot;internalRedirect&quot;:&quot;https:\/\/theroyalist.substack.com\/i\/181932853?img=https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F3c6c21ce-75fb-4fc5-aada-07f11aeb5d04_4082x2376.jpeg&quot;,&quot;isProcessing&quot;:false,&quot;align&quot;:null,&quot;offset&quot;:false}\" alt=\"\"   fetchpriority=\"high\" class=\"sizing-normal\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Charles keeps inviting and including them because he thinks it is a way to project unity and continuity, this time via the familiar tableau of an extended, eccentric, slightly batty royal family gathering beneath the gilded opulence of BP. It\u2019s meant to be a signal that, whatever storms rage inside palace walls, the House of Windsor endures.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"King Charles\u2019 decision to invite ex-Prince Andrew\u2019s daughters Beatrice and Eugenie to the annual pre-Christmas lunch at Buckingham&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":639015,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7708],"tags":[5105,7710,519,448],"class_list":{"0":"post-639014","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-royals","8":"tag-royal","9":"tag-royal-families","10":"tag-royal-family","11":"tag-royals"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115737248704174363","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/639014","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=639014"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/639014\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/639015"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=639014"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=639014"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=639014"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}