{"id":364911,"date":"2026-04-05T13:21:12","date_gmt":"2026-04-05T13:21:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/364911\/"},"modified":"2026-04-05T13:21:12","modified_gmt":"2026-04-05T13:21:12","slug":"duchess-sophie-ditches-royal-family-easter-service-last-minute-heres-why","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/364911\/","title":{"rendered":"Duchess Sophie ditches royal family Easter service last minute: Here’s why"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Duchess<\/p>\n

King Charles led the members of the royal family at St George\u2019s Chapel for Easter Sunday service, but a beloved member was notably missing from the gathering.<\/p>\n

The Prince and Princess of Wales attended with their children after skipping the service for two years. Princess Anne and her husband were also present along with Peter Philips, his two daughter and wife-to-be Harriet Sperling.<\/p>\n

However, Prince Edward and his son James, Earl of Wessex, seemed a little lonely without Duchess Sophie and Lady Louise Windsor.<\/p>\n

Fans were quick to notice and expressed worry over why the mother and daughter were absent from the key royal event.<\/p>\n

As the fans began to flood social media with queries, royal editor Rebecca English revealed that while Sophie was to attend the service, she was feeling \u201cunder the weather\u201d. As for Lady Louise, she is still at university at St Andrews, \u201cbusy with her studies.<\/p>\n

Royal fans quickly expressed their concerns about how Sophie has been taking on back-to-back engagements in the past few weeks and how she must have been feeling exhausted.<\/p>\n

\u201cAw, shes been working a lot. Hope she feels better soon,\u201d on user wrote on X.<\/p>\n

\u201cOur super Sophie is always on the go. She deserves some rest. Hope she feels better soon,\u201d said another. \u201cShe\u2019s a busy bee and deserves to rest today.\u201d<\/p>\n

While another well-wisher said, \u201cSending much love and a happy Easter to our beloved Duchess of Edinburgh, and hoping she’ll recover soon.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"King Charles led the members of the royal family at St George\u2019s Chapel for Easter Sunday service, but…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":364912,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[430,156,111,139,69],"class_list":["post-364911","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-celebrities","tag-entertainment","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/364911","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=364911"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/364911\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/364912"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=364911"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=364911"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=364911"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}