Fears for Queen as Palace REFUSES to say if she has Covid after it’s revealed she met Charles

Fears for the Queen as Palace REFUSES to say if she has Covid after it’s revealed she met Prince Charles two days before he tested positive: Monarch, 95, is being ‘monitored’ but is ‘not displaying symptoms’

Clarence House confirmed today Prince Charles has tested positive for coronavirus and is now self-isolatingThis is the second time the Prince of Wales has tested positive for Covid-19 after contracting it in March 2020Prince met with the Queen, 95, on Tuesday – the same day he also hosted investiture ceremony at WindsorSources refused to confirm whether the Queen tested negative for Covid but she is not showing symptomsThe news comes hours after Charles attended black tie event with Home Secretary and Chancellor last night

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The Prince of Wales met the Queen on Tuesday just two days before he tested positive for Covid-19 and was forced into self-isolation, sources have said.

This is the second time Prince Charles, 73, who is triple jabbed, has tested positive for the coronavirus after contracting the disease in March 2020. 

The Queen, 95, is not showing any symptoms but but the source declined to confirm whether or not the Queen had tested negative.

Her majesty is understood to be fully vaccinated so will not need to self isolate, unless she tests positive. But she will be advised to take rapid lateral flow tests, one a day for seven days. 

Aides said the prince was found to be positive during a test taken this morning as routine before any public engagements – which suggested he was experiencing no strong symptoms – but they declined to go into further details on his medical condition. 

Both he and the Duchess of Cornwall have been taking regular tests before engagements and Clarence House said Camilla, 74, had a negative test on Thursday. Under current Covid rules, although she lives with Charles, Camilla is not required to self-isolate as she is also fully vaccinated.

A spokesman added: ‘The Duchess of Cornwall has routinely tested negative today. She is on a separate series of engagements from the Prince of Wales.’

It is understood the Queen is fully vaccinated, having received her first jab in January 2021 and her second jab in March while sources say it is believed she got her booster jab in October. 

While in the past, Covid rules would have dictated that all those who had come into contact with the prince must self-isolate, it is no longer a requirement.

It comes a day after Boris Johnson announced he plans to axe all virus restrictions in England by the end of the month which would mean even those who have tested positive for the virus will not be required to self-isolate, ‘provided the current encouraging trends in the data continue’.

Downing Street said Boris Johnson hopes the Prince of Wales will make a swift recovery after he tested positive for Covid-19.

A No 10 spokesman said: ‘The Prime Minister would like to wish the Prince of Wales a speedy recovery.’

Currently, people who develop Covid symptoms or test positive must self-isolate for 10 days (or five full days following two negative lateral flow test results).

As well as meeting with his mother on Tuesday, the prince also awarded OBEs to chefs Fergus Henderson, who has Parkinson’s Disease, and his wife Margot as well as an MBE to Dr Nisreen Alwan, who is known for campaigning for more awareness around long covid. 

The Prince of Wales has tested positive for Covid-19 and is self-isolating, Clarence House said. The news came hours after Charles gave a speech at a British Asian Trust event attended by Home Secretary Priti Patel and Chancellor Rishi Sunak

Chefs and married couple Margot and Fergus Henderson, who has Parkinsons, are made OBEs by Prince Charles on Tuesday

The Queen, 95, does not have symptoms and the situation is being monitored. Pictured: The Queen on Monday

Pictured: The Prince of Wales speaks to Home Secretary Priti Patel at an event to celebrate the British Asian Trust last night

The news comes hours after Prince Charles (pictured, left, with Camilla) rubbed shoulders with Priti Patel and Rishi Sunak (pictured right) during a British Asian Trust event being hosted at the British Museum last night, Wednesday, February 9

Two-thirds of Covid cases in England during Omicron wave may have been REINFECTIONS, official data suggests 

 

Two-thirds of people in England who had Covid at the start of 2022 may have been reinfected, official data suggests.

One of the country’s largest surveillance studies — which randomly tested 100,000 people in the fortnight ending January 20 — found 4.4 per cent had the virus.

