Prince Andrew left 'depressed' after Garter Day snub and unlikelihood of royal return

 Prince Andrew left 'depressed' after Garter Day snub and unlikelihood of royal return

Prince Andrew would "probably be very, very depressed" if he did not attend the procession of the Order of the Garter.

The scandal-hit Duke of York - who is no longer a member of the royal family after his ties to billionaire pedophile Jeffrey Epstein came to light - attended a luncheon for the event in his role as Royal Knight Companion but was not allowed to attend the event on Monday. , which was attended by members of the Royal Family including the Prince and Princess of Wales and Princess Anne.

Ingrid Seward, 75, editor of Majesty magazine, told GB News when Andrew's absence made headlines that she believed he was "completely lost" but "unable to do anything" because he was lost from the procession to St. George's Chapel in Windsor was excluded.

She added, "Especially to see his whole family stepping up to the force on Saturday while he had done the same a few years earlier."

Andrew resigned as senior royal in 2019 because of his connection to convicted pedophile Epstein, and in 2022 paid an out-of-court settlement with Virginia Roberts, 39, who claims she was forced to have sex with the prince as a teenager. – which he has repeatedly denied.

Ingrid added of Andrew: "He's never known anything but military and king and he's not adaptable, he's not popular and as far as we know he's got nothing. found something else in his life."

"He's really in a golden cage unable to do anything and I feel a bit sorry for him...I think he just doesn't understand what he's done." I feel like he's completely lost, and I'm sure he's probably very, very depressed, especially when he sees his whole family rolling in the (colored) troop on Saturday when it was the same thing a few years ago.

Speaking to Eamonn Holmes and Isabel Webster, Ingrid continued: "Andrew has every right and that's part of his problem. But I think Charles is actually protecting him, because if he came down from the castle to St. - George during the garter ceremony today, he might get booed.

"It wouldn't look good, so you can't see it, but it's still there. It's really up to Andrew to find some sort of life for himself."

Ingrid also advised the Duke to follow the lead of John Profumo, the politician who was involved in one of the biggest sex scandals of the 20th century and later redeemed himself through charity.

She said: "I think he's very unhappy. He lacks the inner resources that others might have, and I always think of the Profumo scandal and how, very, very quietly, John Profumo did a great charity job to redeem himself.