King Charles is blue that Sarah Ferguson will skip the royal family's Christmas celebration amid Prince Andrew's Chinese spy scandal. "This will be a blow for Fergie," royal correspondent Jennie Bond told an outlet.

Speaking on Mail+'s "Palace Confidential," royal editor Rebecca English explained, " Sarah, the Duchess of York has literally saved Christmas for the Royal Family." English also noted, "If it hadn't have been for his ex-wife having a quiet word in his ear," then the holiday season could have been pretty disastrous.

In a revealing interview alongside her older sister Jane Luedecke for The Sunday Times, Ferguson said of her ex-husband the Duke of York — whom she married in 1986 and divorced 10 years later — “I was totally and utterly in love with Andrew.”

Prince Andrew has been spotted amid staying away from the Royal Family's Christmas celebrations in Sandringham after becoming embroiled in a scandal involving an alleged Chinese spy

Britain's King Charles and members of the royal family attended a Christmas day service on Wednesday (December 25) at St. Mary Magdalene's church on the Sandringham estate. Scandal-hit Prince Andrew was notably absent.

Prince Andrew, Duke of York reacts as he arrives at St. George's Chapel, Windsor Castle, to attend the Easter Mattins Service, on March 31, 2024 Prince Andrew didn't join the royal family's traditional Christmas celebrations at Sandringham amid another scandal.