Andrew and Fergie face a royal freeze at Xmas

King’s snub after Sarah's Epstein scandal

- BY ANDY LINES Chief Reporter

THE King has signalled that Prince Andrew and Sarah Ferguson will not be welcome at the Royal Family's traditional Christmas celebrations.

It comes after it emerged the Duchess of York had kept in contact with convicted paedophile Jeffrey Epstein after publicly denouncing him in 2011.

Andrew stayed away from the royals’ festive celebrations last year after his links to alleged Chinese spy Yang Tengbo emerged.

A source said: “You can't really sack someone from being your brother.