Imperial College London experts, who carried out the project, said it was the highest rate ever recorded, mirroring other swabbing surveys which showed how Omicron triggered infections to reach pandemic highs.

The team also claimed England’s Covid outbreak was now starting to plateau after the Omicron wave ‘rapidly’ dropped off on its own.

Analysis of the data showed 2,315 (64.6 per cent) of the 3,582 people who tested positive and were asked about whether they had previously had Covid claimed to have been struck down before.

And a further 267 (7.5 per cent) suspected they had caught Covid previously, even though their case was not confirmed with a test at the time.

 

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The Prince of Wales has said he ‘got away with it quite lightly’ when he contracted coronavirus at the beginning of the UK’s epidemic in March.

He spent seven days in self-isolation at his Birkhall home in Scotland before resuming his duties.

The Queen has been active this month, holding public engagements as part of her Platinum Jubilee celebrations.

There were concerns for her health after she was forced to slow down by a back sprain and a doctor’s advice to rest in October and November last year.

Her Majesty, 95, spent a short spell in hospital and was reluctantly told to rest last October after undertaking 19 official engagements that month.

The following month, she also pulled out of Remembrance Sunday ceremonies for the first time since 1999 after spraining her back. 

She resumed in-person engagements on November 17 when she received General Sir Nick Carter, Chief of Defence, at Windsor.

Charles, who is self isolating after contracting coronavirus for a second time, is finding the situation ‘a bit tiresome’, the Duchess of Cornwall revealed.

Camilla, who herself has tested negative, made the remarks on a solo visit to Thames Valley Partnership in Buckinghamshire.

Speaking to Willie Hartley Russell, high sheriff for Berkshire, during a visit to Thames Valley Partnership on Thursday, she said: ‘He’s diagnosed now. Luckily (she’s negative). I’ve taken it so many times.’

He added: ‘It gets a bit pointless, doesn’t it?’ and Camilla agreed.

Afterwards, Mr Hartley Russell said: ‘She said, ‘Yes unfortunately he had tested positive again. I said he must be building up lots of antibodies.

‘She said something like he’s finding it a bit tiresome to have got it again, but she said it in a light-hearted way.’

The news comes hours after Prince Charles and wife Camilla, 74, rubbed shoulders with Home Secretary Priti Patel and Chancellor Rishi Sunak at a British Asian Trust event hosted at the British Museum last night.

Charles, who founded the trust in 2007, told more than 350 guests of the impact of Covid on the region.

Using his pet name for Camilla, the Urdu for ‘darling’, he said: ‘It is almost two years that my Mehabooba and myself were able to be with you. Since then… there has been terrible loss of life.’

Speaking at an event Buckinghamshire today, Camilla said Charles found it ‘tiresome’ to have tested positive for Covid again. Pictured: Duchess of Cornwall visits the Thames Valley Partnership, which works to protect and support victims of crime

Camilla visits the Thames Valley Partnership charity, which works to protect and support victims of crime and to support offenders and their families in the Criminal Justice System, interventions which support those affected by domestic abuse

Pictured: Camilla, who tested negative today, speaks to people as she attends the opening of the charity and community Kitchen “Nourish Hun”, created to fight against social isolation and loneliness, in west London on February 10, 2022

The Prince of Wales gave the keynote speech at the event which was attended by more than 350 guests including Health Secretary Sajid Javid.

The Trust was founded by Charles in 2007 alongside British-Asian business leaders to ‘support the development of a South Asia that maximises the potential of its people and that is free from inequality and injustice’.

Before his speech, Charles and Camilla greeted supporters and ambassadors of the BAT in the museum’s Egyptian Gallery.

They first spoke with Mr Sunak and Ms Patel before the four posed for photos.

The duchess later thanked ambassadors Neev Spencer and Ritula Shah as they congratulated her after the Queen’s announcement that she would become Queen Consort.

Hitan Mehta, executive director of the trust, said that it was ‘amazing’ to be able to host the royal couple at the reception after it was not held last year due to the pandemic.

