What does Christmas 2025 hold for the royal family, following a year that seems to have rivalled the famous annus horribilis of 1992, when three royal couples separated and a fire tore through Windsor Castle? There are a lot of question marks. In particular, what does the festive season bring for Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor, in what will be his final Christmas at Royal Lodge after he was stripped of his titles and told he would have to leave the 30-room mansion?
Last year he spent the day with his former wife, Sarah Ferguson — now no longer the Duchess of York — and their staff, but without their eldest daughter Princess Beatrice, who chose to be with the royal family at Sandringham, and their youngest, Princess Eugenie, who was with her in-laws. Will his ex-wife be with him this year, having said she will no longer live with him? What will their daughters do, caught between loyalty to their parents and a desire to keep in with the royals?
