The Duke of York avoided a fall from his horse after it appeared frightened

Prince Andrew was in for a bumpy ride while hiking around the grounds of Windsor Castle.

On November 18, the Duke of York, 64, was photographed in Windsor, where his horse was apparently spooked. The dramatic photos show the black horse raising its head and Prince Andrew pulling on the reins while in the stirrups, reacting to subdue the animal.

King Charles“After a few nerve-wracking minutes, the younger brother then managed to regain control of the horse and continued on his way, the Daily Mail report of the morning excursion. He traveled to Windsor after learning earlier this week that two masked intruders broke into farm buildings on the estate in October, while Prince William, Kate Middleton and their children would have slept in their neighboring house.

The passion for horses and equestrian sports seems to be rooted in the royal family, with Queen Elizabeth rise up to the summer before his death in September 2022 at the age of 96. It was known that the late Queen and Prince Andrew went horseback riding together, and they I went horse riding days after stepping down from royal duties in 2019 following his BBC bombshell Newsnight interview.

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In November 2019, Newsnight filmed and aired an explosive interview with Andrew about his relationship with a convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein and allegations that he had sexual relations with Virginie Roberts Giuffre when she was 17. Epstein died in prison while awaiting federal sex trafficking charges in August 2019, and the Queen’s son sat down with Newsnight presenter Emily Maitlis several months later.

Prince Andrew has repeatedly denied any wrongdoing and announced his withdrawal from royal duties days after the explosive interview aired. The royal said he continued to “unequivocally regret my misguided association with Jeffrey Epstein” in the official statement announcing its withdrawal.

The transition was made official when Queen Elizabeth stripped Andrew of his military titles and patronages in January 2022 in the middle of Giuffre civil suit for sexual assault. Giuffree alleged in the litigation that she was trafficked by Epstein and forced to have sex with the Duke of York on three occasions between 1999 and 2002, when she was a teenager. An amicable settlement for an undisclosed amount was reached the following month.

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Prince Andrew’s scandal has since inspired two fictionalized television versions. The Netflix movie Scoopwith Rufus Sewell like Andrew and Gillian Anderson like Maitlis, launched in April, and the Amazon Prime series A very royal scandalstarring Michael Sheen as the Duke of York and Ruth Wilson as Maitlis, premiered in September.

“It started out as, in a sense, a non-story, and then it became the biggest story in the world,” said Sam McAlister, lead producer behind the film. Newsnight interview, including 2022 memoir, Spoonsinspired the Netflix film, previously told PEOPLE.

“We’re still talking about it years later, and I’m sure we’ll still be talking about it for generations to come, in terms of its journalistic and royal significance,” she said.

Although Andrew is no longer a working royal, he has joined his family at events such as Queen Elizabeth’s state funeral in September 2022, King Charles’ coronation and Queen Camille in May 2023 and more recently, the royal family church exit at Easter.

On this holiday, which this year fell on March 31, the Duke of York attended the Easter Morning service at St. George’s Chapel at Windsor Castle. He joined King Charles, 76, Queen Camilla, 77, his ex-wife Sarah Fergusonhis sister Princess Anne and her husband, Vice-Admiral Sir Timothy Laurencehis brother Prince Edward and Edward’s wife Sophie, Duchess of Edinburgh.

It was a reduced contingent, without the Prince and Princess of Wales and their children, as Princess Kate had announced a few days earlier. undergo treatment for cancer.

Princess Kate, 42, shared on September 9 that she chemotherapy completed and appeared to him first ceremonies around Remembrance Sunday.

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Prince Andrew did not join the royal family at the Festival of Remembrance on November 9 or at the Cenotaph service on November 10, Remembrance Sunday, as he no longer holds a professional role within the royal family.