Prince Andrew joins Charles & Camilla for Easter Sunday service at Windsor – but Kate and William won’t be attending

PRINCE Andrew has joined the King and Queen at Windsor Castle for the traditional Easter Sunday service.

The Duke of York, who has been ushered out of the spotlight for years, has been snapped heading into St George's Chapel this morning.

However, Prince William and Princess Kate are not in attendance –

Instead, the Prince and Princess of Wales will celebrate the occasion with Prince George, 11, Princess Charlotte, nine, and Prince Louis, six, in Norfolk.

A source close to the family previously told The Mirror: “They are choosing to spend time together as a family before the children go.”;

The royal couple too, as Princess Kate was

One – to the surprise of many royal fans – was and Sarah, Duchess of York.

It was the first timehad attended since she divorced Andrew in 1996.

King jokes ‘it's all mirrors'

did a last week to Durham Cathedral for the Maundy Thursday service.

As he met with royal watchers, he joked it was “all mirrors”; when someone said he was looking well.

Pat Johnson, 54, of Jarrow, South Tyneside, attracted Charles's attention after bringing 18-month-old Pembroke corgi called Lilibet to the stand outside the service.

She said afterwards: “He asked if she was friendly and he asked me what her name was.

“I said I named I named her after your mother and said ‘you look well and he said ‘you are very kind but it's all mirrors.'”

Charles, who is continuing to have cancer treatment more than a year after his diagnosis, had earlier saying “love” is the greatest virtue.

The King wrote: “One of the puzzles of our humanity is how we are capable of both great cruelty and great kindness.

“This paradox of human life runs through the Easter story and in the scenes that daily come before our eyes — at one moment, terrible images of human suffering and, in another, heroic acts in war-torn countries where humanitarians of every kind risk their own lives to protect the lives of others.

“There are three virtues that the world still needs — faith, hope and love. “And the greatest of these is love”;.