Why is Sarah Ferguson at the Easter service?

[Lazycatsitsonthemat]

I am really perplexed about why SF attends all Royal events since the death of the Queen when Andrew
is present. She behaves like his wife but she isn’t his wife. What on earth is going on? I cannot think of another situation like this where an ex wife lives with her ex husband and attends all public events with him as though they are still married. It’s bizarre.

I’m sure I read that William is not a church-goer and does not regard himself as religious.

I’d be skiving off church too, if I were him. He likely has many years ahead where he won’t be able to get away with not showing up.

A) None of your business, and does not affect you in even one tiny way

B) They did not want to divorce, were pushed into it (by people reacting badly to her admittedly bad behaviour), and have remained very close since

C) She is still the mother of the King's nieces

Lol, I'm sure she pays for half the leccy bill for a vast Royal estate out of her private money. Not!

Well this really. William's laziness is odd & really concerning. Kate too: I know she has been ill but she is supposedly better now yet we hardly see her either.

King Charles otoh has kept working throughout his illness. I am not KC's greatest fan but one thing he is not is lazy.

So you'd rather have a lying hypocrite as head of state than an honest man?

Allegedly that has been an issue with Sarah her whole adult life. After leaving school she worked at an art gallery and then a couple of PR agencies, but in her early 20s met and became the girlfriend of a former racing driver who ran PR for F1, and who was vey wealthy. When they split she was apparently very reluctant to give up on the monied lifestyle to which she had become accustomed.

If Andrew and by extension Sarah are genuinely repentant Christians attending Church on Easter Sunday then I have no quibble with that….but somehow I doubt it. I’d rather both of them had the self-awareness to recognise how publicly unpopular they are, and avoid any family events that involve public appearances.

Which underage girls are you libellously accusing him of having sex with?

Not a good precedent to quote today

Go read some history books
No he didn't

Which was a Catholic church, with the Catholic liturgy and |Mass

A) It does affect us when ultimately we are paying for it, and the public support of an alleged abuser reflects badly on us as a country.

B) If outsiders can push them unwillingly into a divorce what does that say about them? Would you divorce against your will purely because others pushed you into it?

C) Diana was the mother of a future king yet it didn't stop the RF ruthlessly pushing her out.

Is that you Fergie?

I'm a fan of William and Catherine and think they will do a great job when their time comes. It does make sense that they want to spend as much time as they can with their family while they can but occasionally they do things (or don't do them) which add fuel to their 'workshy' reputation.

We make more of the festival of Christmas but Easter is more important, surely, for without the resurrection, Christianity wouldn't have developed.

'This was a private family event, rather than a state one'

Then it won't be added to the Court Circular.

I think it’s an excellent precedent to quote today.

The Pope showed up when he was literally on death’s door. Can’t imagine William doing that.

I just find it odd. William could have been helicoptered to Windsor from Norfolk, go to the Easter service, back again ready for Easter egg hunt and Ma Middleton's famous leg of lamb.
Such an easy keep everyone happy attendance.
It just does come across as not caring what people think to me. And it doesn't bode well for the future as far as I'm concerned. Only my opinion.

I can't stand Andrew and I don't have a lot of time for 'Fergie'. But I think a lot of the outrage about him (and Harry/Meghan come to that) is to distract from the fact that the heir to the throne is a lazy waste of space.

Zipping about by helicopter doesn’t bode well for the future, either.

Yas! A historical debate on Henry VIII’s religious identity is what I live for.

He definitely wasn’t what we call a Protestant nowadays, he was still a Catholic in all but name. He still believed in Transubstantiation and other Catholic doctrine as seen in the Six Articles of 1539. He also executed three Papists and three Lutherans on the same day in July 1540. He just didn’t want to submit to the Pope any more. He may have been interested in some reform (probably thanks to Anne Boleyn and Cromwell) but then realised the profits filled his coffers nicely and he could still pick and choose what he liked.

History nerd and proud 🤓

This is exactly how I feel.

I like them both, have compassion for what they have both been through, and don’t envy their lot, which I see is less about privilege and more about intrusion and difficulty.

However the role is the role and I do think William could sometimes make things easier for himself. Whatever many might think about the irrelevance of Easter, many do still see the role of the RF in the C of E as important, at least at a symbolic level, and truthfully that demographic probably contains some of their most loyal supporters. Perhaps he went elsewhere, however. We don’t know.

They do it all the time.

Naysayers would criticise him for flying around in a helicopter. He cannot really win.

Zipping about by helicopter doesn’t bode well for the future, eithe

perhaps he was thinking about his carbon footprint...

He’s used up all his air miles going on holiday.

As I say, they do it all the time. But this time it would be for a valid reason. Church on Easter Sunday