Queen takes on first engagements after Covid scare

Audiences at Buckingham Palace
The Queen appears on a screen via videolink from Windsor Castle
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Josh Salisbury15 February 2022

The Queen has carried out her first official engagements since she faced a Covid scare.

The 95-year-old monarch held virtual audiences from Windsor Castle on Tuesday.

She was pictured greeting the Estonian ambassador who spoke to the monarch via video-link from Buckingham Palace.

Also, her majesty received the Spanish ambassador over video-link.

It comes after Prince Charles tested positive for Covid last week for the second time, having met the Queen earlier in the week.

Prince Charles had met his mother at Windsor Castle for an investiture where royalty meet people who had been honoured and officially give them their awards.

On Monday, the Duchess of Cornwall Camilla tested positive.

She had carried out three engagements on Thursday after testing negative following Prince Charles’s positive result.

Camilla had described herself as “luckily” negative the same day, saying of her testing regime during a visit to Thames Valley Partnership in Buckinghamshire: “I’ve taken it so many times”.

Prince Charles, 73, and Camilla, 74, have both had two doses of a vaccine plus a booster dose.

A Clarence House spokesman said they would follow all the government guidelines around self-isolation.

Last week, the Queen announced on her jubilee milestone that she wished Camilla to be one day known as Queen Consort and called on the public to back her and Charles when he becomes king.

During one of her engagements last Thursday, Camilla said she was “very honoured” to have been endorsed as future Queen Consort.

While on a tour of a west London community kitchen, Camilla was asked by a visitor how she felt about the title.

The duchess replied: “I feel very honoured – very honoured and very touched.”

In England, contacts of positive Covid cases who are fully vaccinated should take lateral flow tests for seven days, according to government advice.

They do not have to self-isolate unless they test positive.

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