After a year from hell, the royal family is facing one last PR hurdle – and there has never been so much riding on the annual 464-metre pilgrimage.
While it has been suggested that Andrew might travel to church in the car with his mother, his presence in any form could pose an inherent risks on a couple of fronts. Firstly that Andrew’s exile will seem like nothing more than a superficial slap on the wrist and thus rile up an already fractious public., palace officials have their ties in a twist over fears that sex abuse protesters might join the throng of the hundreds of royal fans who line the path to catch a glimpse of the HRHs.
Fast forward to last year, when the walk became an exercise in damage control and to quash pesky rumours that Kate, Duchess of Cambridge and Meghan, Duchess of SussexThis year, the Sussexes will be conspicuously absent, having previously announced they would be spending the holidays elsewhere.
Shots of the impish, adorable duo accompanying their parents could go a very long way towards making the public temporarily forget about any of those pesky Andrew and Sussex predicaments. The fact is, after a year that has seen the royal family battered and pummelled with a series of escalating PR controversies and crises, there is so much riding on this simple church walk.
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