Beatrice to join King Charles for Christmas at Sandringham in ‘change of plans’ after Andrew pulled out over spy scandal
PRINCESS Beatrice will join King Charles and the royal family at Sandringham this Christmas.
Beatrice and husband Edoardo Mapelli Mozzi, who are expecting their second child, will be joining in on the royal festivities in a "change of plans" after Andrew pulled out.
The couple were planning on spending the holiday season overseas with the Edoardo's family.
But it is understood she received medical advice which suggested she was not to travel long distances.
The royal baby, due in spring, will be a little brother or sister for the couple’s three-year-old daughter Sienna.
Beatrice and her husband also help raise his son, eight-year-old Wolfie.
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Her sister Princess Eugenie and her family are planning on spending Christmas with her in-laws.
A large number of royals will be guests of the King and Queen at Sandringham on Christmas Day.
The Prince of Wales revealed recently 45 people will be “all in one room” at the royal residence.
However, Kate and Wills are understood to be skipping the Sandringham do.
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It comes as it was revealed Andrew won't be joining the Royal Family after his "close confidant" Chinese "spy" was unmasked.
The Duke of York decided to give the celebrations a miss this year.
It is understood his ex-wife Sarah, Duchess of York, has also dropped out from the Norfolk festivities.
The pair are said to be staying at Royal Lodge, in Windsor, for the period instead.
The Sun also exclusively revealed insiders urged Andrew to "uninvite himself" from the family's pre-Christmas bash.
He is due to attend the lunch at Buckingham Palace this Thursday - six days before the Sandringham do - but a source said: “He is under pressure to step away.”
The pair are said to be staying at Royal Lodge, in Windsor, for the period instead.
An insider said it's hard to see the duke out in "public with the royals ever again".
They said: "I find it hard to imagine he will ever join them again in public, if I’m honest.
"There’s only so many times the duke can be asked to keep his head down and wait for the storm to pass. Enough is enough."
It comes as a suspected Chinese spy who was friends with Andrew has been unmasked for the first time.
Yang Tengbo, 50 - who is understood to have been a "close confidante" of the Duke of York - can be named after a court anonymity ban was lifted this afternoon.
During a tribunal hearing, judges concluded Yang had not been honest about his links to the Chinese state and could exploit his relationship with the duke and other public figures.
The former chairman of Hampton Group had been in the country for two decades.
Photos show him posing alongside ex-Prime Ministers David Cameron and Theresa May, as well as the royal.
He was even invited to Andrew's birthday party in 2020 and supported him through his recent scandals.
But the suspected spy subsequently lost an appeal against a decision to ban him from the UK on national security grounds.
He was stopped by counter-terrorism services in 2021 and ordered to surrender his devices.
Court documents said Yang had split his time between China and the UK and told officials he considered this country his second home.
In February last year, he was “off-boarded” from a flight from Beijing to London and told the home secretary was in the process of examining the case to exclude him from the UK.
Inside Prince Andrew's 'crumbling' Royal Lodge
THE disgraced Duke of York resides at the £30million Royal Lodge in Windsor Great Park, Berkshire - at least for now.
King Charles has redoubled his efforts to evict the Duke - with insiders branding the stand-off the "siege of Royal Lodge".
Despite his divorce from Sarah Ferguson in 1996, Prince Andrew lives with his ex-wife at the countryside estate.
Prince Andrew's royal residence, with its eye-catching white exterior, boasts 30 rooms with plenty of space for entertaining, plus seven bedrooms spread across the two topmost floors.
The Duke of York is said to spend all day "watching TV in a dark room" like a prisoner at his "crumbling" home.
Royal Lodge is said to "need extensive repairs", thought to be about £400,000 a year.
The monarch is said to be becoming increasingly frustrated at Andrew’s refusal to care for the colossal mansion.
Andrew is said to have promised he would take care of its expensive repairs - despite having no apparent source of income.
That order was made the following month, with his appeal against the decision rejected last week by a special immigration appeals tribunal.
Judges concluded Yang had not been honest about his links to the Chinese state and could exploit his relationship with the duke and other public figures.
Guy Vassall-Adams KC, for Yang, told the High Court: "There has been an enormous amount of media reporting in relation to this story, and particularly in relation to the relationship between my client, H6, and Prince Andrew, as well as a huge amount of speculation about the identity of my client."
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Yang said he has “done nothing wrong or unlawful”, adding in a statement that the “widespread description of me as a ‘spy’ is entirely untrue”.
It comes after the Sun reported last week a foreign agent knew how to sneak people in and out of the duke's Royal Lodge home.