The development comes just days after the Queen marked her Platinum Jubilee by expressing her ‘sincere wish’ that the Duchess of Cornwall would be Queen Camilla at Charles’s side when he is one day King.

Meanwhile, the Duchess of Cornwall has been photographed visiting Paddington Haven, a sexual assault referral centre in London today. Under Covid rules, you are no longer required to self-isolate if someone from your household tests positive as long as you are fully vaccinated. 

Before his speech, Charles and Camilla greeted supporters and ambassadors of the BAT in the museum’s Egyptian Gallery

Priti Patel, Rishi Sunak and his wife Akshata Murthy, the Duchess of Cornwall and Prince Charles pose with guests at the event

Filmmaker Gurinder Chadha made the Prince of Wales laugh when they met at last night’s glitzy reception in central London

Pictured: Prince Charles chatted to Priti Patel, who was among the 350 guests invited to the bash at the British Museum

Pictured: Disappointed members of the public waiting by the statue of Licoricia of Winchester at The Arc in Winchester which was meant to be unveiled by the Prince of Wales but who could not attend as he tested positive for Covid and is self-isolating

In place of Prince Charles, Lord-Lieutenant Hampshire Nigel Atkinson unveils the statue of Licoricia of Winchester at The Arc

At the centre in West London, she met with staff as well as the Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan, and spoke with former Love Island star Zara McDermott who discussed her experience of revenge porn and assault. 

In December, both Prince Charles and Camilla confirmed they had received their booster jabs as they urged those who are unvaccinated to get their injections as soon as possible.

It is understood the couple received their first vaccine in February last year and had their boosters in November.

‘To all those who have not yet had the vaccine – or are hesitating before getting a booster – we can only urge you to look at the evidence in our intensive care wards and listen to those who work there,’ they said.

They added: ‘We urge everyone to get vaccinated and to take up the booster, as we have done ourselves.’

Charles’s son Prince William also contracted COVID shortly after his father in 2020, with media reports saying he had been hit pretty badly by the virus. It is believed the Duke of Cambridge kept his illness private so not to alarm the public.

Camilla shakes hands with staff as she visits the clinic Paddington Haven, a sexual assault referral centre in London today

Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall (R) shakes hands with Mayor of London Sadiq Khan (L) at the clinic Paddington Haven

Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall with (from L) chair of the National Sexual Abuse and Assault Services Laura Currer, Love Island star Zara McDermott and Nicola, a sexual assault survivor, at Paddington Haven, a sexual assault referral centre today

Licorica: The Jewish moneylender who bankrolled three kings 

The statue of Licoricia of Winchester at The Arc in Winchester

Licoricia of Winchester was a 13th-century Jewish English businesswoman who was described by historian Robert Stacey as ‘the most important Jewish woman in Medieval England’.

The single mother’s wealth had helped to fund the building of Westminster Abbey, as well as bankrolling three English kings.

Despite the increasingly hostile and punitive treatment of Jews in the 1200s, Licoricia advanced through the use of her excellent business acumen and marriage.

Her exact birth date is not known but she first appears in records around 1234 where she was referred to as a young widow with three children.

In 1242, she married her second husband – David of Oxford – with whom she had her fourth child. David was known as the richest Jew in England and died two years later.

Over the next 30 years, Licoricia became a highly influential business woman, financing people across Southern England. 

The statue, by sculptor Ian Rank-Broadley, shows Licoricia holding hands with her younger son. 

In 1277, the prominent Jewish businesswoman Licoricia of Winchester was found by her daughter, murdered, stabbed to death in her own house.

Alongside Licoricia’s body was that of her Christian maid, Alice.

No one was ever convicted of killing her. 

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The Prince of Wales will now go into self-isolation for 10 days and has cancelled his scheduled engagements.

He had been due to unveil a statue of Licoricia of Winchester today before attending a civic reception at The Great Hall.

The announcement of the prince’s positive test was made just after midday, around 12 minutes before Charles was due to arrive in Winchester on the visit to celebrate the Queen’s Platinum Jubilee.

Aides were only informed a few moments before.

