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Meghan Markle is not the lone subordinate of the royal household acceptable to miss the coronation of King Charles III.
Sarah "Fergie" Ferguson, ex-wife of the monarch's member Prince Andrew, volition not be the May 6 lawsuit astatine Westminster Abbey, a root told E! News. The BBC besides quoted sources arsenic saying the Duchess of York she bears no "ill will" astir this determination and not inviting her besides does not represent a snub against the author, who has maintained bully relations with her erstwhile in-laws implicit the years.
Buckingham Palace declined to remark connected the substance erstwhile reached by NBC News.
Sarah signaled connected the ITV amusement Loose Women on April 5 that she did not expect to be the coronation. "Because, remember, I americium divorced from [Andrew]," said she. "I don't expect—you can't person it some ways. You can't beryllium divorced and past say, 'I privation this.' You're successful oregon you're out."
As for what she plans to bash connected the large day? "I personally volition beryllium having a small beverage country and coronation chickenhearted sandwich and putting retired the bunting, that's what I'm going to beryllium doing," Sarah explained. "Because that would marque maine precise happy. I ever emotion to ticker it connected the telly due to the fact that you perceive a batch connected the telly. The commentators are ever good."
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The quality comes 2 days after the palace announced that Prince Harry will be the coronation, portion his woman Meghan, Duchess of Sussex, volition stay with their children, Prince Archie—who volition observe his 4th day the aforesaid day, and Princess Lilibet, 22 months, successful California. The mates had moved determination pursuing their arguable 2020 exit from their roles arsenic elder Royals.
The coronation volition people the archetypal nationalist household reunion for Harry since helium attended Queen Elizabeth II's ceremonial with Meghan past September. It besides comes four months pursuing the merchandise of his tell-all memoir Spare successful January. In the book, helium dropped respective bombshells about his strained relationships with his brother, Prince William, and the King, successful what marks a departure from Royal protocol of keeping personal affairs private.
Sarah—who was bully friends with the princes' precocious parent Princess Diana and who, according to Harry's book, taught Meghan however to curtsy to the Queen—has publically voiced her enactment for the Sussexes amid their turmoil.
"I person been successful Meghan's shoes, and I inactive am," she told Vogue Arabia in 2019. "There's ever a twist of negativity and it conscionable gets truthful bittersweet and tiring; it's hard and mean. I abhor bullying and I consciousness desperately atrocious for the symptom they indispensable beryllium going done due to the fact that I've been done it."
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While Sarah volition beryllium absent from the coronation, her ex Andrew is besides expected to be the event, the BBC reported.
The Duke of York has mostly kept retired of the spotlight since helium stepped backmost from his nationalist royal duties successful 2019 amid allegations that helium had erstwhile enactment with a 17-year-old miss obtained for him by his then-friend and precocious convicted pedophile Jeffrey Epstein. Andrew has denied ever gathering her. In 2022, helium and the accuser, present an adult, settled a intersexual maltreatment lawsuit she had filed against him and the lawsuit was dismissed.
Andrew and Sarah, parents of Princess Beatrice and Princess Eugenie, remain friends following their divorcement and even live unneurotic astatine Royal Lodge adjacent Windsor Castle, wherever they are raising the Queen's corgis.
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