Julie Andrews was photographed during a rare public outing in Sag Harbor, New York, last Friday, just weeks after the Hollywood legend turned 91.
In the photos, Andrews wore a purple raincoat, a white baseball cap and pink sunglasses as an unidentified woman helped her out of a car.
A source told The Daily Mail that Andrews largely keeps to herself these days, preferring to stay at her Sag Harbor home and tend to her garden. “Sometimes she is seen in town meeting someone for tea, she is spotted here and there, and is always impeccably dressed with full makeup on and tasteful gold jewelry — no sweat outfits for her — but the sightings are rare,” the source said.
The appearance comes a few months after Andrews told The Hollywood Reporter that she is stepping back from on-camera work and will not appear in a third “Princess Diaries” film. She said she still enjoys “working on things” but no longer sees herself in front of a camera.
“I think the absolute truth is that I think I’m really past all that now,” Andrews said. “I’m not completely retired, but it’s a different kind of work that I do these days — [writing] books, and I do a lot of recording of podcasts and voiceovers. But truly, I don’t think I should be a part of it.”
Andrews played Queen Clarisse Renaldi in the first two “Princess Diaries” films, released in 2001 and 2004. In the sequel, her on-screen granddaughter Mia Thermopolis, played by Anne Hathaway, took over as Queen of Genovia after Clarisse’s retirement.
“I think the story is slightly different, and I’m not quite sure how they’re dealing with that,” Andrews told Today in August. “But it’s too late for me to do it. I think the story has to continue in Princess Mia. It’s her story. It’s not really mine.”
Andrews rose to fame as a child prodigy known for her four-octave singing range, later building a prominent Broadway and film career. Her first major film role was in 1964’s “Mary Poppins,” which earned her an Academy Award nomination for best actress, followed by 1965’s “The Sound of Music.”
In her 2019 memoir, “Home Work,” Andrews wrote of the “Mary Poppins” production: “In retrospect, I could not have asked for a better introduction to film, in that it taught me so much in such a short period of time. The special effects and animation challenges alone were a steep learning curve, the likes of which I would never experience again.”
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