More than 1,000 people were gathered behind barriers in the city’s Jewry Street, waiting to see the prince unveil a new statue of Licoricia of Winchester, a prominent Jewish moneylender who was murdered in 1277 during a period of antisemitism in the reign of Edward I that culminated in the expulsion of Jews from England in 1290.

The Queen’s representative in Hampshire, the Lord Lieutenant Nigel Atkinson, told the crowd, who groaned with disappointment when he relayed the news.

Standing at the microphone, the Lord Lieutenant told the crowd: ‘As Her Majesty’s Lord Lieutenant of Hampshire, I’m afraid I have some very disappointing news for you. His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales has tested positive for Covid a few minutes ago and will therefore be unable to join us today.

‘However, I do send my very best wishes on behalf of Hampshire to His Royal Highness and hope that he improved soon.’

The Lord Lieutenant, in ceremonial uniform, then read out a message from the prince.

Charles’s message said: ‘Ladies and gentlemen, I am so sorry that I cannot be with you today. I am desperately disappointed as I was so looking forward to marking this historic occasion with you.

‘I hope very much that I will be able to visit at a future time but for today please accept my most heartfelt apologies and my very best wishes as you mark this memorable occasion for Winchester.’

Charles wanted to be there as a symbol of his commitment to religious tolerance in modern Britain. His personal record of support for religious and ethnic minorities has been cited against the Duke and Duchess of Sussex’s claims of racism inside the royal family.

The statue, by sculptor Ian Rank-Broadley, shows Licoricia holding hands with her younger son. The moneylender was murdered in 1277 but no one was ever convicted. 

After the announcement, the Prince’s personal security staff fanned out into the crowd to express his sorrow for having to cancel his visit at such late notice.

Later, in a public statement, the Prince said he was ‘deeply disappointed’ before pledging to visit the city soon.

In the wake of the Prince’s sudden isolation, Lord-Lieutenant of Hampshire, Nigel Atkinson stepped into his shoes and unveiled the life-sized bronze statue. The statue was then blessed by Chief Rabbi Ephraim Mirvis.

There has been no immediate comment on Charles’ condition. 

Covid reinfections – where someone tests positive for Covid-19 more than 90 days after a previous positive result – currently represent around 10 per cent of daily cases in England.

Of the 14.8 million infection episodes in England since the start of the pandemic, some 588,114 (4.0%) are likely reinfections.

Paul Hunter, professor of medicine at the University of East Anglia, told the PA news agency: ‘Reinfections were always going to become a big feature of Covid.

‘The other human coronaviruses cause reinfections throughout life and this will most likely be the case with Covid.’

A reinfection is defined as someone who tests positive for Covid-19 more than 90 days after a previous positive result.

Any positive tests within 90 days of a previous one are counted as part of the same ‘infection episode’.

Covid reinfections currently represent around 10% of daily cases in England, though Prof Hunter said that ‘this is likely to be a big underestimate as, if reinfections are generally mild, they are less likely to be identified’.

He went on to say: ‘Sometimes reinfections occur because of the appearance of new escape variants that can bypass existing immunity to a degree and sometimes it may be just because immunity is waning.

‘The recent emergence of the Omicron variant has substantially increased the chances of reinfection compared to what we saw with Delta.

‘But in general we can expect reinfections to be less severe than primary infection though not always.’

Of the 14.8 million infection episodes in England since the start of the pandemic, some 588,114 (4.0%) are likely reinfections.

According to analysis by the Office for National Statistics, the risk of reinfection was 16 times higher when Omicron was the dominant strain, compared with the period when Delta was dominant.

Unvaccinated people were twice as likely to be reinfected than those who had their second vaccine dose in the previous 14 to 89 days, the study found.

