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.

It does nothing of the sort because you have no idea if he attends a service regularly or not. He has access to all sorts of private chapels and could worship very privately within the Windsor estate without anyone knowing.

The main ‘insider’ is an author who writes about the royals. He was speculating based on very little to try to sell a book.

I’m fairly sure a 40 year old man who lost his mother in his teens, who has faced a year of watching his father and wife deal with cancer has done some pretty deep soul searching on matters of faith.

At this point he’s keeping it to himself. At the point he becomes by default the head of the CoE then he’ll probably be more open about his feelings on faith and the church.

I don't think they support beyond allowing him to be part of the family and attend private family events. It was notable that the Royal Family Instagram post about the Easter service was careful not to show him.

Its hilarious. I like their take on vocal fry, which must be the most irritating thing ever.

the Chinese spy stuff was not 20 years ago,

Allowing him to attend publicly visible events with them is a big mistake in my view. They are condoning his behaviour publicly.

The Windsors is brilliant. Pippah 😁 married to Johnny he’s a billionaire! Fantastic character.

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I don't think they are condoning anything. But happy to agree to disagree.

I believe they are trying to navigate a very difficult and public situation with a very difficult family member the best way they can. It would be far easier if he actually been convicted of something but Charles is stuck in this grey area.

“Not a millionaire, A BILLIONAIRE!” 🤣

I love it when she leaves Johnny when she thinks he lost all his money, telling him via a note and putting the key through the letter box, only for him to call her telling her that he’s managed to get all his money back. She had to burn the house down to save face and stop him finding the letter 🫣🤭

Oh FFS! Can you explain how my post makes me "the thread police", because I am really not getting that?

I was "chatting about things on here"???!

How is he meant to 'prove' his Christian faith to you? He is at the very least paying lip service if nothing more. Do the titular head of the church have to have a deep faith anyway? I mean Edward VII for example was also head of the church but adultery clearly wasn't an issue for him because he shagged everything with a pulse?

How do you know that? They nearly got away with attending church privately on Easter Sunday?

I loved that show!

If W was a regular church-goer, we would know about it. And why would he attend in secrecy anyway? Plus, insiders say that he's not religious, and this has leaked out.

I wish I could get out of work meetings as easily! 😂 Church attendance for him is the equivalent of boring work meetings.

Robert Hardman was trying to sell a book and speculated on W's faith as @wordler rightly points out.

W watched both parents spill everything to their pet reporters and saw that while newspapers gained revenue, his family was torn apart. As a consequence, W plays his cards very close to the vest, with reporters openly complaining of the lack of access to W relative to his father KC3.

So, for posters to make claims about W's faith or church attendance with no evidence or backup but claiming nebulous "insiders" or citing salacious headlines where the body of the article admits the source is speculating...seems more deliberate character assassination versus sharing of an opinion.

As ever, H's fanboys remind me of Sisyphus...that rock will never make it up that hill!

It really grew legs!! It went from being, "William should have been at church at Windsor" (and he should have travelled by helicopter!!), then when it emerged that he did go, only at Sandringham, he was at fault for that too, and now he doesn't go to church often enough!!!

There's a dogged effort on the part of some to criticise everything he does, and everything he doesn't do, while in the eyes of a lot of people, the errant Harry can do no wrong!! Crazy!

It's not "hate". It's criticism and usually well-deserved.

I have no faith that W has faith, but I believe that he should believe because he'll be Defender of the Faith, not Defender of the Disbelief! 😂 Many Christians would feel insulted if he doesn't at least pretend.

Anyway, these insiders and sources are often spot-on when it comes to info. about the RF. It's now pretty much common knowledge that W doesn't believe while C has found comfort in the church lately.

Plus, imo, as future Defender of the Faith, he should have been at the Abbey service. It was the most important day of the liturgical calendar. Wants to have his cake and eat it. Accepts all the cakes and balloons of his position but can't even go to the biggest service of the year.

Well you can rest assured the anti-Wales brigade would have continuing braying and crowing that the Wales family hadn't gone to church, had it not emerged that they actually did.

I didn't see one poster row back on the criticisms they voiced prior to the facts emerging. The only "screeching" I saw was the lambasting of the Wales family in the earlier part of the thread. You can give over with your "certain posters"!!

The King had plenty of support from his family anyway. He doesn't seem to be frail and he is just getting on with life while living with cancer.

Oh it's bias all right - abundantly clear to see!

I wonder how many of the comments are coming from churchgoers...

@mainecooncatonahottinroof
You do make me laugh! There is no point in replying to the points you make, honest there isn't. It just opens up more cross posts from you!

I am quite at ease with my posts on here, and my face is clear of egg and I'm not choking on humble pie 🤣

Do you have to insert the words, "humble pie" into every single post? It's getting somewhat tedious.

I think it's a lot of a stretch.