Prince Andrew attended the funeral of the Duchess of Kent in London hours before the arrival of Donald Trump to Britain.
The Duke of York retreated from public life in November 2019 after a car crash interview with the BBC about his friendship with Jeffrey Epstein , but attended the requiem mass at Westminster Cathedral on Tuesday afternoon.
It is an awkward time for Andrew—Britain's most unpopular royal—to have reminded the country of his role in the family.
Epstein was already casting an awkward shadow over the president's second state visit to the U.K. in the wake of Britain's ambassador to America, Peter Mandelson, being sacked over a fawning message he wrote the New York financier.
And Trump has of course been in the midst of his own backlash, following the publication of