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Per tradition, King Charles III<\/strong> and Queen Camilla<\/strong> are preparing to spend Christmas at Sandringham in Norfolk,<\/a> with the rest of the royal family. But this year, there may more absentees than attendees, due to skipped invitations and cancellations. For example, Tom Parker Bowles<\/strong> and Laura Lopes<\/strong>, the children that Camilla shares with her first husband, Andrew Parker Bowles,<\/strong> won\u2019t be making the trek later this month.<\/p>\n Tom, a food critic<\/a>, told the Daily Mail<\/em><\/a> that he has other plans. \u201cI\u2019m not [spending Christmas at Sandringham],\u201d he said. \u201cNor is my sister.\u201d The two were there in December 2024; it seems the siblings have decided to spend Christmas with their mother\u2019s relatives (i.e., the royal family) every second year. \u201cIt\u2019ll be every other year, one year on, one year off,\u201d said Tom. \u201cI\u2019m going back to my ex-wife\u2019s couch\u201d: the home of Sara Buys<\/strong>, with whom he shares Lola<\/strong>, born in 2007, and Frederick<\/strong>, born in 2010. The couple, who married in 2005, announced their divorce in 2018.<\/p>\n Tom didn\u2019t share his sister Laura\u2019s plans, but the 47-year-old art gallerist will likely spend the holidays with her husband Harry Lopes,<\/strong> an accountant and former model, and their three children: Eliza<\/strong> and twins Gus<\/strong> and Louis<\/strong>.<\/p>\n Tom and Laura will not be the only family members absent from the upcoming royal Christmas<\/a>. Prince Harry<\/strong>\u2014who has been spending the holidays in America with wife Meghan Markle<\/strong> and children Prince<\/strong> Archie<\/strong> and Princess Lilibet<\/strong> since 2020\u2014will almost certainly not be there.<\/p>\n More importantly, it seems that Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor<\/strong> has been excluded from the party, having been stripped of all titles<\/a> and evicted from the Royal Lodge. Even if he is on the Sandringham premises, we are unlikely to see the former prince appear on the traditional family walk to St. Mary Magdalene Church for a Christmas service on December 25th. King Charles and his son Prince William<\/strong> do not want the figure of Andrew\u2014now permanently disgraced\u2014to continue to be associated with the monarchy.<\/p>\n Andrew\u2019s ex-wife, Sarah Ferguson<\/strong>, will certainly not be at Sandringham either, only two years after she attended Christmas celebrations for the first time since she was put on a \u201cblacklist\u201d by Prince Philip<\/a>. In the summer of 1992, the duchess, not yet divorced from Andrew, was photographed topless in St. Tropez with the Texas billionaire John Bryan<\/strong>\u2014in an image where he appears to be sucking her toe<\/a>. The images drew Ferguson\u2019s then-father-in-law\u2019s ire. But as soon as Charles was king, Ferguson was invited back into the fold<\/a>. Recently, however, Ferguson was also swept up in the Epstein scandal anew\u2014and was reportedly<\/a> forced to send the entire print run of her new children\u2019s book, signed with her now-former title \u201cDuchess of York,\u201d to the scrap heap.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.vanityfair.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Per tradition, King Charles III and Queen Camilla are preparing to spend Christmas at Sandringham in Norfolk, with the rest of the royal family. But this year, there may more absentees than attendees, due to skipped invitations and cancellations. 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