{"id":38835,"date":"2024-12-18T01:26:34","date_gmt":"2024-12-17T22:26:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/?p=38835"},"modified":"2024-12-18T01:26:34","modified_gmt":"2024-12-17T22:26:34","slug":"prince-andrew-to-skip-royal-familys-christmas-celebration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/2024\/12\/18\/prince-andrew-to-skip-royal-familys-christmas-celebration\/","title":{"rendered":"Prince Andrew to Skip Royal Family\u2019s Christmas Celebration"},"content":{"rendered":"<div dir=\"auto\">Prince Andrew, Duke of York, is set to withdraw from the royal family&#8217;s traditional Christmas gathering at Sandringham Estate (eastern England) this year amid controversy surrounding his connections to an alleged Chinese spy.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">According to The Guardian, Andrew, 64, will not attend the celebrations, which are expected to be attended by 45 members of the royal family on Christmas Day. This comes after a High Court hearing revealed a close friendship between the British prince and a Chinese businessman accused of espionage, Yang Tingbo.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">Yang has denied involvement in espionage, claiming he has &#8220;done nothing wrong or illegal&#8221; and that the concerns raised by the Home Office are &#8220;baseless.&#8221;<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">The businessman was reportedly a frequent visitor to the UK and attended events at royal residences, including Andrew&#8217;s birthday party at his home.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">Court documents revealed that Yang was so close to the Duke that he was authorized to act on his behalf in an international financial initiative involving potential partners and investors in China.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">Last week, Andrew\u2019s office stated that he had severed all ties with Yang, whom he met through &#8220;official channels&#8221; without &#8220;ever discussing anything sensitive.&#8221;<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">Sarah, Duchess of York, Andrew\u2019s former wife, will also miss the Christmas celebrations at Sandringham, reportedly as a show of solidarity with her ex-husband.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Prince Andrew, Duke of York, is set to withdraw from the royal family&#8217;s traditional Christmas gathering at Sandringham Estate (eastern England) this year amid controversy surrounding his connections to an alleged Chinese spy. According to The Guardian, Andrew, 64, will not attend the celebrations, which are expected to be attended by 45 members of the &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":38825,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38835","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-international","category-news-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38835","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38835"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38835\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38836,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38835\/revisions\/38836"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/38825"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38835"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38835"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38835"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}