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Marie Claire
Marie Claire
Lifestyle
Kristin Contino

Royal Employees Were Shocked to See This Member of the Family Working on a Tractor at Sandringham: “Had to Do a Double Take”

Exterior of Sandringham House with a pond in front.

The Sandringham estate might be best known lately as the home of disgraced royal Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor, but another member of the Royal Family has been spotted hard at work in Norfolk this summer. According to the Sun, Prince Edward and Duchess Sophie’s 18-year-old son James, the Earl of Wessex, has taken on a summer job helping out as a farmhand at the estate, much to the shock of staffers.

“Everyone is so used to only seeing James smartly turned out with his family at functions at Christmas and Easter so I had to do a double take,” one estate worker said after spotting James riding a tractor.

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