Pictured: The Lord Lieutenant of Hampshire, Nigel Atkinson, helps unveil a statue of Licoricia of Winchester at The Arc in Winchester after the Prince of Wales who was due to unveil it has tested positive for Covid-19 and is now self-isolating

Pictured: The Lord Lieutenant of Hampshire, Nigel Atkinson, helps unveil a statue of Licoricia of Winchester at The Arc in Winchester after the Prince of Wales who was due to unveil it has tested positive for Covid-19 and is now self-isolating

A plaque on the statue of Licoricia of Winchester at The Arc in Winchester which was meant to be unveiled by Prince Charles

Timeline: Prince Charles’ movements in February

 February 1st: Lunar New Year in China Town and exhibition in Mayfair

The Prince of Wales and The Duchess of Cornwall visited Chinatown, London, to mark Lunar New Year and were received by Mr. Kevin Traverse-Healy (Deputy Lieutenant of Greater London).

Charles then visited Irina Bradley’s Metamorphosis Icon Exhibition in Mayfair. .

The Prince of Wales and the Duchess of Cornwal  donned  red scarves to celebrate Lunar New Year in Chinatown 

Prince Charles, 73, headed to the Catholic Church of the Immaculate Conception in central London this evening, where he visited the Iconographer Dr Irina Bradley’s ‘Metamorphosis’ Icon exhibition

 February 2nd: Trip to Kent

Charles and Camilla visited Sheppey Matters and were received by Her Majesty’s Lord-Lieutenant of Kent (the Lady Colgrain).

The Prince of Wales then visited Elmley National Nature Reserve, Elmley, Minster on Sea, Isle of Sheppey, and was received by Mr. Philip Merricks (Deputy Lieutenant of Kent).

His Royal Highness, Patron, the Chatham Historic Dockyard Trust, afterwards visited the Historic Dockyard Chatham and the Copper Rivet Distillery. 

Prince Charles visits the Sheppey Matters charity at Sheerness Healthy Living Centre

February 3rd: Visited Future Textiles Project with Camilla and Kate 

Charles was joined by The Duchess of Cornwall, and The Duchess of Cambridge to visit the Future Textiles Project at Trinity Buoy Wharf.

In this role as President of  the National Trust for Places of Historic Interest or Natural Beauty he later received Mrs. Hilary McGrady (Director General) and Mr. René Olivieri upon assuming his appointment as Chairman.

The same day, in his role as Patron of the Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies, he received Dr. Farhan Nizami (Director).

His Royal Highness afterwards received the Rt. Hon. Priti Patel, MP (Secretary of State for the Home Department).

He then held a Meeting at Clarence House for the Sustainable Markets Initiative.

The Duchess of Cambridge looked elegant as she joined Prince Charles and the Duchess of Cornwall

 February 8th: Investiture at Windsor Castle and meeting with Keir Starmer

On behalf of The Queen Charles held an Investiture at Windsor Castle on Tuesday.

He then met with Sir Keir Starmer MP.

Later, he received Admiral Sir Antony Radakin upon assuming his appointment as Chief of the Defence Staff.

Chefs Margot and Fergus Henderson from London are made OBEs by the Prince of Wales at Windsor Castle on February 8

The Prince of Wales, Royal Founding Patron, the Professional Teaching Institute, in the evening attended a Dinner at St. James’s Palace. 

 February 9th: Visit to National Gallery and British Asian Trust dinner at British Museum with Camilla, Rishi Sunak and Priti Patel

In his role as Patron, Charles visited the National Gallery One Accommodation Hub, Trafalgar Square and was received by Mr. Kevin Traverse-Healy (Deputy Lieutenant of Greater London). 

In the evening, Prince Charles and the Duchess of Cornwall attended a British Asian Trust event – their first joint engagement since the announcement that the Duchess will become Queen Consort. 

Charles, 73, called his wife ‘my Mehbooba’, which means ‘my beloved’ or ‘my darling’ in Urdu, in an address to 350 guests at the British Museum including Chancellor Rishi Sunak, Home Secretary Priti Patel and Health Secretary Sajid Javid.

He said: ‘I cannot quite believe it is almost two years to the day that both my mehbooba and myself were able to be with all of you to celebrate the work of the British Asian Trust. 

‘Since then, across the globe, there has been terrible loss of life from this dreadful pandemic and we have especially seen the devastating impact throughout south Asia.’

