Royal family has seemingly avoided reunion with Andrew and Sarah Ferguson at Princess Beatrice’s daughter Athena’s Christening.

The Princess of York reportedly invited members of the royal family to celebrate the tradition.

However, the royals appeared less excited to meet Andrew and Fergie, who broke the cover and attended the event to give their blessings to their granddaughter.

The royals’ reception towards Andrew and Fergie was noticeably muted as no senior royals were seen joining them amid media scrutiny.

Undoubtedly, the event – which is Andrew’s first royal family event since his princely title was stripped – maked emotional breakthrough for Andrew and Fergie.

It ended their isolation and set the stage for more joyful family moments ahead, just in time for a festive Christmas reunion with King Charles and the royals.

Along with their parents, Beatrice invited some of her royal friends at the Chapel Royal at St. James’s Palace on Friday, Decemeber 12.

Princess Nina of Greece and Denmark and Beatrice’s friend, celebrity nutritionist Gabriela Peacock, were also sent the invitation to join Beatrice and her family.

Beatrice and Eugenie’s parents, who were allowed to attend the Duchess of Kent’s Requiem Mass service in September, were not invited to Princess Kate’s last week’s “Together at Christmas” Carol Service.

The royal sister were also missed the event, but released a statement to support the future queen and her event.

Friday’s outing is Andrew and Fergie’s first event with members of the royal family since the King stripped his younger brother of his princely title and honours amid renewed scrutiny around the extent of the former couple’s links to the late Jeffrey Epstein.

Athena, 10 months, is Princess Beatrice and Edoardo Mapelli Mozzi’s second child together. The baby was born prematurely in January.

Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) Chairman Bilawal Bhutto-Zardari on Friday thanked Punjab Chief Minister Maryam Nawaz Sharif for what he called a “warm welcome and positive gesture” after she publicly greeted him on his visit to Punjab.

Responding to a post on X by Maryam, Bilawal wrote: “Thank you, Madam Chief Minister, for the warm welcome and positive gesture.” 

In her message, Maryam had said: “I extend a warm welcome to @BBhuttoZardari on his visit to Punjab. Punjab is your home, and you will always find a place of respect here.”

“Thank you for your gracious remarks. You have my heartfelt good wishes and prayers,” she added.

In October, Maryam had asserted that her government had neither complained nor sought help from anyone for assisting flood-affected citizens, saying that Punjab would handle the crisis through its own resources. 

“I did not stretch my hands before anyone. I have protected the self-respect of Punjab’s people,” she said, in an apparent reference to Bilawal’s appeal to the Centre to seek international assistance for flood victims.

Earlier in September, the PPP chief had criticised the “delay” in initiating this process, calling it “beyond comprehension” and pointing out that such appeals were standard practice for disasters of this scale internationally. 

He noted that similar steps had been taken for the last floods when he was foreign minister, as well as for the 2010 floods and the 2005 earthquake.

The two key allies were subsequently engaged in a searing war of words that began over flood compensation through the Benazir Income Support Programme (BISP). 

The verbal bickering later subsided after the Pakistan Muslim League – Nawaz (PML-N) scrambled a delegation comprising Deputy Prime Minister Ishaq Dar, Interior Minister Mohsin Naqvi and National Assembly Speaker Ayaz Sadiq, who met President Asif Ali Zardari in Nawabshah.

Taylor Swift opens her new Disney+ docuseries The End of an Era with a message to the performers who joined her on the Eras tour.

Just before the final show in Vancouver, she tells them, “We have done something that no one has ever done,” adding, “We have performed for over 10 million people, in person… We performed for 10 million plus people.”

Swift reflects on how each member of her team found their path. “I think about every single one of you as a little kid… Every single one of us has picked professions that categorically people tell you [that] you should do it.”

The six-part series, previewed earlier this week in New York with Disney Entertainment co-chair Dana Walden, gives fans a close look at the tour’s creative and emotional center.

Alongside the premiere, Disney+ also released Taylor Swift: The Eras Tour, The Final Show, the post-Tortured Poets cut of her concert film.

Swift explains that the concept for the Eras tour emerged two years before launch, inspired by “unpleasant” events: the sale of her catalog and the decision to rerecord her early albums, paired with the isolation of the pandemic.

With rehearsals under way, she aimed to “over-serve” fans with the scale and scope of the show. “What if I did a tour that celebrated all of these different moments in my life and career?” she recalls.

The series also covers the tour announcement on Good Morning America and the ensuing Ticketmaster chaos, before shifting to more serious moments.

“Never in my life did I think we would have a terrorist plot,” Swift says of the canceled Vienna dates after an attack plan was uncovered. She breaks down when describing the Liverpool stabbing at a Swift-themed event: the victims were children.

The episodes also follow Swift’s first call with fiancé Travis Kelce after Vienna, her reunion with Ed Sheeran in London, and her secret preparation of The Tortured Poets Department set. She credits Emma Stone for linking her with choreographer Mandy Moore.

Fan-favourite dancer Kameron Saunders receives a spotlight as he prepares “Florida!!!” with Florence Welch. 

New episodes release weekly on Disney+.