Prince Andrew looks somber as royal family attends VE Day celebrations

Prince Andrew was pictured riding around his Windsor Castle mansion while the rest of the royals joined veterans and crowds to watch a grand military parade and flypast at the start of four days of commemorations marking the 80th anniversary of Victory in Europe (VE) Day. 

"Even the beautiful countryside and adorable horse couldn't coax a grin out of Andrew, who stayed straight-faced on the morning hack," wrote the Mirror. 

Andrew stepped down from royal duties and was stripped of military titles and royal patronages in 2020 by his mother, the late Queen Elizabeth II, due to ongoing questions surrounding his friendship with Jeffrey Epstein. 

"For his horse hack, Andrew stuck close to home in the open land around the Royal Lodge," the article in the Mirror read. 

His last appearance with the royal family for the Easter service elicited a strong response from the anti-monarchy group "Republic". 

His name once again emerged in association with Epstein when Virginia Giuffre, the woman who accused him of sexually assaulting her when she was young, allegedly took her own life last month.

Andrew, once a dashing naval officer who served in the military during the Falklands War with Argentina in the early 1980s, has now become a royal pariah over his friendship with the late U.S. sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.