The black tie bash at the British Museum marked Charles and Camilla’s first joint appearance since the Queen announced her desire for Camilla to be given the title Queen Consort when Prince Charles ascends the throne. 

Other guests included former Liverpool and Wales footballer Ian Rush, TOWIE’s Jasmine Walia, DJ Naughty Boy and film director Gurinder Chadha.

Prince Charles founded the British Asian Trust in 2007 to tackle widespread poverty, inequality and injustice in South Asia. 

They were joined at the event by Rishi Sunak and his wife Akshata Murthy, pictured together left, and Priti Patel

Prince Charles chatted to Rishi Sunak and his wife Akshata Murthy, whose father is an Indian billionaire, at the event

 

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Which members of the royal family have tested positive for Covid-19? 

The Queen, Prince Harry, Princess Anne and The Duchesses of Cornwall, Cambridge and Sussex have never publicly shared results of a positive Covid test. Of the Queen’s children, grandchildren and their partners only Prince Charles, Prince William and Sir Timothy Laurence are the only that are believed to have contracted Covid-19.

Prince Charles: March 2020

In 2020, Charles was last seen with the Queen on March 9 before contracting Covid. He saw her again on March 12 – 24 hours before his doctor claims he became contagious. Her Majesty did not test postivie

The Prince of Wales has tested positive for Covid-19 the second time, after he first tested positive in March 2020.

 In March 2020, Charles said he has a ‘mild’ form of the illness, after contracting it while on the Balmoral estate with his wife Camilla, the Duchess of Cornwall.

Camilla tested negative and is without any symptoms of the virus.

The Queen and Prince Philip, who died in April 2021, had left the Scottish estate and headed to Windsor Castle.  A royal source said at the time Charles’ doctor’s most conservative estimate was that the prince was contagious on March 13 – 24 hours after ‘briefly’ meeting  the Queen.

A Buckingham Palace spokesman said: ‘Her Majesty remains in good health. The Queen is following all the appropriate advice with regard to her welfare’.

Prince William: April 2020

Prince William, Duke of Cambridge and Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge wear face masks during a visit to Beigel Bake Brick Lane Bakery on September 15, 2020 in London

Prince William secretly battled coronavirus in April 2020 – days after his father Prince Charles contracted it – and was left ‘struggling to breathe’.

The Duke of Cambridge, 39, is believed to have kept his illness private so not to alarm the public which were then confronted with a spiralling number of daily deaths. The news emerged he had fought the virus in November 2020.

He caught the virus in the darkest days of the pandemic after the Prince of Wales and Boris Johnson fell ill.

At the time up to a thousand Britons were dying of Covid-19 each day and there had been more than 50,000 cases.

The Duke was treated by palace physicians and quarantined at the family home of Anmer Hall in Norfolk. His wife Kate, Duchess of Cambridge, did not fall ill or test positive for the virus, it is understood.

That month, William continued working and made 14 telephone and video calls despite sources revealing he was rocked by the disease.

 Sir Timothy Laurence

Princess Anne and husband Sir Timothy Laurence, pictured at Prince Harry and Meghan Markle’s wedding at Windsor Castle in May 2018. Sir Timothy has contracted Covid-19

 

Princess Anne’s husband Vice Admiral Sir Timothy Laurence tested postive for Covid in December 2021 – meaning the couple missed out on Christmas Day with the Queen   

MailOnline confirmed that the 66-year-old retired Royal Navy Vice Admiral was recovering from the virus at the Gatcombe Park estate he shares with the Princess Royal. 

Aides said Anne is also isolating at the estate in Gloucestershire but did not test positive.

 The insider said: ‘It’s true, Covid is unfortunately on the estate. It means therefore that those in the Royal Household are having to isolate for the time being.’

Anne’s daughter Zara Tindall and her husband Mike Tindall also live on the estate with their three children, but are believed to have remained virus free.

Peter Phillips, Anne’s son, and his ex-partner Autumn Phillips also live on the estate with their children. 

 

 

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