Prince Charles is again positive for coronavirus. He is among the first personalities to have contracted the virus twice, since March 2020. But all eyes are now on Queen Elizabeth II, because she had recently seen her son. So far, she has no symptoms.
Aged 73, the heir to the British Crown tested positive on Thursday morning and isolated himself, his services announced.
On Wednesday evening, the triple-vaccinated prince had attended a large reception at the British Museum in London with his wife Camilla and several hundred people.
Among them are Home Secretary Priti Patel and Chancellor of the Exchequer Rishi Sunak and his wife. None of them wore a mask.
Buckingham accused of lacking transparency
However, Buckingham did not preside over whether Queen Elizabeth II had been tested. Last fall, the palace was criticized for its lack of transparency, after waiting for information to leak to the press to confirm that the queen had spent a night in hospital for “preliminary” examinations, the nature of which has never since been clarified.
But after several canceled official meetings, including a trip to COP26 on the climate, and several weeks of rest, strewn with a few rare public commitments, the queen passed the milestone of 70 years of reign last Sunday, an unprecedented longevity. for the British monarchy. It has also begun a normal resumption of its activities.
Before a ceremony in memory of her late husband Prince Philip on March 29, the Queen is due to attend a diplomatic reception in Windsor on March 2 and a Commonwealth ceremony on March 14.