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Queen tests positive for coronavirus, Buckingham Palace says

The monarch, 95, is experiencing mild cold-like symptoms and expects to continue light duties at Windsor this week, the palace says.

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The monarch, 95, is experiencing mild cold-like symptoms and expects to continue light duties at Windsor this week, the palace says.

Highlights

  • The Queen, 95, is experiencing mild cold-like symptoms and expects to continue light duties at Windsor this week.
  • She is understood to be triple vaccinated and is ‘immensely practical’ Her Majesty’s doctors will be on hand to take care of and monitor her health.
  • Announcement made just weeks after Queen reached her historic Platinum Jubilee of 70 years on the throne.
  • Others at Windsor are understood to have contracted COVID.
  • The monarch has recently suffered from health difficulties and on Wednesday, the sovereign, seen standing holding a walking stick, remarked during an in-person audience: “Well, as you can see, I can’t move”